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Moving to higher ground: Planning for relocation as an adaptation strategy to climate change in the Fiji Islands
No full textThis edited volume advances our understanding of climate relocation (or planned retreat), an emerging topic in the fields of climate adaptation and hazard risk, and provides a platform for alternative voices and views on the subject.
As the effects of climate change become more severe and widespread, there is a growing conversation about when, where and how people will move. Climate relocation is a controversial adaptation strategy, yet the process can also offer opportunity and hope. This collection grapples with the environmental and social justice dimensions from multiple perspectives, with cases drawn from Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania, South America, and North America. The contributions throughout present unique perspectives, including community organizations, adaptation practitioners, geographers, lawyers, and landscape architects, reflecting on the potential harms and opportunities of climate-induced relocation. Works of art, photos, and quotes from flood survivors are also included, placed between sections to remind the reader of the human element in the adaptation debate. Blending art – photography, poetry, sculpture – with practical reflections and scholarly analyses, this volume provides new insights on a debate that touches us all: how we will live in the future and where?
Challenging readers’ pre-conceptions about planned retreat by juxtaposing different disciplines, lenses and media, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental migration and displacement, and environmental justice and equity
Sociologia dei disastri e transizione ecologica: lapproccio della preparedness
No full textPiù che l’esito finale e definitivo di una specifica indagine, questo volume costituisce un vero e proprio cantiere di ricerca aperto. Un laboratorio, dunque, nel quale differenti percorsi di ricerca si incrociano su un terreno comune, trasversale ai diversi campi di approfondimento: le infrastrutture. Esse svolgono un ruolo determinante nelle forme di vita del capitalismo contemporaneo: legano insieme, connettono, vincolano e consentono l’organizzazione coordinata del sociale. Le infrastrutture possiedono specifiche caratteristiche materiali, tecniche, organizzative, essendo quei sistemi socio-tecnici attraverso cui è possibile realizzare e distribuire enormi flussi di merci, di persone, di dati, di immagini e così via. Al tempo stesso, proprio nel continuo e quotidiano ricorso a quei dispositivi, oggi caratterizzati da una estensione quantitativa e una sincronizzazione sistemica inedite, le nostre forme di vita sono a loro volta infrastrutturate dalle logiche e dai codici con cui le infrastrutture funzionano. In questo senso, grazie alle infrastrutture facciamo molte cose, ma a loro volta esse fanno qualcosa delle nostre forme di vita.
Questo testo consente pertanto l’accesso ad un cantiere di lavoro in cui, senza pretese esaustive né tanto meno di chiusura sistemica, differenti percorsi di ricerca danno forma ad una prospettiva, un orizzonte esplorativo nel quale la messa a fuoco delle infrastrutture – o per meglio dire, dell’infrastrutturare – assume la valenza di un metodo di indagine, uno strumento attraverso il quale porre attenzione ai processi materiali e immateriali con cui il sociale prende forma
Patient management and care after primary percutaneous coronary intervention: reinforcing a continuum of care after primary percutaneous coronary intervention
No full textPatient management and care after primary percutaneous coronary intervention: reinforcing a continuum of care after primary percutaneous coronary intervention
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Evolving geometries: Power, territory, and knowledge in the infrastructure of energy communities
No full textEnergy communities seem to hold great promise for addressing the challenges of a just energy transition. They are expected to shift energy production to local territories, bring new actors into energy governance and intervene to reshape existing power dynamics. However, these expectations often lead to placing the responsibility for change on communities, as if they were designed to mechanically transform energy systems. This ignores the fact that energy communities navigate through domains of uncertainty where techno-managerial approaches impede the possibilities for radical change. The article suggests that adopting an infrastructural perspective can enhance and innovate the discourse on energy communities in the social sciences. Arguing that both energy infrastructures and energy communities exist in a field of tension in which three crucial infrastructural dimensions – power, territory, and knowledge – create different relational geometries, this paper proposes a new categorisation for understanding energy communities through an infrastructural lens. The aim is to identify which specific geometries of power, territory and knowledge are best positioned to build energy communities capable of challenging the current energy infrastructure. The article states that energy communities are neither conservative nor inherently revolutionary, suggesting that the transformative capacity of energy communities depends on specific infrastructural assemblages
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
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