Suchergebnisse

A reflexão aborda o exercício da censura contra dez trabalhos de artes da cena durante dois mandatos da Presidência da República Federativa do Brasil: o mandato do presidente popularmente chamado de "golpista" Michel Temer, entre 2016 e 2018; e o mandato do presidente popularmente conhecido como "genocida", Jair Bolsonaro, de 2018 a 2022. Destes mandatos, foram selecionados para a amostra os anos de 2017 e 2019. Estabelecido o recorte temporal, a descrição de uma série de dez casos de censura mostra como denúncias produzidas por alguns segmentos sociais brasileiros tiveram por consequência intervenções censoras realizadas por instituições públicas e privadas dos setores político e cultural. A reflexão se fundamenta na teoria benjaminiana, na teoria dos afetos e na noção sociológica de racismo multidimensional para compreender a ascensão do reacionarismo entre uma parcela da sociedade brasileira, incentivada pelo mandato golpista e posteriormente exacerbada pelo discurso de ódio do presidente genocida. Levando em conta a ideia de "sensologia" como lógica moderna de uma sensibilidade não espontânea e imediata, mas construída, este texto demonstra que, durante estes dois mandatos presidenciais as instituições políticas tornaram-se fonte incentivadora e mantenedora do ódio e outros afetos produzidos contra a arte e as/os artistas da cena no Brasil atual.

Esta reflexão toma três dispositivos analíticos: (a) o assassinato daativista indígena Berta Cáceres, no dia 2 de março de 2016 (Honduras); (b) aprisão da líder indígena Milagro Sala, em 16 de Janeiro de 2016 (Argentina);e (c) o assassinato da vereadora e militante Marielle Franco, no dia 14 demarço de 2018 (Brasil), para pensar a constituição de uma bionecropolíticagenderizada que tem nas relações étnico-raciais um elemento central queproduz e legitima o extermínio de mulheres. O objetivo é entender comodiagramas de poder são forjados e operam uma bionecropolítica genderizadana América Latina.

Housing quality is a well-established determinant for health and its relevance has been increasing in the context of sustainable development. Prior research has emphasized the importance of adequate housing for the health and comfort of householders. However, this link is still poorly characterized and understood regarding the vulnerable segments of the population. In this study, a mediation analysis is proposed to test and identify the role of energy affordability in the relationship between poor housing and health status. It resorts to microdata from the European Union-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database, focusing on the analysis of Portugal as the case study. Research findings confirm the role of energy affordability as a mediator. The research findings supported the energy efficiency as a direct pathway with protective and preventive effect for poor health, followed by energy affordability as a mediated or indirect pathway. A complementary approach that addresses energy efficiency and energy poverty should be pursued to maximize health risk reduction.

A partir da teoria crítica e literária, o artigo apresenta as escolas de samba do Grupo Especial do Rio de Janeiro como organismos dinâmicos que vivem suas próprias contradições. Contra perspectivas míticas ou românticas, a noção de "escola de samba" considera sua origem histórica em zonas de exclusão social e sua aceitação e cooptação por forças econômicas e midiáticas, contradições evidenciadas na relação entre os sentidos de alguns enredos e aquilo que suas comunidades afirmam. Mesmo que questões econômicas e de produção limitem por vezes o escopo temático e de desenvolvimento dos elementos artísticos dos desfiles carnavalescos, em 2018 algumas escolas produziram enredos políticos de protesto que impactaram debates sociais da atualidade nacional - em especial, o golpe de Estado de 2016. O artigo atravessa enredos da Unidos da Tijuca (1982), Império Serrano (1982, 1986), Mangueira (1988), Vila Isabel (1990), Paraíso do Tuiuti (2018) e Beija-Flor (1989, 1990, 2018).

As the threat of climate change becomes increasingly acknowledged, it becomes more evident that past and current unsustainable energy consumption patterns cannot be pursued or maintained. In order to address this challenging goal for policy makers across the globe, development of decomposition techniques have been widely undertaken, regarding both variations in energy and CO2 emissions. This study aims to promote a cross-country assessment of main energy-related emission drivers, resorting to an approach that diferenciates the contribution of RES and nuclear energy for overall carbon emissions. It resorts to a Log-Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) decomposition approach to enable disaggregation of Kaya identity function into main energy-related emission drivers. As main common emission drivers, energy intensity (Cint), affluence (Cypc) and penetration of RES (Crepe) constitute areas that require a more immediate action by energy policy decision makers. Thus, "extended" decomposition approach has enabled to identify key drivers for CO2 emissions, accounting for the contribution of all fuel alternatives – both renewable and non-renewable, including nuclear energy. ; This research was supported by a Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Fellowship within the 7th European Union Framework Programme, under project NETEP- European Brazilian Network on Energy Planning ...

Portugal has seen in recent years an increased growth of wind farm's deployment in its northern region, in accordance with national legal framework and current energy policies. The majority of existing academic studies focusing on impacts (benefits or costs) resulting from deployment of this technology, mainly addressee these aspects from a global point of view. Notwithstanding wind power projects have also been associated with significant impacts directly affecting local communities where these projects were implemented. This paper aims to identify such local impacts, reflecting local community's perspective through the use of interviews. A comparative analysis of the reported impacts and the way they are being perceived by the local stakeholders, with the results from previous studies on the topic was attempted. Results demonstrated that the majority of interviewees did not point out disadvantages significantly altering their quality of life, revealing a consensual acceptance of benefits from these projects. The major importance of this sort of energy investments and of associated benefits was recognized. Revenues attributed to Communal Land Commission, in charge of managing the land destined to wind farm deployment, were perceived as highly favourable, allowing to answer local community's needs. ; This work was financed by: the QREN – Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors, the European Union – European Regional Development Fund and National Funds- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under Project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-011377 and Project ...

