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Conclusions: social assessment, natural resource institutions and the future
No full text[Extract] As the preceding chapters show, our knowledge and use of social assessment in the suite of planning and impact assessment methods and approaches has greatly increased in the last decade. Social assessment, however, is rarely well integrated within planning and impact assessment processes and is often used in a limited or reactive way. The observation of many practitioners, including many of the authors of this volume, is that social assessment rarely has a strong institutional base. Practitioners conclude that the competent, routine application of social assessment will only be achieved through its institutionalisation in the systems of governance of, and planning for, natural resources
Aboriginal participation in management: reconciling local interests with world heritage
No full text[Extract] Since the inception of the Wet Tropics Management Authority, the interests and concerns of Aboriginal communities throughout the Wet Tropics have been contentious issues with which it has had to grapple. It has been estimated that 15,000-20,000 Aboriginal people, from up to 16 distinct language groups, have traditional and/or historical links with land within the World Heritage Area
Social assessment in natural resource management: promise, potentiality, and practice
No full textOver the past two decades, the systems, institutions, and methods of natural resource management have been under sustained intellectual and political attack (for example, Gunderson et al. 1995). The classic, utilitarian concept of natural resource management has increasingly been displaced y an approach that focuses on resources as components of adaptive systems and institutional performance as a crucial dimension of sustainable management (Eerkes & Folke 2000). The systems approach replaces the view that resources can be treated as discrete entities in isolation from the ecosystem and social and political forces, while the emphasis on institutions reflects the growing importance of understanding natural resource management as a social and political undertaking (Cortner & Moore 1999)
Will regionalisation achieve integrated natural resource management? Insights from recent South Australian experience
No full text[Extract] This chapter is concerned with the intersection of two recent and important conceptual and operational trends in environmental management in Australia: the regionalisation of management, and the need for integrated approaches to natural resource management (NRM). While regionalisation of different areas of policy implementation has a long, if not distinguished history in Australia (Beer et al. 2003), the imperative to achieve greater integration of environmental management efforts is a relatively recent phenomenon (Morrison et al. 2004). There has been, over recent years, something of a renaissance of regionalism and regionalisation, particularly in relation to natural resources. Part of the rationale for the regionalisation of NRM has been the promise of improved levels of integration (Abrahams 2005). In this submission, we ask, will the regionalisation of NRM achieve improved levels of integration
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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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