Submitted by Cássia Santos (cassia.bcufg@gmail.com) on 2017-04-19T15:38:37Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Hérika Silva Vasques - 2017.pdf: 5578013 bytes, checksum: b5fe9b87193869110d6455d2dc28a3f5 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-04-20T13:04:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Hérika Silva Vasques - 2017.pdf: 5578013 bytes, checksum: b5fe9b87193869110d6455d2dc28a3f5 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-20T13:04:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Hérika Silva Vasques - 2017.pdf: 5578013 bytes, checksum: b5fe9b87193869110d6455d2dc28a3f5 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-16 / Considering climate as the yearly sequence of weather patterns, it may be viewed as ultimate result of the interaction between geographic variables, these being responsible for the atmospheric dynamics. Such acknowledgment contributes significantly to urban and rural planning, as it indicates, among other elements, precipitation, temperature variation, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, and relative humidity, which when associated to the surface, respond for various climatic phenomena. In this research, rainfall is highlighted as the true indicator of weather patterns in tropical savanna climates, such the case of the Goiás state. In this sense, the research had as main objective to analyze the rainfall regime and comprehend the sucession rate of atmospheric states of exceptional nature in the Jataí region, thus contributing to the climatic profiling of the researched area. This work was undertaken by mold of the Geographic Climatology, from quantitative (quartile deviation, central tendency distributions, Schroeder's pluviograms) and qualitative (rhythmic analysis) techniques. The study presents as conclusion the region's climatic regime and the atmospheric systems' participation table. The rainfall in Jataí is related, mainly, to frontal passings and action of an unstable Tropical-atlantic and Equatorial-continental air mass. / Considerando que o clima é a sucessão dos estados de tempo que se repetem e incidem ao longo dos anos, pode-se pensar nele como consequência primeira da interação entre os elementos e os fatores geográficos, que, por sua vez, respondem pela dinâmica atmosférica. Tal conhecimento contribui significativamente para o planejamento urbano e rural, pois revela, entre outros fatores, o regime da precipitação pluvial, a variação da temperatura, a velocidade e a direção dos ventos, a radiação solar e a umidade relativa do ar, que, associados à natureza da superfície, respondem por situações diversas. Neste trabalho, as chuvas têm posição de destaque, pois elas são as verdadeiras tradutoras do ritmo climático em áreas tropicais semiúmidas, como é o caso de Goiás. Nesse sentido, a dissertação teve como objetivo geral analisar o regime pluviométrico e compreender o ritmo de sucessão dos estados atmosféricos de caráter excepcional na região de Jataí, contribuindo, dessa maneira, para a caracterização climática da área de estudo. Esta pesquisa foi realizada à luz da Climatologia Geográfica, a partir de técnicas quantitativas (desvio quartílico, medidas de tendência central, pluviogramas de Schröder) e qualitativas (análise rítmica). Este estudo apresenta como resultado o regime climático da região e o índice de participação dos sistemas atmosféricos. As chuvas que ocorrem em Jataí estão ligadas, principalmente, a passagens frontais e à atuação das massas Tropical Atlântica com instabilidades e Equatorial Continental.

Sustainability is viewed as a solution to climate change and social unrest, yet the systems we use to understand and implement it often contribute to the very problems they aim to solve. This thesis investigates how stakeholders in the German construction sector integrate sustainability into their daily practices. Using James Lovelock’s concept of Earth as a self- regulating system, the study explores stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainability. Based on qualitative interviews, the research identifies three main themes: certification systems, economic pressures, and the intrinsic connection of stakeholders to Gaia. Findings suggest that while certification systems guide sustainable practices, they are often used due to other motivations than for genuine environmental efforts. Economic pressures further hinder the adoption of sustainable practices, as stakeholders prioritize short-term gains over long-term ecological benefits. However, a strong connection to Gaia and could inspire deeper engagement with sustainability. The thesis concludes that adopting the interconnectedness emphasized by the Gaia hypothesis could lead to more effective and authentic sustainability practices in the construction sector.

This thesis is a post qualitative inquiry that explores a different research approach concerning climate change and what Bruno Latour calls the Terrestrial. We are now living in a New Climatic Regime or locked-down age, according to Latour, where life continues – yet is ever more suspended and disorienting. This frozen image of modern life is drawn in our new landscape – that is political, organizational and it concerns terrestrial sustainability – along with an emerging worldview (of Gaia) that is challenging to understand and manage for. It also reorients how we are managing sustainability and what we connect to it. This new landscape – that is also a mapping of dominant trajectories for organizing and Terrestrial reorientation with the world – is traversed, extended, and explored with two blockchain projects for sustainability. The projects are organizing their own currency for putting-on-chain, tokenizing, or attaching to nature, carbon and other actors. The key coordinates and blockages of this new landscape for sustainability are also drawn from these two cases – mapping their organizing trajectories and Terrestrial reorientation. The research and writing of this inquiry gathers with Terrestrial earth-bound movement for managing, living and organizing in connection with the common world for habitability.