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CLIMATE POLICIES AND ADAPTATION MEASURES FOR ALPINE HERITAGE
No full textClimate change represents a significant challenge to the preservation of architectural
heritage; however, the development of pragmatic methodologies for safeguarding
architectural heritage in at-risk areas remains under-investigated. This research
assesses the impact of climate change on Alpine architectural heritage and identifies
practical measures for adaptation. Key research questions include:
1. How is climate change impacting the Alpine region?
2. Are climate policies currently being implemented at the regional level to
mitigate these impacts?
3. Do regional and national climate change adaptation and mitigation plans
adequately address the needs of architectural heritage?
4. What are the primary effects of climate change on Alpine architectural
heritage?
5. What practical measures can protect Alpine heritage to support adaptation
to changing environmental conditions?
The investigation is based on a bibliographic review of key sources and an analysis
of international and national policies, with a particular focus on the Italian context,
highlighting overlapping strategies across various levels and stakeholders. These
overlaps pose challenges to developing a comprehensive protection framework for
the protection of alpine heritage. The study proposes a coordinated strategy spanning
provincial and national levels that corresponds to the architectural scale. The
findings aim to guide future research and decision-making, providing actionable
strategies towards heritage adaptation
Re-envisioning Rural Heritage as a Resource for Regeneration: The Case of Abandoned Farmhouses in Northern Italy
Get PDF[EN] The rural landscape, formerly a dynamic center of agrarian life, currently confronts a multitude of challenges, encompassing depopulation, economic regression, and the deterioration of its built heritage. This article investigates how abandoned rural heritage can be repurposed to create new opportunities for rural communities. The North Oglio Park region in northern Italy serves as a case study, featuring numerous historic farmhouses and agricultural estates—along the Oglio tributary. Largely abandoned and deteriorating, these structures exemplify the area’s neglected heritage. This research documents their current condition and explores their potential for local regeneration. To inform revitalization strategies, the study analyzes successful heritage reuse projects from related rural areas, considering factors like location, community engagement, financial resources, and sustainable maintenance. Drawing from these insights, the research develops a set of evaluation criteria to assess the potential for adaptive reuse of these rural structures. Initial reuse ideas and scenarios are presented, such as new agricultural ventures, agritourism centers, communal hubs, and educational or cultural institutions. By reimagining these structures, the research aims to redefine their role in sustainable regeneration and contribute to the broader discussion on the future of rural heritage and its potential to revitalize rural communities and cultural landscapes through adaptive reuse. With thoughtful planning, sustainable strategies, and active community involvement, these abandoned farmhouses could become valuable assets, driving economic growth, enhancing social cohesion, and preserving rural heritage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 101126643.Psoma, A. (2025). Re-envisioning Rural Heritage as a Resource for Regeneration: The Case of Abandoned Farmhouses in Northern Italy. En Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, HERITAGE 2025 - International Conference on Earthen and Vernacular Heritage: Conservation, Adaptive Reuse and Urban Regeneration (pp. 439-446). https://doi.org/10.4995/HERITAGE2025.2025.19226OCS43944
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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