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Renewable Economies in the Arctic
Full text link"This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states.
The economic development of the Arctic region is witnessing new, innovative trends which hold promise for the sustainable development of the region. This book discusses the emerging forms of renewable economies to understand where intellectual and technological innovations are being made. It draws on the expertise of scholars from across the Arctic and provides the reader with a foundation of knowledge to identify the unique challenges of the region and explore opportunities to unlock the immense potential of renewable resources to boost the region’s economy. This book offers a holistic Arctic perspective against the backdrop of prevailing social, economic, and climatic challenges.
With critical insights on the economic state of play and the role of renewable resources in the development of the Arctic region, this book will be a vital point of reference for Arctic scholars, communities, and policy makers.
The potential of art and design for renewable economies in the Arctic
Full text linkThere is a growing interest to consider the impact of creative industries on renewable economies in the Arctic. However, until recently, the understanding of the frameworks of creative industry and renewable economy has remained vague, especially in the field of art and design. In this study, we investigate the potential of art and design in promoting renewable economies, using the concepts of ecosystem services (ES), particularly cultural ecosystem services (CES), and place-making as our theoretical and practical framework. This framework allows us to rethink the ways that creative entrepreneurs, businesses and communities may collaborate, through art and design, in place-based development in the rapidly changing Arctic. By presenting case studies drawn from Canada, Russia, Alaska (USA), Finland and Scotland (UK), we aim not only to share our experiences and findings but also to suggest future lines of enquiry. We argue that creative, renewable economies in the fields of art and design can play an important role in the future of sustainable development in peripheral and remote areas in the Arctic.In Chapter 4, Timo Jokela and his co-authors examine the impact of creative industries on renewable economies in the Arctic. Until recently, the understanding of the frameworks of creative industry and renewable economy has remained vague, especially in the field of art and design. In this chapter, the potential of art and design in promoting renewable economies is explored, using the concepts of ecosystem services (ES), particularly cultural ecosystem services (CES), and place-making as our theoretical and practical framework. This framework allows us to rethink the ways that creative entrepreneurs, businesses, and communities may collaborate, through art and design, in place-based development in the rapidly changing Arctic. By presenting case studies drawn from Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland, and Russia, the authors not only share experiences and findings but also suggest future lines of enquiry. The takeaway finding from this chapter is that creative, renewable economies in the fields of art and design can play an important role in the future of sustainable development in peripheral and remote areas in the Arctic
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
Marine fisheries and aquaculture in the Arctic
Full text linkIn Chapter 12, Catherine Chambers and her colleagues examine fisheries that center on both capture fisheries and its related industries (for example, fish processing, gear manufacturing, harbor operations, etc.) and subsistence fisheries that contribute to local mixed economies. The Arctic marine socio-ecological ecosystem is experiencing a continuous, rapid change, including shifts in the range of fisheries, decreasing sea ice coverage, increased risk of pollution, and varying forms of economic development and governance changes that can have both positive and negative impacts. The specific objective of this chapter is to use the best available data to contribute to scholarship, policy, and future development by identifying opportunities and threats for current and fisheries and aquaculture activities in the Arctic. The chapter concludes by identifying key considerations for the Arctic communities and decision-makers interested in renewable economies that include fisheries and aquaculture
Renewable Economies in the Arctic
Full text link"This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states.
The economic development of the Arctic region is witnessing new, innovative trends which hold promise for the sustainable development of the region. This book discusses the emerging forms of renewable economies to understand where intellectual and technological innovations are being made. It draws on the expertise of scholars from across the Arctic and provides the reader with a foundation of knowledge to identify the unique challenges of the region and explore opportunities to unlock the immense potential of renewable resources to boost the region’s economy. This book offers a holistic Arctic perspective against the backdrop of prevailing social, economic, and climatic challenges.
With critical insights on the economic state of play and the role of renewable resources in the development of the Arctic region, this book will be a vital point of reference for Arctic scholars, communities, and policy makers.
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
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