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Wind Energy Exchanges and Rural Development in Italy
No full textThe aim of this paper is to show the importance of wind energy in the development of Italian rural areas. The frame in which to pursue this objective is twofold: on the one side, there is the literature on regional or local development; on the other, the shift towards more flexible forms of administration. The two perspectives can perhaps be unified into the broad idea of the governance of local development. This means the inclusion of private and non-profit organisations in the management of public goods like the environment and localities. Wind energy is a suitable test case with which to understand such process. It arises at a time when local development policies have exhausted their main “assets”, such as inter-sector interventions and place identity promotion, and when political trends are moving towards the decentralisation and outsourcing of administrative functions. Thus, wind energy should be a new source of revenue for rural areas, and management of its development should be assigned to local authorities or to mixed agencies. But the ways in which renewable energies are happening in rural areas are various. The theoretical ‘glue’ will be exchange: this category should clarify the more symmetrical relationships that are replacing the command and control principle typical of public administration. Moreover, it would enable better specification of the purported process of the energy colonisation of rural areas
Analysis of the retail survey of products that carry welfare- claims and of non-retailer led assurance schemes whose logos accompany welfare-claims.
No full textThis report serves two aims. Firstly, this report contains analysis of the retail audit
(sub-deliverable 1.2.2.1) of welfare-friendly food products in the 6 study countries.
The report gives the results of an emerging comparative analysis of the ‘market’ for
welfare-friendly food products in the 6 study countries. It also outlines ‘non-retailer’
led schemes1 whose products occurred in the study. In this way, an emerging picture
of the actual product ranges, that make claims about welfare-friendliness, will be
drawn based on fieldwork carried out from November 2004 until April 2005. Also,
the report explores how the different legislative and voluntary standards on animal
welfare compare across different countries and how these actively advertise their
welfare-friendlier component to consumers through food packaging. <br/
The retail of welfare-friendly products: A comparative assessment of the nature of the market for welfare-friendly products in six European Countries
No full textThis paper attempts to describe the market for welfare-friendly foodstuffs within larger retailing trends in six study countries in Europe (Norway, Sweden, Italy, France, the Netherlands and the UK). This is based on the findings to date from the work carried out by the work package 1.2 whose aims are to study the current and potential market for welfare-friendly foodstuffs. The aims of the current empirical stages of work package 1.2 are focussed on – what do retailers communicate to consumers about animal welfare? How is animal welfare framed? Are welfare-claims used on their own or within broader issues of quality
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
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