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Da Kyoto a Copenhagen: nascita ed evoluzione dei mercati della C02
No full textL’articolo vuole fornire una descrizione delle molteplici opportunità emergenti nel contesto della low carbon economy, con particolare riferimento ai nuovi mercati della co2. dopo una breve introduzione sullo stato della diplomazia internazionale dei cambiamenti climatici, si esamina la compravendita di emissioni di gas serra, descrivendo i mercati legati agli obblighi di compliance derivanti dal protocollo di Kyoto e quelli volontari. viene quindi fornita un’analisi dettagliata delle opportunità di business del settore, e della value chain costituitasi attorno alla mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici. in conclusione si propongono alcune riflessioni sulla reale opportunità di questo sistema in funzione dell’obiettivo finale di contenimento dei gas serra
Sustainable consumption and production. An effort to reconcile the determinants of environmental impact
No full textSince the early nineties, the term “sustainable consumption and production” (SCP) has defined the goal of policy-makers and scholars striving to solve the problems of sustainable development. However, despite the consistent and wide-ranging efforts of governments and business in response to the research, global environmental pollution and the degradation of ecosystems have increased over the years.
The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we provide a critical review of SCP, analyzing the evolution of the concept, and examining the main causes of environmental damage linking SCP and the IPAT equation. In particular, we initially focus on the strategies toward sustainable production and the role played by technology. Then, we test this outcome against the dynamics of consumption and the measures implemented to modify consumption at business and government level. Second, we introduce a theoretical framework that helps in stylizing current societal models on the basis of their consumption and production pattern
La ricerca della competitività: risparmio energetico, tutela dell'ambiente ed efficienza logistica delle PMI Pisane
No full textIl campo di indagine di questa ricerca è definito da quattro aree di azione e da quattro classi di attori.
Le quattro aree di azione sono: 1) il risparmio energetico; 2) il ricorso alle energie rinnovabili; 3) il contenimento dell’inquinamento a salvaguardia dell’ambiente; 4) lo sviluppo di efficienti sistemi di logistica interaziendale. Sono quattro linee di azione distinte ma fortemente interdipendenti; sono accomunate dalla finalità generale dell’uso razionale, responsabile e previdente delle risorse pubbliche e private.
Le quattro classi di attori sono: a) le istituzioni pubbliche locali, nazionali e sovranazionali; b) le varie forme di aggregazioni di imprese; (c) le singole imprese; (d) le associazioni di cittadini che rappresentano vari insiemi di interessi e di ideali. Ciascuna delle quattro classi di attori svolge ruoli critici rispetto a ciascuna delle quattro aree di azione. Ruoli che nel tempo si sono profondamente modificati e che ancora oggi presentano dinamiche interessanti
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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