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Populism and energy: Britishness, Europeanness, and responses to energy infrastructures
Full text linkSusana Batel and Patrick Devine-Wright explore public beliefs about energy issues among different-level identities in the UK, and explain how feelings of belonging to different imaginary communities appear to impact socio-political events such as Brexit
Shaping people’s engagement with microgeneration technology:the case of solar photovoltaics in UK homes
No full textThroughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy, as energy and planning policies are revised to support new energy sources or technologies (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, bioenergy or hydrogen energy) and communities face the prospect of unfamiliar, often large-scale energy technologies being sited near to their homes. Policy makers in many countries face tensions between 'streamlining' planning procedures, engaging with diverse publics to address what is commonly conceived as 'NIMBY' (not in my back yard) opposition, and the need to maintain democratic, participatory values in planning systems.This volume provides a timely, international review of research on public engagement, in contexts of diverse, innovative energy technologies. Public engagement is conceived broadly - as the interaction between how developers and other key actors engage with publics about energy technologies (including assumptions held about the methods used, such as the provision of financial benefits or the holding of deliberative events), and how individuals and groups engage with energy policies and projects (including indirectly through the media and directly through emotional and behavioural responses).The book's contributors are leading experts in the UK, Europe, North and South America and Australia drawn from a variety of relevant social science disciplinary perspectives. The book makes a significant contribution to our existing knowledge, as well as providing interested professionals, policymakers and members of the public with a timely overview of the critical issues involved in public engagement with low carbon energy technologies
Article : Green space, soundscape and urban sustainability: an interdisciplinary, empirical study.
No full textDisponible via le sudoc Local Environment The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability Volume 14, Issue 2 February 2009 , pages 155 - 172 Authors: Katherine N. Irvine a; Patrick Devine-Wright b; Sarah R. Payne b; Richard A. Fuller c; Birgit Painter a; Kevin J. Gaston c Affiliations: a Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK b Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK c Biodiversity and Macroe..
Article : Green space, soundscape and urban sustainability: an interdisciplinary, empirical study.
No full textDisponible via le sudoc Local Environment The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability Volume 14, Issue 2 February 2009 , pages 155 - 172 Authors: Katherine N. Irvine a; Patrick Devine-Wright b; Sarah R. Payne b; Richard A. Fuller c; Birgit Painter a; Kevin J. Gaston c Affiliations: a Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK b Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK c Biodiversity and Macroe..
Article : How green is your thumb? Environmental gardening identity and ecological gardening practices
No full textJournal of Environmental Psychology, Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 267-338 (September 2010) Identity, Place, and Environmental Behaviour : Edited by Patrick Devine-Wright and Susan Clayton For gardeners, the garden is a significant aspect of identity. The number of people who garden and consider themselves environmentally friendly is growing. This exploratory study investigated whether “environmental gardening identity” is a measurable construct that motivates environmentally-friendly home garde..
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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