Siderurgia e carvoejamento na Amazônia: drenagem energético-material e pauperização regional

O trabalho analisa a implantação, no último quartel do século XX, na Amazônia oriental brasileira, de indústria voltada à produção de ferro-gusa destinado ao mercado internacional de insumos siderúrgicos. Demonstra que, nos anos 1980, o discurso estatal anunciou as plantas industriais deste segmento como elemento estratégico de modernização econômica da região. Tal postura justificou a concessão de benefícios fiscais, creditícios e de infraestrutura a 22 empresas de siderurgia e metalurgia. No âmbito da dimensão ambiental, o estudo demonstra que a produção de ferro-gusa recorre a processos marcados por baixa eficiência energética e que deles resultou o acesso, sem prudência ecológica, a estoque de biomassa da floresta amazônica, com ampliação da pressão antrópica sobre ela. O estudo evidencia que o plantio de grandes áreas de floresta para produzir carvão vegetal não se concretizou, manteve-se tão-somente como retórica desprovida de base realista. Quanto à dimensão econômica, o estudo indica que as limitações de a indústria de ferro-gusa impulsionar processos de modernização vinculam-se, dentre outros aspectos, ao fato de ela ter na demanda de carvão vegetal o principal elo de articulação com a sociedade e com a economia da região. Tal demanda é suprida por centenas de fornecedores e, por meio dela, a indústria controla a margem de lucro e comprime os custos de produção transferindo custos privados para a sociedade. O estudo demonstra, ainda, que o padrão de atuação deste segmento empresarial vincula-se a condicionamentos econômicos e institucionais: a implantação de florestas energéticas exige investimentos de longo prazo, somados às grandes oscilações no preço do ferro-gusa e a dinâmicas institucionais que abrem possibilidade de se acessar, ilegalmente, biomassa de florestas primárias. Isso levou o segmento a recorrer, historicamente, ao suprimento de carvão vegetal produzido, sobretudo, a partir da biomassa de florestas primárias e não da silvicultura. Com base em tais evidências, o trabalho conclui que a predição estatal de impulso regional modernizante não se materializou. A causa principal foi a inexistência de competências sociais para regular a transformação de matéria e energia em mercadorias, e esta produção teve seus fundamentos marcados pela degradação social e ambiental. Assim, atuou em sentido contrário ao discurso estatal: acelerou a transferência energética, material e de valores para outras regiões. Drenagem energético-material que não foi compensada, nem pela capacidade de a região equilibrar as perdas com importações de produtos, nem pela implementação de dinâmicas eficazes para a industrialização da região.

A Responsabilidade social das empresas e os projetos sociais: filantropia ou emancipação social?

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Dirigiu-se para a sede social da Elite Flor da Liberdade e ofereceu um banquete aos visitantes: sobre a variação de proposições em complementos verbais

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Esquerda pós-moderna e emancipação social: uma resposta ao Fórum Social Mundial

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Nos limites do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (MG): políticas públicas direcionadas ao espaço rural

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Discussions about Health and Illness: revisiting Monteiro Lobato's adult work

Monteiro Lobato's opinions with regard to the health and disease themes were not restricted to Jeca Tatu's condition; he went beyond, and his opinions and reports about the illness experience can be observed in several excerpts of his adult work. This paper highlights the health and illness conceptions observed in Monteiro Lobato's writings. Through the analysis of his adult work, we could learn about his opinions and reports on his beloved ones' experience of being sick, the possibility that the disease offers of socializing individuals, medical corporativism, his participation in the Pro-Sanitation League, some paternalistic health practices and the vulnerability of those with unfavorable social conditions, among other topics, in some occasions with comical characteristics, in others with resignation and even anger. Therefore, this study analyzed his adult work, discussing the excerpts that deal with health and illness experienced in the first decades of the 20th century.

Las lenguas de extremo oriente y el español: los diccionarios y gramáticas como primeros instrumentos para la comunicación en Filipinas y China

[ES]En este trabajo mostraremos cómo desde los inicios de la Edad Moderna la lexicografía española se constituyó en uno de los vínculos que unían Europa, América y el Extremo Oriente. La modernización de la lexicografía en el continente europeo vino de la mano de Nebrija. Y, así, las nuevas gramáticas y diccionarios escritos para favorecer la comunicación entre los españoles y los pueblos del Extremo Oriente (Filipinas y China) llevaron más allá de las fronteras de España el modelo de Nebrija. Asimismo, ofrecemos un panorama de estas obras desde el siglo XVI hasta comienzos del siglo XX.

