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RESUMO Este artigo utiliza a estrutura da Teoria do Crescimento Endógeno para examinar as perspectivas de longo prazo da economia brasileira. Estudamos o comportamento dessas variáveis identificadas pela teoria como centrais para o desenvolvimento. O artigo argumenta que o desempenho do sistema educacional brasileiro é ruim, mesmo para os padrões da América Latina. Ainda existem muitas restrições de mercado e outras barreiras ao comércio e à adoção de tecnologia. Os serviços e investimentos em infraestrutura são deficientes e o sistema tributário muito concentrado e distorcido. Portanto, embora esses fatores persistam, não é provável que o país cresça a taxas sustentáveis comparáveis às experimentadas duas décadas atrás. No entanto, a privatização dos setores de infraestrutura pode estimular um boom temporário à medida que o investimento aumenta para satisfazer a demanda reprimida.

This article uses the endogenous growth theory framework to examine long term prospects of the Brazilian economy. It is argued that Brazil's educational system performance is poor even compared with Latin American standards. There are still too many market restrictions and other barriers to trade and technology. Infrastructure services and investments are deficient and the tax system is too unbalanced and complicated. Hence, while these factors persist, is not likely that the country's economy will grow at rates comparable to those experienced two decades ago. (Rev Econ Polit/DÜI)

Metacity launched the challenge of reflecting on the 'implicit' and mostly 'invisible' drivers that influence urban transformation. The call asked participants to explore the nexus between scientific knowledge, political and economic actors and social mobilization in the production of contemporary urban space. Questions were raised: What concepts, methods and fields of knowledge – instituted or to be established – can and will inform urban development theory(s) and practice(s) in the near future? What types of urban knowledge are still considered legitimate and what is their relevance? How public policies, governance practices and development strategies had change cities and how can we re-think these instruments? What, after all, is the effective importance of political and social mobilization of urban scientists and technicians in the process of "making cities"? We were pleased to received several contributions from different disciplines and geographies that have shown these are cross-cutting issues on a global scale. Some of these contributions were collected in this book and we will briefly present their main subjects. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Research in the field of Global Environmental Governance (GEG) pays considerable attention to the emergence of New Governance Mechanisms (NGM). This doesn't only mean the involvement of a growing number of non-state actors but also of new state actors, corresponding to new ways of participation. In this regard, NGM poses profound challenges to governments and institutions in the Developed and Developing world alike. This article seeks to advance the debates on GEG by analysing fairness and equity implications in participatory processes that led to the development of innovative governance mechanisms in Brazil, which may have influenced the elaboration of its intended Nationally Determined Contribution (iNDC). Given the fact that the social dimension is at the heart of Brazil's climate adaptation and mitigation strategies and bearing in mind the need to institutionalize the protection of vulnerable from the negative effects of climate change and strength their resilience, a relevant aspect is evident. Brazil, as a transitional economy, could provide insights into environmental governance schemes as well as influence the policy-making process in others developing nations. We believe that existing local, regional and global governance mechanisms in Brazil, explore keyfactors associated with public perception, awareness, ethics, justice, innovation and risk management, which are ultimately important to address normative implications related to the climate negotiations and international relations as Brazil's iNDC commits to strength the country's adaptation capacity and proactively assess climate related risks. But how fairness and equity are really addressed in the country?

Este artigo objetiva compreender um evento da cultura popular e do folclore como evento discursivo, especialmente o bumba meu boi, orientado para uma forma de manifestação social, constitutiva de um sistema de conhecimentos e crenças. Na contemporaneidade há uma massificação cultural, que subordina manifestações historicamente construídas, de caráter popular, à dinâmica mercadológica da indústria cultural. Assim, torna-se importante pensar o significado desse processo, bem como realizar uma análise crítica de discurso da narrativa deste folguedo, a fim de compreendê-lo como interpelado por valores e atitudes protagonizadas por sujeitos em um cotidiano marcado pelas relações de poder. Busca-se, neste artigo, uma análise desse acontecimento como evento discursivo, através da visão crítico-discursiva de Norman Fairclough.

