scholarly journals The bioeconomy, carbon sinks, and depoliticization in Finnish forest politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110493
Author(s):  
Ville Kellokumpu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Carbon Sinks ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
Political Imaginary

The forest bioeconomy in Finland has emerged as a project that seeks to resolve emergent contradictions in the capitalist ecological regime and to reconfigure spatial, temporal, and economic relations. The bioeconomy rose to public consciousness during the 2010s, especially after its adoption as one of the spearhead projects of the 2015–2019 center-right coalition government. The forest industry's bioeconomic plans are also an attempt to hegemonize and depoliticize a particular political view of forests in the era of climate change. In this paper, the politics of the bioeconomy and carbon sinks are scrutinized in the context of the 2019 parliamentary election season, during which forest use was a central political issue due to investments in new biorefineries. A data set of 80 newspaper articles is analyzed through critical discourse analysis. The analysis identifies three key discursive frames that legitimize the political imaginary of the bioeconomy: 1) rural reinvigoration and the defense of the nation's peripheries through spatial populism; 2) a view of forests as high-throughput carbon conveyors that conform to the temporalities of capital; 3) the establishment of the bioeconomy as a high-value accumulation regime that can resolve the profitability crisis of the paper and pulp production model.

scholarly journals Photosynthesis-irradiance parameters of marine phytoplankton: synthesis of a global data set

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Bouman ◽  
Trevor Platt ◽  
Martina Doblin ◽  
Francisco G. Figueiras ◽  
Kristinn Gudmudsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Production ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Marine Phytoplankton ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Initial Slope ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Spatial Coverage ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Marine Primary Production

Abstract. The photosynthetic performance of marine phytoplankton varies in response to a variety of factors, environmental and taxonomic. One of the aims of the MArine primary Production: model Parameters from Space (MAPPS) project of the European Space Agency is to assemble a global database of photosynthesis-irradiance (P-E) parameters from a range of oceanographic regimes as an aid to examining the basin-scale variability in the photophysiological response of marine phytoplankton and to use this information to improve the assignment of P-E parameters in the estimation of global marine primary production using satellite data. The MAPPS P-E Database, which consists of over 5000 P-E experiments, provides information on the spatio-temporal variability in the two P-E parameters (the assimilation number, PmB, and the initial slope, αB, where the superscripts B indicate normalisation to concentration of chlorophyll) that are fundamental inputs for models (satellite-based and otherwise) of marine primary production that use chlorophyll as the state variable. Quality-control measures consisted of removing samples with abnormally-high parameter values and flags were added to denote whether the spectral quality of the incubator lamp was used to calculate a broad-band value of αB. The MAPPS database provides a photophysiological dataset that is unprecedented in number of observations and in spatial coverage. The database would be useful to a variety of research communities, including marine ecologists, biogeochemical modellers, remote-sensing scientists and algal physiologists. The compiled data are available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.874087 (Bouman et al., 2017).

scholarly journals Application of multivariate statistical techniques in the water quality assessment of Danube river, Serbia

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danijela Voza ◽  
Milovan Vukovic ◽  
Ljiljana Takic ◽  
Djordje Nikolic ◽  
Ivana Mladenovic-Ranisavljevic
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Surface Water Quality ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Water Quality Assessment ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Multivariate Techniques ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Issue

AbstractThe aim of this article is to evaluate the quality of the Danube River in its course through Serbia as well as to demonstrate the possibilities for using three statistical methods: Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Factor Analysis (FA) and Cluster Analysis (CA) in the surface water quality management. Given that the Danube is an important trans-boundary river, thorough water quality monitoring by sampling at different distances during shorter and longer periods of time is not only ecological, but also a political issue. Monitoring was carried out at monthly intervals from January to December 2011, at 17 sampling sites. The obtained data set was treated by multivariate techniques in order, firstly, to identify the similarities and differences between sampling periods and locations, secondly, to recognize variables that affect the temporal and spatial water quality changes and thirdly, to present the anthropogenic impact on water quality parameters.

