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Lasonen, Johanna L. "Finnish comprehensive vocational institute teachers' sex-role attitudes." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08252008-162611/.
Papa, Jason M. "Trauma Institute - Detroit Michigan community realized through poetic architecture /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1212168896.
Advisor: Vincent Sansalone (Committee Chair), Jay Chatterjee (Committee Co-Chair). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Feb. 8, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: poetic; architecture; experiential; socialization; language; built environment. Includes bibliographical references.
Kishore, Annapoorni. "AN INTERNSHIP WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1209153230.
Friedman, Lisa Kritzer. "Recycling program for the Shalom Institute." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2923.
Spencer, Jessica. "An Internship in Restoration Ecology at The Wilds." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1354757034.
De, Leon Estrada Mario Sergio. "Decentralisation in the post-conflict environment of Guatemala : a critical examination of the evaluation process of community participation in a health sector reform context." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2007. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7472.
Bowring, Jacky. "Institutionalising the picturesque: the discourse of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects." Lincoln University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/667.
Williams, John Clifford. "A National Park Service Internship at Acadia National Park." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1368036911.
Chu, Chen M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "To know is to empower : Chagos institute of environmental humanities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132762.
Cataloged from the official thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-148).
Chagos Archipelago was sanitized in the 1970s for a US military base on Diego Garcia, following a secret "exchange of notes" that evaded legislative approval. 1,500 Chagossian evictees, "dumped" in Mauritius and Seychelles, have since become surplus population dwarfed by the planetary-scale military-colonial network. Of all the denounced legal ammunitions, the Chagos Marine Protected Area (MPA), along with its fiction of terra nullius, inflicts the greatest violence by legitimizing environmental fortification on the basis of a denial of the almost 200 years of Chagossian inhabitation. The assemblage of the military, security institutions and certain members of the scientific community, by defining the Chagos MPA as an "organic rationality," deploys a generalized and abstracted sense of ecological insecurity in aspiration for global environmental administration in opposition to traditional bodies of government. This thesis proposes the Chagos Institute of Environmental Humanities, a trojan horse with dual agency. While staging an apparent conformity to restrictions and regulations imposed by the UK-US alliance, the Institute quietly and resolutely supports an undercover project of decolonization and empowerment. Beyond physical resettlement, it recognizes and continues Chagossians' sustained efforts in resisting colonialism and militarism. It reads from the Chagos landscape their forgotten and dismissed stories. To know is to reclaim. To know is to empower. The new system of environmental humanities rejects the nature-culture dichotomy. In problematizing the anthropocentric bias within our production of knowledge, it reveals the racist and colonialist othering of non-Western epistemologies. There is not a deficit in knowledge, in a quantitative sense, but a deficiency at the epistemic level. This thesis urges that we reclaim prior Chagossian knowledge in the formation of their future that is still rooted in Chagossians' history.
by Chen Chu.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
Lipps, Jody Patricia. "RESEARCH INTERNSHIP AT BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1070400640.
Castro, Maria Goretti Macena de. "Quality management : a study in an Amazonian environmental research institute." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22094.
Kilian, Juliette. "Service model for libraries in an agricultural environment with specific reference to the library of the ARC-Small Grain Institute." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37127.
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McNeil, Gina L. "Effects of temporal and spatial variations in seston flux on growth of mussels (Mytilus spp.), in suspended culture in a boreal environment /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2003. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,158039.
Gouveia, Maria Teresa de Jesus. "As conceituações de meio ambiente praticadas pelo corpo técnico do Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente (IBAMA) na formação de sua cultura organizacional." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4339.