The Bologna Process aimed to build a European Higher Education Area with the objective of promoting students mobility. The adoption of Bologna Declaration directives requires a decentralized approach that accelerates student's mobility, based on frequently updated legislation. This paper proposes a student personal system to manage student's academic information. This system is supported by a flexible model that integrates, for instance, knowledge about the student attended courses or about a course that the student wishes to apply. Essentially, this model holds a (i) Student's Academic Record with skills acquired in academic course units, professional experience or training and an (ii) Individual Studies Plan, which places the student in a particular (iii) Course Plan setting the curricular structure that the student wishes to apply.

Part 1 Introduction -- 1 The Knowledge-Implementation Gap in Conservation Science -- Part 2 The Knowledge Production Or Co-Production -- 2 Biodiversity Monitoring and the Role of Scientists in the 21st Century -- 3 Closing the Conservation Genetics Gap: Integrating Genetic Knowledge in Conservation Management to Ensure Evolutionary Potential -- 4 Publicly generated data: the role of Citizen-Science for knowledge production, action, and public engagement -- 5 Global Overview of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Implementation in National Conservation Agendas -- Part 3 The Knowledge Mediation Sphere -- 6 The Knowledge Network: Identifying Actors and Structural Dimensions of Knowledge Transfer -- 7 Communication: The bridge between knowledge and implementation -- 8 Making an impact: how to design relevant and usable decision support systems for conservation -- Part 4 The Knowledge-Action Outcome(s) -- 9 The use of boundary-spanning organizations to bridge the knowledge-action gap in North America -- 10 Progress and gaps in biodiversity data mainstreaming and knowledge transfer for conservation in South America -- 11 Conservation Science in Africa: Mainstreaming Biodiversity Information into Policy and Decision-making -- 12 The Marine Conservation Landscape in Europe: Knowledge Support to Policy Implementation and Conservation Action -- 13 Translating research into wildlife conservation actions through multi-sector collaboration in tropical Asia -- 14 Environmental knowledge exchange in Australia and Oceania: how researchers and practitioners are working together to bring change -- Part 5 Synthesis -- 15 Closing the gap between knowledge and implementation in conservation science: concluding remarks.

Twitter has become a commonly used platform by both public and private organizations to assist with the dissemination of information related to disaster management. This research makes use of a mixed‐method approach in determining the extent and manner in which Twitter is used to disseminate disaster management information by both public and private organizations. This research found that public organizations are bound by strict regulations resulting in a lower volume and smaller variety of disaster‐related information being disseminated. The nature of an organization and the processes of decision making therein are suggested to influence the ability of an organization to successfully use Twitter as an effective tool for disaster management. Organizations in Thailand currently underutilize Twitter for disaster management, as neither public nor private organizations use Twitter as a multidirectional communication disaster management tool.

Odour nuisance is an ignored environmental problem, an invisible face of air quality analysis and monitoring in Portugal. Local and governmental authorities have been receiving odour complaints, but only in recent years this issue is seen as a growing concern and not just a matter of licensing and inspection. This fact and the lack of specific ambient air odour regulation in Portugal originated a bottom up approach focused on citizens and their contribution to a more comprehensive analysis. Despite the existence of odour measuring instruments, the human nose is a universal sensor with higher sensitivity that allows to assess the impact of discomfort on sensitive receptors. From this point of view, a sensorial method has been conducted with community neighbours of an odour emission source as an integrative approach to the problem and a complementary vector to a quantitative analysis. The human nose used as a "tool", allows to address the issue instantly and at a local level, which is not always possible with other methodologies, even in situations where the detection limit is reduced and therefore not measurable with certain equipment. It should be noted that this olfactory evaluations are the ones responsible for triggering formal complaints to the authorities whether it is the National Guard, the municipality or the environmental regulators. But the lack of a unified form to register the complaints is a mandatory issue to help addressing the correct odour sources and better understand the problem. So, this sensorial approach also aims to develop a tool to aggregate the needed elements to a valid form, to ensure that the complaints can be verified and validated. This would help to make a comparison and create a record history database, at the odour emitter level or at local and national scale. The results obtained with this approach have led to the application of several actions such as the real knowledge of the problem from an industrial operator perspective, inclusion of public stakeholders, and the design and ...