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Linking classroom learning and research to advance ideas about social-ecological resilience
Full text linkThere is an increasing demand in higher education institutions for training in complex environmental problems. Such training requires a careful mix of conventional methods and innovative solutions, a task not always easy to accomplish. In this paper we review literature on this theme, highlight relevant advances in the pedagogical literature, and report on some examples resulting from our recent efforts to teach complex environmental issues. The examples range from full credit courses in sustainable development and research methods to project-based and in-class activity units. A consensus from the literature is that lectures are not sufficient to fully engage students in these issues. A conclusion from the review of examples is that problem-based and project-based, e.g., through case studies, experiential learning opportunities, or real-world applications, learning offers much promise. This could greatly be facilitated by online hubs through which teachers, students, and other members of the practitioner and academic community share experiences in teaching and research, the way that we have done here
Extractive leviathan: the role of the government in the relationships between oil and gas industries and indigenous communities in the Arctic regions of Canada, United States and Russia
Full text linkThesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015This comparative research analyzes the extent to which the governments of Canada, the United States and Russia affect the relationships between the petroleum extractive industries and Indigenous peoples of the Arctic in order to protect Indigenous peoples from the negative impacts of oil and gas extraction. The hypothesis of this study is that the government can protect Indigenous communities only by providing for their participation in decision-making processes about oil and gas development. The comparative analysis showed that in comparison with Canada and the United States, Russia has the worst legal protection of Indigenous peoples in petroleum-extractive regions. The recognition of Aboriginal title by Canada and the U.S. allowed Indigenous communities the best opportunities to be involved in oil and gas development, whereas Russia failed to grant this recognition. Therefore, the recognition of land claims by the government is the best way to protect traditional lands and lifestyles of Indigenous peoples from the negative externalities of petroleum extraction.Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Social justice for indigenous peoples in the Arctic -- 1.2. Research importance -- 1.3. Terminology used in this study -- 1.4. The role of the Arctic in each country -- 1.4.1. Canada's Arctic policy -- 1.4.2. U.S. Arctic policy -- 1.4.3. Russia and the Arctic -- 1.5. Oil and gas drilling in the Arctic -- 1.6. Literature review -- 1.7. Explanation of method -- 1.7.1. Comparative studies: federal governments and subgovernments -- 1.8. Hypotheses -- 1.9. Expected outcomes -- Chapter 2. The roles of the federal governments in indigenous policy -- 2.1. What does "indigenous" mean? -- 2.1.1. International definitions of indigenous -- 2.2. The indigenous peoples of Canada, the United States, and Russia -- 2.2.1. Canada -- 2.2.2. Alaska Natives in the United States -- 2.2.3. Indigenous small-numbered people in Russia -- 2.3. The relationships between indigenous peoples and their national governments in Canada, the United States and Russia -- 2.3.1. Canadian federalism and aboriginal peoples -- 2.3.1.1. Land claims agreements in Canada -- 2.3.2. Federalism in the United States and Alaska Natives -- 2.3.3. Russian federalism and indigenous small-numbered peoples -- 2.4. Summary -- Chapter 3. The impact of the oil and gas industry on national policies in Canada, the United States, and Russia -- 3.1. Overview of oil and gas policy in each country -- 3.1.1. Canada -- 3.1.2. The United States -- 3.1.3. Russia -- 3.2. Federal governments in the oil and gas sector -- 3.3. Oil and gas revenues and federal budgets -- 3.3.1. The United States -- 3.3.2. Canada -- 3.3.3. Russia -- 3.4. The role of the oil and gas in the Arctic regions -- 3.4.1. Canada -- 3.4.2. The U.S. model -- 3.4.3. The Russian model -- 3.5. Summary -- Chapter 4. The legal protection of indigenous peoples: the role of subgovernments and indigenous (tribal) organizations -- 4.1. The legal status of indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, and Russia -- 4.1.1. Land claims agreements with the Inuit in Canada -- 4.1.1.1. Case study: Northwest Territories and the Mackenzie gas project -- 4.1.2. Alaska Native tribal governments and ANCSA corporations -- 4.1.2.1. Case study: Alaska North Slope's oil development -- 4.1.3. Obshchinas and the federal law "about territories of traditional nature use" -- 4.1.4. The policy of Russian sub-governments on indigenous small-numbered peoples -- 4.1.4.1. Nenets autonomous district -- 4.1.4.2. Khanty-Mansi autonomous district (Yugra) -- 4.1.4.3. The Sakha Republic (Yakutia) -- 4.2. Summary -- 5.1. Degree of Centralization/Decentralization of indigenous policy formation -- 5.2. Differences between Russian federal and subgovernmental legislation in regard to indigenous small-numbered peoples and subsurface users -- 5.3. Dependence of the federal governments on oil and gas revenues -- 5.4. Level of capacity of indigenous groups to protect their stakeholder interests -- 5.5. Summary of hypothesis testing -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- 6.1. Findings of the study -- 6.2. Recommendations (policy) -- 6.3. Recommendations for further study of the subject -- References
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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