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Climate Risk Governance in Bhubaneswar, India: An evolutionary perspective
Get PDFThis dissertation seeks to examine the evolving politics of planning and governance of climate risks in Bhubaneswar city in India, by analyzing how climate risk governance has evolved and its implications on future adaptation possibilities. Southern cities such as Bhubaneswar have been at the forefront of local-scaled exploration and implementation of climate planning, policymaking, and action in the last two decades, often drawing upon normative ideas inspired by and embedded in resilience and social-ecological systems theory. Yet, the complexity and evolving dynamics of changing governance contexts remain largely unexplored due to changing risks, vulnerabilities, adaptation practices, knowledge as well as fast-paced urbanization and development priorities. In the absence of observation of the above in governance, planning practice itself can result in new and unobserved risks emerging from decisions to combat climate risk, making climate adaptation invariably more complicated and challenging to attain.
In response to the above problem, there has been increasing scholarly attention and recommendation for climate practice in cities to be more context-sensitive. Despite the advancing knowledge, most climate practice emerging in southern cities remains oblivious to the existing realities of southern cities, particularly in terms of blindness to issues of dynamic formal/informal institutional relations, conflicts, and discursive construction and deployment of risks and vulnerabilities. To address this gap, this study aims to advance understanding of the co-evolutions between elements of climate risk governance (actors, institutions, and discourses) in Bhubaneswar city. The overarching research question that guides this dissertation is: How has climate risk governance in Bhubaneswar evolved in response to environmental and development challenges in the last two decades? The time frame from 2008 to 2021 is considered in this study, beginning with the first state climate action plan in 2008 till the time field work was carried out for the study. To answer the question, I focus on the mutual interactions and co-evolutions between different elements of governance, i.e. actors, institutions, and discourses, within changing system/environment relations. I adopted a constructivist and interpretive lens for this study and used a qualitative case study approach for this study.
This dissertation is structured as a series of four articles that present distinct inquiries that are intended for journal publication (also known as paper-based format). The articles presented are broadly guided by the above overarching question, while I ask and answer precise questions and objectives within each article. The first article is a systematic literature review based inquiry on the elusive but rapidly emerging area of southern urbanism, including its many theoretical propositions, conceptual landscape, and categorical differences between the cities in the North and South. This helped me arrive at contextual characteristics of southern cities that I employed as starting points in the next articles. In the second article, through Jäger & Maier’s Critical Dispositive Analysis of documents, I focus on how climate risk and vulnerability in the climate plans and policies in Bhubaneswar are discursively created, deployed, and co-evolve over time, and how they limit and provide opportunities for policy and governance responses. This is followed by the third article, wherein I explore a novel understanding of climate risks in local contexts through the constantly changing formal/informal institutional interactions. And finally, in the fourth article, I advance knowledge on the usefulness of studying climate shocks and social conflicts together through an evolutionary and social-ecological systems lens, to understand climate risk governance issues, including their effects on limitations and opportunities in adaptation to climate change.
Collectively, the findings demonstrate that local adaptation to climate change is not limited to formal plans/policies, while the risks identified formally are not comprehensive at any point in time. I highlight the risks that emerge out of climate plans lacking southern sensibilities, particularly from the non-observance of formal/informal interactions, gaps between rhetoric in formal plans/policies and action, and underestimating the combined effects of climate shocks and existing social conflicts in planning for climate change. The study findings reveal the underlying politics and power relations that influence the construction and reconstruction of climate risk and vulnerability. Conversely, the changing relations between elements of governance themselves result in changing power relations through the creation of new governance contexts (actor/institutional configurations and discourses), and new risks and opportunities for different actors
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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