Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Indice I Moran'

Es menester mencionar que la presente tesis forma parte del proyecto de investigación intitulado: “Desempleo juvenil por entidad federativa, 2005-2013”, que cuenta con registro ante la Secretaría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (clave: 3799/2014/CID) la cual financió dicha investigación. Este proyecto se encuentra en el marco de la línea de generación y aplicación del conocimiento: “Economía, Mercado de Trabajo y Educación” del Cuerpo Académico: “Desarrollo Económico, Social y Regional” de la Facultad de Economía. El primero de los cuatro capítulos de la tesis corresponde al Marco Teórico y presenta el panorama que en los desarrollos teóricos y conceptuales de la economía ha quedado registrado, correspondientes al mercado de trabajo, sus características, interpretaciones y fallos. Presenta de manera teórica y práctica la forma en que dicho mercado funciona, enfatizando que a pesar de poder analizar al mercado de trabajo como al mercado de cualquier bien, dicho análisis pecaría de simplista pues existen supuestos irrealizables e incluso condiciones -como la humana- que demandan una teoría no tan abstracta. 18 El segundo capítulo es el Marco Contextual, el cual brinda un panorama general del desempleo juvenil a nivel global, a nivel continental y a nivel nacional. Describe fenómenos como el desequilibrio demográfico que en América Latina genera la gran proporción de jóvenes en su población y los problemas de generación de empleo que plantea. Se retoma el tema de la sobre calificación laboral de la juventud que el día de hoy perpetúa en los estudios superiores dada la precariedad del mercado laboral. Finalmente comenta acerca de la política pública implementada para aliviar dicha situación, así como de los efectos no tan positivos que la misma tendrá sobre el resto de la economía. En el capítulo tercero se hace una presentación del Método a través del cual se pretende demostrar la validez o en su caso rechazar la hipótesis de investigación. El método comprende desde el origen puntual de la base de datos, pasando por la manera en que cada tabla y gráfica presentada se elaboró, hasta las bases teórico-matemáticas de los instrumentos y herramientas estadísticas y econométricas (Índice de Moran) que permitieron conocer a detalle el desempleo juvenil en las entidades federativas analizadas. El último y cuarto capítulo de la tesis muestra el análisis de los resultados obtenidos del Índice de Moran por entidad federativa, a través de gráficos y tablas que contienen la explicación de las observaciones en desempleo, el grado de autocorrelación espacial positiva y negativa existente entre las entidades federativas y las similitudes entre espacios geográficos en términos de desempleo. Se incluye una tabla con el concentrado de los resultados del I de Moran de todas las entidades analizadas, para facilitar el análisis y entendimiento de los fenómenos estudiados. Finalmente contiene también las conclusiones de este trabajo de tesis.

Abstract: Road traffic accidents claim more than 1,500 lives each year in Canada and affect society adversely, so transport authorities must reduce their impact. This is a major concern in Quebec, where the traffic-accident risks increase year by year proportionally to provincial population growth. In reality, the occurrence of traffic crashes is rarely random in space-time; they tend to cluster in specific areas such as intersections, ramps, and work zones. Moreover, weather stands out as an environmental risk factor that affects the crash rate. Therefore, traffic-safety engineers need to accurately identify the location and time of traffic accidents. The occurrence of such accidents actually is determined by some important factors, including traffic volume, weather conditions, and geometric design. This study aimed at identifying hotspot locations based on a historical crash data set and spatiotemporal patterns of traffic accidents with a view to improving road safety. This thesis proposes two new methods for identifying hotspot locations on a road network. The first method could be used to identify and rank hotspot locations in cases in which the value of traffic volume is available, while the second method is useful in cases in which the value of traffic volume is not. These methods were examined with three years of traffic-accident data (2011–2013) in Sherbrooke. The first method proposes a two-step integrated approach for identifying traffic-accident hotspots on a road network. The first step included a spatial-analysis method called network kernel-density estimation. The second step involved a network-screening method using the critical crash rate, which is described in the Highway Safety Manual. Once the traffic-accident density had been estimated using the network kernel-density estimation method, the selected potential hotspot locations were then tested with the critical-crash-rate method. The second method offers an integrated approach to analyzing spatial and temporal (spatiotemporal) patterns of traffic accidents and organizes them according to their level of significance. The spatiotemporal seasonal patterns of traffic accidents were analyzed using the kernel-density estimation; it was then applied as the attribute for a significance test using the local Moran’s I index value. The results of the first method demonstrated that over 90% of hotspot locations in Sherbrooke were located at intersections and in a downtown area with significant conflicts between road users. It also showed that signalized intersections were more dangerous than unsignalized ones; over half (58%) of the hotspot locations were located at four-leg signalized intersections. The results of the second method show that crash patterns varied according to season and during certain time periods. Total seasonal patterns revealed denser trends and patterns during the summer, fall, and winter, then a steady trend and pattern during the spring. Our findings also illustrated that crash patterns that applied accident severity were denser than the results that only involved the observed crash counts. The results clearly show that the proposed methods could assist transport authorities in quickly identifying the most hazardous sites in a road network, prioritizing hotspot locations in a decreasing order more efficiently, and assessing the relationship between traffic accidents and seasons.
