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" Boom or Gloom?†An examination of the impact of mining activities on the livelihoods of female small holder farmers in Zvishavane District
No full textMany studies have focused on how mining activities have affected local communities
however very few studies have examined the impact of the extractive industry on the
livelihood activities of rural women. The extraction of minerals has caused massive
environmental degradation as well as air, water and noise pollution. Women, because of their gender roles largely rely on the environment and therefore bear the brunt of the negative impacts of mining activities. The legislative and policy framework has not provided adequate safeguards to the livelihoods of female small holder farmers. The study sought to understand how women’s livelihood activities been affected by mining activities in Zvishavane. The research is guided by the Women’s Law Approach to explore the impact that mining activities have on rural women’s livelihood activities. Utilising the feminist-ecological perspective the research finds that mining has some negative effects on agricultural activities being carried out by women because it negatively affects the natural environment. The research finds that although farming activities have been affected, mining activities have led to the diversification of rural livelihoods in Zvishavane. Furthermore women have tried to participate in the mining industry with little success but have managed to do well in downstream support services. The law has proved to be inadequate in safeguarding the livelihoods of the rural farmers. In cases where the law is available it has been affected by the
weak implementation mechanisms. There is need for legal and policy reform particularly in regards to the conducting of Environmental Impact Assessment so that issues of gender are also addressed. Law reform initiatives should consult widely particularly communities affected by mining activities. Non Governmental Organisations should assist women affected by mining through Public Interest Litigation Initiatives.,NORA
“Boom or Gloom?”: An Examination of the Impact of Mining Activities on the Livelihoods of Female Small Holder Farmers in Zvishavane District
No full textMany studies have focused on how mining activities have affected local communities
however very few studies have examined the impact of the extractive industry on the
livelihood activities of rural women. The extraction of minerals has caused massive
environmental degradation as well as air, water and noise pollution. Women, because of their
gender roles largely rely on the environment and therefore bear the brunt of the negative
impacts of mining activities. The legislative and policy framework has not provided adequate
safeguards to the livelihoods of female small holder farmers. The study sought to understand
how women’s livelihood activities been affected by mining activities in Zvishavane.
The research is guided by the Women’s Law Approach to explore the impact that mining
activities have on rural women’s livelihood activities. Utilising the feminist-ecological
perspective the research finds that mining has some negative effects on agricultural activities
being carried out by women because it negatively affects the natural environment. The
research finds that although farming activities have been affected, mining activities have led
to the diversification of rural livelihoods in Zvishavane. Furthermore women have tried to
participate in the mining industry with little success but have managed to do well in
downstream support services. The law has proved to be inadequate in safeguarding the
livelihoods of the rural farmers. In cases where the law is available it has been affected by the
weak implementation mechanisms.
There is need for legal and policy reform particularly in regards to the conducting of
Environmental Impact Assessment so that issues of gender are also addressed. Law reform
initiatives should consult widely particularly communities affected by mining activities. Non
Governmental Organisations should assist women affected by mining through Public Interest
Litigation Initiatives
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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