The Brazilian Institute of Environment (IBAMA) executor of the National Environmental Policies, has been the object of frequent evaluation by different segments of the Brazilian society. This study aims subsidize the building of analytical perspectives over the effectiveness of its actions coming from an analysis of the composition of its organizational culture. The hypothesis was formulated in a sense of that the existence of different conceptions for the term Environment among the workers of the institute has a relation with the process of the constitution of the organizational culture from the IBAMA. This perspective is given by the researchers experience into the environmental field, especially for had been part of the same functional body of the Institute. This same condition gave the possibility of adding to the historiography of IBAMA aspects concerning to the influence of the theoretical concepts for the term Environment into the Institutes organizational culture. The research was oriented by the theoretical fundamentals of authors that had explored the culture, the power and the behavior of organizations, such as TAVARES (1991), SCHERMERHORN, HUNT & OSBORNO (2001), FLEURY (2009) and, BERTERO (2009).It had adopted as methodological strategies the techniques of observation, questionnaires and interviews following the orientations by GOODE E HATT (1973), GIL (1994) and LAKATOS (2003) to identify the relations between the conceptualization of Environment by the side of the IBAMAs workers. In the CASTORIADIS (1982) conceptual perspective of historic beings it was analyzed registers of speech from others social actors that had written the history of the public Brazilian environmental management. The thesis presents the coexistence of two active conceptualizations for the term Environment that derivates from the IBAMAs process of environmentalization.
Lightfoot, Shlomiya. "Multi-stakeholder contribution to biotechnology environmental assessment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113790.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
Environmental assessments, such as those for biotechnology applications, are typically conducted by small groups of expert assessors, but scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in involving diverse stakeholders. In addition to other reasons for broader involvement, researchers have proposed that stakeholders could substantively aid assessment by (1) contributing system knowledge; (2) applying diverse conceptual models; (3) helping available knowledge keep pace with assessment needs; and (4) contributing based on their values, as do narrow expert assessors. Hypothesizing that these types of contribution, suggested theoretically or observed in single workshops, represent key sources of stakeholder contribution across processes, this study examines contribution in several diverse participant processes: an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshop on testing schemes for some engineered microbes compared with another EPA office's testing requirements for other engineered microbes; an MIT-Wilson Center workshop series on synthetic biology environmental assessment research needs; and the Food and Drug Administration's engineered salmon environmental assessment along with diverse stakeholder comments and critiques. The study also identifies practical considerations for enabling multi-stakeholder contribution and applies lessons to broader societal processes. The study analyzes process documents, conversations with conveners and participants, and participant observation. It also reviews knowledge about biological processes representing important areas for assessment and research, discussing complexities of knowledge production and use for assessment. Stakeholders contributed in each of the four hypothesized ways across the cases, suggesting that diverse involvement could regularly contribute positively to assessment. Stakeholders also (5) challenged standard assessment approaches, challenges that could aid assessment as well. Practical considerations for enabling diverse participant contribution emerge from the cases: Process continuity over time; credible expectations of authority or influence in decision-making; and balance between predefined structure and flexibility and between technical tasks and enabling non-technical input may be key. Work developing approaches in these areas is needed, including on incorporating nontechnical inputs, on processes encompassing later assessment stages, on integrating diverse participant processes with governance, and on diverse involvement in other aspects of technology development and execution. Better and increased stakeholder involvement could, through substantive content and incorporation of values, enable science, technology development, and decision-making best to serve society.
by Shlomiya Lightfoot.
Ph. D. in Science, Technology, and Policy
Blaney, Weston Douglas. "An Institute for Urban Agriculture: Architecture, Ecology and Urban Habitat." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35895.
Master of Architecture
Nuwamanya-Matsiko, John Willis 1950. "The East African Institute of Resource Planning and Management: A proposal." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278139.
Mutiti, Christine Mango. "Report on an Internship with the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1070632432.
Szenher, Matthew D. "Visual homing in dynamic indoor environments." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3193.
Webb, Rachel M. "Crater Lake National Park and Oak Ridge Institute of Sciences and Education: An Internship." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1050006412.
Gao, Fei Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Modeling human attention and performance in automated environments with low task loading." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106592.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225).