Les accidents de la route sont responsables de plus de 1500 décès par année au Canada et ont des effets néfastes sur la société. Aux yeux des autorités en transport, il devient impératif d’en réduire les impacts. Il s’agit d’une préoccupation majeure au Québec depuis que les risques d’accidents augmentent chaque année au rythme de la population. En réalité, les accidents routiers se produisent rarement de façon aléatoire dans l’espace-temps. Ils surviennent généralement à des endroits spécifiques notamment aux intersections, dans les bretelles d’accès, sur les chantiers routiers, etc. De plus, les conditions climatiques associées aux saisons constituent l’un des facteurs environnementaux à risque affectant les taux d’accidents. Par conséquent, il devient impératif pour les ingénieurs en sécurité routière de localiser ces accidents de façon plus précise dans le temps (moment) et dans l’espace (endroit). Cependant, les accidents routiers sont influencés par d’importants facteurs comme le volume de circulation, les conditions climatiques, la géométrie de la route, etc. Le but de cette étude consiste donc à identifier les points chauds au moyen d’un historique des données d’accidents et de leurs répartitions spatiotemporelles en vue d’améliorer la sécurité routière. Cette thèse propose deux nouvelles méthodes permettant d’identifier les points chauds à l’intérieur d’un réseau routier. La première méthode peut être utilisée afin d’identifier et de prioriser les points chauds dans les cas où les données sur le volume de circulation sont disponibles alors que la deuxième méthode est utile dans les cas où ces informations sont absentes. Ces méthodes ont été conçues en utilisant des données d’accidents sur trois ans (2011-2013) survenus à Sherbrooke. La première méthode propose une approche intégrée en deux étapes afin d’identifier les points chauds au sein du réseau routier. La première étape s’appuie sur une méthode d’analyse spatiale connue sous le nom d’estimation par noyau. La deuxième étape repose sur une méthode de balayage du réseau routier en utilisant les taux critiques d’accidents, une démarche éprouvée et décrite dans le manuel de sécurité routière. Lorsque la densité des accidents routiers a été calculée au moyen de l’estimation par noyau, les points chauds potentiels sont ensuite testés à l’aide des taux critiques. La seconde méthode propose une approche intégrée destinée à analyser les distributions spatiales et temporelles des accidents et à les classer selon leur niveau de signification. La répartition des accidents selon les saisons a été analysée à l’aide de l’estimation par noyau, puis ces valeurs ont été assignées comme attributs dans le test de signification de Moran. Les résultats de la première méthode démontrent que plus de 90 % des points chauds à Sherbrooke sont concentrés aux intersections et au centre-ville où les conflits entre les usagers de la route sont élevés. Ils révèlent aussi que les intersections contrôlées sont plus à risque par comparaison aux intersections non contrôlées et que plus de la moitié des points chauds (58 %) sont situés aux intersections à quatre branches (en croix). Les résultats de la deuxième méthode montrent que les distributions d’accidents varient selon les saisons et à certains moments de l’année. Les répartitions saisonnières montrent des tendances à la densification durant l’été, l’automne et l’hiver alors que les distributions sont plus dispersées au cours du printemps. Nos observations indiquent aussi que les répartitions ayant considéré la sévérité des accidents sont plus denses que les résultats ayant recours au simple cumul des accidents. Les résultats démontrent clairement que les méthodes proposées peuvent: premièrement, aider les autorités en transport en identifiant rapidement les sites les plus à risque à l’intérieur du réseau routier; deuxièmement, prioriser les points chauds en ordre décroissant plus efficacement et de manière significative; troisièmement, estimer l’interrelation entre les accidents routiers et les saisons.

