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Bogaziçi Üniversitesi Kandilli Rasathanesi ve Deprem Arastirma Enstitüsü
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Policy and Administration | Public Policy | Australian Government and Politics | Political Science | International Relations | Public Policy | Rural Sociology | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | International Business
Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Climate variability | Understanding international relations | International agreements on trade | Trade policy | Government and Politics not elsewhere classified | Land and water management | Political science and public policy | Rural Land Policy |
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.10.1.15
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-01-2016
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 13-09-2023
DOI: 10.3390/RS15184501
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-05-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2006
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2017
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-05034-4
Abstract: The aim of this study was to undertake a broad-scale understanding of the distribution of vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered terrestrial vertebrate species in the Pacific and the assessment of impacts of climate change and sea level rise. 150 critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable terrestrial vertebrates found in 23 countries of the Pacific were linked to island susceptibility to climate change. Out of the 1779 islands making up the 23 countries, 674 of them hosted at least one species from the above categories. 84 of the 150 species are endemic to this study area and many of these occur on islands with high susceptibility to climate change, with many of them occurring on one island only. The species data, together with islands, was overlain with Mean Significant Wave Height (Hs) projections for 2081–2100 under RCP4.5 and 8.5, and further analysed for threat of extinction. A large number of critically endangered and endangered species fall in regions that have the highest Hs projections.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-12-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2017
Abstract: The development of wind energy in Australia has been subject to ongoing public debate and has been characterised by concerns over the health impacts of wind turbines. Using discursive psychology, we examine ‘wind turbine syndrome’ as a contested illness and analyse how people build and undermine ergent arguments about wind-farm health effects. This article explores two facets of the dispute. First, we consider how participants construct ‘facts’ about the health effects of wind farms. We examine rhetorical resources used to construct wind farms as harmful or benign. Second, we examine the local negotiation of the legitimacy of health complaints. In the research interviews examined, even though interviewees treat those who report experiencing symptoms from wind farms as having primary rights to narrate their own experience, this epistemic primacy does not extend to the ability to ‘correctly’ identify symptoms’ cause. As a result, the legitimacy of health complaints is undermined. Wind turbine syndrome is an ex le of a contested illness that is politically controversial. We show how stake, interest and legitimacy are particularly relevant for participants’ competing descriptions about the ‘facts’ of wind turbine health effects.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-11-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14407833211044772
Abstract: The idealisation of rural work, people, and communities is remarkably persistent in Western countries. With the diminishing role of agriculture in national economies and changing values, this agrarian sentiment could be expected to lose currency. Yet, agrarian tropes and narratives remain evident in popular culture, political discourse, and public policy. Flinn and Johnson, in the 1970s, pioneered empirical studies of agrarianism based on a regionally specific and relatively small s le from which they identified five tenets of agrarianism. We sought to develop a survey instrument to explore whether changes in societal values, and in the structures and practices of agriculture, mean these tenets no longer hold. We find that, overall, many of the key elements identified by Flinn and Johnson are still evident. In addition, we have identified three domains of agrarianism: foundationalism, ruralism, and stewardship, that represent some of the historical ersity of agrarian themes and some accommodation with environmentalism.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-11-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-11-2023
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773922000509
Abstract: The Schwartz theory of personal values has been used extensively, and almost exclusively quantitatively, by researchers to increase understanding of the impact of values on human behaviour. While it provides a well-tested methodology and common language, the approach has been limited by its reliance on survey work, in which the researcher asks participants questions of interest, and then correlates these with respondents’ self-reporting of their values. There is limited qualitative work that has drawn on the insights of the Schwartz theory. The main exception is based on a lexicon of values words derived from Schwartz’s work which has been used to identify dominant societal values across time. We are proposing that the Schwartz theory can also be used to analyse values appeals in persuasive speech. Using thematic analysis of an ex le of political persuasion, we illustrate how Schwartz’s values work can be further adapted for qualitative research.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-09-2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 05-04-2023
DOI: 10.3390/RS15071939
