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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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[en] THE ROLE OF URBAN LAWS, PLANS AND PROJECTS IN BUILDING RESILIENCE FOR THE CITY OF PRAIA, CABO VERDE / [pt] O PAPEL DAS LEIS, PLANOS E PROJETOS URBANOS NA CONSTRUÇÃO DA RESILIÊNCIA PARA A CIDADE DA PRAIA, CABO VERDE

ADALGISA TEIXEIRA CORREIA 14 May 2018 (has links)
[pt] A presente dissertação busca saber qual está sendo o papel do poder público, na construção da resiliência para a Cidade da Praia, capital de Cabo Verde, que nas últimas décadas teve um crescimento populacional e urbano muito acelerado. A situação geográfica de Cabo Verde, faz com que o país esteja sujeito a uma diversidade de riscos e vulnerabilidades ambientais, é um país árido e com fortes irregularidades de chuva. Mais de metade da formação urbana da Cidade da Praia é de origem informal (espontâneo) e ainda hoje muitos carecem de infraestruturas adequadas e condições sadias de habitação. O traçado urbano é caracterizado por planaltos recortados por vales (ribeiras), onde os bairros planejados estão nos planaltos e os espontâneos se localizam nas periferias, que são nos vales e bacias. Os residentes desses bairros são predominantemente de classe baixa e com fraca capacidade adaptativa, muitas edificações estão em áreas de risco ambiental. Do conhecimento do estado da arte sobre a construção de uma cidade resiliente e das análises das leis, planos e projetos que acompanharam a expansão da cidade, e os atuais, este trabalho tem como o objetivo concluir se as leis, planos e projetos respondem ou não à princípios de uma cidade resiliente. As leis e planos urbanos em vigor na Cidade da Praia, vão de acordo com o que entende-se por construir uma cidade resiliente, porém pelo contexto de formação, a cidade hoje se encontra em condições contrárias de uma cidade resiliente, assim como, alguns projetos de intervenção urbana. / [en] This dissertation seeks to know the state of the role of public power in building resilience for the City of Praia, capital of Cape Verde, which in the last decades had a very rapid population and urban growth. The geographical situation of Cape Verde, makes the country subject to a diversity of environmental risks and vulnerabilities, is an arid country with strong irregularities of rain. More than half of the urban formation of City of Praia is from informal origin (spontaneous), and still today many need adequate infrastructure and healthy housing conditions. The urban design is characterized by plateaus cut by valleys (watercourses), where the planned neighborhood are in the plateaus and the spontaneous ones are located in the edges, that are in the valleys and basins. Residents of neighborhoods are predominantly low-class and with poor adaptive capacity, many build in areas whit environmental risk. From the state of the art knowledge about building a resilient city and the analysis of the laws, plans and projects that attend an updated the expansion of the city, this dissertation aims to conclude how did the urban laws, plans and projects respond or not to principles of a resilient city. The urban laws and plans in City of Praia are in agreement with what is meant by building a resilient city, however by a context of formation, the city today is in conditions contrary to a resilient city, as well as some urban intervention projects.
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Investigating Sub-tropical Community Resistance and Resilience to Climate Disturbance

Boucek, Ross E 31 August 2016 (has links)
Changes in global climate will likely increase climate variability. In turn, changes in climate variability have begun to alter the frequency, intensity, and timing of climate disturbances. Continued changes in the climate disturbance regime experienced by natural systems will undoubtedly affect ecological processes at every hierarchical scale. Thus, in order to predict the dynamics of ecological systems in the future, we must develop a more mechanistic understanding of how and in what ways climate disturbance affects natural systems. In South Florida, two climate disturbances recently affected the region, a severe cold spell in 2010, and a drought in 2011. Importantly, these disturbances affected an ecosystem of long-term, comprehensive, and persistent ecological study in the Shark River estuary in the Everglades National Park. The aims of my dissertation were to (1) assess the relative severity of these two climate disturbances, (2) identify effects of these disturbances on community structuring, (3) compare community change from the 2010 cold spell with community change from another extreme cold spell that affected sub-tropical China in 2008, (4) assess the effects of the drought on predator prey interactions in the Shark River and (5) apply a spatial approach to predicting population resistance to these events. My results show that the 2010 cold spell was the most severe cold event to affect the Shark River in the last 80 years, while the drought was the worst drought to occur in the last 10 years. The cold spell drove community change that was predictable based on the traits of component species, whereas community change was less predictable using trait-based approaches. When comparing community change from the extreme 2010 event in Florida with the event in China, I identified three consistencies related to community change from extreme cold events that occurred across both events that will help build generalized understanding of community resistance to increasingly extreme climate events in the future. From the trophic study, I found that the drought reduced prey for estuarine piscivores. Not only was prey biomass reduced, the drought drove a compositional shift in prey communities from fish to invertebrates, which are lower in calories. Last, I found that animal movement may create temporally dynamic resistance scenarios that should be accounted for when developing predictive models.
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Impacto de eventos climáticos extremos sobre o preço de ações de indústrias de interesse nacional