The growth of the managed investment industry brings with it the potential for institutional investors to exert their influence on boards of listed companies to deliver strong and sustainable growth. The concepts of socially responsible investment (SRI), responsible investment (RI) or ethical investment (EI) have become part of mainstream investment practices in many financial markets. While SRI is largely a qualitative concept, its survival and adoption by the mainstream investment community may, in part, be due to the formalising of its concepts into language that investors, asset managers and analysts can more readily understand: the benchmark index. SRI indices may hold the key to attracting attention to ESG issues in listed corporates and to help bring about positive outcomes in sustainable development. Figures show SRI investments in emerging markets are minimal when compared to those in developed markets but emerging markets hold great potential for growth and development of these tools. This research develops a tool for bringing together social construction theory and stakeholder theory in understanding the construction of SRI Indices and in development of new indices. The core of this research is an analysis of SRI indices in three major emerging markets of Hong Kong, India and China, together with an analysis of different perspectives of SRI in Asia. The purpose is to identify opportunities to building SRI indices through a stakeholder engagement approach. The research was conducted over several phases between October 2008 and August 2010 and can be defined by three different studies: 1. a comparative study on SRI indices and their ESG criteria; 2. a comparative study on SRI indices and their stakeholder engagement approach; and 3. an analysis on the feasibility of building SRI indices in Asian markets. The findings from the three studies indicate three main arguments. First, ESG assessment and criteria of SRI indices does have an impact on the creditability and value of the SRI indices. Due to the lack of transparency on the ESG assessment and criteria, SRI investors and other stakeholder groups are deterred from adopting SRI indices as SRI tool. Second, stakeholder engagement is essential for SRI indices. And lastly, SRI indices in emerging markets, especially in the three studied markets, are attractive to both global and local SRI investors; however, these SRI indices need to include local ESG contexts to reflect the actual ESG concerns of the societies and avoid blindly following developed markets’ SRI index model, which in the end become unrealistic and unpopular to investors and stakeholder groups. We recommend that stakeholder engagement in index criteria and corporate assessment be widened and deepened; that governments and stock exchanges can play a pivotal role in SRI development and should take the lead. We also recommend that SRI indices strengthen the institution of corporate research to rely less on secondary data when making their corporate assessments.
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The Christian Church has since its inception formulated various ways of relating its claims regarding the decisive and universal significance of the Christ-event to the religious traditions and experience of people of other faiths. A common theme that undergirds several of the approaches that have emerged in the history of the Christian engagement with other religions is the fulfilment concept. The fulfilment concept, with its roots in the New Testament and the early church fathers, continues to find prominence and creative theological expression in Roman Catholic circles. Protestant fulfilment theology, however, reached the peak of its development in the early years of the twentieth century, and subsequently fell into decline. This study presents a case for the revitalization of the Protestant fulfilment tradition based on a recovery and assessment of the fulfilment approaches of Indian Christian converts in the pre-independence period, focussing especially on the views of Krishna Mohan Banerjea and Sadhu Sundar Singh. Our analyses of the fulfilment approaches of Indian converts furnish us with a conceptual framework for a cumulative fulfilment proposal which complements the nineteenth century Protestant fulfilment tradition. The experience of Indian converts affords significant evidence to c9nfirm the fulfilment claim that there are elements in the Hindu tradition that can serve as a 'pedagogy' to Christ. It offers empirical verification of a trinitarian scheme of progressive, differentiated and complementary divine revelation for affirming revelational continuity between Christianity and Hinduism. It also provides components for a theologically coherent Christology upon which to base the fulfilment proposal.The fulfilment approaches of Indian converts help authenticate the plausibility of fulfilment theology, confirming its adequacy over alternative explanations, in affirming the particular truth claims of the Christian faith while ascribing genuine value to the religious traditions and experience of people of other faiths. The recovery of Protestant fulfilment theology requires attention to several pending tasks, including the development of a Christian hermeneutic of non-Christian texts, and a careful assessment of the influence of the fulfilment concept among Hindu converts and "non-baptised believers in Christ" today. This study contributes towards that recovery.

