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The Fragile State of Disaster Response: Understanding Aid-State-Society Relations in Post-conflict Settings
No full textTransition Studies: Basic Ideas and Analytical Approaches
No full textAs a background to later contributions, this chapter provides a concise introduction to different approaches to (i) understanding and (ii) shaping transition dynamics: (1) A sociotechnical approach, with the multilevel perspective as its main concept, and strategic niche management as its governance concept; (2) A complex (adaptive) system-based approach, using the concept of transition patterns, with transition management as its governance concept; (3) A governance approach, where the politics of transition dynamics are examined, with reflexive design as the core of its approach to shaping transition. In addition, work based on the social theory of practice has helped to bring consumption practices into transition theory, and an approach focusing on innovation system has helped to explain how different arrangements may become interconnected so as to produce a transition
Global Threats, Global Changes and Connected Communities in the Global Agrofood System
No full textThis chapter seeks to help develop a conceptual basis for developing strategies to promote the process of global change required to deal with contemporary global problems. It does so, by drawing upon insights from Ulrich Beck's work on (global) risk society and reflexive modernization so as to understand the complex relations between previous development patterns, current problems and the conditions for future global changes.Drawing on the case of the implementation (in France, Germany and Portugal) of measure to bring the EU's Common Agricultural Polocy (CAP) more in line with sustainable development, we conclude that here reflexive modernization was promoted by local communities but, ironically, also by liberalization of global trade; occurred espeially when the ground had been prepared by earlier developments; and may create their own side effects
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
Transition Studies: Basic Ideas and Analytical Approaches
No full textAs a background to later contributions, this chapter provides a concise introduction to different approaches to (i) understanding and (ii) shaping transition dynamics: (1) A sociotechnical approach, with the multilevel perspective as its main concept, and strategic niche management as its governance concept; (2) A complex (adaptive) system-based approach, using the concept of transition patterns, with transition management as its governance concept; (3) A governance approach, where the politics of transition dynamics are examined, with reflexive design as the core of its approach to shaping transition. In addition, work based on the social theory of practice has helped to bring consumption practices into transition theory, and an approach focusing on innovation system has helped to explain how different arrangements may become interconnected so as to produce a transition
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