As universidades, o meio ambiente e o desenvolvimento sustentável.

Falar sobre universidades em nosso país requer que revisitemos a época da chegada da família real ao Brasil que, com toda a sua galhardia, implantando o ensino superior nos moldes portugueses ratificava modelos que pouco evoluíram da Idade Clássica, passando pela Idade Média e que, neste momento, Idade Moderna, transparece uma perfeita propagação do pensar alheio à realidade, sendo meramente um órgão de repetição e difusão do saber.

Cultivo do girassol no Rio Grande do Sul: plantio janeiro a fevereiro.

A demanda por esta oleaginosa está aumentando no RS, de forma que os produtores estão expandindo a área e a época de plantio, com isso surge um interesse especial no período de plantio janeiro/fevereiro (safrinha). Visando atender esta demanda, foram realizados ensaios com quatro datas de semeadura e em seis locais, a fim de determinar a viabilidade técnica deste cultivo no período da safrinha 2007 no RS. Os ensaios foram instalados nos seguintes locais / instituições do RS: Pelotas (Embrapa Clima Temperado); Passo Fundo (Embrapa Trigo); Bagé (Embrapa Pecuária Sul); Fortaleza dos Valos (COTRIMAIO); Santa Rosa (COOPERMIL); Rio Pardo (AFUBRA).

Aplicación del modelo AnnAGNPS a la cuenca del río Cemborain

Ingeniería Agronómica

Poverty and Place in the Context of the American South

In the United States, poverty has been historically higher and disproportionately concentrated in the American South. Despite this fact, much of the conventional poverty literature in the United States has focused on urban poverty in cities, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest. Relatively less American poverty research has focused on the enduring economic distress in the South, which Wimberley (2008:899) calls “a neglected regional crisis of historic and contemporary urgency.” Accordingly, this dissertation contributes to the inequality literature by focusing much needed attention on poverty in the South.

Each empirical chapter focuses on a different aspect of poverty in the South. Chapter 2 examines why poverty is higher in the South relative to the Non-South. Chapter 3 focuses on poverty predictors within the South and whether there are differences in the sub-regions of the Deep South and Peripheral South. These two chapters compare the roles of family demography, economic structure, racial/ethnic composition and heterogeneity, and power resources in shaping poverty. Chapter 4 examines whether poverty in the South has been shaped by historical racial regimes.

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) United States datasets (2000, 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013) (derived from the U.S. Census Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement) provide all the individual-level data for this study. The LIS sample of 745,135 individuals is nested in rich economic, political, and racial state-level data compiled from multiple sources (e.g. U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, etc.). Analyses involve a combination of techniques including linear probability regression models to predict poverty and binary decomposition of poverty differences.

Chapter 2 results suggest that power resources, followed by economic structure, are most important in explaining the higher poverty in the South. This underscores the salience of political and economic contexts in shaping poverty across place. Chapter 3 results indicate that individual-level economic factors are the largest predictors of poverty within the South, and even more so in the Deep South. Moreover, divergent results between the South, Deep South, and Peripheral South illustrate how the impact of poverty predictors can vary in different contexts. Chapter 4 results show significant bivariate associations between historical race regimes and poverty among Southern states, although regression models fail to yield significant effects. Conversely, historical race regimes do have a small, but significant effect in explaining the Black-White poverty gap. Results also suggest that employment and education are key to understanding poverty among Blacks and the Black-White poverty gap. Collectively, these chapters underscore why place is so important for understanding poverty and inequality. They also illustrate the salience of micro and macro characteristics of place for helping create, maintain, and reproduce systems of inequality across place.

Sediment contaminant surveillance in Milford Haven Waterway

Sediment contaminants were monitored in Milford Haven Waterway (MHW) since 1978 (hydrocarbons) and 1982 (metals), with the aim of providing surveillance of environmental quality in one of the UK’s busiest oil and gas ports. This aim is particularly important during and after large-scale investment in liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities. However, methods inevitably have changed over the years, compounding the difficulties of coordinating sampling and analytical programmes. After a review by the MHW Environmental Surveillance Group (MHWESG), sediment hydrocarbon chemistry was investigated in detail in 2010. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) contributed their MHW data for 2007 and 2012, collected to assess the condition of the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) designated under the European Union Habitats Directive. Datasets during 2007-2012 have thus been more comparable. The results showed conclusively that a MHW-wide peak in concentrations of sediment polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals and other contaminants occurred in late 2007. This was corroborated by independent annual monitoring at one centrally-located station with peaks in early 2008 and 2011. The spatial and temporal patterns of recovery from the 2007 peak, shown by MHW-wide surveys in 2010 and 2012, indicate several probable causes of contaminant trends, as follows: atmospheric deposition, catchment runoff, sediment resuspension from dredging, and construction of two LNG terminals and a power station. Adverse biological effects predictable in 2007 using international sediment quality guidelines, were independently tested by data from monitoring schemes of more than a decade duration in MHW (starfish, limpets), and in the wider SAC (grey seals). Although not proving cause and effect, many of these potential biological receptors showed a simultaneous negative response to the elevated 2007 contamination following intense dredging activity in 2006. Wetland bird counts were typically at a peak in the winter of 2005-2006 previous to peak dredging. In the following winter 2006-2007, shelduck in Pembroke River showed their lowest winter count, and spring 2007 was the largest ever drop in numbers of broods across MHW between successive breeding seasons. Wigeon counts in Pembroke River were again low in late 2012 after further dredging nearby. These results are strongly supported by PAH data reported previously from invertebrate bioaccumulation studies in MHW 2007-2010, themselves closely reflecting sediment

