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Approaches and tools for communities’ engagement in marginal areas
No full textThe paper aims at providing a methodological path to improve local communities’ ability to re-discover the value of their local, natural, and cultural capital, and outline shared strategies for its enhancement. The defined methodological path, addressed to knowledge co-creation and co-design of visions and strategies for future development, has been tested on selected case studies in Southern Italy, both of them characterised by high levels of marginality. Preserving local identities and increasing the sense of belonging of communities to their living places are, indeed, crucial for ensuring a sustainable and shared development process in marginal areas
Pianificazione paesaggistica e rischi, un approccio sincretico nella gestione territoriale
No full textEmergency and spatial planning towards cooperative approaches
No full textThe dependency of risk scenarios on the dynamics of urban transformation clearly highlights the need of ensuring a closer cooperation between spatial and emergency planning processes. So far the relationships between these processes have been rather limited, leading at most to the transposition of the emergency plans' indications in the spatial plans. Nevertheless, more cooperative approaches would be crucial to increase safety, resilience and sustainability of human settlements, above all when the latter are threatened by different hazard factors. In order to explore barriers and opportunities for a better cooperation between emergency and spatial planning tools, this contribution will focus on the Campi Flegrei in the Campania Region (Southern Italy): an area densely populated, hosting a significant historical, cultural, and natural heritage, and prone to volcanic, seismic and hydrogeological hazards. The case study area is also characteized by the coexistence of emergency and spatial planning tools acting on different spatial scales, developed by different actors and not always fully consistent each other. In detail, based on the in-depth analysis of the location and accessibility of emergency facilities, crucial to guarantee an effective response in the aftermath of hazardous events, we will here highlight both the main criticalities of the emergency plans recently carried out for the selected Municipalities and the difficulties and opportunities related to a better integration between spatial and emergency planning at municipal scale
Diary extract of five research experiences in the 34. Italian doctoral cycle : sharing common research questions on environment-oriented planning
No full textIn a time of renewal of the themes, interests, and applications of urban planning disciplines, is it possible to read continuity between the ongoing doctoral research? Despite Italian universities focused on project-making and urban planning, they often appear as closed groups, impermeable to external influences and synergies: still, examples of interdisciplinary syncretism and academic contamination could be found both in past research and emerging practices. Through the presentation of 5 research questions, developed by doctoral students from Italian universities, the paper is aimed to recognize a fil rouge made up of common interests. The proposal is oriented to recognize, through analogies and common traits, the potential of interdisciplinary comparison and research networks. The opportunity for concertation among PhD students arises from the fruitful participation in urban studies training activities and workshops tailored to doctoral studies, and from a two-year exchange of ideas and perspectives. The dissertation themes include the identification of the wickedness of some crucial problems that contemporary environment-oriented planning is called upon to address. They relate specifically to the issues of climate-proof planning, resilience, action research processes, regeneration of peri-urban areas. After a theoretical definition of wickedness to which the authors refer, five Diary Extracts are presented and compared by highlighting: 1) the existing interconnections between research questions, objectives and methodologies, 2) the implications for research and practice in the field of environment-oriented planning. Finally, the essay provides further remarks on the learning opportunities grounded on sharing and contamination among young scholar researchers
Road bridges exposure and alternative routes: towards the definition of road network resilience
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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
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