Proposta de uma abordagem humanista na pedagogia do ensino superior

This paper focuses on the importance of a Humanistic Pedagogy that cnphasizes the personal worth of each individual in the University education. Interactions between masters and students were studied upon different aproaches. Emphasis was given to the dynamic of group formation in the classroom as well as the development of inter-personal relationships. Twenty students of the Hedicine School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro as well as three teachers involved in the same field of study - Discipline were carefully analised throuqh a proper Methodology. Overall, the issue of the proposed study is complex and multifaceted. Institucional factors as well as bilogical, psychological and social factors should be considered for a better understanding of thc problem. Our results strongly suggest the existence of an "Educational Space" where an up to date Humanistic Pedagogy should be applied.

Políticas públicas, conselhos municipais e agricultura familiar : representações sobre o rural em Roca Sales/RS e a emergência da noção de multifuncionalidade da agricultura

Esta dissertação trata inicialmente de questões relativas ao papel das políticas públicas voltadas à modernização da agricultura nos contextos internacional e brasileiro. Com efeito, procurou-se evidenciar como foram concebidos os processos de modernização agrícola assentados no produtivismo. A propósito, os problemas sócio-ambientais gerados por estas políticas propiciaram o início do debate sobre a multifuncionalidade da agricultura. No caso brasileiro, a contestação das políticas de modernização conservadora da agricultura chegando levou ao Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (PRONAF), cujo público-alvo, os agricultores familiares, estiveram, em grande medida, alijados até então das políticas públicas modernizantes. Num segundo momento, chamou-se a atenção para a emergência da noção de multifuncionalidade da agricultura, particularmente no que ela pode vir a transformar os rumos do desenvolvimento rural brasileiro, além da questão da produção. Traçando paralelos com o debate da multifuncionalidade, dedicou-se um capítulo sobre a evolução das concepções em torno da propriedade fundiária: de um direito irrestrito à sua função sócio-ambiental. Na atualidade, a incorporação de demandas ambientais reorientaram essa discussão. Por outro lado, a dissertação permite também discutir o lugar do Conselho de Desenvolvimento Rural (CMDR) de Roca Sales, a partir de uma interpretação fundada nas lógicas de seu funcionamento. Destacou-se a dependência do conselho em relação a programas estaduais e federais cuja alocação de recursos exige a caução dos conselheiros do desenvolvimento rural. Enfim, procurou-se discutir as representações sociais dos atores locais, de alguma maneira implicados no conselho, sobre a agricultura e o mundo rural. Notadamente, tentou-se examinar em qual medida as preocupações com o desenvolvimento rural consideram funções não produtivas da agricultura, principalmente nas dimensões da: reprodução socioeconômica das famílias; promoção da segurança alimentar da sociedade e das próprias famílias rurais; manutenção do tecido social e cultural e preservação dos recursos naturais e da paisagem rural. Nesse sentido, puderam-se apreender nas visões dos atores locais percepções que se aproximam dos fundamentos da noção de multifuncionalidade da agricultura, principalmente quando relacionados à temas como: agroindustrialização familiar, diversificação, profissionalização do agricultor, segurança alimentar, autoconsumo e turismo rural. Com efeito, as preocupações com o desenvolvimento rural revelam propensões dos atores locais em considerar as funções não mercantis da agricultura.

Do encantamento dos números à realidade dos fatos: conciliação entre os balanços patrimonial e social da ALUNORTE

The social balance is turning into an instrument capable of identifying the Organizational Commitment socio-environmental. The objective of the Social Balance is to present the application of company resources on socio-environmental investments internally and externally. The research was developed based on the Balance Social and Sheet from Alumina North Brazil S / A, ALUNORTE, for fiscal years 2008 and 2009, with the purpose of describing the finding of the Balance Social and Sheet from ALUNORTE about social responsibility. To validate the proposal were doing comparisons between accounting and financial datas from Alunorte and Y.Yamada, in order to highlight what they say and indicators confirm the privileges of the first against second

Diagnóstico ambiental da gestão e destinação dos resíduos da construção e demolição (RCD): análise das Construtoras Associadas ao SINDUSCON/RN e empresas coletoras atuantes no município de Parnamirim - RN

Surveys carried out in many Brazilian cities have shown that the CDW Construction and Demolition Waste, in some cases, represent more than 50% of the mass of urban solid residue. Municipalities have struggled to manage in an effective way huge quantities of CDW generated every day and solve the problem of the illegal dumping in an inadequate area, which compromise the quality of life of the population as a whole, thus causing serious problems concerning social-environmental and sanitary. This paperwork was meant it carry out environmental diagnosis of the management and the final destination of the CDW in the city of Parnamirim/RN. The methodology used in this work constituted in the bibliographical research, conducted to give support and fundaments to the subject in question, identification of the main places of legal and illegal dumping, identification of the environmental impacts caused by the irregular deposition of the CDW, valuation of quantity and quality of the CDW and perception according to the Environmental Legislation. The necessary data for the elaboration of this study were carried out through the appliance of questionnaires with open and closed questions, applied to 14 (fourteen) Real Estate developer companies associated with SINDUSCON/RN and 05 companies that deal with the transportation and collection of CDW, formal and informal interviews, exploitational visits and photographical records. The collected data went through a statistic treatment being organized into tables and graphs. The main results obtained from this research show that the interviewees hold a medium knowledge of the specific Environmental Legislation; do not have an effective model of environmental management, resorting to only reusing CDW; that the reusing of CDW is not substantial, as much as the possibility of recycling has a minimal consideration. It was also verified that a considerable percentage of interviewees affirmed to send CDW to illegal and inadequate locations. It is expected that such study can be used as an important tool to subsidize the public administration in the pursuit of solutions which could bring benefits to society and the environment

