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Restitution of forest property in post-communist Bulgaria
No full textAfter ten years of post-communist transformation, the current Bulgarian Government has only recently initiated the task of wholesale reform of the communist-era structures extant within the forestry sector. This is an unavoidably complex process, involving the reorganisation of tenure over forest resources (restitution to pre-communist era owners), the privatisation and decentralisation of commercial and related activities in the woods, the redefinition of the role of the State in oversight, management and planning, and the development of a supportive institutional context for the growth of small and medium private enterprise throughout the forestry production process. This paper discusses the legal, institutional, economic and environmental implications of forest restitution. The author argues that the particular Bulgarian solution to the reform of forestry tenure structures, based on a mix of private and public ownership, arises out of the crucible of Bulgarian historical geography and the requirements of contemporary neoliberal models of transition. On the basis of the analysis, a number of important implications for Bulgarian, and indeed all post-communist forestry sectors, are raised for major related processes, such as the development of a robust private forestry sector, the limitation of the role of the State to conservation, management and oversight, and the reconfiguration of timber as a resource for local economic development. (C) 2000 United Nations. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
Restructuring the Bulgarian wood-processing sector: Linkages between resource exploitation, capital accumulation, and redevelopment in a postcommunist locality
No full textBased on recent primary research, in this paper I explore the emerging contours of the postcommunist forest-products sector in Bulgaria and, in particular, the ramifications for community-level restructuring in a small, mountainous region located in the southwestern part of the country. After ten years of postcommunist transformation, the current government has only very recently initiated the task of wholesale reform of communist-era structures extant within the forestry and forest-products sectors. This is an unavoidably complex process, involving reorganising tenure over forest resources (with some measure of restitution of formerly private forest resources to precommunist era owners), privatising and decentralising logging and related activities in the woods, redefining the role of the state in oversight, management, and planning, and the development of a supportive institutional context for the growth of, in particular, small and medium-sized private enterprises throughout the forest-products chain. Restructuring of the wood-products sector in one Bulgarian mountain locality is the primary focus of the paper, with a five-fold descriptive typology of wood-processing enterprises proposed. Based in part on manifest differentiations in corporate governance and institutional network orientation (including markets), this typology assists with the analysis of challenges to sustainable local restructuring in resource dependent communities. These models are discussed in turn in terms of both the theoretical implications for Bulgaria's 'transition model of development' and the empirical ramifications for regional development and well-being
[Book Review] \u3cem\u3eCity of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles\u3c/em\u3e. Mike Davis. Vintage Books: New York, 1991.
Full text linkEconomic Marginalisation and Natural Resource Management in Eastern Europe
No full textThis paper develops the claim that an emergent 'transition model of development' is resulting in the (re)marginalization of rural localities in post-communist countries. The specific case study of local development in a rural Bulgarian locality, since 1989, illustrates some of the ways in which this new model of development is combining elements of the communist and pre-communist development models alongside incipient market-capitalist relations. Careful attention to issues of 'path dependence' (cf. Stark, 1992; Smith and Swain, 1998) proves quite useful for conceptual elaboration of the 'transition model of development'. The important role of the natural environment as the stage for local protest generated by this transition model of development and as the ultimate source of economic surplus is also discussed. In the conclusion some of the broader implications of these findings for the study of post-communist transition are explored
[Book Review] \u3cem\u3eThe Revenge of History: Marxism and the Eastern European Revolutions\u3c/em\u3e. Alexander Callinicos. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. \u3cem\u3eConstructing Capitalism: The Reemergence of Civil Society and Liberal Economy in the Post-Communist World\u3c/em\u3e. Kazimierz Poznanski (Ed.). Westview Press, 1993. \u3cem\u3eDemocracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America\u3c/em\u3e. Adam Przeworski. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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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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