Automation has the benefit of reducing human operators' workload. By leveraging the power of computers and information technology, the work of human operators is becoming easier. However, when the workload is too low but the human is required to be present either by regulation or due to limitations of automation, human performance can be negatively affected. Negative consequences such as distraction, mind wandering, and inattention have been reported across many high risk settings including unmanned aerial vehicle operation, process control plant supervision, train engineers, and anesthesiologists. Because of the move towards more automated systems in the future, a better understanding is needed to enable intervention and mitigation of possible negative impacts. The objectives of this research are to systematically investigate the attention and performance of human operators when they interact with automated systems under low task load, build a dynamic model and use it to facilitate system design. A systems-based framework, called the Boredom Influence Diagram, was proposed to better understand the relationships between the various influences and outcomes of low task loading. A System Dynamics model, named the Performance and Attention with Low-task-loading (PAL) Model, was built based on this framework. The PAL model captures the dynamic changes of task load, attention, and performance over time in long duration low task loading automated environments. In order to evaluate the replication and prediction capability of the model, three dynamic hypotheses were proposed and tested using data from three experiments. The first hypothesis stated that attention decreases under low task load. This was supported by comparing model outputs with data from an experiment of target searching using unmanned vehicles. Building on Hypothesis 1, the second and third hypotheses examined the impact of decreased attention on performance in responding to an emergency event. Hypothesis 2 was examined by comparing model outputs with data from an experiment of accident response in nuclear power plant monitoring. Results showed that performance is worse with lower attention levels. Hypothesis 3 was tested by comparing model outputs with data from an experiment of defensive target tracking. The results showed that the impact of decreased attention on performance was larger when the task was difficult. The process of testing these three hypotheses shows that the PAL model is a generalized theory that could explain behaviors under low task load in different supervisory control settings. Finally, benefits, limitations, generalizability and applications of the PAL model were evaluated. Further research is needed to improve and extend the PAL model, investigate individual differences to facilitate personnel selection, and develop system and task designs to mitigate negative consequences.
by Fei Gao.
Ph. D. in Engineering Systems
Minárik, Pavol. "Significance of Institutional Environment for Agricultural Production." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10804.
Hoeweler, Gwyneth Rhiannon. "An Internship Report for the Institute of Environmental Science Global Vision International and Imago Earth Center." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1228922490.
Allen, Andre Ramon. "A Technical Communication Internship at The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1102077601.
Wilhelm, Bernard C. "Urban Fabric as a Calayst for Architectural Awareness: Center for Architectural Research." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/564.
Day, Rachel Elise. "CHEMICAL MEASURES OF THE GREAT MIAMI WATERSHED: A SEASONAL POSITION WITH MIDWEST BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1390431534.
Laseter, Joel Tyler III. "Holistic Performance Evaluation of the Built Environment: The Olin Building Past, Present & Future." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1544173911724874.
Lavenir, Xavier Paul Lister. "The strategic design and environmental footprint of highly responsive urban distribution networks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127736.
Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2019
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-107).
With the rise of the on-demand economy and the increasingly high service levels expected by consumers, companies are racing to provide shorter and shorter delivery lead times for e-commerce orders. Two-day deliveries have become the norm in dense urban areas and companies are developing highly responsive urban distribution networks capable of serving consumers in lead times as low as one hour. These changing consumer shopping habits are leading to more fragmented deliveries and increased urban freight activity as it becomes more difficult to consolidate orders. Increased urban freight activity is in-turn leading to more congestion, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution, harming city residents. In this work, we explore the strategic design of highly responsive urban distribution networks, promising lead times of under two hours, and investigate which operational and environmental parameters drive the deployment of different types of network designs.
We explore how adding extra levels of network flexibility, with the ability to physically relocate fulfilment capacities throughout the day using mobile inventory locations, affects the commercial and environmental performance of a network. Furthermore, we evaluate the environmental footprint of these networks by measuring their contribution to congestion and CO₂ and NO[subscript x] emissions, and contrast these with the environmental footprint of next-day delivery distribution networks. From a policy perspective, we investigate how the strategic design and performance of highly responsive networks are affected by an urban congestion charge policy and by different levels of government subsidy for last-mile logistics infrastructure. We optimize the design of these highly responsive networks using an iterative simulation-optimization approach which captures the stochastic and dynamic nature of the last-mile operations.
We conduct a case study with a global fashion company, where we design highly responsive distribution networks capable of serving the company's online customers in Manhattan, New York, in under two hours. We find that highly responsive orders tend to be much less sustainable than orders delivered the next-day, with a higher delivery cost and environmental footprint. However, highly responsive networks can be sustainable if designed under favourable operational conditions, such as enabling the consolidation of orders and using sustainable couriers such as bicycles.
by Xavier Paul Lister Lavenir.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
S.M.inTechnologyandPolicy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Kogeyama, Cintia. "As diferentes concepções de educação ambiental presentes no Programa Nascentes Verdes Rios Vivos do Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100134/tde-29012018-101503/.
