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Linking rural tourism to agriculture. Evidences from comparative case studies in Kosovo, Italy and Spain.
Get PDFRural tourism has been widely promoted in the European Union as an effective measure counteracting economic and social challenges facing rural areas, especially those with declining agricultural economies. Its role is particularly seen in the provision and maintenance of public goods, which are demanded more and more by the public and considered in policymaking.
In Kosovo, rural tourism has been developed through the support of international development agencies and private sector initiatives, with the primary aim to generate additional income for rural households and sustainable management of natural and cultural resources. In any case, it could be stated that the use of territorial capital, stable links with agriculture, and promotion to wider circles of people for enhancing the quality of rural tourism, have not been well explored so far. In this regard the present study gives an overview on the initiatives undertaken, stakeholders involved and the way territorial capital has been used to develop tourist offerings in rural areas of Kosovo. The study also applies a comparative approach with two other areas of the European Union, Appennino Bolognese in North Italy and Alpujara in South Eastern Spain, to understand and compare the process of rural tourism, agrotourism development and demand characteristics between Kosovo and these other areas. A survey has been conducted with rural tourists in all three study areas to understand their preferences for public and private goods and services when visiting rural areas, and explore the role of agriculture in sustaining rural tourism.
Results show that there is a potential demand to link rural tourism with agriculture and develop agrotourism in Kosovo, which would help to sustain agriculture and add additional value to local food products, which in turn would enhance the tourist offering and make it more attractive for visitors, but also for the farmers as an additional revenue-generating sector.El turismo rural ha sido ampliamente promovido en la Unión Europea como una medida eficaz para contrarrestar los desafíos económicos y sociales frente a las zonas rurales, especialmente aquellos con economías agrícolas en declive. Su función se ve particularmente en el suministro y el mantenimiento de los bienes públicos, que son cada vez más demandados por la sociedad y considerados en el diseño de las políticas públicas.
En Kosovo, el turismo rural se ha desarrollado a través del apoyo de los organismos internacionales de desarrollo y las iniciativas del sector privado, con el objetivo principal de generar ingresos adicionales para las familias rurales y la gestión sostenible de los recursos naturales y culturales. En cualquier caso, se podría afirmar que el uso de capital territorial, ligado a la agricultura para la mejora de la calidad del turismo rural, no han sido bien explorado hasta ahora.
En este sentido, el presente estudio ofrece una visión general sobre las gestiones realizadas, los actores involucrados y la forma en que el capital territorial se ha utilizado para desarrollar ofertas turísticas en las zonas rurales de Kosovo. En el estudio se aplica además un enfoque comparativo con otras dos zonas de la Unión Europea, Appennino Bolognese en el norte de Italia y Alpujara en el sudeste de España, para entender y comparar el proceso de turismo rural, el desarrollo del agroturismo y las características de la demanda entre Kosovo y estas otras áreas. Para ello, se ha diseñado una encuesta a los turistas rurales en las tres áreas de estudio, para identificar sus preferencias por los bienes y servicios públicos y privados al visitar las zonas rurales, y explorar el papel de la agricultura en el mantenimiento de turismo rural.Universidad de Bolonia. Departamento: Economía Agraria y Estudios Rurales. Programa de Doctorado: Cooperación Internacional y Política para el Desarrollo Sostenible. Dirigida por Dr. Samir Sayadi (Investigador Titular del IFAPA), y Dr. Matteo Vittuari (Universidad de Bolonia)
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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