Wind power projects, despite comparatively to conventional energy sources being considered cleaner alternatives, are not devoid of side effects requiring accurate assessment in order to attain a sustainably managed process. This paper presents a detailed overview of the most pertinent environmental and human effects of wind farms, encompassing Landscape and visual effect; Shadow flicker effect; Electromagnetic interferences; Noise emission; Wildlife; Land occupation and usage; Water resources; Air quality and Carbon footprint; Socio-economic; Architectural or archeological patrimony impact perceptions. Impact management schemes (IMS) are proposed in order to expose strategies to effectively reduce identified negative outcomes, throughout the different phases of implementation of wind power projects. The IMS can give an important contribute to mitigate expected negative impacts and to avoid practices that might adversely influence community's perception. ; This work was financed by: the QREN Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors, the European Union - European Regional Development Fund and National Funds – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under Project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-011377 and Project ...

As the threat of climate change becomes increasingly acknowledged, it becomes more evident that past and current unsustainable energy consumption patterns cannot be pursued or maintained. In order to help policy makers across the globe to address this challenging goal, decomposition techniques have been applied to identify the main drivers of changes in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. This study presents a cross-country assessment of main energy- related CO2 emission drivers for Portugal, United Kingdom, Brazil and China, resorting to an approach that differentiates the contribution of all fuel alternatives – both renewable and non-renewable, including nuclear energy. The results obtained have shown the relevance of energy intensity and affluence effects as well as RES contribution as main emission drivers which means that their relationships constitute areas that require a more immediate action by energy policy decision-makers. In terms of policy implications, it seems clear that Brazil and Portugal need to focus on measures improving energy efficiency whereas China and UK need to prioritize issues regarding the weight of non-renewable energy sources in their energy mix. Another important implication is the need to promote synergies within the energy sector, regarding energy security, climate change and pollution mitigation goals. ; This research was supported by a Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Fellowship within the 7th European Union Framework Programme, under project NETEP- European Brazilian Network on Energy Planning (PIRSES-GA-2013-612263) and by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013. Support from CNPq is also ...

Although a cornerstone for development, past and current energy uses have often posed a major challenge for policy makers regarding energy planning and management. Within this context, in this paper an updated multi-sectorial cross-country assessment of energy consumption trends was undertaken, contributing to existing literature and to the public debate over policy efforts towards sustainable development of the energy sector. This cross-country assessment encompasses a set of developed and emerging countries (United Kingdom, Portugal, Brazil and China). Resorting to a Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI), aggregate energy consumption was decomposed into three main explanatory effects: activity, structure and intensity. The major findings achieved reflect the relevance of intensity and activity effects in detriment of structural effect, since for all countries the main variations have been associated to both overall activity and intensity effect. Assessment of energy consumption trends through decomposition lens provides critical information regarding which is the dominant factor that should be focused during policy design, in order to improve overall energy consumption. ; This research was supported by a Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Fellowship within the 7th European Union Framework Programme, under project NETEP- European Brazilian Network on Energy Planning ...

Although a cornerstone for development, past and current energy use has often posed a major challenge for policymakers with respect to planning and management. Within this context, in this paper an updated multi-sectorial cross-country assessment of energy consumption trends was undertaken, aiming at identifying the main drivers of changes in aggregate energy consumption. These drivers have been interpreted in the light of the policy measures that have been implemented over the years by different countries to achieve a sustainable development of the energy sector. The cross-country assessment encompasses a set of developed (United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain) and emerging (Brazil, China, and India) countries. Resorting to the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) decomposition method, changes in the aggregate energy consumption were decomposed into three main explanatory effects: activity, structure and intensity. The major findings achieved reflect the relevance of intensity and activity effects in detriment of the structural effect. The assessment of energy consumption trends using the LMDI decomposition method provides critical information regarding which is the dominant factor that should be focused in policy design. ; This research was supported by a Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Fellowship within the 7th European Union Framework Programme, under project NETEP-European Brazilian Network on Energy Planning (PIRSES-GA-2013-612263). Support from CNPq is also acknowledged, as well as the support of ALGORITMI, a research Centre at the University of Minho. This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: ...

This study estimated a series of indicators to assess the energy security of supply and global and local environmental impacts under different mitigation scenarios through 2050 in Brazil, designed with the integrated optimisation energy system model MESSAGE-BRAZIL. The assessment of interactions between environmental impacts and energy security dimensions was complemented through the application of life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Overall results imply energy security establishes more synergies than trade-offs in increasingly stringent mitigation scenarios, especially patent within the sustainability dimension, which increases energy security and provides additional benefits regarding climate change mitigation and air pollution emissions. It is still necessary to extend analysis to other energy sectors in addition to the power supply sector, to promote a better understanding of repercussions of energy scenario expansion in energy security. ; This work was funded by the Brazilian research funding agencies CNPq and CAPES, under the Science Without Borders Programme, and the Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Fellowship within the 7th European Union Framework Programme, under the project NETEP- European Brazilian Network on Energy Planning (PIRSES-GA-2013-612263). We also acknowledge funding from US EPA and US AID (under Interagency Agreements DW89923040 and DW89923951US), through the LAMP, and the European Union, through the CLIMACAP project ...