Desafios da comunicação na gestão da sustentabilidade ambiental das organizações contemporâneas

The present production aims to approach environmental sustainability and communication to demonstrate that the public relations´s professional is capable of legitimation process´s assistance of ethics and coherent speechs and capable of sense´s construction´s assistance for environmental sustainability on contemporary organizations. This position shows that organization´s consistent speechs are connected with its institutional mission and effort besides, it is value and sensitive to interested parts that emphasis the environmental preservation and environmental project´s introduction, integrating organization with community. On this context it is constructed a discussion about Sustainability Report´s content and guidelines used for sustainability reporting framework, as where as main environmental organizational activities, analyzing three different companies and its respective Sustainability Reports on 2009. Thereby, it is pointed out relevance of efficient communication which deal with opposite interests between organizations and its stakeholders so that public relations focus on strategic management trying to include negotiation, dialogue, transparency and ethics to line up both interests

Ecologia humana: comunicação, empoderamento e envelhecimento demográfico

The world is aging. This subject is becoming more and more present on the communication media. The future journalists must be made aware of this phenomena that involves a important change in the society. One of the ways can be the study of the empowerment and Social Capital Formation techniques, using the new Information and Communication Technologies, or following the example of the Open Universities to the Third Age that are appearing all over the world. In this article we’ll study the case of “Programa Universitario para Mayores” (University Program for the Grown ups), at Seville University (Spain).

Semioquímicos e comunicação sonora em formigas cortadeiras (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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Impactos de atividades de exploração de petróleo e gás natural sobre a comunicação acústica de Mysticeti (ordem Cetacea): uma revisão

Acoustic communication is essential in mammals and has three main functions: acquisition of information about the environment, intraspecific communication and detection of predators and prey. Studies indicate that the introduction of sounds produced by anthropogenic activities such as military exercises, use of sonar and activities related to the extraction of oil and natural gas can cause interference in cetacean communication. Recently, the discovery of pre-salt tends to increase these activities. After a decade since the launch date of IBAMA`s licensing and before the imminent increase in exploration activities in Brazil, it is essential to conduct studies to monitor closely the impact of this type of activity on the marine ecosystem. Thus, this study aims to identify potential impacts that the process of oil and natural gas exploration and production might have on the communication of baleen whales. Data from literature on bioacoustics and ecology of these animals were linked with technical-scientific data regarding this type of activity. 310 documents related to the topic were analyzed. Among them only 81 documents are of academic origin, and the others mostly action plans and reports from government agencies. 80% of the documents do not have any species as a focus, and in the remaining 20%, 17% were focused on the Greenland Whale (Balaena mysticetus) and 22% on the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus). The main impacts identified in this study were the increased frequency and amplitude of vocalization, reduction or cessation of more elaborate songs and masking problems

Ecologia, cultura do consumo e juventude

Neste estudo desenvolvemos algumas reflexões sobre possíveis relações entre ecologia, cultura do consumo e juventude. Partimos da hipótese de que a juventude, estando mais vulnerável às investidas do mercado, em uma sociedade marcada pelo “hiperconsumo”, se encontra em frágeis condições para a formação de atitudes mais saudáveis nas relações com o seu ambiente compreendido nas dimensões física, grupal e da própria subjetividade. As relações entre ecologia, cultura de consumo e juventude são estudadas por meio da coleta dos sentidos produzidos por adolescentes e jovens que se configuram nas chamadas “tribos urbanas”, tais como se expressam em letras de músicas e em discursos colocados em circulação na rede internacional de comunicação. Trazemos para o conjunto de nossas reflexões algumas letras de músicas de grande sucesso compartilhadas entre a juventude, especificamente aquelas intituladas “emocore” ou “hardcore emocional”, que configuram um estilo de grupo em seu viver urbano. Rastreamos nas músicas as marcas de um estilo de vida em suas conexões com modos de consumo e com arranjos de sentidos no dinâmico movimento da cultura. Também colocamos em evidência um conjunto de falas que nos permitem identificar outras marcas de relações entre o jeito de ser jovem e as possíveis buscas de soluções para problemas existenciais por meio da composição de modos de consumo. Deste modo, a abordagem da ecologia sustenta a instituição de um ambiente cultural em que acertos de convívios estabelecidos no interior de um determinado grupo implicam em formas de consumo.

Biologia e ecologia comportamental da vespa eussocial primitiva Mischocyttarus (Megacanthopus) parallelogrammus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

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Pesquisa aplicada em comunicação: uma tendência necessária

The history of communication as a science was marked by different moments. The first one was built by technological experimentation and later, by language transformation. But the consolidation of communication as applied social science has come from theoretical research, when Lasswell and Lazarsfeld respectively proposed the hypodermic and the two-step flow theories. However, applied research – which involves experimentation and its observation in a practical application process – is once again being targeted by the academy. This text develops an essay on the importance of applied research to the development of contemporary communication, presenting examples and methods related to such reality.