Impact of Cyberprogram 2.0 on Different Types of School Violence and Aggressiveness

Some antibullying interventions have shown positive outcomes with regard to reducing violence. The aim of the study was to experimentally assess the effects on school violence and aggressiveness of a program to prevent and reduce cyberbullying. The sample was comprised of a randomly selected sample of 176 adolescents (93 experimental, 83 control), aged 13-15 years. The study used a repeated measures pre-posttest design with a control group. Before and after the program, two assessment instruments were administered: the "Cuestionario de Violencia Escolar-Revisado" (CUVE-R [School Violence Questionnaire- Revised]; Alvarez Garcia et al., 2011) and the "Cuestionario de agresividad premeditada e impulsiva" (CAPI-A [Premeditated and Impulsive Aggressiveness Questionnaire]; Andreu, 2010). The intervention consisted of 19 one-hour sessions carried out during the school term. The program contains 25 activities with the following objectives: (1) to identify and conceptualize bullying/cyberbullying; (2) to analyze the consequences of bullying/cyberbullying, promoting participants' capacity to report such actions when they are discovered; (3) to develop coping strategies to prevent and reduce bullying/cyberbullying; and (4) to achieve other transversal goals, such as developing positive variables (empathy, active listening, social skills, constructive conflict resolution, etc.). The pre-posttest ANCOVAs confirmed that the program stimulated a decrease in: (1) diverse types of school violence teachers' violence toward students (ridiculing or publicly humiliating students in front of the class, etc.); students' physical violence (fights, blows, shoves... aimed at the victim, or at his or her property, etc.); students' verbal violence (using offensive language, cruel, embarrassing, or insulting words... toward classmates and teachers); social exclusion (rejection or exclusion of a person or group, etc.), and violence through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT; violent behaviors by means of electronic instruments such as mobile phones and the Internet); and (2) premeditated and impulsive aggressiveness. Pre-posttest MANCOVA revealed differences between conditions with a medium effect size. This work contributes an efficacious intervention tool for the prevention and reduction of peer violence. The conclusions drawn from this study have interesting implications for educational and clinical intervention.

Common property regimes

Common property regimes are forms of resource management grounded in a set of individually accepted rights and rules for the sustainable and independent use of collective goods. Details about this resource management systems are presented in this article.

Estimating input demand and output supply elasticities in gillnet and seine fishing in Guimaras Strait and adjacent waters

This contribution is a summary of the results of the study conducted by the University of the Philippines in the Visayas team from November 1990 to June 1991. The purpose of this research is to estimate demand and output supply elasticities in gillnet and seine fishing in Guimaras Strait (Philippines) and adjacent waters.

Community-based coastal resource management in Orion (Bataan, Philippines) : building community property rights in a fishing community

The Community-based Coastal Resource Management Project in Orion, Bataan, Philippines was started in 1991. The village level fishers organizations have formed a municipal-wide association called the Samahan at Ugnayan ng Pangisdaan sa Orion (SUGPO). It represents 70% of the small-scale fishers in Orion and has taken on the task of rehabilitating the degraded fishing grounds. The experience in Orion indicates that coastal resource management can be successful if the fishers have ownership of the program and the costs and benefits of the program are distributed equally in a manner acceptable to them.

Um olhar sobre a questão dos resíduos da construção civil no Município do Rio de Janeiro.

Os RCC são originados dos diversos processos da construção civil, com características bastante particulares pela variedade dos métodos construtivos empregados. Suas deposições em locais inadequados causam vários impactos com diferentes tempos de reação e de degradação do meio ambiente. Para impedi-los foi aprovada a Resolução 307 do CONAMA, que estabelece critérios e normas de caráter protetor ao meio ambiente, porém as administrações públicas possuem inúmeras dificuldades técnicas e financeiras para sua implementação. Para auxiliar os municípios, a CEF elaborou dois manuais de orientações para o manejo e gestão dos RCC, direcionando o sistema gestor. Uma opção para a gestão de RCC é a reciclagem. O Município do Rio de Janeiro com seu relevo original formado por mangues e morros, sofreu grandes aterros e sofre até os dias atuais, utilizando para isso os RCC e o desmonte de antigos morros. Os RCC, após coletados, são destinados a uma única Área de Transbordo e Triagem, com capacidade insuficiente para recebê-los. A ausência de controle do órgão gestor sobre os RCC, seus dados de produção e de destinação, exige uma estimativa dos RCC gerados no Município e uma observação global sobre seus destinos, considerando os aterros autorizados pela SMAC. Foi realizada uma análise crítica da gestão corretiva adotada pelo sistema gestor, suas particularidades e dificuldades, e o perfil atual sobre a reciclagem de RCC no Rio de Janeiro. Algumas propostas para a melhoria do sistema gestor foram apresentadas e sugerida a necessidade de um estudo mais aprofundado e de um levantamento mais completo da realidade dos RCC no Município do Rio de Janeiro.