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Krajnc, Anita. "Green learning, the role of scientists and the environmental movement." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ59060.pdf.
Full textTopalian, Teny. "The role of science and scientists in marine environmental policy and management." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539616878.
Full textRibeiro, Duarte Tiago. "Expertise and the fractal model : communication and collaboration between climate-change scientists." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/49632/.
Full textThill, Zackery. "Rights Holders, Stakeholders, and Scientists: A Political Ecology of Ambient Environmental Monitoring in Alberta, Canada." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23767.
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Simmons, Erica (Erica Kathleen). "Communicating science amid environmental controversy : how scientists interact with policy in the San Francisco Bay-Delta." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81644.
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In controversies over environmental management, participants often call for policies based on the best available science. However, environmental controversies are rarely simply disputes over scientific knowledge; instead, they are driven by stakeholders' conflicting interests and values. In this context, science often becomes a part of the political dispute, used and interpreted differently by different actors in the policy process. Scientists, therefore, face the challenge of communicating their research to non-scientific audiences-such as stakeholders, policy makers, and the general public-in a highly politicized context. This essay examines how scientists perceive their role in the policy process and how they navigate the intersection of science and policy in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, a region that has been the site of decades of scientific research and controversy over environmental management. This essay examines three cases: the CALFED Science Program, which built a policy-neutral body of research to support a collaborative planning process in the Bay-Delta that began in 2000; the interdisciplinary Bay- Delta policy reports which scientists from the University of California, Davis and the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) have published from 2007 to 2013 in reaction to policy failures; and a series of radio stories and interactive web maps that the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) produced in 2012 with KQED, a San-Francisco-based public media station, to communicate their research to a general California audience. These cases show how scientists in the Bay-Delta have struggled with the tension between communicating their research in a way that is salient to policy discussions and maintaining their legitimacy within scientific and policy communities. They also show an increasing political sophistication among scientists in the Bay- Delta as they have continued to engage in the policy process and an expanding scale of engagement, from working directly with the policy community to communicating about Bay- Delta ecology and policy with the general public. These approaches, while different, complement each other, demonstrating how scientists can communicate their research in a variety of ways depending on their relationship to the policy community.
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Burchell, Kevin. "Talking to scientists : the role of scientific knowledge in environmental policy-making : a case study in biotechnology and genetics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421915.
Full textHaddad, Hebba. "Dynamics of communicating climate change information : using mixed methods to examine the perspectives of scientists, communicators and publics." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16883.
Full textMiller, Gilbert David. "Scientists, Uncertainty and Nature, An Analysis of the Development, Implementation and Unintended Consequences of the Northwest Forest Plan." Thesis, Portland State University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13807499.
Full textThe conflict in the Pacific Northwest between competing visions of how federal forests should be managed resulted in a political stalemate in the early 1990s. The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) was initiated to resolve the demands for maintaining ecosystem processes and biological diversity with the social and economic needs for timber harvest. The foundation for the plan rested with the development of ecosystem management. The intent of this research is to explore the events which led up to the adoption of the NWFP, how it was implemented by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and the subsequent reactions to and consequences of the plan.
The primary research consisted of thirty-eight semi-structured interviews with individuals responsible for the development of the initial plan, those tasked with implementing the plan and current federal agency personnel from the land management agencies and regulatory agencies. With the use of thematic analysis, key meanings were captured as expressed by the interviewees. The data was analyzed using institutional theory, capturing the organizational relations within the organizational field of the land management agencies.
Research findings suggest that the NWFP was unsuccessful in meeting the goal of addressing the social and economic issues as well as the goals for ecosystem management. This dissertation explores the organizational practices and cultural meanings that led to the final instantiation of the plan. It seeks to shed light on the reasons why these goals were not met and how future forest plans can move beyond the current stalemate between conservation and preservation.
Thomsen, Dana Christine, and n/a. "Community-Based Research: An Opportunity for Collaboration and Social Change." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050323.174017.
Full textThomsen, Dana Christine. "Community-Based Research: An Opportunity for Collaboration and Social Change." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366287.
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Pessis, Céline. "Défendre la terre. Scientifiques critiques et mobilisations environnementales des années 1940 aux années 1970." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0019.
