This thesis is an ethnography of how places like mountain pastures (jailoos), hydro-electric dams and holy sites (mazars) matter in striving for a good life. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in the Toktogul valley of Kyrgyzstan, this study contributes to theoretical questions in the anthropology of post-socialism, time, space, work and enjoyment. I use the term ‘moral geography’ to emphasize a spatial imaginary that is centred on ideas of ‘the good life’, both ethical and happy. This perspective captures an understanding of jailoos which connects food, health, wealth and beauty. In comparing attitudes towards a Soviet and post-Soviet dam, I reveal changes in the nature of the state, property and collective labour. People in Toktogul hold agentive places like mazars and non-personalized places like dams and jailoos apart, implying not one overarching philosophy of nature, but a world in which types of places have different gradations of object-ness and personhood. I show how people use forms of commemoration as a means of establishing connections between people, claims on land and aspirations of ‘becoming cultured’. I demonstrate how people draw on repertoires of epic or Soviet heroism and mobility in conceiving their life story and agency in shaping events. Different times and places such as ‘eternal’ jailoos and Soviet dams are often collapsed as people derive personal authority from connections to them. Analysing accounts of collectivization and privatization I argue that the Soviet period is often treated as a ‘second tradition’ used to judge the present. People also strive for ‘the good life’ through working practices that are closely linked to the Soviet experience, and yet differ from Marxist definitions of labour. The pervasively high value of work is fed from different, formally conflicting sources of moral authority such as Socialism, Islam and neo-liberal ideals of ‘entrepreneurship’. I discuss how parties, poetry and song bring together jakshylyk (goodness) as enjoyment and virtue. I show how song and poetry act as moral guides, how arman yearning is purposely enjoyed in Kyrgyz music and how it relates to nostalgia and nature imagery. The concept of ‘moral geography’ allows me to investigate how people strive for well-being, an investigation that is just as important as focusing on problem-solving and avoiding pain. It also allows an analysis of place and time that holds material interactions, moral ideals, economic and political dimensions in mind.

Scholars agree that global climate change is a major threat to the physical environment, affecting all aspects of life on the planet. However, the general public do not feel that climate change is a major risk or threat, especially to humans. It is important to understand the public’s perception and opinions of climate change as it affects and influences the creation and passing of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. Specifically, little is known about public perceptions in regards to the greater health risk imposed by global climate change. This study examines the public's perception of health risks related to climate change in Broward County, Florida by using mixed methods. An online survey was conducted along with in-person interviews with the general public and a physician. The study found majority of respondents to believe climate change affects health, but lacked an understanding of how it is harmful to their health. It also found that gender affects their perceptions and political ideology appears to have an effect, but the effect of socioeconomic status on their perceptions were unable to be determined at this time. Broward is just developing policies to adapt and mitigate the health effects of climate change. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-08-01T11:33:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Júlio Carlos de Oliveira Moreira.pdf: 30136547 bytes, checksum: 347bd6ba131e4f99564827ee92f6bfce (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T11:33:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Júlio Carlos de Oliveira Moreira.pdf: 30136547 bytes, checksum: 347bd6ba131e4f99564827ee92f6bfce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-15 / Societies can be studied by analyzing various aspects. How individuals organize themselves politically; how they eat; how they treat the environment; how they have sex. I have chosen to analyze what the body of man can say about society. I seek to analyze throughout history, relevant aspects that characterized the importance of the man’s body. A trajectory of facts and opinions that guided the Western world. When one speaks about man’s body, even today, it is a term that is synonymous of the human body. Despite its privileged position in relationship to women for centuries, this modern man lives the extremes of society. It occupies the highest political and economic positions on the globe, but at the same time, also