The present research sought to analyze the different conceptions of environmental education (EA) present in the Nascentes Verdes Rios Vivos program of the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPÊ), held in Nazaré Paulista, SP. We seek to understand, therefore, how the different conceptions of EA: conservative, pragmatic and critical are present in the Nascentes Verdes, Rios Vivos Program. In order to do so, we interviewed the IPÊ team and applied questionnaires to the elementary school teachers of Nazaré Paulista. By making these conceptions explicit to the program team and to teachers, they can review their assumptions and change or improve their actions. Although we do not believe in a only possible environmental education, we are more in agreement with the presuppositions present in the approach of Critical Environmental Education, since according to different authors it is the one that can generate change, social transformation of those involved with this educational practice (CARVALHO, 2004a, LIMA, 2004; LOUREIRO, 2004a). It is important to emphasize that we believe that different approaches can coexist, that contradictions are present. In fact, it was found, when we analyze the conception of the program team and teachers for the knowledge dimension, we find the predominance of critical and pragmatic tendencies. In terms of ethical and aesthetic values, the program team presented a more critical tendency when compared with teachers. However, when we look at the activities of the program, two parameters were not found: discussions of differences in access to elements of nature and in the distribution of environmental risks, as well as the use of aesthetic elements. Finally, with regard to the political participation dimension, although both actors have a predominantly critical conception, the program does not work out this dimension
Liu, Weitong S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Economic and environmental opportunities in electronics industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111235.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-68).
Due to industrial development and technological innovation, many problems arise from the increasing number of electronics devices that need to be managed at end of life. The two main market failures related to waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are economic loss and environmental externalities. Incomplete recovery of materials in waste mobile phones results in a great amount of economic loss. Many studies aim to improve the situation by characterizing metals within printed circuit boards (PCBs). My work focuses on the evolving composition and the flow of materials located outside of PCBs. I have discovered significant economic potential of non-PCB metals, and provide suggestions for optimization of different preprocessing steps. I recommend that preprocessors pay special attention to precious metals in fine shredding. And I have also provided strategies for plastics recycling by forecasting the demand and supply of it in Portugal. Besides opportunities for addressing environmental impact in the end-of-life stage of electronics products, there are also opportunities in other life cycle stages such as GHG savings by the enablement of semiconductors in the use stage. I identify six areas of GHG savings and provide insights for more informed policy to better evaluate the influence of technologies in the electronics industry.
by Weitong Liu.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Baker, William E. "Campus community : students' search for an operational definition /." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-170456/.
Vice, President Research Office of the. "The Green House." Office of the Vice President Research, The University of British Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2667.
Gʹomez, Ugarte Garcʹia Luis A. (Luis Alberto). "Technology transfer through R&D organizations--industry interaction : a policy analysis for a public research institute in Mexico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36485.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-143).
by Luis A. Gomez Ugarte Garcia.
M.S.
Pietikäinen, Vivi. "Look beyond the bin! : Solid Waste Management and recycling at the Asian Institute of Tecnology." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Life Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1972.
The generation of domestic waste is at present less than 1 kg/day per person in Thailand, but generated amounts keeps steadily growing. This trend is closely connected to an increasing population and economic growth, something that is creating waste management issues. The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) outside Bangkok has the potential of being a leader in sustainable development in the Southeast Asian region, however a substantial opportunity is being missed – best environmental practices are currently not prioritized. Only 4 % of the total waste generated on campus is recycled at AIT, 3 % is composted and 93 % is taken to the municipal waste disposal site. Fluorescent light bulbs and other hazardous household waste are disposed on the campus dumpsite. Some measures have been undertaken in order to improve the solid waste management (SWM) at AIT, e.g. a new waste collection facility has been built in the outskirts of campus, where more space is provided in order to facilitate waste separation.
The field research for this study was carried out at AIT and the goal was to examine the SWM network, the problems and to analyse the recycling habits on campus. To investigate and visualize the actors involved in the SWM at AIT, the Actor-Network theory (ANT) was applied as an analytical framework. The generation of waste is the macro actor i.e. the reason for the existence of SWM. Other actors are the AIT students and staff (produce waste), the new Campus Environment and Development Committee – CEDC (the controlling part), environmental awareness (attitude towards recycling), and waste collectors.
