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The Protection of Nature in Norwegian Road Planning: A Case Study of E18 Kragerø - Bamble
Get PDFAn increasing pressure on land areas for housing, infrastructure, and other societal demands
places natural diversity under constant stress. This thesis aims to increase our understanding of
natural diversity protection in road planning in Norway. By looking into the E18 Kragerø-
Bamble road planning project as a case study, the thesis explores how decision-makers take
natural diversity into account when making their decisions.
The case was investigated by examining the decision-making process, politicians' arguments
for development despite harm to natural diversity, and the role of knowledge in politicians’
considerations. The thesis data included case documents and semi-structured interviews with
politicians and other central actors in the case. The findings were analysed and assessed using
theories on the policy process and the four dimensions of a policy arrangement. The four
dimensions are actors, resources, rules of the game and discourses. Additionally, theory on the
role of information and how to treat socio-economic aspects was included.
The research reveals that established premises, cost limitations and increased focus on reuse
influenced the consideration of natural diversity in the planning process of E18 Kragerø-
Bamble. As a result, these factors limited the actions of the developers and politicians involved
in the project. It was evident that the developer allowed some harm to natural diversity to occur
to fulfil their mandate to plan a four-lane road. Politicians, who are the decision-makers, faced
a limited scope for action that shaped their priorities. Local interests were identified as the
politicians’ priority, and politicians allowed for certain harm to natural diversity to protect
these. Simultaneously, it became clear that guidelines and legislation were crucial for nature
protection in this case. This became evident by the developer’s reliance on legislation,
politicians’ reliance on objecting authorities, and the importance of the impact assessment for
decisions. Furthermore, the projected harm to natural diversity decreased throughout the
planning process, creating the impression that nature had protection. Still, it became clear that
the project lacked a systematic approach to ensure consideration of natural diversity.
The research findings suggest that the protection of natural diversity in the E18 Kragerø–
Bamble is mainly linked to legislation regarding natural diversity protection, and to the local
politicians when the protection of identified natural diversity aligns with local interests. The
research does not determine the extent to which natural diversity is protected in the project,
further investigation is necessary to clarify this
Management challenges when implementing sustainability - A research of a general contractor in Western Norway
Get PDFTemaet for denne bacheloroppgaven er endringsledelse for bærekraft i bygg- og anleggsbransjen. Denne bransjen står for over en tredjedel av Norges energi- og materialbruk (Regjeringen, 2022). På bakgrunn av dette er det relevant å studere hvordan bedrifter i bransjen jobber med bærekraft.
I lys av datagrunnlaget fra en kvalitativ enkeltcase-studie, har denne oppgaven som formål å identifisere og diskutere utfordringer ledelsen hos en totalentreprenør møter på ved implementering av bærekraftstiltak. Oppgaven vil drøfte hvordan bedriften bruker BREEAM-NOR sertifisering som et verktøy. Videre vil det settes fokus på hvordan ledelsen formidler sin visjon for bærekraft til de ansatte, og legger til rette for Empowerment. Gjennomgående vil vi identifisere ledelsesutfordringer som oppstår.
Gjennom vår analyse har vi opparbeidet oss en viss forståelse for hvordan ledelsen hos en totalentreprenør arbeider med implementering av bærekraftstiltak. Det har blitt identifisert flere utfordringer for ledelsens arbeid. De viktigste er begrensninger i omgivelsene, BREEAM-NOR som et ressurskrevende og noe begrensende verktøy, og mangelfull kommunikasjon av visjonen. Samtidig indikerer studiens datagrunnlag at ledelsen er på god vei til å implementere bærekraft i bedriften.ØMF19
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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