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Shashank Srinivasan: Conservation Technologies in India
No full text<p>In this episode, we speak to Shashank Srinivasan, founder of <a href="https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/technology-for-wildlife-foundation/">Technology for Wildlife Foundation</a> based in Goa, India. Shashank discusses the use of drones, satellites, and geospatial mapping to amplify conservation work, while also remaining critical of the potential negative social and environmental impacts of these technologies.</p>
Pratyush Mallick: DIY Devices for Forest Monitoring in India
No full text<p>In this episode, we speak to Pratyush Mallick, developer of <a href="https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/forest-guardian/">Forest Guardian</a>, a DIY, open source device used to detect illegal logging in forest spaces. Pratyush discusses the potential of the DIY/hacking community for building technologies to address environmental change, and the politics of implementing these technologies on the ground in Indian forests.</p>
Larissa Souza: Human-Wildlife Coexistence in Gorongosa, Mozambique
No full text<p>In this radio episode, we speak to <a href="https://gorongosa.org/larissa-sousa/">Larissa Souza</a>, a member of the communications team at <a href="https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/gorongosa-national-park/">Gorongosa National Park</a> in Mozambique. We discuss how monitoring technologies support conservation in the park, the dynamics of human-animal conflict and coexistence, and programmes working with local communities around sustainable agriculture, girls' education, and health.</p>
Douglas Clark: Non-invasive Monitoring Technologies in the Canadian Arctic
No full text<p>In this Smart Forests Radio episode, we speak to Dr Douglas Clark, an associate professor at the <a href="https://sens.usask.ca">School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan</a>. Our conversation revolves around wildlife monitoring technologies and the collaborative process of knowledge production with Northern and Indigenous communities in Arctic Canada. Douglas elaborates on how technologies, when contextualised within local knowledge and conditions, play a crucial role in empowering Indigenous communities to take the lead in scientific research. He emphasises the potential of non-invasive and autonomous technologies, such as remote cameras, drones, and acoustic recording buoys, in researching wildlife and environmental changes in the Arctic.</p>
Patrick Ribeiro: Digital Tools for Transparency in Forest Restoration
No full text<p>In this radio episode, we speak to <a href="https://pt.linkedin.com/in/patribus">Patrick Ribeiro</a>, founder of <a href="https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/open-forests/">OpenForests</a>, a technology company that develops digital tools such as the <a href="https://explorer.land/x/projects">explorer.land</a> platform for forest restoration initiatives. Patrick discusses how digital technologies – from drones to satellites to interactive maps – can facilitate data-led storytelling that builds transparency between on-the-ground restoration projects, stakeholders and investors, and why it is important to take a multidimensional approach to forests' value.</p>
Daniela Hedwig: The Elephant Listening Project in Central Africa
No full text<p>In this radio episode, we speak to <a href="https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/daniela-hedwig/">Dr Daniela Hedwig</a>, Director of the <a href="https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/elephant-listening-project/">Elephant Listening Project</a> in the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We discuss the capacities of acoustic monitoring for detecting and intervening in poaching activity, building an 'elephant dictionary' based on acoustic and visual data, and data ethics in relationships between conservation projects and local communities.</p>
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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