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Coastal Adaptation Along the Lake Ontario Shoreline: Regional Perspectives on Barriers to Implementing Natural & Nature Based Features (NNBF) and Resilient Local Laws for Flood Resilience and Erosion Control
No full textThis report was prepared for the New York State Water Resources Institute (WRI) and the Great Lakes Watershed Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, with support from the NYS Environmental Protection FundClimate-induced flooding along the shoreline of Lake Ontario caused significant damage to infrastructure
and property in 2017 and 2019. As climate change continues to impact lake levels in unforeseen and
uncertain ways, the region faces a threat from increased erosion, flooding, and low water levels. It is critical
to establish dynamic adaptation strategies that make communities better prepared to face the impacts
of climate change. Even with many on-going state-level initiatives such as the Resiliency and Economic
Development Initiative (REDI), Coastal Lake shore Economy and Resiliency Initiative (CLEAR) and the Great
Lakes Action Agenda (GLAA) promoting nature based shorelines, ecosystem-based shoreline management
and resilient land use practices, structural solutions such as engineered shorelines remain the most popular
mitigation strategy for shoreline communities and property owners. This project uses detailed interviews with
adaptation professionals, county and regional planners and natural resource managers along the shoreline
to identify pertinent barriers to the adoption of non-structural solutions for coastal adaptation including
natural and nature based solutions and policy approaches. Using a barrier-analysis approach developed by
Moser and Ekstrom (2009) - we outline barriers at various stages of the adaptation process, from strategy
selection to implementation. We find that informational and resource constraints, misaligned incentives,
and institutional and legal hurdles prevent a widespread adoption of non-structural adaptation strategies
and suggest ways to overcome these barriers through alternative approaches to traditional adaptation
governance mechanisms
Understanding Coastal Adaptation Governance on the Lake Ontario Shoreline: Identifying Barriers to Local Flood Resilience
No full textThis report was prepared for the New York State Water Resources Institute (NYSWRI) and the Great Lakes Watershed Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation with support from the NYS Environmental Protection Fund.Climate-induced flooding along the shoreline of Lake Ontario caused significant damage to infrastructure and property. As climate change continues to impact lake levels in unforeseen and uncertain ways, the region faces a threat from increased erosion, flooding, and low water levels. It is critical to establish dynamic adaptation strategies for lake level management on Lake Ontario and reduce barriers to local adaptation under climate and lake level management uncertainty. This project employs a review of existing literature, and Social Network Analysis (SNA) diagramming techniques to describe the systems that govern adaptation outcomes along the shoreline and aims to outline possible gaps and barriers in coastal adaptation at the community level by understanding various stakeholders, players, and processes that comprise the network. It explores the ‘adaptation deficit’ that currently exists for coastal communities and identifies opportunities to leverage networks to supplement local adaptive capacity and employ alternative approaches to traditional adaptation governance mechanisms
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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