Full textAt the crossroads of the history of science and technology, environmental history and thehistory of social movements, this thesis aims to make voices voices against the industrialization ofstill largely rural France heard again, in various fields of science (mainly mathematics, agronomyand natural sciences). I analyse the moral economies, epistemic cultures and alternative researchprogrammes carried out by these critical scientists, as well as the social movements for or throughwhich they manage to constitute themselves as critical resources.This research documents the cognitive and normative work of scientists aimed at constitutingthe earth as an object to be defended during the so-called "Thirty Glorious Years" period (that is, asa biological environment, a cultivated space, a habitable planet; the material anchoring of ruralsocieties and the basic condition of human existence), in the face of a dominant regime of‘modernization’ and of production of technoscientific knowledge under the aegis of a modernizingState. Through the study of three types of issues (tractors, soil depletion, and the threat of globaldestruction of the planet), this thesis shed light on a set of socio-environmental warnings,knowledge, controversies and strugles. It therefore adds to a new historiographic perspective thatrevisits the myth of a happy and consensual modernization, paying little attention to the damages itgenerated
Turner, Michael. "ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST II INTERNSHIP WITH SHAW ENVIRONMENTAL AND INFRASTRUCTURE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1339436469.
Full textPitts, Dennis R. "Learning about Scientists in a Gender-Equitable, Multimedia Environment." NSUWorks, 1999. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/773.
Full textChicoine, Geneviève. "Citizen-scientist partnerships, a step toward community-based environmental management?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ36412.pdf.
Full textSommers, Angela Kay. "Reporting on the Environment: Scientists Evaluate Coverage of Ground Water Pollution." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292135.
Full textGabel, James M. M. D. "ONE SCIENTIST'S EFFORTS TO PREVENT CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin992270458.
Full textSantoni, Simone <1983>. "Institutional pluralism within science-based firms: a scientist-environment fit perspective." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/3884/.
Full textFehr, Ben Steven. "The Multifaceted Nature of Consulting: My Experience as an Environmental Scientist at Amec Foster Wheeler." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1513799359516965.
Full textCondron, Linda S. "Tales of women in science and technology : how women computer scientists in engineering environments experience their professions /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148794815862573.
Full textSiatri, Ourania. "Information seeking in an emerging electronic environment : a study of academic computer scientists in British and Greek universities." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437685.
Full textEllery, William. "The landscape holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask : perspectives of an environmental scientist." Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018944.
Full textWikgren, Brooke C. "A Report: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Intern and Assistant Scientist with the Marine GIS Research Group at the New England Aquarium." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1290124556.
Full textVirtanen, M. (Mari). "The development of ubiquitous 360° learning environment and its effects on students’ satisfaction and histotechnological knowledge." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2018. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526218298.
Full textTiivistelmä Yhteiskunnan digitalisoituessa, koulutuksen rakenteiden muuttuessa ja resurssien tiukentuessa avointen oppimisympäristöjen kehittäminen korkeakouluopetuksen tarpeisiin on välttämätöntä. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli kehittää ubiikki oppimisympäristö (ULE) histoteknologian opetukseen ja arvioida sen vaikutuksia bioanalyytikko-opiskelijoiden tyytyväisyyteen ja tietoon histoteknologiasta. Tavoitteena oli tuottaa uutta tietoa, jota voidaan hyödyntää kehitettäessä tulevaisuuden oppimisympäristöjä ja arvioitaessa 360o -tekniikan laajempaa hyödyntämistä koulutuksen eri osa-alueilla. Tutkimus eteni kahdessa vaiheessa: oppimisympäristön kehittäminen ja sen vaikuttavuuden arviointi. Ensimmäisessä vaiheessa määritettiin ULE:n kriteerit kartoittavan kirjallisuuskatsauksen menetelmällä ja kuvattiin niiden käyttöä korkeakouluopetuksessa. Tämän perusteella kehitettiin ULE:n ensimmäinen versio, histoteknologian (HT) opetukseen, jota käytettiin pilottitutkimuksessa. Koeryhmä (n= 29) opiskeli ULE:ssa ja vertailuryhmä (n=28) perinteisessä verkko-oppimisympäristössä (WLE). Aineisto kerättiin sähköisellä kyselyllä opetuksen jälkeen ja analysoitiin tilastollisesti. Tutkimuksen toisessa vaiheessa arvioitiin ULE:n vaikuttavuutta opiskelijoiden