This study was conducted in the Indian state Kerala, among 15 physical education (PE) teachers. The aim of this study was to investigate intergenerational touch in the daily work of Indian PE teachers, and more precisely whether or not the teachers thought intergenerational touch was an issue and what their views on this subject were. The data was generated through semi-structured interviews with teachers from Keralan primary, secondary and upper-secondary schools. Collected data was analysed by using Michel Foucault’s theoretical concepts of discourse, power/knowledge, bio-power, governmentality, normalisation and panopticism. The study identifies a number of different discourses, in which physical interaction emerged as a dilemma for Indian PE teachers. Two of the most distinct ones were, what we refer to as, the “no touch”- and “risk”-discourses. Based on the findings of this study we conclude that the gender of the PE teacher plays a crucial role in whether a teacher choose to physically interact with their students or not. Societal norms have a great influence on PE teachers’ actions concerning intergenerational touch, which in this context cohere around no touch.

Se considera la historia indiana del P. José de Acosta en un contexto literario, para definir mejor la innovación'genérica' que supone la división canónica de sus informes en naturales y morales. Se sugieren sus orígenes en las consignas monográficas oficiales, emanadas tanto de la Compañía de Jesús como del Consejode Indias, y se señalan algunas características científicas derivadas de las metáforas frecuentes entre lo natural y lo moral, que recorren la obra. Por este recurso literario, la historia de Acosta parece preludiarlos textos etnográficos contemporáneos.

Together with the globalized corporate world come a number of social and environmental issues, many times caused by the corporations themselves. However, it happens that corporations do not take their responsibilities in limiting their sometimes, harmful practices. Companies with a willingness to create positive change can do this, by working with corporate social responsibility (CSR). The question is however, whether companies actually are taking their responsibilities by implementing CSR work, or if they are using the concept as a business strategy for additional profit. To answer this question, one could look at the driving factors behind a company’s CSR programs as well as investigating the level of integration of the CSR programs in the company’s daily business. Companies working with CSR exist globally, however, there is one country that researchers have found to be a special case, namely, India. Therefore, this bachelor thesis examines different driving motives behind CSR in India through a literature review, as well as answers how well integrated Indian companies CSR activities are within their core businesses, by conducting a case study on an Indian company. The results of this study show that moral, strategic and legal motives can be factors in the decision to engage in CSR by Indian companies. Also, the level of integration partly depends on the previously mentioned motives.

Les travaux de recherche de cette thèse portent sur l'amélioration des capacités sociales d'un système conversationnel en interaction avec un humain. Lorsque le système n'est pas dédié à une tâche particulière, il doit tenir compte de difficultés relevant de l'interaction sociale elle-même. L'humour est un mécanisme naturel dans les interactions sociales. Nous considérons un humour-machine comme une simulation de comportements simplifiés des capacités humoristiques humaines: dérision, blagues, jeux de mots. Les travaux de cette thèse s'appuient sur des théories issues de domaines variés en sociologie, psychologie, neurosciences et linguistique pour l'intégration de cet humour-machine dans un système robotique. Implémentées dans certains systèmes de dialogue, ces capacités humoristiques sont cependant rarement utilisées pour pouvoir choisir les comportements à générer du robot. Dans nos travaux, la mise en œuvre des comportements humoristiques du système en conversation est réalisée en utilisant la théorie des rites d'interaction. L'estimation de la face de l'interlocuteur permet de diriger le comportement du robot dans la conversation casuelle humoristique. Les facteurs expressifs d'une perte ou d'une valorisation de la face sont liés à des états mentaux exprimés dans une situation donnée. Pour réaliser cette estimation de la face, nous étudions, à partir de corpus créés à cet effet, les réactions comportementales, affectives et expressives des participants à différents types d'humour réalisés par le robot et ayant des impacts variables sur celle-ci (l'humour prenant pour cible le robot, le participant ou un autre sujet). Les réactions des participants à l'humour sont établies sur une représentation multi-niveaux d'indices émotionnels, comportementaux et linguistiques, extraits à partir de l'audio.Des règles sont ainsi construites à partir de l'apprentissage automatique de ces indices issus des corpus, concernant l'appréciation de la réaction des participants à l'humour et la mise à jour de l'estimation de la face présentée du participant. Leur implémentation dans un système automatique nous permet de les évaluer. De nombreuses expérimentations ont été menées avec des publics variés : personnes âgées, adultes, adolescents. Enfin, l'utilisation des préférences du participant à l'humour dans la conversation fait émerger des questions éthiques, notamment face au pouvoir persuasif et manipulateur de l'humour
