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The purpose of this article is to map the scientific literature on the topic environmental uncertainty in international databases ProQuest and EBSCO providing results on the state of the art of this subject and the characteristics of scientific papers published. The method used was bibliometrics, being investigated 97 items from a universe of 1.194. All of the works comprised the period from 1975 to 2010. The results suggest that: a) during the period examined different social networks of researchers and institutions were formed to study this issue, b) the work of Duncan (1972), although it's been nearly four decades of its publication, it continues to influence the formulation variables for the measurement of environmental uncertainty, and c) the research on environmental uncertainty has received over the years other terminologies and methodologies. It was observed that the studies were applied in various business segments, always aiming to minimize the environmental turbulence and thereby maximizing organizational results. This research also revealed that the way to measure them cannot be normalized, since each segment is facing a different environment several variables (customers, suppliers, competitors, society, politics, government actions, among others). ; O objetivo deste artigo é mapear a produção científica sobre o tema incerteza ambiental nas bases de dados internacionais ProQuest e EBSCO, fornecendo resultados sobre o assunto, bem como as características dos trabalhos científicos já publicados. O método utilizado foi a bibliometria, sendo investigados 97 artigos de um universo de 1.194. Os trabalhos analisados compreenderam o período de 1975 a 2010. Os resultados sugerem que: a) durante o período analisado, diversas redes sociais de pesquisadores e instituições se formaram para estudar esse tema; b) o trabalho de Ducan (1972), embora tenham se passado quase quatro décadas da sua publicação, continua influenciando a formulação de variáveis para a mensuração da incerteza ambiental; e c) a pesquisa sobre incerteza ambiental recebeu, no decorrer dos anos, outras terminologias e metodologias. Observou-se que os estudos foram aplicados nos mais diversos segmentos empresariais, sempre objetivando minimizar as turbulências ambientais e com isso maximizar os resultados organizacionais. Esta pesquisa revelou, ainda, que a forma para a sua mensuração não pode ser normatizada, visto que cada segmento se depara com um ambiente diferente e com variáveis diversas (clientes, fornecedores, concorrentes, sociedade, política, ações governamentais, entre outras).

Italy was a participating country in the People's Health Movement multi-centred action-research project (Civil Society Engagement for Health for All). The Italian team, a collective named Grup-pa, undertook several participatory action-research activities including, in a first phase, a mapping of groups active in fields linked to the social determination of health and health promotion, through individual and collective interviews. In a second phase, three public workshops, structured around the exchange of practices, focused on key themes emerged from phase one. A major construct originated from this work, centred around the co-construction of experiential knowledge on health as a commons, has been named 'health commons practices'. The focus on practices is not merely strategic (producing synergies and alliances), but inherently political (conceiving participation as a value) and connected to health and staying healthy (as individuals; as a community). The construct of 'health commons practices' is meant to make visible an area of ongoing transformations in new spaces created by movements and in more traditional actions in defence of existing public services, addressing health as a socio-political issue. In this essay, we sketch the reflection around six keywords that are central to it: commons, care, technology, efficacy, sustainability, institution.