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Social responses to industrialisation of rural landscapes, with a case study of unconventional gas developments in eastern Australia
No full textCompeting demands upon the provision of natural resources to meet the needs of current and future generations are highlighted by the global expansion of the unconventional oil and gas industry. This rapid growth has provoked research not only in the physical sciences relating to hydro-geological impacts and fugitive emissions of the extraction process (including fracking), but also into multidisciplinary projects such as risk perception and assessment, competing land-use and social dynamics. This study contributes empirical data to the fast growing body of research into unconventional gas industry developments by examining impacts upon social systems, from an individual to a regional scale in eastern Australia. Taking a mixed-methods approach, and using a framework that incorporates social license, social identity and democracy, this study examines the dynamics occurring within and between different stakeholder groups and individuals in affected communities; documenting social responses to industrial developments over a four-year period. The research provides an in-depth analysis of background and motivating factors behind support and nonsupport of unconventional gas industry developments in rural Australia, including community aspirations for economic prosperity versus environmental concerns and aspirations for renewable energy development
East Trinity remediation and rehabilitation after acid sulfate soil contamination, north Queensland
No full textThe East Trinity case study describes the remediation of a severely degraded coastal acid sulfate soil site adjacent to the Cairns township in Queensland, Australia (Fig 1). The project involved extensive collaborative research into geochemistry, soil properties, groundwater and tidal behaviour, terrain modelling and flood modelling by a range of institutions. An innovative strategy known as lime-assisted tidal exchange (LATE) was used to reverse the acidification of the wetland, leading to improved water quality and health of coastal and estuarine ecosystems
Social license for industrial developments in rural areas : a case study of unconventional gas development in the Northern Rivers, Australia ; an investigation of regional values, identity and social dynamics
No full textRural areas globally are subject to the converging pressures of climate change, urbanisation, market forces and energy expansion. Large-scale industrial projects can add to land-use competition and resource conflicts, potentially leading to dramatic impact on rural environments and their communities. Social licence can be used as a lens for understanding how communities respond to proposed industrial developments. A disconnect between the social license concept and the aims of sustainable development manifests itself in rural areas as a tension between industry activity and community aspirations. Mismatches between land-use planning decisions and community aspirations can create conflict, and potentially, social resistance. Social resistance can reflect strong community positioning and result in social license withdrawal. The relationships between these processes remain unclear.
The aim of this thesis is to use the social license lens to explore dynamics of social license for industrial developments in rural areas, with a particular focus on social license withdrawal. The case study for this exploration is a community response to unconventional gas industry developments, presenting an opportunity for research into factors leading to the granting or withdrawal of social license to operate. Three main themes woven throughout the thesis are: 1) drivers of social positioning on industrial development; 2) social dynamics and their influence upon social positioning, and 3) the role of social license in land-use planning.
Empirical data was collected using a mixed method, case study approach. Qualitative data from key informant interviews and focus group observations was used to develop a referendum-style poll and two election surveys that were carried out in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. The evolution of community views is examined as isolated concerns merged into coordinated social mobilisation, to the point where, in one local government area, 85% of voters opposed the industry, and up to 7,000 residents were mobilising in protest events. Research focussed on the social dynamics of intergroup and intragroup processes within the social movement, view formation and motivators for community positioning. Potential positive and negative influences on rural livelihoods, environmental values and procedural justice were important drivers of perceived legitimacy of developments, with trust being key to the perceived credibility of information.
The Thomson and Boutilier (2011) social license model was expanded to include processes within and beyond withdrawal of social license. It is concluded that the three main themes of the thesis are intrinsically linked with each other. Social dynamics play an important role in view formation, as existing values and identity will themselves influence social dynamics. The interaction of these factors, entwined with community engagement and decision-making processes will influence public perceptions, social license, and social resistance
Shock waves: finding peace after the Bali bomb
No full textYou\u27re young, in love, and in paradise surfing, traveling, partying. Then in one terrifying wave of heat and noise your reality shatters into a million pieces that can never be put back together. On October 12, 2002, a massive car bomb ripped through the popular Kuta nightclub, the Sari Club, killing 202 people and maiming many others. Hanabeth Luke was hamming it up on the dance floor to cheesy pop tunes with a friend when a loud bang, like a car back-firing, momentarily silenced the music and dimmed the lights. Dancers stopped and heads turned, but the music and flashing lights soon came back on and the party resumed. But only for a few seconds The noise which came next I will never forget. It was an empty sound that did not resonate. It was a thud, like the slam of a car door, but multiplied to a volume I simply cannot describe, Hanabeth writes in this extraordinary memoir. Hanabeth survived the Bali Bomb, somehow crawling through the flaming wreckage and using fallen electrical cables to shimmy over a four metre high concrete wall. But her boyfriend Marc Gajardo was killed instantly in the blast. The heart-wrenching story of young love, and lives, cut short is chilling and confronting,. Her raw and honest account of those dreadful events brings the spectre of terrorism into sharp and intensely personal focus. Yet it is the story of what Hanabeth has done since which brings a spark of hope and light to this awful chapter in our history. Confronting world leaders, campaigning for peace and against the war on terror, raising money and awareness, resolving to squeeze the most from every day, Hanabeth\u27s inspirational tale provides a stirring case study in survival and healing
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
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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