tietoon histoteknologiasta (n=115) sekä tyytyväisyyttä (n=112) oppimisympäristön käyttöön. Aineistot kerättiin kvasikokeellisella asetelmalla bioanalyytikko-opiskelijoilta ennen ja jälkeen opetuksen. Aineistot analysoitiin tilastollisesti. Kartoittava katsaus osoitti ULE:n vähäisen käytön korkeakouluopetuksessa. Tärkeimmiksi kriteereiksi osoittautuivat joustavuus, tilannesidonnaisuus, personoidut toiminnot ja interaktiivisuus. Näitä ominaisuuksia painotettiin kehitystyössä ja arvioitiin molemmissa vaiheissa. Pilottitutkimuksen tulosten perusteella joustavuus, tilannesidonnaisuus ja personoidut toiminnot nähtiin positiivisina, kehitettävää interaktiivisuudessa, jonka perusteella ULE:a optimoitiin varsinaista tutkimusta varten. Tulosten mukaan opiskelijat olivat erittäin tyytyväisiä ULE:n käyttöön ja heidän osaamisensa vahvistui merkittävästi. Tulosten perusteella kehitysprosessi todettiin tehokkaaksi ja luotettavaksi. Prosessi kuvattiin järjestelmällisesti ja läpinäkyvästi. Tulosten perusteella suositellaan kehittämistyön ja optimoinnin jatkamista, jonka jälkeen ULE voidaan liittää osaksi bioanalytiikan HT opintoja ja opetussuunnitelmaa
Kovalčikienė, Kristina. "The importance of psychological, social and academic environmental factors for postgraduate (doctoral) students’ professional identity expression." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140930_121057-39775.
Full textDaktaro disertacijoje analizuojama Lietuvos doktorantų profesinio identiteto daugialypiškumo problematika. Darbe keliama prielaida, kad psichologiniai, socialiniai ir akademinės aplinkos veiksniai gali paaiškinti doktorantų profesinio identiteto raišką, kurią stebime per atliekamus profesinius vaidmenis: tyrėjo-mokslininko, dėstytojo ir visuomeninių paslaugų teikėjo/praktiko. Disertacijos teorinėje dalyje pristatoma identiteto reiškinio terminijos problematika, profesinio identiteto sampratos aiškinimas integruojant identiteto ir socialinio identiteto teorijas, doktoranto profesinio identiteto formavimosi ypatumai per karjeros konstravimo teorijos prizmę, doktoranto profesinį identitetą lemiančių veiksnių analizė sistemų teorijos kontekste, pateikiamas teorinis tyrimo modelis. Empirinėje darbo dalyje pristatomi 2013 m. atliktos Lietuvos doktorantų apklausos rezultatai. Tyrimo imtis – 494 doktorantai iš 22 aukštojo mokslo institucijų Lietuvoje. Tyrimo rezultatų analizė atskleidė, kad tam tikri doktorantų asmenybės bruožai bei mąstymo stiliai, subjektyviai suvokiamas palaikymas iš skirtingų socialinių šaltinių (mokslinio vadovo, kolegų ir kitų studentų, šeimos ir draugų, darbdavio) bei akademinės aplinkos veiksniai (darbo sąlygos bei mokslo sritis) turi reikšmę doktorantų identifikacijai su skirtingais profesiniais vaidmenimis. Kompleksinis veiksnių sąveikos įvertinimas atskleidė, kad doktorantų profesinio identiteto raiškai tam tikri veiksniai yra svarbūs netiesiogiai, o per... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
Yost, Elizabeth Allyne. "Where have all the women gone? exploring gender differences in STEM postdoctoral education /." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009r/yost.pdf.
Full textGerhardt, Cleyton Henrique. "Pesquisadores, popula??es locais e ?reas protegidas: entre a instabilidade dos lados e a multiplicidade estrutural das posi??es." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2008. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/731.
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The relationship between local populations and protected areas has been an extremely controversial issue. However, this divergences also extend to the scientific domain, mobilizing the attention of scientists, who are interested both in researching specific aspects and in interfering in public policies related to this issue. If there is indeed a general agreement among specialists, then it is about the fact that the discursive context of this issue is marked by dissension, polyphony and by fierce academic dialogues. Bearing this in mind, I observed this controversial world reflected in the relationships among the scientists who, by operating in the frontiers of political action and scientific research, got involved in this debate. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first part, some interpretative similarities and dissimilarities between authors are analysed and described based on their publications. As I intend to show, antagonisms, oppositions, divergences, but also alliances, agreements and convergences generate, within a wider strength balance marked by different identity/alterity levels, a permanently unstable and inconsistent structural environment. The second part is also divided into two distinct chapters. In the first chapter, I worked on fragments of different social trajectories and life experiences reported by 33 researchers I had the opportunity to interview, which allowed an insight into an extremely heterogeneous set regarding the paths they followed. In the last chapter, I present their observations, reflections, assessments and criticism on some aspects related to policies that target local populations and protected areas.
