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LAND ECOMANAGEMENT. Environmental management and audit scheme as management measures concerning environmental quality in the territory
No full textRecognition of the local dimension as the ideal level on which to carry out sustainable development is by now universally affirmed, as stated in the World Summit of Sustainable Development 2002, which represented an opportunity for relaunching the collaboration of local bodies in that direction. The Declaration of Local Bodies, issued as the closing document, constitutes an acceptance of responsibility regarding the promotion and carrying out of governing policies and measures of sustainable development in their individual communities. Unfortunately, these local bodies are still today not in a position to translate these policies into territorial programming, management and planning. This is the leading idea of a project financed by the Ministry of Education, University and Research, in which the authors are involved. This project was born from an interdisciplinary research activity, based on mutual exchange of scientific tools belonging to different disciplines: Architecture, Engineering and Computer Science. This paper deals with the main objective of the activity related to the research project. The main objective emerges as a proposal for putting in order useful measures in favour of eco-management development activities and an audit scheme for the sustainability of the territory in line with currently existing European Community regulations
Definition of an Environmental Performance Evaluation System
No full textDepartment of Building National University of Singapor
Sviluppo turistico sostenibile in aree meridionali. Un distretto culturale nell’area di Lamalunga presso Altamura
No full textAn Information System for Management and Transfer of Knowledge about Eco-Management and Audit Tasks for Territory Sustainability
No full textECO-KTM System for land ecomanagement. An information system for management and transfer of knowledge about eco-management and audit tasks for land eco-sustainability
No full textAn environmental performance evaluation system: a neuro-fuzzy modeling approach
No full textThis paper deals with the definition of an environmental performance evaluation system of touristy and receptive facilities in rural Mediterranean areas. Such a system should act as a tool for design assistance, i.e. it could be useful to support building design choices, according to environmental sustainability. To derive the model of the evaluation system, a neuro-fuzzy approach is employed, that enables automatic extraction of the model from a large data set containing descriptors of the touristy buildings and related evaluation indexes. Specifically, the evaluation model is extracted through neural learning from data in form of fuzzy rules that can be easily interpreted and used by designers and architects to better understand the relationships existing between building features and environmental performances
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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