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Sustainability transition and the informal transformation of public green space. The case of Energy Park in Roma
No full textResponses to Drought and Desertification in the Moroccan Drâa Valley Region: Resilience at the Expense of Sustainability?
No full textDryland and oasis communities in developing countries are considered to be among the most threatened by
climate change impacts and the consequences of increasing human pressure on the environment. For centuries nomads
and oasis communities have been demonstrating their adaptive capacities and resilience by coping with tough
environmental conditions. In the Moroccan Drâa Valley, we explore different top-down, bottom-up, regional and local
adaptation strategies, applied in response to increasing droughts and desertification rates. The adaptations of different
sectors and actors have been integrated in a regional study in order to frame them from both the resilience and
sustainability perspectives. The findings underline that while human adaptive strategies are mostly capable of addressing
stressors and enhancing resilience (in the short run) locally, ecosystems resilience and regional social-ecological
sustainability are under threat. The paper concludes by highlighting the importance of reframing resilient strategies in
the light of sustainability and long term resilience perspectives
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
Barcelona Experience in Resilience: An Integrated Governance Model for Operationalizing Urban Resilience
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