The results from the survey witness of that people have a positive but somewhat cautious attitude towards the sustainability of source separation. Separating waste at source is a key mechanism for solving the SWM problem but people are uncertain of how to separate each waste fraction. There is a strong need to designate a coordinator of the SWM at AIT and as long as there is a lack of leadership, a goal of environmentally sustainable practices cannot be reached. The new CEDC is currently not performing any actions towards an integrated SWM.
Idag produceras mindre än ett kilo hushållsavfall per dag och person i Thailand men mängden växer stadigt med ökad befolkning och bättre ekonomiska förutsättningar vilket leder till sophanteringsproblem. Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) i Thailand har potential att vara en ledstjärna inom hållbar utveckling i Sydostasien men en stor möjlighet går om intet – den bästa miljömässiga tillämpningen i sophanteringsfrågan prioriteras inte. Endast 4 % av soporna återvinns på AIT, 3 % komposteras och 93 % hamnar på den kommunala soptippen. Lysrör och annat farligt hushållsavfall dumpas på universitetets soptipp. Vissa åtgärder har vidtagits för att förbättra sophanteringen på AIT, t.ex. har en ny sopanläggning byggts i utkanten av campus med ökad kapacitet för sopsortering.
Fältarbetet för uppsatsen genomfördes på AIT och målet var att kartlägga sophanteringen, nätverket kring den, problemen runtom, samt att analysera återvinningsbeteendet på detta universitetscampus. För att gestalta och utreda aktörerna som är involverade i sophanteringen på AIT, använde jag Actor-Network theory som ett analytiskt verktyg. Själva produceringen av hushållssopor är makroaktören, dvs. skälet till sophanteringens existens. Andra aktörer är studenterna och de anställda på universitetet (skapar sopor), den nya kommittén för Miljö och Utveckling på campus (den kontrollerande delen), miljömedvetenhe (inställningen till återvinning) och sophämtarna.
Resultaten från enkätunderökningen vittnar om att människorna har en positiv men försiktig inställning gentemot hållbarheten i källsortering. Källsortering är grunden för att lösa sophanteringsproblematiken men folk är osäkra på hur de ska sortera avfallet. Det finns ett stort behov av en avfallshandläggare för sophanteringen på AIT och så länge bristen på ledarskap kvarstår, kan inte målet om miljömässig hållbarhet nås. Den nya kommittén för Miljö och Utveckling på campus genomför för tillfället inga handlingar i riktning mot en integrerad sophantering.
Alves, Elvisney Aparecido. "Ambiente institucional e a responsabilidade social empresarial na indústria calçadista de Franca : o caso do Instituto Pró-Criança." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/3306.
The present work approaches the subject of the social responsibility of businesses, considering the implications that the institutional environment exerts on business practices. The business world has increasingly emitted signals acknowledging its social duties, and with regards to Brazil, this has mainly occurred during the last decade of twentieth century. During this period, while taking the shoe industry of Franca as an object of study, the factories social responsibility is manifested in the creation of the Pro-Child Institute as a reaction taken by the local entrepreneurs against allegations of the use of child labor in the productive chain. The transformations verified in the national institutional environment are analyzed in the space of the four classic dimensions of the business social responsibility (economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic), aiming to understand the determining institutions for the phenomenon studied from the point of view of the actors. The perception of the footwear manufacturers associated with the Pro-Child Institute is obtained by means of interviews and survey of the historical declarations registered by the media. The content analysis is made by use of a matrix of thematic categories compatible with the treatment given to the subject of business social responsibility according to the influence of the institutions. The results reveal the preponderant force of economic interests associated with the international market, and the national fragility in the application of the legal measures, in the field of external social obligations, as well as the moral complacency of the actors involved and the restricted contribution of the governing structures toward philanthropic action to transform the local values relative to the use of child labor. The legitimacy of the businesses intermix with the economic interests in the reduction in the costs of transactions and its social representation, as to the relative weight of the institutions that conform to the environment.