Lucas, Edimilson Costa 19 October 2015 (has links)
Submitted by Edimilson Costa Lucas (costalucas@yahoo.com) on 2015-11-10T13:28:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 EdimilsonCostaLucas_TESE.pdf: 2525096 bytes, checksum: 88b5fc4a39e14115350d9a7fddece121 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Tereza Fernandes Conselmo (maria.conselmo@fgv.br) on 2015-11-11T12:34:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 EdimilsonCostaLucas_TESE.pdf: 2525096 bytes, checksum: 88b5fc4a39e14115350d9a7fddece121 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-11T12:38:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EdimilsonCostaLucas_TESE.pdf: 2525096 bytes, checksum: 88b5fc4a39e14115350d9a7fddece121 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-19 / The occurrence of extreme weather events, such as increased temperature, hurricanes, floods and droughts has been increasingly common around of the world. The finance literature has documented efforts directed to the assessment of economic impacts from climate change that can bring significant consequences for the world economy. However, especially in Brazil, a key emerging market, little has been studied mainly with a view to assessing the impacts of climate events in the company level. Thus, this thesis analyzes, in an unprecedented manner, the impact of weather events on the value of companies belonging to two high national interest industries, in the form of two essays. First it analyzes the impact of extreme rainfall on the stock price of the Brazilian food sector. Therefore, it is conducted the research using daily data in share prices of six companies of this industry. From the location to the main area of activity of these companies, they are considered their daily data on extreme rainfall. With the use of hybrid methodology ARMA-GARCH-GPD, it was found that the evaluated companies, the extreme rainfall impacted significantly in more than half of the 198 days of extreme rainfall between 02/28/2005 and 12/30/2014, resulting in average losses daily around 1.97% on the day after the heavy rainfall. In terms of market value, this represents total average loss of around US$ 682.15 million in a single day. Second it evaluates the impact of climate variables and location on the value of companies in the energy sector in Brazil, from data on companies in the Brazilian electricity sector, as well as rainfall, temperature and geographical location of the companies. From the analysis of data in static panel and spatial panel, the results suggest that temperature and precipitation have significant effect on the value of these companies. This study can contribute in the process of structuring and creating a weather derivatives market in Brazil. / A ocorrência de eventos climáticos extremos, tais como aumento da temperatura, furacões, enchentes e secas, tem sido cada vez mais frequente ao redor do mundo. A literatura de finanças tem documentado esforços dirigidos à avaliação de impactos econômicos oriundos das variações climáticas, com consequências significantes na economia mundial. Entretanto, especialmente no Brasil, um dos principais mercados emergentes, pouco tem sido pesquisado, sobretudo com vistas à avaliação dos impactos de eventos climáticos no nível das empresas. Sendo assim, esta tese analisa, de forma inédita, o impacto de eventos climáticos sobre o valor de empresas pertencentes a duas indústrias de elevado interesse nacional, sob a forma de dois ensaios. Em primeiro lugar analisa-se o impacto de chuvas extremas sobre o preço de ações do setor de alimentos brasileiro. Para tanto, é conduzida a pesquisa empregando dados diários do preço de ações de seis empresas dessa indústria. A partir da localização da principal região de atuação dessas empresas, são considerados os respectivos dados diários referentes às chuvas extremas. Com o emprego da metodologia híbrida ARMA-GARCH-GPD, constatou-se que, nas empresas avaliadas, as chuvas extremas impactaram significantemente em mais da metade dos 198 dias de chuvas extremas ocorridos entre 28/02/2005 e 30/12/2014, acarretando perdas médias diárias ao redor de 1,97% no dia posterior a chuva extrema. Em termos de valor de mercado, isso representa perda média total ao redor de US$682,15 mi em um único dia. Em segundo lugar avalia-se o impacto de variáveis climáticas e localização sobre o valor das empresas do setor de energia do Brasil, a partir de dados referentes às empresas do setor elétrico brasileiro, bem como precipitação pluviométrica, temperatura e localização geográfica das empresas. A partir da análise de dados em painel estático e painel espacial, os resultados sugerem que temperatura e precipitação pluviométrica têm efeito significante sobre o valor dessas empresas. O presente estudo pode vir a contribuir no processo de estruturação e criação de um mercado de derivativos climáticos no Brasil.

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