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Legal and Political Challenges of Governing the Environment and Climate Change:Ruling Nature
Full text linkMuinzer, Thomas L. ‘Legal and Political Challenges of Governing the Environment and Climate Change’ (Review), Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (2015) 17(2): 301-305.Peer reviewe
Observations on Ireland’s Approach to Climate Law
Full text linkMuinzer, Thomas L. ‘Observations on Ireland’s Approach to Climate Law’, (2014, February) Cork Online Law Review (24) 1Peer reviewe
A Climate of Change? Taking Stock of the Urgenda Case with a Supreme Court Ruling on the Horizon’
Full text linkMuinzer, Thomas L. ‘A Climate of Change? Taking Stock of the Urgenda Case with a Supreme Court Ruling on the Horizon’, UK Human Rights Blog 8th October 2019: https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2019/10/08/a-climate-of-change-taking-stock-of-the-urgenda-case-with-a-supreme-court-ruling-on-the-horizon
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
A Grave Situation: An Examination of the Legal Issues raised by the Life and Death of Charles Byrne, the "Irish Giant"
No full textCharles Byrne was an eighteenth-century celebrity “Irish giant” who requested burial upon nearing death, but whose corpse was procured against his wishes by the surgeon John Hunter. Hunter reduced Byrne’s corpse to its skeleton and exhibited it as the centerpiece of his vast anatomical collection. It has since remained on display in the Hunterian Museum, London. In 2011 it was announced that research conducted on the skeleton’s DNA has revealed that several Northern Irish families share a common ancestry with Byrne. This article considers the legal issues raised by Byrne’s story. The results of fieldwork undertaken by the author in Byrne’s native townland are also discussed, where folk tradition suggests that Byrne wished to be buried foremost at a local site remembered today as “the Giant’s Grave.&rdquo
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
CCUS in the United Kingdom: overview, opportunities and challenges.
No full textCarbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) remains one of the useful tools for reducing GHGs emissions and decarbonising the economy at national and regional levels. Given its distinctive geological advantage and net-zero investment plans, this chapter examines the CCUS situation in the UK, focusing on important areas, including changing CO2 emission trends alongside key drivers, proposed industrial clusters by 2030, supporting initiatives, regulatory landscape and implementation strategies by the UK government. A glimpse at the current global CCUS market performance and financing options further unveils the major movers/drivers and evolving prospects globally. Whilst the study reveals that the CCUS investment effort in the UK is increasingly gaining momentum, it highlights some of the key intrinsic challenges and emerging opportunities presented by this sector. It additionally reveals a myriad of alternative and emerging financing strategies that can be deployed for financing projects, considering the magnitude of risks and uncertainties associated with CCUS and related investments. In conclusion, the study underscores the critical need for more proactive and strategic action to mitigate those risks and unlock the enormous growth opportunities associated with these technologies acknowledged as "a necessity, not an option" for the UK to meet its net-zero targets
Petroleum fiscal regimes and the sustainable development goals (SDGs): exploring alignments and misalignments.
Full text linkSeveral G20 economies have, since 2009, committed to phasing out inefficient fossil fuel – coal, oil and gas – subsidies that limit the potential attainment of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Dealing with climate change means embracing a global decarbonisation agenda. Moreover, for some, this is regardless of the distributional consequences, mainly fossil fuel-producing economies, developed or developing. This chapter analyses how fiscal (tax) arrangements, including producer subsidies, work in the upstream oil and gas industry and the main reasons for their set-up, which include encouraging foreign and domestic investments (fiscal stability). We also discuss the implementation pathways of these systems, like accelerated tax deductions and cost recovery, among others. Lastly, we also discuss the alignments and misalignments of these tax systems vis-à-vis advancing the attainment of the SDGs: particularly SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), SDG 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure), SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production), and SDG 13 (climate action). Overall, we find that there is an opportunity to review and better align some of these upstream oil and gas producer subsidies to the attainment of the SDGs, especially in meeting climate goals. However, this is easier said than done as many countries are likely to continue prioritising meeting their energy security needs and thus offer some of these producer subsidies, especially in the wake of exogenous shocks such as the Russian-Ukraine conflict
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