Identity, self and other: The emergence of police and victim/survivor identities in domestic violence narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 636-659
Author(s):  
Jennifer Andrus
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Police Interactions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article analyzes narratives about encounters between police officers and domestic violence victim/survivors in the context of domestic violence calls. Narratives are sites in which individuals create relationships between themselves and others, oriented around a set of unfolding events. Narrative is a motivated, engaged retelling of prior or anticipated events produced in interaction with others, in a particular context stocked with constraints and affordances. In the process of telling stories, identities emerge. In order to understand the relationship between narrative and identity, I analyze stories told about police interactions with domestic violence victim/survivors from the perspectives of both the police and the victim/survivors. Working empirically with a data set of 48 interviews, I use critical discourse analysis and discourse analysis to analyze the ways both groups narrate domestic violence and confrontations with police officers, the ways they create story worlds stocked with characters, the ways story characters are formed and deployed, and the ways those characters are positioned against/with/by the storyteller, allowing the storyteller’s identity to emerge. This article is an analysis of the relationship between the storyteller and the story world and the storyteller’s process of constructing an/other in order to position in relation to that other. Ultimately, I argue that identity emerges for the storyteller in the way she or he constructs characters in a story and then positions in relation to those characters.

scholarly journals Behaviour of the ocean DMS(P) pools in the Sargasso Sea viewed in a coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean model

2004 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 788-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonnick Le Clainche ◽  
Maurice Levasseur ◽  
Alain Vézina ◽  
John WH Dacey ◽  
François J Saucier
Keyword(s):  
Coupled Model ◽  
Ocean Model ◽  
Sulfur Cycle ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Nutrient Concentrations ◽  
Late Winter ◽  
Emission Model ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Data Set ◽  
P Pools

The dimethylsulfide (DMS) production model NODEM (Northern Oceans DMS Emission Model) was coupled with the water column ocean model GOTM (General Ocean Turbulence Model) that includes a two-equation k–ε turbulence scheme. This coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean model represents a significant improvement over the previous uncoupled version of NODEM that was driven by a diagnostic vertical mixing scheme. Using the same set of biogeochemical parameters, the coupled model is used to simulate the annual cycles of 1992 and 1993 at Hydrostation S in the Sargasso Sea. The better reproduction of the turbulent mixing environment corrects some deficiencies in nitrogen cycling, especially in the seasonal evolution of the nutrient concentrations. Hence, the coupled model captures the late-winter chlorophyll- and DMS(P)-rich blooms. It is also more adept at reproducing the vertical distribution of chlorophyll and DMS(P) in summer. Moreover, the DMS pool becomes less dependent on parameters controlling the nitrogen cycle and relatively more sensitive to parameters related to the sulfur cycle. Finally, the coupled model reproduces some of the observed differences in DMS(P) pools between 1992 and 1993, the latter being an independent data set not used in calibrating the initial version of NODEM.

scholarly journals MIGRATIONS, POLITICAL BORDERS AND THE DIGITAL REALM

Diacrítica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-89
Author(s):  
Paulo Silva Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Political Borders ◽  
Political Imaginary ◽  
Critical Intervention ◽  
Identity And Difference

Many studies have addressed the issue of migration and displacement, one of themain geopolitical challenges of our time, but far fewer have analysed it using aninterdisciplinary framework and selecting literary and artistic practices from atransnational context. !e purpose of this paper is to describe the way in whichthe artists use the specificity of medium and mechanism in their projects to reflecton the current migratory crisis and forced migration, to critique the securitizationor the politics of immigration in recent years and to explore a tactical use of technologiesin order to expand public consciousness and political debate. It is directlyfocused on the migratory processes involving Mexicans who go to the United Statesand its connection to the complex political imaginary of these regions, and on therelationship between identity and marginalization, particularly the influence ofthe conceptualization of migrants as the Other in contemporary European society.Based on the analysis of a series of case studies both from a theoretical and froman artistic point of view –, this research intends to understand how these projectsexplore forms of critical intervention, dissent or disruption of a dominant semioticregime by stimulating critical thinking about consolidated narratives and sign systemsof identity and difference.

scholarly journals Two sides of economic openness: non-tariff barriers to trade and capital controls in transition countries, 1993–2000

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bodenstein ◽  
T. Plümper ◽  
G. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Transition Economies ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Two Sides

This article presents new measures of foreign economic openness in the transition countries that allow us to distinguish between non-tariff barriers to trade and capital controls. We argue that this distinction is important for the analysis of foreign economic relations in the postcommunist world. While most states lowered barriers to trade since 1993, they increased the number of capital controls, which had been low at the beginning of the transition process. The ELITE (Economic Liberalization in the Transition Economies) data set, which is based on the IMF statistics on exchange arrangements and exchange restrictions and encompasses 24 transition countries, further demonstrates important exceptions to this trend. The comparison of the ELITE indicators with alternative measurements of economic openness indicates the need to move towards more refined analyses of the political economy of the transition process.