This doctoral dissertation is about the improvement of social capacities of a conversationnal system to interact with humans. When the system is not dedicated to one particular task, it must take into account the inherent difficulties of social interaction it-self. Humor is a natural mechanism present in social interactions. We consider humour in a robotic system as a simulation of simplified behaviors from human humor : derision, jokes, puns. This work is based on theories issued from various research domains as sociology, psychology, neurosciences and linguistics to enable integration of humor in a robotic system. Implemented in some dialog systems, humorous capacities are however rarely used when programming the robot’s behavior. In our study, the humourous behavior is implemented in the system by using the ritual theory of face-work. The face analysis of the interlocutor can be used to direct the robot’s reactions during a casual humorous talk. In order to evaluate the faces of participants in interaction, we study, using data collections created for this purpose, the participant’s behavior, emotionnal and expressive responses to different types of humor (humorous act targeting the robot, the participant or a neutral subject). Participant's reaction to humor are made upon a multi-level processing of emotionnal, linguistic and behavioral cues.Machine learning is used to extract rules defining appreciation or not and update the participant's face evaluation in regards of the humorous act produced by the robot. An implementation of these rules in an automatic dialog system allows us to evaluate their accuracy. Numerous experiments were carried out on various populations : elderly persons, adults, teenagers. Finally, the use of the participant’s preferences in the conversation raises ethical questions, in particular against the persuasive and manipulative power of humor

Temporary migrant workers and circular migration constitute a growing global phenomenon as the management of migration becomes increasingly important to policymakers. This thesis takes academic discussions on citizenship and migration as its starting point, and examines the role of employers in terms of defining temporary migrant workers and their role in the Swedish labour market. The concept of moral economy is applied in particular to analyse the justifications and negotiations through which working conditions of migrant workers, and their role in local and transnational economies, are established and contested. The role of capital in migration management is studied through ethnographic fieldwork and through interviews with managers in the Swedish wild berry and IT industries; two very different industries that are, however, both shaped by particular structures of seasonal labour and international outsourcing and that increasingly rely on temporary foreign workers from Thailand and India respectively. The conceptualisation of supply chains in these industries offers a particular framework through which relations, as well as management discourses, can be analysed. The study explores how notions of circularity, nation, cultural difference, and transnational economic difference, are managed by private sector actors. It also explores how managers relate to public discourse and emotions in the face of global economic restructuring and changing citizenship, which situates temporary migrants as part of, yet different from, Swedish labour.
Temporära migrantarbetare och cirkulär migration utgör ett växande globalt fenomen till följd av intresset bland regeringar och myndigheter att styra genom sk ”managed migration”. Denna avhandling tar avstamp i forskning om medborgarskap och migration för att undersöka vilken roll arbetsgivare får när det gäller att definiera tillfälliga migrantarbetare och deras roll på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Begreppet moralisk ekonomi används för att lyfta fram och analysera de praktiker genom vilka migrantarbetarnas arbetsvillkor förhandlas och rättfärdigas, samt hur deras roller i lokala och transnationella ekonomier befästs eller förändras. Ekonomins roll i migrationshantering studeras i denna avhandling genom etnografiskt fältarbete och intervjuer med chefer inom den svenska bärindustrin samt IT industrin; två mycket olika industrier som dock båda struktureras av säsongsarbete respektive internationell outsourcing, och som alltmer använder tillfällig utländsk arbetskraft från Thailand respektive Indien. Genom begreppet utbudskedjor (supply chains) möjliggörs en analys av de relationer, samt de managementdiskurser, som påverkar dessa industrier. Avhandlingen utforskar hur föreställningar om cirkularitet, nation, kulturella skillnader, samt transnationella ekonomiska skillnader, förhandlas av aktörer inom näringslivet. Vidare diskuteras hur chefer relaterar till de diskurser och emotioner som en global ekonomisk omstrukturering och ett förändrat medborgarskap ger upphov till, vilket positionerar tillfälliga migrantarbetare som en del av, men ändå annorlunda än, svensk arbetskraft.

