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Conclusion
No full textThe damage, harm, losses, and problems caused by the occurrence of a natural or other disaster including the death and destruction it wrought can take up significant human, psychological, physical, community, environmental, infrastructural, technological, and financial/economic attention, resources, time, and energy. It is therefore necessary to develop scholarship that can assist in the development of alternative scenarios, approaches, and models that may be more effective, efficient, and satisfactory to disaster-affected persons (DAP)
Micro Human Efforts in Disaster Rebuilding: Cultural and Contextual Lessons for Resilience
No full textThis book unlocks the transformative potential of Micro Human Efforts (MHE) in the domain of disaster resilience through an interwoven narrative of human resilience, grounded in insights from the influential special issue of the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.
This work delves into the critical, often neglected, role of individual, intuitive initiatives in the wake of catastrophic events. By illuminating how these efforts can significantly reshape post-disaster recovery strategies, this book underscores the importance of local knowledge and community ingenuity. It posits that MHE has the capability to amplify grassroots movements into impactful agents of change. Readers will embark on a comprehensive exploration that redefines disaster management through a human-centred lens and highlights the essential contributions of individuals in fostering resilience.
The volume serves as an invaluable resource for academics, practitioners, and all stakeholders committed to advancing sustainable and adaptive responses in the face of climate-induced challenges
Micro Human Efforts in Disaster Resiliency: Introduction
No full textIn 2021, a thought-provoking special issue of the I nternational Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters (IJMED) ignited an important conversation about Micro Human Efforts (MHE). Titled “Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Micro Human Efforts in Post-Disaster Recovery”, this issue opened the door to exploring the vital, yet often overlooked, role of small-scale human efforts during extreme climatic events. Recognizing the emerging significance of MHE, the special issue's editors teamed up with IJMED to establish some preliminary definitions. As the official dissemination platform of the International Sociological Association's (ISA) Research Committee on Sociology of Disasters (RC39), IJMED stood out as a credible platform for addressing these multifaceted themes tied to climate-induced disasters
Mismatched manifestations: lessons from user-initiated changes to architect-designed post-tsunami rehousing in coastal Sri Lanka
No full textAlthough inhabitants are at the core of architecture and associated practices, there seem to be misalignments between architectural outcomes and user expectations, as seen in user-initiated changes to resettlement projects. This phenomenon is quite pronounced in rehousing provided to the displaced people in the aftermath of disasters, particularly among the underserved groups who have already been denied equitable access to decision-making. As found in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami rehousing projects in coastal Sri Lanka, this study explores a few mismatched expectations manifested in the rehousing realities by examining user-initiated changes made in housing provided to them
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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