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Abstract The research aimed to evaluate the importance of plant food in maintaining the lifestyles of the ribeirinhos who are affected by the Belo Monte Dam. We interviewed 60 families affected by Belo Monte. The data collection was done through recorded semi-structured interviews, participant observations, guided tours and botanical collection. The data was interpreted qualitatively and quantitatively using the following the Wilcoxon test for statistical analysis. We identified 143 species, it was registered 88 food plants, distributed in 36 botanical families. When comparing the above-mentioned plants, before and after Belo Monte, there was a significant difference, with a reduction of 45% in the number of species. Three systems of traditional cultivation were observed, yard, garden and forest areas. Despite the expected socio-environmental risks, the loss of territories has generated wide-ranging impacts, including food production and the individual and societal cultural identities of human.

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Over the past few years, a large number of projects related to entrepreneurship ideas have appeared daily in the media, due to the fact that they were sold as new solutions for companies or gave origin to new companies. These projects were mainly created by individuals who were students, unemployed persons or working people and, consequently, did not have a company of their own and, in most of the cases, also did not have the means to finance their idea. In some situations, the creation of a crowdfunding project presents itself as a convenient and riskless option for funding and this is frequently the reason why some project initiators decide to launch a campaign. The assessment of each campaign depends on the expectations of the project creator, who is in the best position to decide whether it was actually successful. Untangling how a project owner can assess the performance of its project is of major importance, namely when projects are launched by individuals who ultimately carry all the tasks involved in the initiative. This is a field of research within crowdfunding that remains, to the best of our knowledge, under researched. We propose a framework for the analysis of the success of these projects and we test it on six crowdfunding projects launched in Portugal. Our goal is to shed light to the factors that can be used by project creators in the assessment of the performance of their initiatives.

Despite the conceptual difficulties and complex configuration, the concept of public sphere has dominated much of the recent literature in areas such as political sciences, cultural studies, communication sciences and sociology of new media.

Despite the conceptual difficulties and complex configuration, the concept of public sphere has dominated much of the recent literature in areas such as political sciences, cultural studies, communication sciences and sociology of new media.

AbstractMediators have gained visibility in the national and international context because of the relevance of their intervention in light of current social challenges. However, the professional profile of mediators is not consolidated, and its recognition has been slow and ambiguous. The diversity of the initial basic training of mediators and the diversity of training available in mediation are two contributing factors to this lack of recognition. The objectives of this article are to characterize the professional profile of Portuguese mediators, to understand their stance regarding the introduction of a bachelor's in mediation in Portuguese higher education, and contribute to the debate about the consolidation and formal recognition of these professionals. Inspired by theoretical and empirical reflections and studies that discuss the possibility of creating a bachelor's in mediation as a strategy to standardize and consolidate mediation and the professional profile of mediators, we present, in this article, a quantitative and qualitative descriptive analysis of the socio‐occupational situation of 175 mediators in Portugal. Most respondents agree that a bachelor's in mediation may contribute to the recognition of the area and the quality of the mediators' work. However, the advantages of multidisciplinary initial basic training and the lack of employability in the area of mediation are two factors that may call into question the relevance of creating this degree. Given the results, it is important to reflect on the nature and modalities of training in mediation, namely at the bachelor level, in order to contribute to the professional recognition of mediators.

In processes oriented towards social change and transformation, the specification of different concepts and levels of participation is an important intellectual and epistemic challenge. Critical questioning of participation in social intervention and research is fundamental for structuring a common understanding and a grammar for intervention, which supports, in theory, the construction of a type of architecture of participation, that is, a conceptual network that sets the parameters for the evaluation of participation. The concept of participation, used so frequently in a populist way, can adapt as easily to objectives of regulation, as to social transformation, and can be subordinate to such divergent paradigms of social intervention such as task-centered interventions, the building of opportunities for development and the processes which aim to improve personal and social decision-making. One of the major goals of participation is to increase the power of individuals and collective decision-making. Beyond this individual and micro-level dimension, it reveals processes of co-construction of social alternatives and structures of opportunity on the meso level (the community) and the macro level (the political instance). Thus, participation in the present day constitutes a strategic axis for social intervention and research. It is necessary to reflect about it. How to operationalize participation? How important is the way it tackles and develops participation in research and transformative social intervention? ...

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Resumo: este artigo tem como tema a ocupação do solo urbano em Goiânia desdea fundação da cidade em 1933 até 2010, e a produção de Habitação de InteresseSocial (HIS) em Goiânia executadas pela Secretaria Municipal da Habitação,SMHAB, e da Agencia Goiana de Habitação, AGEHAB. Um compilação inédita detodos os residenciais criados de 1974 até 2012 completa o trabalho.Palavras-chave: Política de habitação. Habitação de interesse social.