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Environmental sustainability in residential housing
No full textThis positioning paper addresses a number of key questions relating to the sustainability of Australian households. It explores:
1. What are household waste/water/energy attitudes and practices?
2. How waste/water/energy attitudes and practices have changed over time.
3. What factors have driven changes in household waste/water/energy attitudes and practices?
4. The relationship between householders? waste/water/energy attitudes and practices and whether the relationship varies according to SES, household type, tenure or behavioural domain.
5. The most effective ways of shaping positive change in household waste/water/energy perceptions and behaviour and what are the costs and benefits of these approaches for stakeholders?
Authors: Kelly S. Fielding, Winnifred R. Louis, Clive Warren and Alice Thompso
sj-docx-1-nvs-10.1177_08997640221093799 – Supplemental material for An Investigation of Factors Influencing Environmental Volunteering Leadership and Participation Behaviors
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-nvs-10.1177_08997640221093799 for An Investigation of Factors Influencing Environmental Volunteering Leadership and Participation Behaviors by Robyn E. Gulliver, Kelly S. Fielding and Winnifred R. Louis in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly</p
Supplemental_Material_Survey_EBS2.4 – Supplemental material for Predictors of Nature Connection Among Urban Residents: Assessing the Role of Childhood and Adult Nature Experiences
No full textSupplemental material, Supplemental_Material_Survey_EBS2.4 for Predictors of Nature Connection Among Urban Residents: Assessing the Role of Childhood and Adult Nature Experiences by Anne Cleary, Kelly S. Fielding, Zoe Murray and Anne Roiko in Environment and Behavior</p
Environmental sustainability: understanding the attitudes and behaviour of Australian households
No full textDescribing research that aimed to understand the water and energy use and waste reduction attitudes and practices of Australian households, this report also explains how these practices have changed over time. Although there is a growing body of research investigating the determinants of household sustainability practices and interventions that can positively impact on them, very little of this research has been conducted in the Australian context and there is no systematic examination of how the key socio-demographic variables of tenure, household composition and household income influence household sustainability practices.
The theoretical framework adopted in this research was an extended version of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), a well-established model of decision- making. The theory provides a rigorous methodology for investigating the social and psychological determinants of behavioural intentions and actions. The research comprised two parts. A quantitative online survey of 1194 households (601 in Brisbane and 593 in Melbourne) was conducted in December 2009 which assessed the TPB variables and other focal variables. Respondents were asked questions in relation to household water conservation, energy conservation and waste minimisation. In relation to water and energy conservation, a distinction was made between everyday actions that can reduce energy and water (Curtailment actions) and installing efficient appliances that result in ongoing savings (Efficiency actions). The survey was followed up by qualitative interviews (participants were recruited from the survey participants) conducted between December 2009 and January 2010 with twenty-two householders (eleven in Brisbane and eleven in Melbourne) who varied in their tenure, household composition, and household income level. The research was conducted across two sites to examine whether the findings generalised across different climatic regions of Australia.
Authors: Kelly S Fielding, Alice Thompson, Winnifred R Louis and Clive Warren.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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