Donne e precarietà del lavoro nell’industria bolognese dagli anni Cinquanta alla crisi degli anni Settanta

This dissertation uses the concept of “precariousness” to analyze women’s labour conditions in Italian industry over the Fifties and Sixties, when the agricultural basis of the Italian economy was replaced by an industrial one. The present research studies the way in which female work has been employed on different and nearly always inferior terms to male work, whether quantitatively or qualitatively. In most cases wages have been lower, periods of qualification and dequalification more unfavourable, and contract terms generally less secure than for male workers. The combination of these aspects of women work conditions has resulted in what will be called job precariousness. Job precariousness is adopted as a paradigm for an in-depth analysis of women’s working conditions. Women (like immigrants) have always experienced considerably worse working conditions than men throughout the capitalist industrial age. Even in the “Golden Age” of the 20th century (1945-1975), considered by most sociologists and economists “the era of job stability”, women’s working conditions were worse than men’s and can be defined precarious. Women in Bolognese industry are not an exception. The dissertation will show how many women’s jobs in industry were the opposite of stable and therefore can be called precarious in the period of 1950s and 1960s, when the Italian economy experienced the most intense economic and industrial growth of the 20th century. The comparison between female and male work conditions will address several aspects related to job precariousness: duration and continuity of work, salary variability, forms of discrimination and the relation between contract and social rights. In addition, attention will be paid to the forms of contract, gender-specific forms of discrimination and material working conditions of women.

The role of proactive coping strategies and perceived health status for Social well-being and life-project in old age.

The latter part of the 20th century was a period characterized by a fundamental demographic transition of western society. This substantial and structural demographic change proposes several challenges to contemporary society and fosters the emergence of new issues and challenges. Among these, none is more crucial than the comprehension of the mechanisms and the processes that lead people to positive aging. Rowe and Kahn’s model of successful aging highlights the interplay between social engagement with life, health, and functioning for a positive aging experience. Other systemic models of successful aging (Kahana et al., 1996; 2003; Stevernik et al., 2006) emphasize the role of internal and external resources for attaining positive aging. Among these, the proactive coping strategies are indicated as important active strategies for avoiding the depletion of resources, counterbalancing the declines and maintaining social and civic involvement. The study has analyzed the role of proactive coping strategies for two facets of positive aging, the experience of a high social well-being and the presence of personal projects in fundamental life domains. As expected, the proactive coping strategies, referred to as the active management of the environment, the accumulation of resources and the actualization of human potentials are confirmed as positive predictors of high level of social well-being and of many personal projects focused on family, culture, leisure time, civic and social participation. Perceived health status give a significant contribution only to the possession of many personal projects. Gender and level of school education give also a significant contribution to these two dimensions of positive aging, highlighting how positive aging is rooted not only in the possession of personal resources, but also in historical models of education and in positive longitudinal chains related to early development.

Exchange of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) between plants and the atmosphere under laboratory and field conditions

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient. It is for human, animal and plants a constituent element of proteins and nucleic acids. Although the majority of the Earth’s atmosphere consists of elemental nitrogen (N2, 78 %) only a few microorganisms can use it directly. To be useful for higher plants and animals elemental nitrogen must be converted to a reactive oxidized form. This conversion happens within the nitrogen cycle by free-living microorganisms, symbiotic living Rhizobium bacteria or by lightning. Humans are able to synthesize reactive nitrogen through the Haber-Bosch process since the beginning of the 20th century. As a result food security of the world population could be improved noticeably. On the other side the increased nitrogen input results in acidification and eutrophication of ecosystems and in loss of biodiversity. Negative health effects arose for humans such as fine particulate matter and summer smog. Furthermore, reactive nitrogen plays a decisive role at atmospheric chemistry and global cycles of pollutants and nutritive substances.rnNitrogen monoxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) belong to the reactive trace gases and are grouped under the generic term NOx. They are important components of atmospheric oxidative processes and influence the lifetime of various less reactive greenhouse gases. NO and NO2 are generated amongst others at combustion process by oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen as well as by biological processes within soil. In atmosphere NO is converted very quickly into NO2. NO2 is than oxidized to nitrate (NO3-) and to nitric acid (HNO3), which bounds to aerosol particles. The bounded nitrate is finally washed out from atmosphere by dry and wet deposition. Catalytic reactions of NOx are an important part of atmospheric chemistry forming or decomposing tropospheric ozone (O3). In atmosphere NO, NO2 and O3 are in photosta¬tionary equilibrium, therefore it is referred as NO-NO2-O3 triad. At regions with elevated NO concentrations reactions with air pollutions can form NO2, altering equilibrium of ozone formation.rnThe essential nutrient nitrogen is taken up by plants mainly by dissolved NO3- entering the roots. Atmospheric nitrogen is oxidized to NO3- within soil via bacteria by nitrogen fixation or ammonium formation and nitrification. Additionally atmospheric NO2 uptake occurs directly by stomata. Inside the apoplast NO2 is disproportionated to nitrate and nitrite (NO2-), which can enter the plant metabolic processes. The enzymes nitrate and nitrite reductase convert nitrate and nitrite to ammonium (NH4+). NO2 gas exchange is controlled by pressure gradients inside the leaves, the stomatal aperture and leaf resistances. Plant stomatal regulation is affected by climate factors like light intensity, temperature and water vapor pressure deficit. rnThis thesis wants to contribute to the comprehension of the effects of vegetation in the atmospheric NO2 cycle and to discuss the NO2 compensation point concentration (mcomp,NO2). Therefore, NO2 exchange between the atmosphere and spruce (Picea abies) on leaf level was detected by a dynamic plant chamber system under labo¬ratory and field conditions. Measurements took place during the EGER project (June-July 2008). Additionally NO2 data collected during the ECHO project (July 2003) on oak (Quercus robur) were analyzed. The used measuring system allowed simultaneously determina¬tion of NO, NO2, O3, CO2 and H2O exchange rates. Calculations of NO, NO2 and O3 fluxes based on generally small differences (∆mi) measured between inlet and outlet of the chamber. Consequently a high accuracy and specificity of the analyzer is necessary. To achieve these requirements a highly specific NO/NO2 analyzer was used and the whole measurement system was optimized to an enduring measurement precision.rnData analysis resulted in a significant mcomp,NO2 only if statistical significance of ∆mi was detected. Consequently, significance of ∆mi was used as a data quality criterion. Photo-chemical reactions of the NO-NO2-O3 triad in the dynamic plant chamber’s volume must be considered for the determination of NO, NO2, O3 exchange rates, other¬wise deposition velocity (vdep,NO2) and mcomp,NO2 will be overestimated. No significant mcomp,NO2 for spruce could be determined under laboratory conditions, but under field conditions mcomp,NO2 could be identified between 0.17 and 0.65 ppb and vdep,NO2 between 0.07 and 0.42 mm s-1. Analyzing field data of oak, no NO2 compensation point concentration could be determined, vdep,NO2 ranged between 0.6 and 2.71 mm s-1. There is increasing indication that forests are mainly a sink for NO2 and potential NO2 emissions are low. Only when assuming high NO soil emissions, more NO2 can be formed by reaction with O3 than plants are able to take up. Under these circumstance forests can be a source for NO2.