Welfare Regimes and “progressive” governments in Latin America: The cases of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia

Several authors have applied the concept of Welfare Regimens for studying social policy in Latin America (Esping-Andersen, 1993 and 2000). Among others, Martínez Franzoni (2007) develops a typology, with fi eld work is at the turn of the millennium, and establishes three categories: State-productivist regime, state-protectionist and family orientated. Most countries in the region are placed in the latter category. The hypothesis of this article argues that with the emergence of governments considered “left” or “progressive” in several countries of the region from the late ‘90s and, more decisively, in 2000’, the map of welfare regimes models could have mutated substantively. The nationally transformative experiences are different (various socio-economic realities and political action in which they are located exists) but they have several contact points that can be summarized in a greater state intervention in different areas previously closed to their operating and recovery of important functions of welfare and care of the population by the government. The paper discusses with an exploratory and descriptive approach the welfare schemes that would shape in three countries that have constitutionalized the change from the neoliberal paradigm: Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.

Dynamic analysis of employment trajectories through the concept of fl exicurity

The paper presents a dynamic study of the Spanish labour market which tries to determine if it matches the characteristics of transitional labour markets from a fl exicurity approach. Employment trajectories of Spanish workers during the years 2007-2010 are studied using the Continuous Sample of Working Lives. This period covers the end of the expansion of the Spanish economy and the beginning of the current employment crisis. From the combination of the chosen topic, the approach, and the database used, this is a novel perspective in our country. The article shows evidence of the evolution of the employment and unemployment spells, the Spanish labour market turnover degree, and the diffi culties of some groups for carrying out transition between employment and unemployment. The results obtained show a labour market in which a) transitions have come to a halt, and b) there is high job insecurity.

Dangerously empty? Hegemony and the construction of the Irish entrepreneur

In this article we build on Jones and Spicer's (2009) conceptualization of the entrepreneur as an empty signifier. We explore the function of the signifier 'entrepreneurship' within a social context marked by crisis: Ireland 2007-2010. In doing so, we show how its articulation by government acted to legitimize the continuation of market logics and, relatedly, the existing political status quo. Theoretically, we demonstrate the usefulness of Laclau and Mouffe's conception of hegemony, which shares a Lacanian legacy with Jones and Spicer. This helps us to understand the contradictory nature of the signifier of the entrepreneur in Irish political and social discourse, along with its relationship to the reproduction of political hegemony.

Students' engagement in schools: differentiation and promotion

Comunicação apresentada no XI Congresso da AEPEC (Associação da Educação Pluridimensional e da Escola Cultural) - Da exclusão à excelência - caminhos organizacionais para a qualidade da educação. Évora: Universidade de Évora, 16, 17 e 18 de Setembro de 2010.

Regulação política e reconfiguração do perfil profissional do diretor da escola : a opinião dos membros do conselho das escolas

Tese de doutoramento, Educação (Administração e Política Educacional), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2015

A formação ética de professores no cruzamento com a formação ético-moral de alunos : o papel da investigação-acção

Tese de doutoramento, Educação (Formação de Professores), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2015

De la formulation à l’implantation : expérience de la mise en oeuvre d’un projet éducatif et d’un plan de réussite d’une école primaire de la grande région de Montréal

En utilisant le cadre d’analyse de Honig (2006) qui étudie l’implantation d’une politique publique à la lumière des dimensions que sont le lieu, la politique et les acteurs, la présente recherche explore la relation entre l’implantation et la formulation d’une politique publique. Introduite en éducation par l’adoption, en 2002, du projet de loi 124 (Québec, 2002), la gestion axée sur les résultats s’est traduite par l’élaboration d’une planification stratégique pour la commission scolaire et d’un plan de réussite découlant d’un projet éducatif pour l’établissement scolaire. Or, l’étude de cas unique de cette recherche qui s’insère dans un projet dirigé par le professeur Martial Dembélé sur la gestion axée sur les résultats à l’ordre d’enseignement primaire au Québec (FQRSC, 2007-2008 ; CRSH, 2007-2010) permet l’examen de la relation formulation - implantation du projet éducatif/plan de réussite d’une école primaire située dans la grande région de Montréal. Les résultats de cette recherche démontrent que la formulation d’une politique a un impact sur son implantation, mais cette dimension n’est pas exclusive à une implantation effective. Les autres dimensions que sont les acteurs et le lieu ont tout autant d’effet : une ou deux dimensions peuvent pallier à la faiblesse de la troisième.

Dirección General de Formación Profesional : memoria de actividades 2006.

Resumen basado en la publicación

Análisis del conflicto armado colombiano como creador de imaginarios colectivos para la sociedad durante el periodo Pastrana y Uribe (I)

Se podrá observar dos presidentes y su influencia en la creación de imaginarios en la sociedad colombiana. El manejo de criterios por parte de estos resultó determinante, donde el conflicto armado, la gobernabilidad y la estabilidad estatal manejan lecturas disímiles durante sus periodos.

La responsabilidad política en Colombia, un desafío para nuestra democracia: análisis del gobierno de Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Período 2002 – 2008

Esta monografía busca responder a las preguntas acerca de la responsabilidad política, su concepto, sus sujetos, su efecto, entre otras y su relación con el proceso de consolidación democrática en Colombia. Particularmente, pretende analizar si la responsabilidad política ha sido un elemento importante para generar el proceso de consolidación de la democracia colombiana durante el gobierno de Álvaro Uribe Vélez en el período 2002-2008.