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Teaching and Practicing Climate Politics at College of the Atlantic: Student-inspired, Student-driven
Full text linkCollege of the Atlantic students past and present play leadership roles in the international climate justice youth movement. Student interest in climate change politics at the global level, particularly within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, has inspired the development of a range of courses at COA in global environmental diplomacy. The courses provide a climate justice framework for understanding the geopolitics and political economy of the negotiations, serve to link students with key actors in the climate justice movement, and ultimately to contribute to their own development as climate justice leaders
Understanding the consequences of the loss and damage evidence gap and limiting its adverse effects for developing countries
Full text linkAuf der 27. Vertragsstaatenkonferenz der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen (UNFCCC) im Jahr 2022 gelang es den Entwicklungsländern, einen Verlust- und Schadensfonds (engl. „Loss and Damage“ - L&D) einzurichten. L&D, umrissen als die unvermeidbaren Risiken und Auswirkungen des Klimawandels, hat für Entwicklungsländer, deren Vulnerabilität und Exposition gegenüber dem Klimawandel besonders hoch ist, hohe Priorität bei gleichzeitig dünner Beweislage.
Die vorliegende Promotion richtet ihr Augenmerk auf diesen Mangel an L&D „Beweisen“ um die Rolle von Evidenzen im Rahmen der L&D Verhandlungen zu verstehen und Ansätze zu entwickeln, die negative Folgen ihres Mangels für Entwicklungsländer begrenzen.
Der erste Teil dieser Arbeit zeigt, wie Verhandlungsführerinnen und -führer aus Entwicklungsländern generische Erkenntnisse zu Klimaauswirkungen nutzten, um eine hermeneutische Ungerechtigkeit zu überwinden. Politischer Nutzen von Evidenzen kann Akteuren ein Gefühl der Legitimität zu vermitteln, jedoch ohne Überzeugung der Gegenseite.
Der zweite Teil dieser Arbeit hinterfragt die Rolle von Attributionswissenschaften im neuen L&D-Fonds und liefert eine normative Analyse, anhand derer rein qualitativ getroffene Attributionsaussagen einen Anspruch auf Gelder aus dem L&D Fond hinreichend legitimieren. Die Rolle von Vulnerabilität und Exposition sollten demnach keine Rolle bei der Verteilung der Gelder spielen, jedoch bei deren Verwendung in Betracht gezogen werden.
Der letzte Teil dieser Promotion befasst sich mit klimatischen Risiken auf die Anpassungsfähigkeit in Entwicklungsländern und deren Konsequenzen im Rahmen von Klimarisikobewertungen. Ein Protokoll wird entworfen, um Annahmen über Anpassungsfähigkeit angesichts erwarteter Klimaschäden, einzugrenzen – was ein verringertes Risiko einer Unterschätzungen zukünftiger L&D in Klimarisikobewertungen zur Folge hätte.At the 27th Conference of the Parties in 2022, developing countries succeeded in establishing a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). L&D, here understood as the residual risks and impacts of climate change that cannot be avoided, has been of high priority to developing countries, who also experience a lack in L&D evidence.
This thesis takes the lack of L&D evidence into focus to understand the role of evidence in L&D negotiations and develop approaches to limit adverse consequences of its lack for developing countries.
The first part of this thesis shows how developing country negotiators worked to overcome a hermeneutic injustice that had resulted from a lack of L&D evidence. By using publications on climate impacts to claim these risks were “beyond adaptation” negotiators managed to establish L&D as a theme under the UNFCCC. The analysis shows how the political use of evidence can strengthen the resolve of individual negotiators by giving them a sense of legitimacy, although it does not lead to persuasion of political opponents.
The second part of this thesis focuses on the role of event attribution in funding decisions under the L&D fund and provides the normative basis for legitimizing claims to the L&D fund with purely qualitative attribution statements. It challenges the view that vulnerability and exposure ought to be considered in L&D funding decisions, and argues that these factors ought to inform spending decisions.
Finally, this thesis turns to evidence of climatic risks on adaptive capacity. It develops a protocol for constraining assumptions on adaptive capacity in qualitative climate risk assessments, which, if implemented, could reduce the risk of underestimating future L&D in developing countries
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
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