A rela??o entre popula??es locais e ?reas protegidas ? tema hoje extremamente controvertido no ?mbito cient?fico, mobilizando a aten??o de cientistas interessados tanto em pesquisar quest?es espec?ficas como em interferir em pol?ticas p?blicas a ele direcionadas. Se h? um consenso entre especialistas, ? que estamos diante de um contexto discursivo caracterizado pelo dissenso, pela polifonia e por ?cidos di?logos acad?micos. Diante disso, passei a observar esse universo controvertido que marca a rela??o entre cientistas que, atuando nas fronteiras da a??o pol?tica e da pesquisa cient?fica, se envolveram com este debate. Como tentei mostrar, oposi??es, diverg?ncias, mas, tamb?m, alian?as e converg?ncias geram, dentro de um equil?brio de for?as marcado por planos de identidade/alteridade distintos, um ambiente estrutural inst?vel. Dividi a tese em duas partes. Na primeira, problematizo e descrevo, a partir das suas respectivas publica??es cient?ficas, encontros e desencontros interpretativos protagonizados pelos autores. A segunda parte traz dois cap?tulos. No primeiro, trabalhei com fragmentos de diferentes trajet?rias sociais e experi?ncias de vida relatadas por 33 pesquisadores que tive a oportunidade de entrevistar, o que permitiu visualizar um quadro extremamente heterog?neo quanto ?s trilhas por eles percorridas. No ?ltimo cap?tulo apresento suas observa??es, reflex?es, avalia??es e cr?ticas sobre alguns aspectos relacionados ?s pol?ticas direcionadas ?s popula??es locais e ?reas protegidas. Ao final, al?m de apontar um inconveniente ?tico vinculado ? abordagem do estudo que realizei, reconecto alguns aspectos discutidos ao longo da tese com vistas a indicar o car?ter problem?tico que h? por tr?s da cristaliza??o de controv?rsias cient?ficas fortemente politizadas.
"Environmental Values, Objectivity, and Advocacy: A Sociological Study of Academic Environmental Scientists." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15140.
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M.S. Environmental Social Science 2012
Kirkendall, London Del. "The possibilities for and limitations on Chinese scientists' involvement in environmental policy-making." 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45010323.html.
Full textSprecker, Kimberly J. "Reader perceptions of the credibility of university scientists as sources of environmental news." 2001. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.
Full textSun, Jeffrey C. "Intellectual Freedom of Academic Scientists: Cases of Political Challenges Involving Federally Sponsored Research on National Environmental Policies." Thesis, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D85145B0.
Full textKierstead, Megan E. "Using Visual Media to Empower Citizen Scientists: A Case Study of the Outsmart App." 2019. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/839.
Full text(11799496), Alan Bowen-James. "Scientists, knowledge-formation and power: A study of scientific and political discourse in the formation of international environmental policy." Thesis, 1995. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Scientists_knowledge-formation_and_power_A_study_of_scientific_and_political_discourse_in_the_formation_of_international_environmental_policy/17132165.
Full textLemagie, Emily. "Communicating science : developing an exhibit with scientists and educators." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/25900.
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Chen, I.-Chun, and 陳怡君. "Scientism and Environmental Ethics in Science Fiction Films." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75114251356160810178.
