Política Externa Brasileira para a Amazônia: imperativos, atores e políticas (1964-2002)

A presente dissertação demonstra as mudanças introduzidas na formulação de política externa para a Amazônia com a entrada de novos atores com interesses variados na área. Ao longo do texto é mostrado como a diversidade de atores que participa desse processo mostra-se diferenciada com relação ao de outras regiões do Brasil. A dissertação tem como objetivo ampliar o debate acerca do papel de atores não-tradicionais nessa área de estudos, inserindo-os em uma corrente de pensamento que olha a política externa tanto a partir de seus constrangimentos internos quanto pelo viés das forças profundas que atuam no cenário internacional. A importância desse estudo para as pesquisas envolvendo a Amazônia deve-se, principalmente, em função da área possuir uma variedade de atores com caráter doméstico, internacional ou transnacional que atuam através de lobbies e redes políticas na tentativa de influenciar as políticas domésticas e externas para o espaço. Apresenta então a discussão do surgimento das principais preocupações da política externa no que tange o espaço brasileiro da floresta em decorrência da maior atenção verificada na arena internacional com o meio ambiente, o que traz mudanças políticas importantes durante o período autoritário (1964-1985). Como consequência da redemocratização (1985-2002) e do aumento dos fluxos intra e interpaíses, o espaço amazônico devido a suas riquezas potenciais voltou ao cerne dos debates de meio ambiente, o que teve impactos diretos no rearranjo político doméstico. Mais atores passaram a atuar na discussão pública sobre a floresta o que gerou novas formas de promoção da política externa do país nesse campo por meio de grupos e novas condutas na sua história diplomática, porém em acordo com seu principal formulador de política externa: o Itamaraty.

Analysis and evaluation of public health policy in Cuba : progress on millennium development goals

[EN] The main objective of this project is to analyze Cuban public health policy and the Millennium Development Goals, especially those linked to the issue of health, presenting their potential and strengths with a well-defined time horizon (2000-2015). The Millennium Development Goals are the international consensus on development and was signed as an international minimum agreement, with which began the century. The MDGs promote various goals and targets, with the corresponding monitoring indicators, which should be achieved by all countries for the present year. Health is an area that is at the center of the Millennium Development Goals, which reinforce each other to get a true human development itself. The research was done through theoretical frameworks of social production of health and disease, social justice and the power structure. A retrospective analysis of Cuban economic and social context is performed in order to study whether health-related MDGs are likely to be completed by the deadline on the island and likewise, the main parameters related to health compared with those of the neighboring countries in the Americas.

Newport's mooring regulations: legal and policy analysis

The legal and policy issues facing Newport as it revises and implements its ordinances are numerous. Most of the issues have not been squarely resolved for Rhode Island. While Newport may take guidance from other states, it will be Rhode Island's task going forward to define the reach of its PTD as applied to some novel issues raised by mooring administration. The benefit of the flexibility of the PTD is allowing smaller units of government like Newport to define their regulatory goals based on a locally-tailored balancing test of competing interests facing scarce ocean resources. This report was designed to facilitate decision-maker discussion of how to strike that delicate balance.

Coarse and stillwater trout fisheries. Paper in evidence to the review of fisheries policy and legislation

This paper highlights the social and economic importance of coarse and stillwater trout fisheries and explains the UK Environment Agency's aim, its policies and processes, and its powers for managing and regulating these fisheries, concluding with reasoned proposals for change.

A coarse fish close season on canals. Paper in evidence to the review of fisheries policy and legislation. Paper number: EA-12

This paper gives the results of the Environment Agency's research into the canal close season to the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Review Group. It presents the findings of the research, explains why the research was undertaken and how it relates to the Agency's duties. The background for this report includes that angling representative bodies have long argued that the existing situation in which somecanals have a close season and others do not, is unsatisfactory.

Avian piscivores: basis for policy.

In Britain, many birds eat fish in fresh waters but only three species, cormorant, red-breasted merganser and goosander, are commonly perceived to present serious problems for freshwater fisheries. Complaints are mainly that cormorants eat large fish and that all three bird species eat so many juvenile fish, that there are subsequently fewer fish to be harvested or angled, but also that persistent predation by birds changes fish behaviour so that they are less 'catchable'. To this end, this report reviews existing information on the current status, foraging ecology, and population biology of the three bird species as background to their potential impact on fisheries. Discusses fish population dynamics within the context of predation effects. Reviews existing experimental evidence for impacts on fish populations and fisheries; and describes current legislation, discusses potential criteria for serious damage to a fishery, and suggests ways forward for NRA policy and research.