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The New Experience of Sub-district Administrative Organization in Coastal Resource Management: the Case of Chumphon Province, Thailand
Get PDFThe Thai government promulgated the Sub-district administrative organization (Ao.Bo.To) Act in 1994, which legally made Ao.Bo.To. a local government organization. The Pakklong Ao.Bo.To. in Chumphon Province was established in 1997 with its council taking up two main responsibilities. One is to develop the community and to manage budget and financial support by itself; the other is to adopt the community development and coastal resource management project formulated by the central government and the higher level offices. Considering its function in the community development plan, the council placed the infrastructure development as the first priority of the activity plan. But it placed the environment and resource management activity on the fifth priority. It was estimated that 72% of council memers had good understanding on the rationale and positive perception on the locally based coastal resource management project. However, the members only participated occasionally in the main six activities of the based coastal resource management project. The project was rated as excellent by 73% of the council members, good 18% and poor 9%. The Ao.Bo,To, council was regarded as a leading body to take function in the coastal resource management project. The council purposes its future plan to implement the coastal resource management project. The council purposes its future plan to implement the coastal resource management project after the project terminated in December, 2006. It focuses on local people and community development work on one hand; emphasizes extension work to disseminate information concerned community development and coastal resource management on the other
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
Effort to Establish a Self-management Framework in the Demarcated Zones
Get PDFThe Department of Fisheries (DOF) formulated Thai sea rehabilitation program, which was under the Eighth National Social and Economic Development Plan (1997-2001). This program adopted concept of territorial use right in fisheries (TURFs) and fishing right system to contribute alleviation of resource user conflicts. The main concept of TURFs and fishing right system is demarcation of coastal areas. A demarcation of coastal zone will possibly encourage development of decentralization process in local administration. Sub-district Administrative Organization (Ao.Bo.To.) was established in 1994. Ao.Bo.To. may take responsibility and function as a local management body to execute community development and coastal resource management. The DOF set up a demarcated zone (Area I and Area II) in Pathew Bay, Pathew District, Chumporn Province. This demarcated zone reached an agreement of local people s consensus. The consensus of the demarcated zone became official Chumporn Provincial Proclamation. This proclamation has been effective since 4 November 2002 after publicly announced to local people, stakeholders in the province. The DOF (headquarter), the Provincial and District office of DOF, Chumporn Marine Fisheries Research and Development Center and SEAFDEC/TD plan to encourage and improve capacity building of Ao.Bo.To. to be lead and core institution to control the demarcated zone proclamation
Experience in the Zoning of Fish Cage and Shellfish Culture Areas
Get PDFThe demarcation of coastal areas in Pathew Bay officially proclaimed by the Chumporn province. Local fishers, fish-farmers and other stakeholders utilize these areas for fishing, cruising boat and engaging in fish cage culture and shellfish culture. The Chumporn provincial office of fisheries proposed the concept of the zoning of fish and shellfish culture to all local stakeholders. Objectives of this concept are to control numbers of fish-farmers and numbers of fish cages and areas. The concept of aquaculture zoning areas composed of two purposes. The first purpose was to change allowable areas for utilizing only shellfish culture areas cited in the provincial proclamation. This area should be changed to a purpose from shellfish culture areas to be community (Tambol) culture areas. The second purpose was to designate coastal zones for utilize as fish and shellfish allowable culture areas that local stakeholders have marked, considered and agreed by local people s consensus. The preparation of aquaculture zoning areas predicates two steps that are 1) at the Moobaan based step is to achieve the sharing of common interests and satisfaction of local users and stakeholders and 2) at the Tambol (sub-district) step is to strengthen the community needs and requirement through Ao.Bo.To. s approval and contribution
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
Coordination between Crab Trap and Crab Gill Nets Fisheries: Change and Adjustment of Fishing Gear for Responsible Fisheries Projects to Contribute Locally based Coastal Resource Management
Get PDFCrab fisheries in Tambol Pakklong composed of collapsible crab trap and crab gill net fishers. Collapsible crab trap fishers were classified into three sub-categories by size of wire. These were small sized wire, large sized wire, and both engaged in small and large sized wires. Crab gill net fishers were categorized into three sub-categories by depth of sea water. These were fishers operated in deep sea areas, in shallow sea areas, and both deep and shallow sea areas. Landing survey team reported the data collection from collapsible crab trap and crab gill net that Catch per Unit of Effort (CPUE) of total species composition were 33.98 g/trap and 1.09kg/net. However, fishers engage in crab gill net and collapsible crab trap have conflict of utilizing blue swimming crab in the same fishing ground areas. Marine Fisheries Institute, Department of Fisheries (DOF) formulates Change and Adjustment of Fishing Gear for Responsible Fisheries Project to alleviate severe conflict among small-scale fishers. Main objective of this project is to enhance aquatic resources particular increase of marketable sized catch exploitation and un-utilizing fertilized crab. DOF provides net, which has mesh size about 4 inches to subsidize collapsible crab trap fishers. This 4 inches mesh size net will be used to replace bottom net of crab trap, which mesh size is 1 inch
The Traditional Practice of Fishery Governance in Coastal Zone Management: The Case of Chumphon Province, Thailand
Get PDFThe objective of this paper is to demonstrate the fishers’ practices, experiences and participation in the coastal resource management. This is part of the practical outcome of the locally-based coastal resource management project implemented in Chumphon Province in 2001-2006. This project adopted the CBFM and co-management approaches. The fishers’ participation was a strategic tool to practically pursue these two approaches in achieving the sustainability of the coastal resources. These two approaches also support mechanically the exercise of fishery governance and institution. Since the system of fishery governance and institution that are already present in the province, is traditionally practiced by the local fish farmers and crab trap fishers, these two stakeholders have practically undergone self-governance particularly on the conflict resolution aspect in designated coastal areas
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
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