Abstract: The level of destruction caused by an earthquake depends on a variety of factors, such as magnitude, duration, intensity, time of occurrence, and underlying geological features, which may be mitigated and reduced by the level of preparedness of risk management measures. Geospatial technologies offer a means by which earthquake occurrence can be predicted or foreshadowed managed in terms of levels of preparation related to land use planning availability of emergency shelters, medical resources, and food supplies and assessment of damage and remedial priorities. This literature review paper surveys the geospatial technologies employed in earthquake research and disaster management. The objectives of this review paper are to assess: (1) the role of the range of geospatial data types (2) the application of geospatial technologies to the stages of an earthquake (3) the geospatial techniques used in earthquake hazard, vulnerability, and risk analysis and (4) to discuss the role of geospatial techniques in earthquakes and related disasters. The review covers past, current, and potential earthquake-related applications of geospatial technology, together with the challenges that limit the extent of usefulness and effectiveness. While the focus is mainly on geospatial technology applied to earthquake research and management in practice, it also has validity as a framework for natural disaster risk assessments, emergency management, mitigation, and remediation, in general.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 07-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1071/RJ18054
Abstract: Invasive species, such as wild dogs can be considered an externality arising from the activities of pastoral enterprises, with producers having limited responsibility for the problem and limited capacity to mitigate it. There are therefore arguments for government intervention through encouraging both in idual and collective control measures. Governments are however increasingly inclined to ensure recipients of support make some contribution where there are private benefits. An ex le of this, in Australia, is the requirement that students repay some of the cost of their tertiary education. Using the issue of wild dog exclusion fencing in south-west Queensland as a case study, this paper considers if and how a policy instrument adopted for higher education (HECS-HELP), contingent loans, could be adapted to address problems of externalities in rural Australia. Central to the issue of exclusion fences are high upfront costs and highly variable incomes that limit the ability to recoup those costs according to a predictable timeline. Considering a range of incomes and a variety of private/government shares of the cost of the fences, we examine the effects of revenue contingent loans for the construction of these fences, using model farms developed from survey data for farm businesses in south-west Queensland. We find that contingent loans could mitigate the hardship effects of additional debt and variable incomes. Businesses with smaller properties and relatively lower incomes may however struggle to pay back larger loans. Using south-west Queensland as a case study, we show how different shares of contributions change the time to pay back loans, outline how a contingent loan scheme might be administered and note some issues with integrating personal contingent loans into a collective fence arrangement.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-01-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-10-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.POLSOC.2012.09.003
Abstract: Global food trade embodies a range of different interpretations of the nature of food and its role in society. On the one hand, the WTO food regulation regime, in particular the SPS agreement, is based upon a somewhat instrumental value of food consumption in which food is seen as a commodity to be traded in accordance with international trade rules. At the same time, a number of private standards, such as GlobalG.A.P and various organic standards, are emerging which embody broadly postmaterialist values that suggest that food purchasing and consumption are also social, ethical and perhaps even political activities. This paper analyses the relationship between the WTO food trade regime on the one hand and the GlobalG.A.P and organic food trade regimes on the other. We suggest that competing values can co-exist in parallel institutions and in a commensalistic relationship which protects the values base of each institution while giving expression to both materialist and postmaterialist understandings of the nature of food.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-01-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2006
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.POLSOC.2012.09.006
Abstract: In common with other countries in the developed world, Australia and New Zealand developed an array of institutions and programs from the 1950s to the 1970s to support their agricultural sectors. From the mid-1980s they dismantled these, very rapidly in the case of New Zealand, to leave farmers and rural regions largely to market forces. This article explores the transition in Australia and New Zealand from agricultural policy based on ‘protected development’ to broader rural policy which includes consideration of regional development and environmentalism. We argue that the ideas and values of market liberalism are more apparent in rural policy in Australia and New Zealand than in the EU and US and we propose reasons for that, including differences in economic context, cultural ideas and political institutions.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2004
DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X04000108
Abstract: In an era of increasing emphasis on free trade and market deregulation, agricultural policy in advanced industrialized countries remains an anomaly, with many countries continuing to intervene in markets for farm produce. Since the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations the scrutiny of these interventions has made clear that governments have a range of objectives for their agricultural policies, some unrelated to economic factors. Concern about the future of rural communities, preservation of the countryside, the environment, food safety and animal welfare goals feature to varying degrees in agricultural policy settings. This paper explores the values influencing the formulation of agricultural policy and proposes a policy map of the combination of values reflected in particular policy settings. The map can give a better understanding of why particular policy approaches emerge in some polities and not others.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-04-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12086
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: The Optical Society
Date: 09-02-2012
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004548
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2012
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 22-04-2021
DOI: 10.1155/2021/6638241