This dissertation is an exploration of the rhythmic concepts used in two South Indian musical theory concepts, solkattu and konokol. Konokol application largely depends on instrument limitations and musical contexts. The principle focus here is on my personal application of konokol to the guitar both through composed and improvised music. A detailed study of konokol was undertaken through private lessons in India and personal experimentation to determine how these concepts could be adapted to Western improvisation, harmony and composition, as well as right--‐hand classical guitar and plectrum techniques. This was done intuitively by exploring guitar techniques and konokol simultaneously. The outcome of this study was a process applied to guitar composition and improvisation. Graphic numerical tables and geometrical representations are outlined in this dissertation as a guide to understanding this process. The second outcome of this research includes a series of Western compositions improvised and through--‐composed. This outcome explores a fundamental concept, the practical applications of konokol and mrdangam patterns to guitar composition and guitar improvisation. The appendices include a practical reference guide to many of these concepts, providing a valuable and a beneficial resource for any musician who would like to use and understand rhythmic concepts outside the Western musical tradition. A compact disc of my original compositions demonstrating my application of konokol concepts and theories to guitar composition is also included as part of this research. This dissertation presents an alternative framework and methodology to the Western canon of rhythmic knowledge and involves rethinking numbers, rhythm and phrasing in a manner that is essentially different to the Western pedagogy of rhythmic knowledge. Possible future research on the collective memory and fractal design of konokol and how this is related to memory is also proposed.

Notre recherche se porte sur l’éthique des techniques de procédures de maternité de substitution. Nos études se basent sur la Théorie Fonctionnelle de l’Intégration et de l’information de N.H Anderson (1981). Pour l’étude menée en France auprès d’un public dit tout-venant : 236 personnes dont 62 hommes et 174 femmes ont émis un jugement de non acceptabilité concernant les procédures de maternité de substitution dans 54 scénarios construits par la combinaison de quatre facteurs : « Origine de l’embryon », «Autonomie de la mère porteuse», « Famille de la mère porteuse » et « Niveau de rémunération ». En ce qui concerne l’étude menée en Inde, c’est 430 étudiants, 275 femmes et 155 hommes, qui ont également émis un jugement de non acceptabilité pour ces mêmes 54 scénarios. Les résultats ont mis en évidence l’émergence de différents groupes de politique de jugement pour les deux études. En France, on distingue 4 clusters différents. Bien que ces clusters diffèrent dans leur jugement, on retrouve un consensus concernant le facteur « Autonomie » pour chaque groupe. Enfin, plus de 50% de notre échantillon se montre non favorable face à de telles procédures. Pour l’étude menée auprès d’étudiant indien, quatre clusters différents ont également été mis en évidence. Près d’un quart de notre échantillon n’a pas souhaité se positionner et plus de 50% des participants se montrent enclin à accepter ce type de procédures en fonction des différentes circonstances qui définissent la situation. Le jugement de non acceptabilité des procédures de maternité de substitution est influencé par les facteurs proposés et on constate l’émergence de différentes positions face à ces questionnements éthiques
Our research deals with ethical questions about surrogate motherhood. Both of our studies are based on the Integration Information Theory of N.H. Anderson (1981). The first one took place in France with general public: 236 people of whom 62 men and 174 women. They judged the non acceptability of surrogacy on 54 scenarios combining four factors: “Type of surrogacy », « Surrogate mother’s level of autonomy », « Surrogate mother’s family situation » and «Level of Compensation ».The second study took place in India with 430 students, 275 of whom were women and 155 were men. Indian students judged the non acceptability of surrogacy on the same 54 scenarios. Further to the results different groups of judgment politics emerged for both studies. In France, four groups of participants distinguish. Even if these groups put forward different judgements, the factor « Autonomy » obtained general consensus. Finally, 50% of our French sample doesn’t agree with the surrogate motherhood procedure. In the second study, also four groups of participants distinguish. Almost 25% of the sample does not give a judgment about surrogacy and more than 50% agrees with the surrogate motherhood procedure depending on different circumstances defining the situation. The judgment of non acceptability is influenced by the factors presented and the emergence of different positions among the participants is noted