Introduction: A brief journey through the 80 year history of the International Association of Schools of Social Work

The leaders of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) have played major roles in shaping the organization over its 80 year history. This brief introduction will put their roles in the context of the organization’s history. While influenced by its presidents in significant ways, the organization’s trajectory has also been affected by the political, economic and social developments of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Significant changes have occurred in the organization and in social work education, yet, as Feustel (2006) observed, “the history of the IASSW demonstrates lines of continuity that are even more remarkable for the fact that it was caught up in the great historical ruptures of the 20th century” (p. 3).

It’s all about networking! Empirical investigation of social capital formation on social network sites

As Social Network Sites (SNS) permeate our daily routines, the question whether participation results in value for SNS users becomes particularly acute. This study adopts a 'participation-source-outcome' perspective to explore how distinct uses of SNS generate various types of social capital benefits. Building on existing research, extensive qualitative findings and an empirical study with 253 Facebook users, we uncover the process of social capital formation on SNS. We find that even though active communication is an important prerequisite, it is the diversified network structure and the increased social connectedness that are responsible for the attainment of the four benefits of social capital on SNS: emotional support, networking value, horizon broadening and offline participation. Moreover, we propose and validate scales to measure social capital benefits in the novel context of SNS.

Perspectivas clásicas y contemporáneas sobre la estratificación social : Aportes de análisis de clase y de la perspectiva de las elites para el estudio de los estratos superiores

El presente artículo procura poner en consideración algunos elementos analíticos, presentes tanto en los estudios sociales de las elites como en las perspectivas sobre las clases sociales, que representan un aporte para la investigación de los procesos de estratificación social en general, y de los estratos superiores en particular. En esta dirección, se analizan los supuestos de los cuales derivan las dos principales perspectivas de clase, la relacional y la gradacional, así como las diferentes revisiones y reelaboraciones desarrolladas a lo largo del siglo XX. Por otro lado, se aborda críticamente el aporte de la perspectiva clásica de las elites y de algunos intentos de articulación entre dicho enfoque y la perspectiva de clase. El artículo concluye considerando algunas problematizaciones desarrolladas dentro de la bibliografía reciente sobre elites, con el fin de recuperar ciertos elementos analíticos valiosos para el estudio de los estratos superiores. En este sentido, intenta resaltar el aporte de los enfoques que procuran articular la dinámica de la reproducción con las de la recomposición e incluso disolución, operantes entre los grupos de elite y los estratos superiores

Perspectivas clásicas y contemporáneas sobre la estratificación social : Aportes de análisis de clase y de la perspectiva de las elites para el estudio de los estratos superiores

El presente artículo procura poner en consideración algunos elementos analíticos, presentes tanto en los estudios sociales de las elites como en las perspectivas sobre las clases sociales, que representan un aporte para la investigación de los procesos de estratificación social en general, y de los estratos superiores en particular. En esta dirección, se analizan los supuestos de los cuales derivan las dos principales perspectivas de clase, la relacional y la gradacional, así como las diferentes revisiones y reelaboraciones desarrolladas a lo largo del siglo XX. Por otro lado, se aborda críticamente el aporte de la perspectiva clásica de las elites y de algunos intentos de articulación entre dicho enfoque y la perspectiva de clase. El artículo concluye considerando algunas problematizaciones desarrolladas dentro de la bibliografía reciente sobre elites, con el fin de recuperar ciertos elementos analíticos valiosos para el estudio de los estratos superiores. En este sentido, intenta resaltar el aporte de los enfoques que procuran articular la dinámica de la reproducción con las de la recomposición e incluso disolución, operantes entre los grupos de elite y los estratos superiores