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Communities’ socio-economic status and environmental conservation behaviour in marine protected areas : A study of Malaysia / Muhammad Mehedi Masud
No full textEnvironmental degradation creates adverse impacts on lives, livelihoods, development of human society and conservation of natural resources especially, for marine protected areas. This study examines the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Malaysia with specific reference to the Tioman Island Marine Park, The Redang Islnad Marine Park and the Tinggi Island Marine Park off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. This study investigated the communities’ wellbeing, their perception on socio-economic development and environmental conservation behaviour (ECB) to recommend an integrated effective management policy framework. In order to achieve the objective of this study, mixed methods were applied. Qualitative method was conducted based on Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and quantitative based on survey questionnaire. After collecting the data, all the statistical analyses were carried out using Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) (22.0 version) and Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) (22.0 version). Specifically, SPSS is used for analysing the statistics, testing of assumptions for normality, reliability, exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis. AMOS is used for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and full-fledged structural equation modelling (SEM).
The study revealed that Marine Park Community identified several vulnerability context to marine park community livelihoods, for instance, price hike for essential goods as the most important problem within MPAs, followed by the increase in waste generation by restaurants and tourists, the quality of water dropped, drought, heat and haze due to climate change and changing their occupation after the establishment of the MPA from fishing to other professions. From the findings of this study, we determined that the local community’s standard of living has important in terms of physical and social assets; but they have a substantial lack of human, financial and environmental
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assets. One of the main attributes of human assets is a community’s education level, yet this study shows that a significant number of respondents do not have formal education. This study found that socioeconomic factors have positive significant impact on environmental awareness, attitudes towards sustainable use of marine resources, and perceived impact of socioeconomic development. This study also revealed that perceived development of human capital (PHCD), perceived development of social capital (PSCD), perceived development of financial capital (PFCD) have greater significant influence on environmental awareness and attitudes and environmental conservation behaviour. It also indicated that environmental awareness and attitudes can play mediating role between perceived socio-economic development and environmental conservation behaviour.
Finally, this study found that there is lack of effective management policy framework for management of marine resources. Hence, this study recommended an integrated management policy framework considering social, economic development, environmental issues, management issues and psychosocial factors for the socio-economic development of the local community and conservation of marine resources within MPAs. Therefore, this study will help policy makers to formulate better policies for conserving marine diversity, as well as to improve the socio-economic status of the local community
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Perception of climate change and the adaptation strategies and capacities of the rice farmers in Kedah, Malaysia
Get PDFThis article attempts to understand the perception of the rice-growing farmers on the issue of climate change (CC) and identify their adaptive capacity (AC). A survey was conducted through structured questionnaires to understand farmers’ perception and adaptation strategies in response to changing climate and variability. The findings indicate that farmers are moderately adaptive to CC in the study area. The result also revealed that the main barriers are lack of funds and government support available information to CC. Farmers with higher AC can produce greater amount of rice. Rice producers should be enabled through improved extension services, government aid, such as grants, training for better level of adaptability, to help them achieve higher rice production
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