Implicações socioambientais da construção de um parque eólico no município de Rio de Fogo-RN

The purpose of this study was to investigate the social-environmental implications of the first large scale wind farm recently built in Brazil (2006), Parque Eólico de Rio do Fogo (PERF), to the nearby communities. The research was base on the adjustment of the DIS/BCN tool to analyze social impact and it was linked to the multi-method approach. Applying the autophotography strategy, cameras were given to five children from the district of Zumbi, the nearest location to PERF, and they were asked to individually photograph the six places they liked the most and the six places they liked the least in their community. Then, these children were interviewed individually and collectively about the photographs. Adult locals in Zumbi, residents of Zumbi/Rio do Fogo settlement, members of the State and Municipal government and representatives of the PERF were also interviewed with the aid of some of the pictures taken by the children and others that might trigger something to say, as a strategy called sample function. The five children presented positive image towards PERF; all of them chose to photograph it as one of places they liked. Adult population of Zumbi presented positive visual evaluation towards PERF. A small number of the interviewees were aware of the environmental and social benefits of wind energy production. Residents did not participate of the decision making process regarding PERF. They approved the project, especially because of the jobs provided during construction. Nowadays, PERF is something apart from their lives because it no longer provides jobs or any other interaction between the facility and the locals. Residents relate to the land, not with the facility. However, there is no evidence of rejection towards PERF, it is simply seen as something neutral to their lives. The low levels of education, traditional lack of social commitment and citizenship, and the experience accumulated by PERF´s planners and builders in other countries, may be contributing points to the fact that Zumbi residents did not oppose to PERF. It is clear that the country needs a legislation which seriously considers the psycho-social dimension involved in the implementation of wind farms

A ocupação urbana do entorno de zonasde proteção ambiental de natal, suas condições de sustentabilidade e a relação com a ocorrência de insetos vetores

This study started from the hypothesis of the existence of a relation between the type of the urban occupation concerning to the sustainability conditions at the proximity of Environment Protected Zones and the occurrence of vectors insects in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. This research, which used data available by the City Administration Health and Urbanization Secretaries (respectively SMS and SEMURB), in the time period of 2006 to 2008, aimed to characterize the study site in terms of urban occupation, relating it to social environmental aspects of land occupation and the occurrence of vectors insects. This study is presented in two papers, the first one linking the occurrence of vectors insects and sustainable development indicators and the second relating the incidence of reported cases of Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and the occurrence of larvae infection indexes of Aedes aegypti, in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte State. In the first paper, was made a correlation between Dengue Fever vectors and Visceral and Tegumentar Leishmaniasis vectors and sustainable development indicators, selected from IDS Brasil- 2008. Through factorial analysis a Sustainability Index (SI) was acquired for each region, the northern region of the municipality obtained lower numbers than southern region, which, in its turn, presented better sustainability conditions. Linking this index to vector infestation parameters shows a high significant correlation between the SI and the Breteau Index of Aedes aegypti (p=0,028) as well as with SI and sand flies infestation index (p=0,01). Higher rates in vectors infestation in regions with a lower Sustainable Development Index demonstrates that this index can be used to determine the increasing of probability of Aedes and sand flies occurrence in urban environment. The second paper analyzed the occurrence of the main vector of Dengue and DHF, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and the relation between larvae infection indexes of this insect and reported cases of the diseases. This study revealed unexpected relation where areas with higher Breteau s Indexes showed lower infection rates of Dengue Fever, although showing high incidence of DHF

O design e a consciência da sustentabilidade integral: o projeto Tamar na Vila Regência, ES

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A colonização no norte de Mato Grosso: o exemplo da gleba celeste

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Levantamento sobre as concepções e práticas de educação ambiental nos cursos de educação de jovens e adultos do centro expandindo da cidade de São Paulo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação da gestão de áreas contaminadas de uma unidade industrial, localizada no município de Cubatão, São Paulo

Pós-graduação em Geociências e Meio Ambiente - IGCE

Acesso restrito: reflexões sobre a qualidade ambiental percebida por habitantes de condomínios horizontais

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Qualidade ambiental e de vida humana: as alterações socioambientais e a difusão da dengue em Piracicaba - SP

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Espaço da circulação e saúde ambiental na produção do espaço urbano em Manaus

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Educação ambiental e resíduos sólidos: a ação da cooperlix em Presidente Prudente-SP

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

O zoneamento ecológico-econômico como instrumento de planejamento e gestão ambiental: uma proposta para a bacia hidrográfica do Rio Corumbataí (SP)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)