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Curbing the Burn: Indonesia’s Collective Action Against Forest and Peatland Fires, 2015 – 2019
No full textIndonesia, a tropical country home to some of the world’s largest rainforests and peatlands, has long had a major forest fire problem. Fires occurred every year, and in 2015 forest and peatland fires scorched 2.6 million hectares of the archipelago, producing a toxic haze that blanketed the neighboring countries of Singapore and Malaysia. Thousands fell ill, and Indonesia suffered US$16 billion in economic losses.
The disaster put the perpetrators of the fires—the forestry industry, palm oil industry, paper and pulp companies, and agricultural communities—in the spotlight. These actors used illegal fires to clear forests and peatland for commercial purposes, and did so with impunity. Forestry law enforcement was weak and the state agencies for fire prevention and suppression were not well coordinated. Communities residing in the vicinity of forests had low awareness of forest sustainability, making the situation worse. Although the government tried various policies to curb the recurrent fire problem, efforts proved futile.
After the 2015 fires—the worst in a decade—the government took a new approach. Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, called on all actors affected by forest fires to work collectively. This government-led collective action included several state agencies, private companies, and communities at the village level, and distributed certain roles and responsibilities among the various parties. The government focused on strengthening law enforcement, suppressing forest fires, and restoring degraded peatland. Meanwhile, the private sector worked toward sustainable forestry industry practices, and local communities played a significant role in preventing and monitoring fire occurrences.
Following the introduction of the new approach, there was a 93.6 percent reduction in hotspots (an indication of fire incidents) from 2015 to 2019. In addition, 700,000 hectares of peatland was restored and Indonesia reported a 60 percent drop on average in primary forest loss from January 2016 to June 2019
Investigating Job Performance Of Female Legislators Under Quota System: An Indonesian Case
Get PDFThis paper examines to what extent Indonesian female legislators elected through gender quota perform their legislative duties compared to non quota counterparts. Employing OLS method, the finding suggests that quota congresswomen perform similar level of legislature works to non-quota congressmen
Making Collaboration Work: A Systematic Multidimensional Review of Collaborative Governance
Get PDFCollaborative governance (CG) has become a crucial approach for addressing complex public issues that single actors cannot solve. Despite its growing relevance, the understanding of CG remains fragmented. This study aims to synthesize the existing CG literature to provide a more cohesive understanding and identify a future research agenda. Using a systematic, multidimensional literature review, 53 academic documents were qualitatively analyzed. The findings reveal key antecedent conditions for successful collaboration, including a sense of community, a favorable historical context, and a level playing field.
Furthermore, the study identifies eleven critical factors that contribute to effective collaborative networks. The synthesis highlights the strengths of CG literature in institutional and multilevel analysis but also points to significant gaps in integrative dimensions and developmental dynamics. This study contributes a systematic, multidimensional framework that advances collaborative governance theory by integrating institutional, processual, and contextual dimensions and addressing the research gap in comprehensive CG synthesis. The findings reveal that future research must address these gaps to advance both theoretical knowledge and practical application, particularly in diverse contexts like public administration in Indonesia
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
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