La tesi ha analizzato tre tematiche legate allo sviluppo rurale. La prima è relativa alla diffusione del contoterzismo. La seconda si riferisce all'indagine del fenomeno della perdita di superficie agricola. Infine, è stata utilizzata una metodologia innovativa per approfondire la conoscenza dell’attitudine dei consumatori verso un prodotto locale e tradizionale, come l'olio extra-vergine di oliva. La crescente diffusione del contoterzismo è un fenomeno strutturale dell'agricoltura italiana. Infatti, negli ultimi dieci anni, è aumentata la richiesta di lavorazioni in conto terzi ed oggi un terzo delle aziende agricole si rivolge ad imprese contoterziste per l'affidamento parziale o completo delle lavorazioni ordinarie. Pertanto, data la rilevanza del fenomeno, sono state svolte due analisi complementari: una macro che indaga sulla diffusione nazionale del contoterzismo ed una micro, che studia le caratteristiche delle aziende che utilizzano contoterzismo passivo o che svolgono lavorazioni agro-meccaniche attivamente. L’analisi dei dati evidenzia che il contoterzismo si è sviluppato in aree prevalentemente pianeggianti, omogenee, con superfici a seminativo ed è adottato principalmente da aziende il cui conduttore svolge un'altra occupazione, extra-agricola. In molti casi, il contoterzista stesso assume un ruolo fondamentale nella gestione aziendale: infatti una parte sempre più consistente della SAU nazionale è affidata in maniera completa ad imprese esterne. Di fatto, il contoterzismo contribuisce a mantenere l'attività primaria in molte aree della penisola. A tal proposito, è stato altresì studiato il fenomeno della perdita di superficie agricola. In Italia, negli ultimi quaranta anni, si è registrata una diminuzione di SAU di circa 5 milioni di ettari. Tale riduzione comporta delle conseguenze negative sul territorio, a causa della contrazione dell’offerta delle esternalità positive e dei servizi non di mercato prodotti dal settore primario (come la salvaguardia dell'equilibrio idrogeologico, la tutela della biodiversità o il mantenimento del paesaggio). Le principali cause di riduzione della superficie agricola sono due: da una parte l'abbandono dell'attività agricola, dall'altra l'aumento dell'antropizzazione. Riguardo la prima, dal 2000 al 2010 si è verificata una riduzione del 32,4% del numero di aziende agricole (anche se, mediamente, sono aumentate di dimensione). Per l'antropizzazione, invece, dal 1950 al 2000 la superficie artificiale è aumentata del 166%. La distinzione dei territori nei quali è prevalso come causa principale uno dei due fenomeni non è stata compiuta in letteratura in quanto non di facile stima. Pertanto, lo scopo dell’analisi è stato quello di distinguere i territori nei quali la perdita di SAU è riconducibile o ai processi di antropizzazione, oppure alla ristrutturazione del settore primario. La perdita di SAU per antropizzazione si è verificata maggiormente nelle aree costiere, nell'Italia centrale e nel Nord-Est, mentre l'abbandono dell'attività agricola è stato più intenso nelle aree montane dell’Italia Centrale. Il mantenimento delle attività agricole passa anche dalla valorizzazione delle sue produzioni. In particolare crescente attenzione negli ultimi anni è stata data al forte legame delle produzioni alimentari con il territorio. In questo ambito diventa cruciale conoscere gli aspetti e gli elementi che influenzano il processo decisionale del consumatore. Il caso studio ha riguardato l'analisi delle motivazioni di acquisto di un prodotto tradizionale ad alta familiarità, come l'olio extra-vergine di oliva tra i consumatori italiani, al fine di suggerire alle aziende alcune marketing recommendations per la commercializzazione di questa categoria di prodotti. La produzione di olio, infatti, riveste un ruolo rilevante per numerose zone ed aziende agricole della penisola: oltre il 50% delle aziende possiede oliveti i quali, nell'insieme, costituiscono circa il 7% della SAU nazionale. Di conseguenza, data l'importanza dell'olivicoltura a livello nazionale e in quanto l'olio è un alimento cardine della dieta mediterranea, sono state analizzate tramite il modello CUB le preferenze dei consumatori, in modo da comprendere quali migliori strategie le aziende possono adottare per ampliare le proprie quote di mercato. Più precisamente, è stato analizzato il ruolo ricoperto dalle caratteristiche del prodotto, dalle motivazioni personali dei consumatori e dall'influenza dei canali di comunicazione per le decisioni d'acquisto. I risultati indicano che per gli alimenti la cui familiarità è determinata dal reiterato consumo nel tempo all’interno delle comunità di riferimento, prevalgono le motivazioni di acquisto personali, come la ricerca di un particolare gusto, rispetto agli stimoli provenienti dall’esterno (come la pubblicità e le altre campagne di informazione). La tesi è composta da tre articoli, una introduzione generale e delle conclusioni.