O presente trabalho aborda o tema da responsabilidade social empresarial, considerando as implicações que o ambiente institucional exerce sobre as práticas de negócios. Cada vez mais o mundo dos negócios emite sinais, reconhecendo sua função social, no caso brasileiro, principalmente a partir da última década do século XX. Neste período, ao tomar a indústria calçadista de Franca como objeto de estudo, a responsabilidade social empresarial é manifestada na criação do Instituto Pró-Criança como uma reação dos empresários locais às denúncias de utilização de trabalho infantil na cadeia produtiva. As transformações verificadas no ambiente institucional nacional são analisadas no espaço das quatro dimensões clássicas da responsabilidade social empresarial (econômica, legal, ética e filantrópica), visando compreender as instituições determinantes para o fenômeno estudado na visão dos atores. A percepção dos industriais do calçado, associados ao Instituto Pró-Criança, é obtida por meio de entrevistas e levantamento das declarações históricas registradas pela mídia. A análise de conteúdo é disposta numa matriz de categorias temáticas compatível com o tratamento dado ao tema da responsabilidade social empresarial, segundo a influência das instituições. Os resultados revelam a força preponderante do interesse econômico associado ao mercado internacional e a fragilidade nacional na aplicação do dispositivo legal, no campo das obrigações sociais externas, bem como a complacência moral dos atores e a contribuição restringida da estrutura de governança da ação filantrópica para transformar os valores locais relativos à utilização de trabalho infantil. A legitimidade dos negócios mescla interesse econômico na redução nos custos de transação e sua representação social, conforme o peso relativo das instituições que conformam o ambiente.
Pignatelli, Niccoló Pasquale Luigi Maria. "Design of a mobile kit for cardiovascular disease screening in resource constrained environments." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111241.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-176).
In the past few decades global health has improved significantly and many countries have started to move away from high mortality rates due to infectious diseases. This trend has however been accompanied by an increase in chronic disease incidence, in particular Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs). In countries that are making this epidemiological transition, such as India, chronic diseases are also a hindrance to economic health as a large portion of deaths occur when people are still active in the work force. There are various policies that may be implemented to curb the burden of CVDs. These include population based approaches and high risk management strategies. In this thesis, the design of a mobile CVD Screening Kit to aid the screening of high risk subjects by low-skilled health workers is described. Focusing on India, a fertile ground where a mobile tool-kit may be implemented was identified at the intersection of: 1. Strong health worker schemes in primary care, 2. The diffusion of mobile phone technology and 3. Well developed CVD risk management strategies. The tools that constitute this CVD Screening Kit were tested at Sengupta Hospital and Research Institute, Nagpur, India. These tests showed that there is potential to develop the CVD Screening Kit further into a commercial product. The main advantage of the CVD Screening Kit developed is that, differently from standard CVD risk factor analysis, it measures the root issue of many CVDs, i.e. arterial stiffness. Therefore, the CVD Screening Kit brings complex clinical analysis capabilities, that are generally only available in equipped hospitals, to the hands of low-skilled health workers working in primary care centers. Although the CVD Screening Kit is still at an early stage of development, how it may be implemented in current public and private health programs that tackle CVDs, is also analysed in this thesis. Furthermore, it is discussed that introducing mobile phones to healthworkers, who are mostly female, may have a slow but strong impact on the independence and leadership of women.
by Niccoló Pasquale Luigi Maria Pignatelli.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Miller, Gordon Glazebrook. "Cyberspace: escaping flatland: a study of design in the virtual environment." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53296.
Master of Architecture
Fyffe, Deanna Lynne. "Methods to Monitor Lake Erie's Harmful Algal Blooms: A Fellowship with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1511971289649061.
Lanham, Abigail E. "My Learning Experiences at the Environmental Consulting Firm: Parsons Corporation." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1417006816.
Harding, Joanne Marie. "Evaluation of the neutral red assay as a stress response indicator in mussels (Mytilus spp.) in relation to seasonal, environmental, handling, harvesting, processing, and post-harvest storage conditions /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2003. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,162431.
Sakavapo, Tinashe. "Children's agency in reducing poverty and environmental risks : Case study of the Education for Income Program at Lighthouse Institute, Harare." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78025.
Mini Dissertation (MSW (Social Development and Policy))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Social Work and Criminology
MSW (Social Development and Policy)
Unrestricted
Morris, Lucille Darline. "A Student Environment Model: a Measure of Institutional Effectiveness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279096/.