Measuring political agenda setting and representation in Turkey

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 717-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alper T Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legislative Politics ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Issue Attention

This article introduces a novel data set on the agenda of the Turkish legislature and political parties. Using the Comparative Agendas Project approach, we trace political issue attention over an 11–year-period (2003–2013). By topic coding various political activities, this approach illustrates the dynamics of the Turkish political agenda and the issue attention of the political parties, and, therefore, sheds new empirical light on the dynamics of Turkish legislative politics and party competition. In this article, we explain the construction of the data set from data collection to coding, describe its features, and provide examples of possible applications.

scholarly journals The cost of coalition compromise: The electoral effects of holding salient portfolios

2020 ◽  
pp. 135406882090442
Author(s):  
Zachary Greene ◽  
Nathan Henceroth ◽  
Christian B Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Coalition Government ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Parliamentary Democracies ◽  
Coalition Governments ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Cost

This article highlights the electoral effects of holding salient portfolios within a coalition government. For voters, holding ministries can be seen as a symbol of a party’s success within the coalition. As a voting heuristic, parties not controlling the portfolios on issues important to their platforms signal their failure to achieve these goals. Following this perspective, we hypothesize that the difference between coalition parties that hold salient portfolios and those that do not partially predicts the extent of the electoral cost of coalition participation. Using a data set that covers 11 European parliamentary democracies between 1966 and 2002, we show that for junior coalition partners there is an electoral reward for holding their most salient portfolio. There is also an electoral benefit for a junior partner to hold a larger number of portfolios if they do not control their most salient portfolio. Conversely, holding their most salient portfolio and a larger number of additional ministries results in greater electoral losses in the subsequent parliamentary election. These results indicate that parties’ success at negotiating for their policy priorities in coalition governments holds consequences for their future electoral success.

Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Germany

2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL ZIBLATT
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Original Data ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Electoral Fraud ◽  
Proximate Cause ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Why is there so much alleged electoral fraud in new democracies? Most scholarship focuses on the proximate cause of electoral competition. This article proposes a different answer by constructing and analyzing an original data set drawn from the German parliament's own voluminous record of election disputes for every parliamentary election in the life of Imperial Germany (1871–1912) after its adoption of universal male suffrage in 1871. The article analyzes the election of over 5,000 parliamentary seats to identify where and why elections were disputed as a result of “election misconduct.” The empirical analysis demonstrates that electoral fraud's incidence is significantly related to a society's level of inequality in landholding, a major source of wealth, power, and prestige in this period. After weighing the importance of two different causal mechanisms, the article concludes that socioeconomic inequality, by making elections endogenous to preexisting social power, can be a major and underappreciated barrier to the long-term process of democratization evenafterthe “choice” of formally democratic rules.

The Technical Progress and Resilience in Productivity Growth of Korea's Growth-Leading Industries

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mi Kyung Pai
Keyword(s):  
Technical Progress ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Tfp Growth

This study investigates the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of targeted industries, and seeks to verifiy upgrading in Korea's industrial structure by examining changes in its growth-leading industries from 1995 to 2012. In addition, it also examines the main source behind the resilience in the TFP growth of 37 key manufacturing industries after two global financial crises. The stochastic frontier production model is applied using a micro-level panel data set of the establishments for the 37 key manufacturing industries for the estimations. Empirical results show that a steadily high rate of technical progress was the driving force behind the resilience in the TFP growth of the 21 growth-leading industries after two global financial crises. The 21 growth-leading industries achieved nearly five times the TFP growth and four times the technological progress of the other 16 key industries. A change in the growth-leading industries in 2012 shows an upgrade in the industrial structure with more knowledge-based and high-technology-based industries than in 2000 and 2005. The study suggests further research on the role of institutions and industrial policies for industrial upgrading based on the findings of this study in order for Korea to enhance its industrial development for a more sustainable long-run economic growth.

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