Abstract: The survival of humanity is dependent on the survival of forests and the ecosystems they support, yet annually wildfires destroy millions of hectares of global forestry. Wildfires take place under specific conditions and in certain regions, which can be studied through appropriate techniques. A variety of statistical modeling methods have been assessed by researchers however, ensemble modeling of wildfire susceptibility has not been undertaken. We hypothesize that ensemble modeling of wildfire susceptibility is better than a single modeling technique. This study models the occurrence of wildfire in the Brisbane Catchment of Australia, which is an annual event, using the index of entropy (IoE), evidential belief function (EBF), and logistic regression (LR) ensemble techniques. As a secondary goal of this research, the spatial distribution of the wildfire risk from different aspects such as urbanization and ecosystem was evaluated. The highest accuracy (88.51%) was achieved using the ensemble EBF and LR model. The outcomes of this study may be helpful to particular groups such as planners to avoid susceptible and risky regions in their planning model builders to replace the traditional in idual methods with ensemble algorithms and geospatial users to enhance their knowledge of geographic information system (GIS) applications.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12086
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-01-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-06-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-12-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-11-2014
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2001
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-04-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-05-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-10-2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.POLSOC.2012.09.006
Abstract: In common with other countries in the developed world, Australia and New Zealand developed an array of institutions and programs from the 1950s to the 1970s to support their agricultural sectors. From the mid-1980s they dismantled these, very rapidly in the case of New Zealand, to leave farmers and rural regions largely to market forces. This article explores the transition in Australia and New Zealand from agricultural policy based on ‘protected development’ to broader rural policy which includes consideration of regional development and environmentalism. We argue that the ideas and values of market liberalism are more apparent in rural policy in Australia and New Zealand than in the EU and US and we propose reasons for that, including differences in economic context, cultural ideas and political institutions.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.5172/RSJ.10.1.15
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 09-01-2023
DOI: 10.3390/FIRE6010022
Abstract: Although it is hard to predict wildfires, risky areas can be systematically assessed and managed. Some of the factors for decision-making are hazard, vulnerability, and risk maps, which are the end product of wildfire mapping. This study deals with wildfire risk analysis in Queensland, Australia. A review of the previous studies focusing on each aspect has been done and used with wildfire records from 2011 to 2019 in Queensland, Australia, to compile the required input models to detect risky wildfire regions. Machine learning (ML) methods of Decision Tree (DT) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were used to perform hazard assessment. The reason was to select the most accurate outcomes for the rest of the analysis. Among accuracy assessment techniques, the Area Under Curvature (AUC) method was used to evaluate the hazard maps. Prediction rates of 89.21% and 83.78% were obtained for DT and SVM, respectively. The DT prediction value showed that the DT-hazard map was more accurate than the SVM-hazard map. Vulnerability analysis was implemented by assigning weights to each factor according to the literature. Lastly, in order to create the wildfire risk map, the hazard and vulnerability indices were combined. The risk map showed that particularly dense urbanization regions are under future wildfire risk. To perform preliminary land use planning, this output can be used by local governmental authorities.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2003
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 30-03-2015
Abstract: Abstract. Modelling and classification difficulties are fundamental issues in natural hazard assessment. A geographic information system (GIS) is a domain that requires users to use various tools to perform different types of spatial modelling. Bivariate statistical analysis (BSA) assists in hazard modelling. To perform this analysis, several calculations are required and the user has to transfer data from one format to another. Most researchers perform these calculations manually by using Microsoft Excel or other programs. This process is time-consuming and carries a degree of uncertainty. The lack of proper tools to implement BSA in a GIS environment prompted this study. In this paper, a user-friendly tool, bivariate statistical modeler (BSM), for BSA technique is proposed. Three popular BSA techniques, such as frequency ratio, weight-of-evidence (WoE), and evidential belief function (EBF) models, are applied in the newly proposed ArcMAP tool. This tool is programmed in Python and created by a simple graphical user interface (GUI), which facilitates the improvement of model performance. The proposed tool implements BSA automatically, thus allowing numerous variables to be examined. To validate the capability and accuracy of this program, a pilot test area in Malaysia is selected and all three models are tested by using the proposed program. Area under curve (AUC) is used to measure the success rate and prediction rate. Results demonstrate that the proposed program executes BSA with reasonable accuracy. The proposed BSA tool can be used in numerous applications, such as natural hazard, mineral potential, hydrological, and other engineering and environmental applications.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-09-2017
DOI: 10.1111/POPS.12443
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-10-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-05-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12006
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-03-2014
Location: Turkey
Location: Turkey
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 11-2016
Amount: $148,700.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 04-2010
End Date: 12-2012
Amount: $62,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 03-2010
End Date: 04-2014
Amount: $175,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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