Montenegro, Márcio Rodrigues. "Diretrizes para a gestão de emergência em situações de acidentes químicos: estudo em uma universidade pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2013. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7635.
Higher Education Institutions which perform activities of teaching and research in chemistry in general are areas of potential risk of accidents, since they use dangerous chemicals in their respective processes. This research is relevant taking in account the existence of substances of chemical and biological nature with health or environmental risks, as well structural collapses in various Higher Education Institutions in Brazil and abroad. The objective of the research was to develop guidelines for the management of emergencies in chemical accidents that can be applied in the laboratories of an Institute of Chemistry at a public university in the state of Rio de Janeiro. This is an exploratory and descriptive applied study. The present work has been done by means of literature review, visits to laboratories, photographic records and interviews aimed at officials, coaches and teachers IQ. The vulnerability assessment methodology was based on the "five-step method" of Federal Emergency Management Agency. The case study showed that the Institute of Chemistry has no Chemical Emergency Management, with the absence of fire brigade and the non-compliance of technical standards and regulations. Nevertheless, there are laboratories with a satisfactory profile for safety and health. The studied also showed that the methodology of Vulnerability Analysis as an appropriated tool for developing guidelines aimed at an Emergency Plan, when conducted by a specialized team.
Furtado, Joana Filipa Lopes da Silva. "Comunicação interna no Instituto do Turismo de Portugal." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7627.
O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o clima laboral existente atualmente no Instituto do Turismo de Portugal, através da análise do nível médio de satisfação global dos colaboradores, para se conhecer o que há a melhorar relativamente à Comunicação Interna. Foram utilizados dois tipos de análise, quantitativa e qualitativa. Para a primeira, recorreu-se ao uso de um questionário, de natureza anónima e confidencial, a ser preenchido pelos colaboradores do instituto utilizando uma escala de 1 a 6 (1 - Muito Insatisfeito; 6 - Muito Satisfeito). Neste, também foram incluídos campos em aberto que em conjunto com as entrevistas comportaram uma análise qualitativa. Os resultados obtidos podem ser traduzidos pelo nível médio de satisfação global dos colaboradores (3,51), situando-se este na posição central da escala utilizada, e pelo nível médio de satisfação dos colaboradores no que diz respeito aos itens do questionário relacionados com a Comunicação Interna (3,70). No que concerne à análise de conteúdo (campos em aberto dos questionários e entrevistas), em geral, todos os participantes mencionaram a existência de uma cultura organizacional fragmentada e um distanciamento relativamente ao Conselho Diretivo. Em suma, estes resultados revelam uma oportunidade de melhoria do clima laboral existente no Turismo de Portugal, com grande potencial de crescimento. Para isso, pode-se recorrer, por exemplo, a algumas das sugestões de melhoria apresentadas pelos inquiridos nos campos em aberto dos questionários e nas entrevistas.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the work environment currently existing at the Tourism Institute of Portugal, by analyzing the average overall satisfaction level of the employees, to know what to improve in relation to Internal Communication. Two types of analysis were used, quantitative and qualitative. For the first, we resorted to the use of a questionnaire, anonymous and confidential nature, to be filled by employees of the institute using a 1-6 scale (1 - Very Dissatisfied, 6 - Very Satisfied). We also included open-answer fields, which combined with the interviews, formed the qualitative analysis. The results can be translated by the average overall satisfaction level of the employees (3,51), this being situated at the central position of the scale used, and by the average satisfaction level of the employees regarding the questionnaire items related with the Internal Communication (3,70). Concerning the content analysis (open-answer fields of the questionnaires and interviews), in general, all participants mentioned the existence of a fragmented organizational culture and a distant relationship with the Governing Board. In summary, these results reveal an opportunity to improve the existing work environment in Turismo de Portugal, with great potential for growth. To achieve this, for example, there could be used some of the suggestions for improvement made by the respondents in the open-answer fields of the questionnaires and interviews.
Harper, Kylie René. "The role of surface: catalytic surface strategies for open space in urban environments." Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15778.
