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Integrated planning for sustainable tourism and mobility. A tourism traffic analysis in Italy's South Tyrol region
No full textEmerging tourist market trends are compelling destinations to consider mobility as an essential strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Tourism mobility analysis is a tool available to policy-makers when developing integrated and effective sustainable transport and tourism policies. This paper introduces an innovative tourism-traffic analysis based on survey techniques which allows the identification of tourism-related components and an estimate of their environmental impact on a destination, information critical to the development of appropriate mobility management measures. This methodology was implemented in Italy's South Tyrol region, an alpine province at the forefront of sustainable tourism and mobility innovation. The significant environmental impact of tourism traffic revealed in the destination justifies the innovative steps taken toward sustainable mobility in two pilot case studies covering eight communities. An exploratory desk analysis shows that neither the push – encouraging sustainable behavior – nor the pull – discouraging unsustainable practices – mobility measures adopted in these pilot areas decreased tourism flows; however, they did succeed in providing more environmentally sustainable means of transport, with reduced emissions. And in a majority of cases, tourism flows increased above the regional average. A range of problems with the existing methodology are described, along with key issues for future research
La mobilità sostenibile tra destination management e mobility management. Un'analisi esplorativa in Alto Adige
No full textLa mobilità turistica è una componente strategica di una pianificazione turisticoterritoriale
orientata alla sostenibilità, ma la sua integrazione non è scontata. Lo sviluppo
e l’implementazione di politiche e azioni di mobilità sostenibile concertate tra turismo
e trasporti è un problem solving complesso che richiede alle istituzioni turistiche
di gestire componenti eterogenee a fronte di lacune sia teoriche che operative. Il paper
propone una metodologia innovativa per stimare le componenti turistiche ed escursionistiche
del traffico inbound e valutare il loro impatto ambientale. La metodologia è
implementata in Alto Adige, una destinazione all’avanguardia nel campo del Destination
Management e della sostenibilità e in cui sono state sperimentate iniziative pioneristiche
di mobilità sostenibile. Lo studio esplorativo della relazione tra misure di gestione
del traffico e andamento turistico evidenzia che esse non riducono necessariamente
i flussi turistici ma riducono l’impatto ambientale del traffico turistico, che è significativo.
Queste esperienze testimoniano l’esistenza e l’efficacia di buone pratiche che ad oggi non sono direttamente collegate a strumenti di analisi della mobilità, ma
potrebbero beneficiarne
Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobility: An Exploratory Study
No full textEmerging tourist market trends are pushing destinations to consider mobility an essential
strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Destination Management needs to use
tourism mobility analysis systematically if it wants to seize the opportunity and face the
challenge of implementing effective strategies for sustainable transport and tourism. This
paper introduces an innovative methodology for the analysis of tourist traffic components
which can be used to assess their environmental impact and develop appropriate measures
to manage mobility. The methodology has been implemented in South Tyrol, a province with
the capacity to pioneer sustainable tourism initiatives and mobility measures. These
measures seem to be having a positive effect on tourist flows, both through the encouraging
of sustainable behavior (carrot measures) and the discouraging of unsustainable behavior
(stick measures)
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
Tourists’ Preferences for Protected Areas Management: The Effect of Ambient Weather Conditions
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A new catalase enzyme sensor able to determine the hydrogen peroxide directly in chloroform
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