Economy Ecology
Mostrando 13-24 de 25 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Knowledge about wind energy: an exploratory study taking into account natural semantic networks of students from Natal-RN / Conhecimento sobre energia eólica: um estudo exploratório a partir das redes semânticas naturais de estudantes da cidade de Natal
The human being has a fundamental role in issues concerning scarcity of energy resources as well as in the success of technologies which favor the use of renewable sources, such as wind energy. But what does wind energy mean for people? What are the psychological meanings concerning this term? Aiming to answer these questions, the general objective of this d
Publicado em: 2008
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14. No caminho dos antigos: agricultura de corte-e-queima e intensificação agrícola em populações quilombolas do Vale do Ribeira, SP / On the old onestrack: shifting cultivation and agricultural intensification on quilombola populations at the Ribeira Valley, SP
Slash-and-burn agriculture has been practiced for thousands of years in the forests around the world, especially in the tropics, where it provides for the livelihood of countless poor rural populations. Many studies claim that slash-andburn agriculture is sustainable when performed under conditions of low human demographic density, maintaining or even increa
Publicado em: 2008
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15. Balanço de materiais na gestão ambiental da cadeia produtiva do carvão vegetal para produção de ferro gusa em Minas Gerais
The material balance is a methodology for environmental evaluation developed in the Industrial Ecology -IE science. IE looks for the concept of industrial metabolism on a parallel approach between industrial systems and biotic systems. And seek the improvement of the environmental performance of the production processes. For the conceptual analysis of the ma
Publicado em: 2008
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16. Ecologia da pesca e biologia reprodutiva do acará-disco (Symphysodon aequifasciatus, Pellegrin 1904) (Perciformes: Cichlidae) na RDS Piagaçu-Purus, Amazônia Central: subsídios para o manejo sustentável de um recurso natural.
Historically ornamental fish have been commercially exploited in the Amazon. Nevertheless this exploitation has been carried out without much planning with little attention to the vulnerability of the fish population or to the social economical aspects of the activity for the local fishermen. Among the most known ornamental fish species commercially used is
Publicado em: 2008
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17. Padrões espaciais da raiva bovina e seus determinantes no estado de são paulo entre 1992 e 2003
- Cattle rabies is a zoonosis that has been studied since the beginning of last century due to its importance in the public health, ecology and economy fields. The understanding of its epidemiology through an ecology approach is the starting point of this Thesis. This study understands that either territory or cattle raise of Sao Paulo State, Brazil, influen
Publicado em: 2008
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18. A ecologia política e a exploração da água mineral de São Lourenço
This text examines the socioenvironmental conflict related to the extraction of the mineral waters located in the municipality of São Lourenço (Minas Gerais, Brazil), conducted by the Nestlé corporation. The approach adopted is that of political ecology, that is capable of emphasizing the socioeconomic and environmental dimensions of the relations between
Publicado em: 2006
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19. Marx visits Monsanto: to think the agrarian question on the XXI century. / Marx visita a Monsanto: para pensar a questão agrária no século XXI.
This work seeks to relate the ressurgence and protagonism of the peasant movements on the space of world articulation and alternatives building to neoliberalism, identified with the World Social Forum (WSF) process. On the peasants discourse to globalization in this context, the opposition to the genetically modified organisms (transgenics) in its introducti
Publicado em: 2005
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20. Povos de terra e água:a comunidade pesqueira Canto do Mangue, Canguaretama (RN) - Brasil. / Peoples of land and water: the fishing community Canto do Mangue, Canguaretama (RN) Brazil.
The objective of this research was to analyze the changes occurred in the conditions of life in the human population, at community Canto do Mangue in Canguaretama (RN), and also their possible relationships with the introduction of the shrimp creation in captivity after 1980. Techniques of qualitative research were used (documentary analysis, interviews and
Publicado em: 2004
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21. Do afeto e da política em um cotidiano (in)sustentável: as trajetórias de vida dos trabalhadores da reciclagem. / About passion and politics on (un) sustaintability daily life : the life trajectories of recyvlyng workers.
This study result from an empirical research that analyses the lifes trajectory of four people who live in a community involved in recycling trash work in Maceió, Alagoas. Participating observation techniques for daily lifes analysis and semi-estructered interviews to re-construct their lifes histories ( defined as the main empirical material) were used for
Publicado em: 2004
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22. Risco ambiental na indústria : um estudo do valor estatístico da vida sobre o acidente em Bhopal, Índia
The catastrophic accidents occurrence have conduced many international organizations to reflection and to discuss the damages caused to enterprises, people, animals and environment. The impairments caused by the 1984 Bhopal accident in India are incalculable, being them considered by the social welfare viewpoint, including public health; under the Economy vi
Publicado em: 2003
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23. Industrial ecology: reflections on a colloquium.
Industrial ecology is the network of all industrial processes as they may interact with each other and live off each other, not only in the economic sense, but also in the sense of direct use of each other's material and energy wastes and products. This paper, which reflects upon the papers and discussions at the National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on In
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24. The ecology of markets.
Economies are sometimes viewed as analogous to ecological systems in which "everything is connected to everything else." In complex modern economies, the question arises whether the market mechanism can appropriately coordinate all the interconnections or whether instead some supramarket body is needed to coordinate the vast web of human activities. This stu