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How to Plan Climate-Adaptive Cities: An Experimental Approach to Address Ecosystem Service Loss in Ordinary Planning Processes
No full textGlobal climate change, combined with socio-economic issues such as conflicts, inflation, energy crises, and inequality, is reshaping urban governance. Cities, which host most of the global population, are highly exposed to climate-related risks, especially those associated with the degradation of ecosystem services. These risks are manifested, among other factors, as the alteration and degradation of the habitat quality, heightened hydraulic vulnerability, and intensified urban heat islands phenomena. Addressing these challenges requires innovative planning tools to integrate ecosystem-based strategies to enhance urban resilience and support sustainable transformation processes. This paper attempts to do this by introducing ecosystem zoning, an experimental tool designed to integrate ecosystem services into urban planning and its regulatory framework. Applied to the city of Torino, this approach offers a biophysical classification of municipal territory through a mapping of habitat quality, cooling capacity, carbon sequestration, and stormwater retention. The resulting classification provides an overview of the different ecosystem characterizations of the urban fabric and informs site-specific interventions to maintain or enhance ecosystem services and guide urban regeneration processes. By embedding ecosystem services into planning regulations, the project supports sustainable urban development while mitigating climate impacts. The proposed tool contributes to the broader discourse on creating resilient, ecologically sustainable cities and demonstrates the potential of integrating scientific research into urban decision-making processes
Il Poru di Senigallia
No full textIl contributo inquadra il tema della rigenerazione urbana e in particolare come si stia sviluppando in Italia attraverso il racconto di alcune prime riflessioni maturate durante la redazione del Programma Operativo di riqualificazione urbana (Poru) di Senigallia (An)
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
A Framework to evaluate land take control policy efficiency in friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
Full text linkThe development of effective policies against land take should be based on a deep knowledge
of the specific land use dynamics and their determinants in a regional context. To this end, the
traditional quantitative land use change analyses need to be integrated with a more accurate spatial
and qualitative evaluation of the eects of the land use zoning of municipal land development
plans and of the connected supplementary regulations (e.g., local building regulations). Land take
limitation policies in Italy are largely based on the definition of quantitative thresholds for new
development zones, while ignoring all those undeveloped zones that have been assigned building
rights codes by plans of which the knowledge could largely impact policies. This paper attempted
to define a conceptual framework of analysis which integrates a land use change assessment with
an analysis in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment of the spatial distribution of
normative zones. The method was tested on the Friuli Venezia Giulia region (north-east Italy)—a
territory that has experienced rapid growth in recent decades—by analyzing the spatial impact of
the recently promulgated regional laws on land take control, the explicit and specific purpose of
which was to limit commercial and industrial land use in the whole region. The soil sealing data were
analyzed by performing a cross-comparison with the building rights permissions data, thus achieving
a comprehensive evaluation of the past and predicted land take for commercial and industrial uses.
Results demonstrated that the expected land take will exceed the past urbanization rate, highlighting a
substantial inecacy of the promulgated regional laws in promoting local land take control. The main
innovations of this study relate to the definition of a newer qualitative methodology for framing an
efficient decision-making supporting system, while helping to achieve the long-term sustainability
of policie
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No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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