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Zero Waste in Punta Cana: Garbage and Tourism in the Dominican Republic
Full text linkI never imagined that my job at a leading Dominican resort would be so dirty—at least not at the beginning. I spent my first months as environmental director of Puntacana Resort & Club with my team opening and examining hundreds of bags of garbage generated by the resort and its airport. We categorized the waste material to figure out how we might minimize the purchase of unusable materials or find alternative final destinations for our waste, rather than the dump we were using when I arrived. Tourism makes garbage. At that time, in 2005, the Punta Cana region, one of the fastest growing destinations in the Caribbean, with more than 30,000 hotel rooms and close to two million arriving passengers yearly, produced between twenty and thirty tons of garbage daily
Despertando al gigante : descubre el poder de las empresas para salvar el planeta
No full textDentro de cada empresa, hay un gigante dormido. Durante mucho tiempo se han considerado a las empresas como la principal causa de la destrucción del medio ambiente o como una acaudalada fuente de finaciamiento para las personas que intentan hacerle frente. Pero gracias a su acceso a la innovación, a las nuevas tecnologías y a su potencia intelectual, las empresas están bien preparadas para afrontar retos de una manera que otras organizaciones y fundaciones más pequeñas no pueden hacerlo. ¿Qué pasaría si los ejecutivos dejaran de considerar a la sostenibilidad como un proyecto secundario de relaciones públicas y la vieran en cambio como una forma de beneficiar al planeta y a sus bolsillos? El gigante se despertaría y el mundo nunca volvería a ser el mismo. Jake Kheel escribió Despertando al gigante, para ayudar a liberar el poder oculto que su empresa posee para salvar el planeta. Ofrece un enfoque de la sostenibilidad basado en la acción y en el sentido común, apoyado por ejemplos reales de su trabajo en la República Dominicana que demuestran cómo las empresas pueden convertirse en una potente fuerza de la sostenibilidad. [Este recurso no está disponible para consulta en línea o descarga]
Waking the sleeping giant : unlocking the hidden power of business to save the planet
No full textWithin every company, there lies a sleeping giant. Companies have long been viewed as either the primary cause of environmental destruction, or as a deep-pocketed funding source for people trying to confront it. But with their access to innovation, new technology, and intellectual firepower, most companies are built to tackle the challenges our planet faces in a way smaller organizations and foundations can't. What would happen if executives stopped looking at sustainability as a side project for the PR team and saw it instead as a way to benefit the planet and their profits? The giant would be awakened—and the world would never be the same. Jake Kheel wrote Waking the Sleeping Giant to help unlock your company's hidden power to save the planet. He offers an action-driven, common sense approach to sustainability supported by real-life examples from his work in the Dominican Republic that demonstrate how companies can become a potent force for sustainability. This book offers up tangible ways everyone—from executives to employees—can make a difference and demonstrate the value of sustainability beyond the bottom line. Formats and languages: hardcover, paperback and audiobook; English and Spanish. [Este recurso no está disponible para consulta en línea o descarga]
Jake Kheel, vicepresidente de la Fundación Puntacana : “La IA ayudará pero no reemplazará a la capacidad de mantener un animal vivo”
No full textEn esta entrevista, Jake Kheel, vicepresidente de la Fundación Puntacana, analiza el papel de la inteligencia artificial en la conservación ambiental, destacando su potencial como herramienta estratégica para optimizar la toma de decisiones y fortalecer los procesos de gestión, sin reemplazar el conocimiento biológico ni la experiencia humana. A través de una mirada institucional y práctica, el diálogo articula tecnología, ética y protección de la biodiversidad, subrayando la necesidad de integrar la innovación tecnológica con criterios científicos y responsabilidad ambiental
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
Death by a thousand cuts = Muerte por mil cortes
No full text[Español] Documental que habla sobre las consecuencias de la deforestación y de cómo los árboles de la frontera dominicana son cortados de manera ilegal para hacer carbón y vendidos por sacos en Haití. La cinta también muestra la forma en que el carbón ilegal se produce, tanto en la alta montaña, en zonas protegidas de la Sierra de Bahoruco, como en el bosque seco del territorio dominicano. El brutal asesinato de un guardabosque dominicano se convierte en la metáfora de la creciente tensión entre Haití y la República Dominicana sobre la explotación ilícita del carbón de leña y la deforestación masiva. Duración: 1 hora 13 minutos. [Este recurso no está disponible para consulta en línea o descarga].[English] The film uncovers how the lives of Dominicans and Haitians at the border are enveloped in a complex web of relationships that reflect a mutual dependence on the illicit production and trafficking of charcoal. The film spans an investigation starting in the lowlands of the Dominican Republic into the mountain forests along the border to the charcoal markets on the Haitian side and on to Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. The film uses the personal as polemic; closely following the murder of a Dominican park ranger allegedly killed by a Haitian charcoal producer, the film explores the families affected and the complexities of the case. The film depicts a complex and growing conflict emerging between the Dominican Republic and Haiti; a case emblematic of the global struggles over depleting natural resources and prevention of human conflict
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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