La présente thèse est une étude ethnographique qui examine le savoir en tant que pratique située au Ladakh, dans l’Himalaya indien. Elle analyse les implications socioculturelles des deux moteurs de changement en jeu au Ladakh: l’un est d'origine socio-économique et lié à la production du Ladakh en tant que zone frontalière, tandis que l’autre est de nature environnementale et entrainé par les changements climatiques. Alors que le Ladakh est demeuré hors de la portée de l’État bureaucratique pendant l’administration coloniale britannique, la région s’est trouvée reconfigurée en zone frontalière stratégique après l’indépendance de l’Inde des suites des guerres successives avec le Pakistan et la Chine. L’Indépendance a mené à la partition de l’Inde et du Pakistan en 1947; cette thèse examine la portée à long terme des évènements traumatisants de la partition tels qu’ils se sont déroulés au Ladakh et comment les Ladakhis établissent des liens entre ces évènements et les changements climatiques. L’État indien s’est produit dans la région à travers une volonté de dominer les montagnes, principalement par le développement d’infrastructures et par l’intégration du savoir local des Ladakhis dans l’appareil militaire. La militarisation a restructuré l'économie du Ladakh, redéfini la structure des ménages, contribué à l’exode rural, déplacé la centralité des activités agropastorales et, tel que la dissertation le soutient, altéré de manière significative la connexion de la population locale avec l'environnement. La rationalisation croissante de la perspective sur l’environnement aujourd'hui contribue à la fragmentation des liens qui unissent les domaines naturels et humains dans la cosmologie locale de même qu’à l'abandon des pratiques rituelles connexes. Parallèlement, la région est touchée par des effets distincts des changements climatiques, en particulier la récession des glaciers. La thèse juxtapose l'expérience subjective de ces vastes changements dans la vie quotidienne des villageois de la Vallée de Sham avec les faits historiques environnementaux, démontrant ainsi que les événements historiques locaux influent sur les perceptions des changements environnementaux. L'analyse démontre qu’un phénomène objectif tel que la récession des glaciers est interprété à travers des réalités locales. Plus précisément, selon la conception du monde locale, un glacier en retrait est une figure rhétorique d’une transformation de la condition humaine. Comme le fait valoir la dissertation, l’interprétation culturelle ne constitue pas un obstacle à l'objectivité de l'histoire naturelle de la cosmologie locale. L’interprétation culturelle et l'expérience empirique s’avèrent par ailleurs essentielles à la vitalité des connaissances locales sur l'environnement et à la performance des pratiques associées.
The dissertation presents an ethnographic study that examines knowledge as a situated practice in Ladakh, in the Indian Himalayas. It analyzes the sociocultural implications of two drivers of change at play in Ladakh: one is of socioeconomic origin and linked to the production of Ladakh as a border area, while the other is environmental and driven by climate change. Ladakh, which remained outside the scope of the bureaucratic state during the British colonial administration, found itself refashioned into a strategic border area following India’s independence and successive wars with Pakistan and China. Independence led to the partition of Indian into India and Pakistan in 1947; the dissertation examines the long-term, traumatic events of the partition in Ladakh, tracing connections to current perceptions of climate change. The independent Indian state has produced itself in the region through the taming of its mountains, primarily through infrastructure development and the co-optation of Ladakhi knowledge of the environment by the military apparatus. Far-reaching militarization has restructured Ladakh’s economy, consequently redefining household structure, contributing to village depopulation, displacing the centrality of agro-pastoralist activities and, as the dissertation argues, significantly altering the local population’s engagement with the environment. The increasing rationalization of the outlook on the environment today contributes to the fragmentation of links between the natural and human realms within the local cosmology and the abandonment of related ritual practices. Concurrently, the region is impacted by distinct effects of climate change, in particular glacier recession. The dissertation juxtaposes both the subjective experience of wide-ranging environmental changes and changes in everyday village life with historical facts, showing that local historical events influence perceptions of glacier recession and the depletion of natural resources. The analysis demonstrates that objective phenomena such as glacier recession are interpreted through local realities. Specifically, in the local worldview, a vanishing glacier is a trope for changes in the human condition. Yet, as the dissertation further argues, such cultural framing does not preclude the objectivity of natural history in local cosmology. Moreover, cultural framing and empirical experience, therefore, are shown to be essential to the vitality of local knowledge about the environment and to the performance of associated landscape practices.