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Challenges of implementing maritime spatial planning in the Eastern Mediterranean
Full text linkThe Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (2014/89/EU) was launched to create a common framework for maritime spatial planning (MSP) in Europe. The case of the Adriatic and Ionian Region (AIR) is emblematic of the peculiar challenges to be faced while implementing MSP in the region
Resilienza costiera e sviluppo turistico : verso un approccio co-evolutivo
Full text linkIl contributo vuole presentare una parte di ricerca legata al progetto Interreg MED CO-Evolve al fine di
mostrare un approccio sperimentale utilizzato per la definizione di un processo di pianificazione che mira ad
aumentare il grado di resilienza costiera. In quest’ottica i processi di sviluppo turistico costiero sono stati
ulteriormente migliorati integrando gli strumenti di pianificazione esistenti in un più ampio contesto di
gestione costiera, rafforzando la valutazione dei progetti di sviluppo locale e perseguendo maggiori benefici
per il miglioramento delle condizioni delle comunità coinvolte.
Attraverso questo approccio co-evolutivo il progetto CO-EVOLVE incoraggia la costruzione di politiche e
iniziative per promuovere lo sviluppo di un turismo costiero e marittimo sostenibile e responsabile,
applicando i principi della gestione integrata delle zone costiere (ICZM) e della pianificazione dello spazio
marittimo (MSP) che tengono conto di tutte le principali sfide legate allo sviluppo del turismo costiero
Land–Sea Interactions: A Spatial Planning Perspective
Full text linkCoastal areas are the most populated areas on the planet and are the most attractive areas due to the richness of the biodiversity, natural resources, and trading reasons. Coastal cities are enlarging their boundaries fast by reclaiming land to place new growing economic sectors such as tourism, oil and gas, aquaculture, and fishery. These processes will put an extra strain on the interactions between land and sea. A crucial initiative regarding Land-Sea Interactions comes from the European Union through Directive 2014/89/EU. The directive pays special attention to the discourse surrounding Land-Sea Interactions. This study aims to analyze the existing research on Land-Sea Interactions to develop a base knowledge to determine elements and interactions with a spatial planning perspective. The research is based on a double literature review, a systematic literature review based on an open-source database, and a bibliographic search based on a key Land-Sea Interactions paper. The results identify economic sectors, natural elements, and their functions in the discourse of Land-Sea Interaction. Furthermore, this study identifies shared features and terminologies to define Land-Sea Interactions clearly. The main conclusion is that Land-Sea Interactions are human-induced and, in most cases, happen from land to sea, not vice versa. The other crucial conclusion is that specific types of natural elements can decrease the negative impact that those interactions can have either on the environment or among other human activities
PARTECIPAZIONE PUBBLICA IN VENETO: VERSO UNA TECNOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI DECISIONALI
No full textIl contributo definisce alcuni fabbisogni legati ai “processi e metodi per la partecipazione pubblica”, intesi come strumenti di democrazia deliberativa a supporto del sistema di rap-presentanza politica, in generale, e del decision making, in particolare. Il contesto di riferi-mento riguarda politiche e esperienze in Veneto e nel contesto italiano (a titolo didascalico, saranno fatti alcuni riferimenti a casi europei ed extraeuropei). Sono presenti alcuni focus sull’esperienza partecipativa toscana ed emiliana e sulle esperienze condotte in ambito o su questioni urbanistiche nella Regione del Veneto. L’articolo si conclude con una proposta circa l’opportunità di introdurre in Veneto misure normative che adottino una “tecnologia dei processi decisionali”: dalla definizione di toolkit per la partecipazione alla costruzione dei piani urbanistici regionali, all’adozione di una Legge per la Partecipazione
Climate change adaptation mainstreaming through strategic environmental assessments. An in-depth analysis of environmental indicators from spatial plans in Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italy)
Full text linkClimate change adaptation, CCA henceforth, is nowadays a shared concern, deeply investigated and advocated by international research and political organisations. However, both CCA implementation and its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are challenges yet to be properly addressed. From a spatial planning perspective, local plans are the land-use-oriented tools with the highest potential to enhance CCA operativity. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is also acknowledged to be a key instrument to integrate climate change concerns and hence, to monitor and evaluate climate change (CC) risks and CCA efforts. This study addresses two hypotheses, i.e., i) indicators included in SEAs' spatial plans may be used at the service of CCA M&E, ii) the full extent of indicators can be captured by multi-level planning analyses. To this aim, this study provides an in-depth analysis, through a multi-step systematic categorization, of the indicators used within the SEA of regional and municipal plans in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italy). This study brings novelty in the SEA research field by bridging the climate risk theoretical principles to the methodological approach for analysing SEAs' indicators, which are classified within the risk function frame. Key insights come from the metrics, the indicators' explicitness for CCA, and the indicators' extent into the climate risk function. Finally, the paper paves the way for further research of CC- and CCA-related indicators in both spatial planning and other public sectors to support CCA mainstreaming through SEAs
The role of urban planning in climate adaptation: an empirical analysis of UHI in European cities
No full textThis paper empirically analyses the relationship between urban form and Urban Heat Island (UHI) in a dataset of 523 European cities that matches remotely sensed land-use and surface temperature data. A UHI anomaly is defined as an uninterrupted streak of days where the temperature differential measured at 12.00 AM between the city core and its surroundings is higher than a given threshold. From this definition, three UHI indicators are obtained: mean intensity, mean duration of the event and occurrence rate. We study the influence of urban morphology on the UHI indictors with a Heckman model. A sample selection bias is detected for mean intensity and mean duration. The estimation results also show
that some urban morphological features have a mitigating effect, while some others play a role at the adaptation level
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
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