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
Effective open space is critical to the urban quality of life because it fosters environmental, social, and economic vitality. However, some designers, planners, and developers have a tendency to focus on only one of these aspects and, thus, create spaces that are monofunctional and inefficient over time. To ensure effective open spaces in cities, landscape architects must think strategically and employ design tactics that are multifunctional and perform environmentally, socially, and economically. My objective was to provide landscape architects with a framework that ensured effective open spaces through the manipulation of the urban surface. In this report, I explored how the urban surface could be used to create multifunctional, flexible, and adaptive solutions that informed and directed (re)development so that urban spaces had lasting value. A thorough literature review that explored concepts from Jane Jacobs, Alex Wall, and Ying-Yu Hung was used to create a theoretical framework that consisted of various tactics. The tactics were aesthetic, programmatic, contextual, and/or performative in nature, and the aggregation of these tactics in the urban surface catalyzed environmental, social, and economic vitality in urban open spaces. My methodology was iterative, cycling periods of research, design, and analysis in both group and individual settings. The theoretical framework was used to evaluate and inform design decisions, and the design decisions refined and validated the theoretical framework itself. The theoretical framework was first applied to two precedent studies through a series of diagrammatic mapping exercises. Then, the theoretical framework was applied to two collaborative, multidisciplinary redevelopment projects. The first project was the redevelopment of the Village Plaza shopping center in Manhattan, Kansas (MHK Project), and the second project was the revitalization of Downtown East in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the annual Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, sponsored by the Urban Land Institute (ULI Competition). Both of these projects were evaluated and refined using the same diagrammatic mapping exercises. The effectiveness of using the theoretical framework as a guide for designing successful open spaces was validated with my team’s victory in the finalist round of the ULI Competition. The tactics in the theoretical framework offered pragmatic and multiscalar strategies that I incorporated into the open spaces that my team and I designed. Ultimately, I discovered that the role of surface was to accommodate, organize, structure, and facilitate the dynamic processes necessary for environmental, social, and economic vitality, which enhanced the urban quality of life and created an indisputable sense of place.
Schäfer, Sabine [Verfasser]. "Reproductive disorders in sea urchins (Psammechinus miliaris) caused by environmental pollutants / Sabine Schäfer. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research." Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1034994751/34.
Lam, Wing-po. "Attitudes of teachers & teacher trainees towards environmental education." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14709478.
Hovhannisyan, Lilit. "OVERSEEING THE MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF WATER SUPPLY PROJECTS IN ARMENIA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami150105623187497.
Wilson, Danielle L. S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Impacts of environmental policy in China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region : a case study of the iron and steel industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115004.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-96).
This thesis focuses on the drivers of regional development and environmental control decisions in the iron and steel industry in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China. The analysis presented includes (1) a county-level econometric analysis of the geographic distribution of the iron and steel industry between 2004 and 2009 in Hebei province and (2) a firm-level case study that analyzes the value of a flexible space option for a hypothetical, relocated steel plant that faces uncertainty in the timing and stringency of future environmental policy. Results from the econometric analysis of industrial distribution show a significant negative relationship between the initial rate of economic growth of a county, measured in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) change between 2004 and 2005, and growth of iron and steel shares in that county between 2005 and 2009. Results also show a significant negative relationship between population density in 2005 and both growth and concentration of iron and steel industrial shares. These results provide regional context and a descriptive baseline for a stylized case study. Inspired by the government-mandated relocation of major steel company Shougang in advance of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the case study uses real options analysis to evaluate the value of a flexible option to install flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) technology for sulfur dioxide (SO₂) removal in response to uncertain developments in environmental policy. Case study results show a significant increase in the NPV of a steel facility that has the ability to employ the flexible option to construct an FGD system in the face of policy that begins in year six. This result is sensitive to policy timing, FGD space cost, and future FGD costs. Insights from this analysis are designed to help policymakers understand past patterns of industry evolution and environmental decision-making in firms during a period of very rapid economic development. This understanding can be used to identify ways to increase the effectiveness of environmental regulations in dynamic, rapidly-developing China.
by Danielle L. Wilson.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Dobricic, Srdjan [Verfasser]. "Sensitivity of an ocean atmosphere model of Adriatic Sea to coupling scheme and resolution of the atmospheric model / European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability Inland and Marine Waters Unit. vorgelegt von Srdjan Dobricic." Ispra : Inst. for Environment and Sustainability Inland and Marine Waters Unit, 2002. http://d-nb.info/967246164/34.