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Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Human Rights: The Need for an Integrated Approach
No full textIn this chapter the author focuses on the principle of integration and its relevance when dealing with cultural heritage, sustainable development and human right
An Integrated Approach to Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Human Rights: Mission Impossible?
No full textThis chapter contains the overall conclusions to the book: despite some genuine efforts, the adoption of an integrated approach to cultural, sustainable development and human rights remains a hard undertaking, which cannot be separated from States' consent and their effective cooperation. A more remarkable contribution may come from judicial and quasi-judicial bodies
International Human Rights Law and Transboundary Environmental Harm: Trends and Challenges
No full textIn its landmark Advisory Opinion on the Environment and Human Rights, issued on 15 November 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognized that the American Convention on Human Rights, under certain circumstances, involves extraterritorial obligations with respect to environmental matters. The Court further specified the content of the State obligations to protect individuals from transboundary environmental harm under the Convention. By doing so, the
Court dealt with two core aspects of the relationship between human rights and the environment that, despite having been neglected so far, have the potential to increasingly come up before international bodies (and possibly, domestic courts) in the near future: the extraterritorial scope of human rights treaties in cases of crossborder environmental harm and the content of the State’s obligations to protect human rights in the face of such harm. The central argument defended in this chapter is that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ main findings shed new light on
the role of international human rights law in addressing transboundary environmental
harm and, contextually, provide an opportunity to critically examine not only some of the most significant current trends, but also future challenges, with respect to the relationship between human rights and the environment
Climate Change and International Conflicts in West Africa: A New Challenge for the UN System of Collective Security or Much Ado about Nothing?
No full textThis contribution focuses on the role played by the UN Security Council (UNSC) in addressing inter communal conflicts exacerbated by climate related effects in the Sahel region. What is the extent of the UNSC commitment to address these type of conflicts? What are the legal and practical implications of the UNSC recommendations for the UN and its subsidiary bodies in areas characterized by generalized State weakness and weak enforcement of the rule of law? Has the UNSC really succeeded in ensuring an adequate integrated approach to multidimensional threats in the Sahel? The contribution tries to answer these questions by analyzing selected provisions of the UNSC Resolution 2423 (2018), concerning the situation in Mali and their implementation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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