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Bill Bramwell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A STRATEGIC-Relational Approach TO TOURISM POLICY
Annals of Tourism Research, 2013Co-Authors: Pantazis Pastras, Bill BramwellAbstract:Abstract Government is often prominent in tourism policy making and policy initiatives for destinations. It is important to understand whether and how government coordinates the tourism policies and activities among different actors, institutional arrangements and administrative levels, and how such government influence may evolve temporally. This issue is explored from a new institutionalism perspective that considers the co-evolution of structures and practices that shape tourism policies and activities. Use is also made of a strategic-Relational Approach to social theory to understand structure and agency relationships. These perspectives are applied to understand continuities and changes in government involvement in tourism marketing policies for Athens, Greece from 2000 to 2008, a period when the city staged the 2004 Olympic Games.
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power and tourism policy relations in transition
Annals of Tourism Research, 2007Co-Authors: Bill Bramwell, Dorothea MeyerAbstract:The paper develops and applies a Relational Approach to the study of power, policymaking, and related debates associated with tourism development. This Approach focuses on dialectical relations between actors and structures, seeking to break down the unhelpful dualism between agency and structure. Actor interactions, power configurations, and network relations in connection with tourism-related policymaking and debates are considered for an island in former East Germany. These relations are examined over a 10-year period during the country’s post-socialist transition to capitalism and representative democracy. The study contributes to an understanding of the use of a Relational Approach in policy research, and also of transitional paths in such contexts.
Mooly Sagiv - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a Relational Approach to interprocedural shape analysis
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 2010Co-Authors: Bertrand Jeannet, Alexey Loginov, Thomas Reps, Mooly SagivAbstract:This article addresses the verification of properties of imperative programs with recursive procedure calls, heap-allocated storage, and destructive updating of pointer-valued fields, that is, interprocedural shape analysis. The article makes three contributions. — It introduces a new method for abstracting relations over memory configurations for use in abstract interpretation. — It shows how this method furnishes the elements needed for a compositional Approach to shape analysis. In particular, abstracted relations are used to represent the shape transformation performed by a sequence of operations, and an overapproximation to Relational composition can be performed using the meet operation of the domain of abstracted relations. — It applies these ideas in a new algorithm for context-sensitive interprocedural shape analysis. The algorithm creates procedure summaries using abstracted relations over memory configurations, and the meet-based composition operation provides a way to apply the summary transformer for a procedure P at each call site from which P is called. The algorithm has been applied successfully to establish properties of both (i) recursive programs that manipulate lists and (ii) recursive programs that manipulate binary trees.
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a Relational Approach to interprocedural shape analysis
Static Analysis Symposium, 2004Co-Authors: Bertrand Jeannet, Alexey Loginov, Thomas Reps, Mooly SagivAbstract:This paper addresses the verification of properties of imperative programs with recursive procedure calls, heap-allocated storage, and destructive updating of pointer-valued fields – i.e., interprocedural shape analysis. It presents a way to harness some previously known Approaches to interprocedural dataflow analysis – which in past work have been applied only to much less rich settings – for interprocedural shape analysis.
Yannis Avrithis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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fuzzy Relational knowledge representation and context in the service of semantic information retrieval
IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2004Co-Authors: Manolis Wallace, Yannis AvrithisAbstract:We follow a fuzzy Relational Approach to knowledge representation. With the use of semantic fuzzy relations we define and extract the semantic context out of a set of semantic entities. Based on this, we then proceed to the case of information retrieval and explain how the three participating contexts, namely the context of the query, the context of the document and the context of the user, can be estimated and utilized towards the achievement of more intuitive information services.
Pantazis Pastras - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A STRATEGIC-Relational Approach TO TOURISM POLICY
Annals of Tourism Research, 2013Co-Authors: Pantazis Pastras, Bill BramwellAbstract:Abstract Government is often prominent in tourism policy making and policy initiatives for destinations. It is important to understand whether and how government coordinates the tourism policies and activities among different actors, institutional arrangements and administrative levels, and how such government influence may evolve temporally. This issue is explored from a new institutionalism perspective that considers the co-evolution of structures and practices that shape tourism policies and activities. Use is also made of a strategic-Relational Approach to social theory to understand structure and agency relationships. These perspectives are applied to understand continuities and changes in government involvement in tourism marketing policies for Athens, Greece from 2000 to 2008, a period when the city staged the 2004 Olympic Games.
Noah Quastel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ecological political economy towards a strategic Relational Approach
Review of Political Economy, 2016Co-Authors: Noah QuastelAbstract:This article identifies three distinct traditions in what might be described as ‘ecological political economy’. First, a ‘Promethean’ Approach posits that capitalism has a relentless drive towards growth and bears responsibility for the wholesale transformation of nature. Second, critics of sustainable capitalism acknowledge the possibility of capitalist futures with a better management of natural resources and carbon emissions. The Strategic Relational Approach, developed by Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum, points to a unique third type of ecological political economy. Each Approach is shown to have distinct views concerning the commodification of nature, the role of the state and ways to understand ecological and social transitions. The Strategic Relational Approach points to the possibility of counter-hegemonic strategies and collective mobilization to transform the state and so redirect, control and contain capitalist relations with nature.