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By Grounded on solid theoretical qualitative research, efforts were made in uncovering the relationship among the technological concept, environmental ethics, and human sustainability after viewing the 38 scientific fiction films (sci-fi movies) that won the 1972-2010 Saturn Awards. The related scientific and technology concept can be divided into two areas: technology can solve all kinds of problems, and the use of technology may also cause new problems. Science and technology to solve problems, including satisfaction of human dreams (Time Machine), dominate the world (strong force), the conquest of space (alien colonization), superb skills can combine machine and human, body repair, save lives; technology can resolve the major crisis, such as the asteroid impact and alien invasion, construction technology utopian world, mankind lived a carefree and do not let the lack of a perfect life. Technology creates new problems have led to serious environmental pollution and global warming, extreme weather anomalies, reduce biodiversity, overpopulation, lack of resources or uneven distribution, public unrest, such as corruption Science and technology can fulfill the dreams of mankind (Time Machine), dominate the world (strong force), and conquer space (alien colonization). Superb skill in medicine can repair human body, save lives via the combination of machine and body parts. Technology can resolve major crises, such as small planets hitting earth and alien invasion. Technology can build the ultimate utopian for mankind to lead a perfect carefree and adequate life. However, the use of technology accelerated new issues such as serious global warming, pollution, abnormal climate, biodiversity decreases, overpopulation, resource shortage and uneven distribution, and public unrest. All films presented human-centered environmental ethics. Human beings are considered owners of the natural world, who self-servingly meet their own needs in the exploitation of mineral, engage in arbitrary killing other species, pollute rivers, and arbitrarily discard waste. Some films (4) expanded its ethics beyond human beings to other living beings (life-centered ethics), showing their concerns on other living organisms, such as rescuing the small laboratory animals or showing sympathy to the fish being eaten. The one film that expanded into ecological-centered ethics is "Avatar". It displays its concern for the whole ecosystem, recognizes that human is part of the ecology, understands that energy flow needs the entire ecosystem and living beings to complete jointly, and shows its attitude in the prudent use of natural resources to ensure sustainability. Related to the crisis of sustainability, the films showed two angles, from outer space or from human behavior. Meteorite impact and alien invasion are from outer space. Those from human behaviors include "human-centered environmental ethics", "misuse of resources", and "Technology’s harm to the environment" which caused resource shortage, counterattack by intelligent machines, and environmental destruction. In all, the films suggest that the highly developed science and technology cannot guarantee the sustainability of human civilization, and the unjust use of environmental resources is the main cause of the demise of civilization. Only with the symbiosis of technology and ecology, the ethics of friendly care for the environment, and the pursuit of contemporary and intergenerational justice, can the sustainable development of human civilization be given a chance.
Frickel, Scott. "Disciplining environmentalism : opportunity structures, scientist activism, and the rise of genetic toxicology, 1941-1976 /." Diss., 2000. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.
Full textPeterson, Cheryl. "Mentored Engagement of Secondary Science Students, Plant Scientists, and Teachers in an Inquiry-Based Online Learning Environment." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11644.
Full text"Study of the scientific reasoning methods: Identifying the salient reasoning characteristics exhibited by engineers and scientists in an R&D environment." PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY, 2008. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3282285.
Full textLee, Mu-Chun, and 李牧蒓. "The Effects of a Scientist Conducted Environmental Education Program : A Study on the Summer Camp for Teachers at Chi-Lan Mountain Site." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09146754035689265154.
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This research is to explore the effects of a residential environmental education programs on the environmental literacy of teachers. In this research, the researcher used nonequivalent control-group design, with experimental group (n=50) and control group (n=61). Questionnaires were used in pre-test, post-test and follow-up test to explore the course immediate and sustained effect four months later. The results of covariance analysis show that environmental sensitivity, environmental responsibility, intention to conservation behavior, locus of control, environmental attitudes, environmental hope, and knowledge of environmental issues have been significantly improved. The T-tests show environmental sensitivity, environmental responsibility, locus of control, environmental hope and knowledge of environmental issues have persistent effects.
Nguyen, Thuy Lien. "Tone at The Top: The Influence of Ceo Personal Characteristics On Corporate Financial Reporting and Environmental Responsibility." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/120899.
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Rosa, Michel Fernandes da. "Os Atingidos de Belo Monte: experiências de sofrimento e agravos à saúde no contexto de um megaprojeto hidroelétrico na Amazônia brasileira." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/31193.
