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Alpine Space Fragilities. A Research Line
No full textAlpine heavy industry (mining, chemical, electric-power, iron and steel industries) is slowly fading away, leaving behind Alpine Industriai Landscapes (AILs): wide landscapes of former production, that are remarkable for their dimensions, dissemination, as well as complexity. trAILs is an on-going European funded project, called to investigate this kind of abandonment phenomena and financed by the Interreg Alpine Space Programme 2014- 2020. By focusing the attention on four pilot areas, the research offers a pretext and an opportunity to reflect on three issues that contemporary planning and the «risk society» (Beck, 1992) must necessarily deal with: reconverting dismantled assets in fragile territories, planning by scenarios, providing usable knowledge
Planning recommendations
No full textThe final outcome of the trAILs Research (The EU-project trAILs 2018-2021was co-financed by the European Regional Development (ERDF) within the Interreg Alpine Space Programme of the European Union), is a set of planning recommendations, expressed through the definition of principles to adhere to and performances to be achieved/guaranteed in the subsequent planning steps. Such a procedural-design methodology (from “project to process”) can be applied across the Alpine territory despite the locally different geographies, economies and societies. The results should recognize the plural condition of mountain identity, as well as the uncertainty of future developments. This condition requires new working approaches, not conventional projects. The purpose is to set up favourable conditions able to meet and integrate the necessary changes, considering the inevitably long-term perspective of spatial transformations
Il ruolo e il coinvolgimento delle comunità per la riduzione delle fragilità sociali
No full textA partire dal sisma che ha interessato l’Appennino Centrale nel 2016, il contributo affronta il tema del ruolo e del necessario coinvolgimento delle comunità locali nella costruzione delle politiche, delle azioni e dei progetti finalizzati alla riduzione delle fragilità sociali, con particolare riferimento alle aree interne del nostro Paese. Questo assumendo una concezione dinamica del capitale sociale, che si nutra della costruzione di pertinenti biografie delle comunità insediate al fine di valorizzare le capacità di ascolto e la capacitazione dei territori
Spatial Assessment
No full textThe spatial analysis of European trAILs research (2018 - 2021) is focuses on the main spatial elements needed for the development of planning pathways at a multi-scale level. Two scales can be selected for the analysis: a regional scale (1:5000 and above) to get an overview of the specific location and to identify characteristics within the region; a local scale (smaller than 1:5000) for more in-depth analysis which focuses on the pilot area and its immediate surroundings
Spatial Assessment
No full textThe spatial analysis of European trAILs research (2018 - 2021) is focuses on the main spatial elements needed for the development of planning pathways at a multi-scale level. Two scales can be selected for the analysis: a regional scale (1:5000 and above) to get an overview of the specific location and to identify characteristics within the region; a local scale (smaller than 1:5000) for more in-depth analysis which focuses on the pilot area and its immediate surroundings
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
Spatial and functional assessment
No full textSpatial analysis of trAILs Research (the EU-project trAILs 2018-2021 was co-financed by the European Regional Development ERDF within the Interreg Alpine Space Programme of the European Union), focuses on the main spatial elements needed as a base for the development of planning pathways on a multi-scale level. The spatial assessment report has two main purposes. First, it is a document providing essential knowledge of a specific AIL pilot area, and second it is a record of reflection on the assessment method performance in the pilot site. With the ‘learn-by-doing’ approach in four different pilot areas, research project partners identified and gradually specified key elements of individual assessments that work for AILs
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
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