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Lykke E. Andersen, Clive W. J. Granger, Eustaquio J. Reis, Diana Weinhold And Sven Wunder, The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002
No full textJayet Hubert. Lykke E. Andersen, Clive W. J. Granger, Eustaquio J. Reis, Diana Weinhold And Sven Wunder, The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. In: Cahiers d'Economie et sociologie rurales, N°72, 3e trimestre 2004. pp. 115-117
Working paper synthesizing first results of the user-friendly inventory of IM in Europe (T1.1-1.3) for conducting knowledge-sharing activities (T2.4)
No full textThe deliverable synthesizes the rationale, the methodology and the preliminary results of the inventory of IM in Europe carried out within SINCERE T1.1-1.3 (WP1). After having introduced the meaning and relevance of Forest Ecosystem Services, it explores the most important policy tools applied in environmental conservation. It then attempts at providing working definitions for “mechanism” and “innovation”, with the intention of guiding the discussion, further developing the concept and achieving a final shared definition of IMs. The deliverable also introduces the proposed framework for systematizing information on IM and presents some preliminary results based on the analysis of the 122 cases of European Innovative Mechanisms identified so far. The conclusive section summarizes the emerging knowledge on the design of IM worldwide by comparing theory with the main patterns of de facto design and implementation of mechanisms
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
Between purity and reality: Taking stock of PES schemes in the Andes
No full textThis editorial by Sven Wunder, Senior Economist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Belém, Brazil, describes findings from a survey of PES field initiatives in the Andes.PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award
Regional differences and similarities in PES programs for hydrologic services
No full textThis presentation summarizes regional syntheses of payments for watershed services (PWS) activities in Africa (Paul Ferraro), Asia (Margie Huang and Shyam Upadhyaya, and Latin America (Douglas Southgate and Sven Wunder).PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award
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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