Full textA presente tese consiste em um estudo sociológico a partir do caso da Usina Hidroelétrica Belo Monte, em construção no Estado do Pará, na Amazônia brasileira. O objetivo deste estudo foi dedicar um olhar para a questão da saúde a partir da perspectiva das populações atingidas pelo megaprojeto hidroelétrico. O trabalho inicia com uma apresentação do histórico dos projetos de barramento do rio Xingu, em meados dos anos 1970. Dos primeiros estudos da bacia hidrográfica do Xingu até o início da obra de Belo Monte passaram-se aproximadamente trinta anos e, durante esse período, muitas polémicas e disputas envolveram as populações atingidas, políticos, intelectuais, artistas, cientistas, ativistas e movimentos sociais. Também é discutido nesta tese o modelo de desenvolvimento económico brasileiro, para se compreender como se dá a opção pela construção de grandes projetos de infraestrutura, como é o caso de Belo Monte. A partir dessa primeira abordagem ao megaprojeto, passo a dar ênfase à perspectiva das populações atingidas por Belo Monte. Para tanto, foi necessário, primeiramente, conhecer melhor o universo de populações atingidas, compostas por populações urbanas, rurais, comunidades ribeirinhas e indígenas. Através do trabalho empírico realizado em Brasília/DF e Altamira/PA, foi possível conhecer e reconhecer a diversidade dessas populações e, assim identificar algumas questões importantes que não foram objeto de debate com o poder público e o empreendedor. É o que Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2006) chama de produções de não existência, ou invisibilidades. A utilização da matriz teórica das epistemologias do Sul (Santos, 2002) permitiu o reconhecimento dessas invisibilidades, isto é, permitiu ver como as alterações no ambiente e nos modos de vidas das populações atingidas por Belo Monte afetam a saúde e a qualidade de vida destas. É a partir dessa lente que se dedica o olhar para a saúde das populações atingidas, e a problematização dessa questão é realizada nesta tese tendo como protagonistas as próprias populações atingidas. Assim foi identificado como um dos problemas relevantes decorrentes da construção da Usina Hidroelétrica Belo Monte a relação entre o sofrimento sentido pelas populações atingidas e o surgimento de agravos à saúde. O sofrimento difuso é um conceito desenvolvido por Valla (2001) que será discutido nesta tese na medida em que é constatado como uma consequência de Belo Monte invisibilizada. Isto porque não foi previsto ou discutido como uma possibilidade, nem no Estudo de Impacto Ambiental (EIA), nem no seu respectivo Relatório de Impacto Ambiental (Rima). Também não foi percebido como uma situação merecedora de atenção por parte do órgão fiscalizador responsável pela conceção das licenças que permitiram Belo Monte ser construída, o Ibama. Ainda, a relação entre o sofrimento e os agravos à saúde das populações atingidas não foi alvo de políticas públicas na área da saúde pública. Dessa forma, pretende este trabalho contribuir para a discussão sobre a saúde das populações atingidas pelo megaprojeto Belo Monte, a partir do reconhecimento das populações atingidas como detentoras e produtoras de conhecimento relevante. ~This thesis consists of a sociological study from the case of Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant, under construction in the State of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. The aim of this study was to dedicate a look at the issue of health from the perspective of the people affected by hydroelectric megaproject. The work begins with a presentation of the history of the Xingu River dam projects in the mid-1970s From the first studies of the watershed of the Xingu to the early work of Belo Monte it took about thirty years and during this period, many controversies and disputes involving the populations concerned, politicians, intellectuals, artists, scientists, activists and social movements. It is also discussed in this thesis the Brazilian model of economic development, to understand how is the option for the construction of large infrastructure projects, such as the case of Belo Monte. From this first approach to megaproject, then I give emphasis to the perspective of populations affected by Belo Monte. Therefore, it was necessary, firstly, to know the universe of affected populations, composed of urban, rural populations, coastal communities and indigenous people. Through the empirical work done in Brasilia / DF and Altamira / PA, it was possible to know and recognize the diversity of these populations and thus identify some important issues that were not subject to discussion with the government and the entrepreneur. It's what Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2006) calls invisibilities. Using the theoretical framework of South epistemologies (Santos, 2002) allowed the recognition of these invisibilities, allowed to see how changes in the environment and ways of life of the populations affected by Belo Monte affect the health and quality of life of that people. It is from this lens that is dedicated to looking at the health of the populations, and the questioning of this issue is carried out in this thesis having as protagonists the affected populations themselves. Thus it was identified as one of the relevant issues arising from the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant the relationship between the suffering experienced by the affected populations and the emergence of health problems. The diffuse suffering is a concept developed by Valla (2001) which will be discussed in this thesis since it is found as a result of Belo Monte. This is because it was not planned or discussed as a possibility, or the Environmental Impact Study (EIA), or in their respective Environmental Impact Report (RIMA). It was also not perceived as a worthy position of attention by the supervisory body responsible for the design of the licenses that allowed Belo Monte is built, the Ibama. Also, the relationship between suffering and health problems of the affected population was not the target of public policies in the field of public health. Thus, this work aims to contribute to the discussion on the health of populations affected by Belo Monte mega-project, from the recognition of the people affected as having relevant knowledge.
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