represents the largest contingent of prisoners in jails. The contemporary man is a being who lives social pressures due to the new roles assumed by the woman since the second half of the last century, besides other challenges imposed by the modern life. He tries to locate his position in this new society. A society of performance linked to the logic of consumption as Bauman and Byung-Chul teach us. As a social voyeur I gaze at the body of man to understand the logic that guides our behavior in the second half of the 21st century, where concepts like privacy change with the rising of social networks. A new society of exhibition, where the body becomes a commodity to be worked on to create an intended identity of the individual. And that generates dissatisfaction for those who do not reach the models idealized by that society. But also anxiety among those who have reached valued standards and do not wish to lose them / As sociedades podem ser estudadas analisando vários de seus aspectos. Como os indivíduos se organizam politicamente; como comem; como tratam o meio ambiente; como fazem sexo. Eu escolhi analisar o que o corpo do homem pode falar sobre a sociedade. Busco analisar ao longo da história, aspectos relevantes que caracterizaram a importância do corpo do homem. Uma trajetória de fatos e opiniões que nortearam o mundo ocidental. Quando se fala no corpo do homem, ainda hoje, ele é um termo sinônimo do corpo humano. Apesar de sua posição privilegiada em relação à mulher durante séculos, esse homem moderno vive os extremos da hierarquia social. Ocupa ao mesmo tempo os maiores cargos políticos e econômicos pelo globo, mas também representa o maior contingente de presos nas prisões. O homem atual é um ser que vive pressões sociais devido aos novos papéis assumidos pela mulher desde a segunda metade do século passado e desafios impostos pela vida moderna. Ele tenta localizar qual a sua posição nessa nova sociedade. Uma sociedade do desempenho atrelado à lógica do consumo como nos ensinam Bauman e Byung-Chul. Como um voyeur social miro o corpo do homem para entender as lógicas que norteiam o nosso comportamento nessa segunda metade do século XXI, onde conceitos como privacidade se alteram com o fortalecimento das redes sociais. Uma nova sociedade da exibição, onde o corpo passa a ser uma mercadoria a ser trabalhada para criar uma identidade pretendida do indivíduo. E que gera insatisfações para quem não atinge os modelos idealizados por essa sociedade. Mas também ansiedade entre aqueles que obtiveram os padrões valorizados e não desejam perde-los

[pt] Introdução: A promoção das políticas públicas voltadas à implementação dos direitos sociais (saúde inclusive) lida com a difícil tarefa de distribuir os limitados recursos estatais aos anseios da população, notadamente quando se busca implementar os direitos cujo custo é elevado. Constatou-se que os sujeitos de pesquisas biomédicas, ao final do estudo, têm sido negligenciados no acesso aos benefícios terapêuticos do medicamento ou procedimento para cuja aprovação colaboraram. Finda a pesquisa, há muitas demandas contra o Estado, formuladas pelos sujeitos participantes do ensaio. Objetivos: discutir os posicionamentos judiciais atinentes ao controle jurisdicional de políticas públicas no fornecimento de medicamentos ao participante da pesquisa, após o encerramento do estudo. Métodos: levantamento qualitativo, no sentido de identificar um norte interpretativo e, a partir dele, elaborar um posicionamento crítico e propor um standard decisório que, além juridicamente respaldado, seja eticamente consentâneo aos parâmetros de conduta nos procedimentos envolvendo o participante de pesquisa, de modo a reconhecê-lo como sujeito moral digno ao igual respeito e consideração. Resultados: o levantamento jurisprudencial efetuado não pode fornecer uma ratio decidendi clara no tema. Discussão: o Estado tem dever constitucionalmente assumido de garantir a assistência integral à saúde, portanto, possui legitimidade para ser demandado em ações nas quais o participante da pesquisa busca, ao final do estudo, a continuidade do fornecimento do medicamento. Porém, tanto a Resolução CNS número 466/2012, como a Declaração de Helsinque, que impõem regras a serem cumpridas pelos pesquisadores e patrocinadores, asseguraram aos participantes acesso aos produtos ou agentes obtidos. Considerações finais: o participante da pesquisa titulariza direito subjetivo ao fornecimento do medicamento após o encerramento. Estado e atores da pesquisa (patrocinador e instituição) são devedores solidários dessa obrigação. A demanda direcionada em face de um, ou sua condenação, autoriza o chamamento ou regresso em face do outro. / [en] Introduction: The promotion of public policies aimed at implementation of social rights (including health) deals with the difficult task of distributing limited state resources to popular expectations, especially when one seeks to implement the rights which cost is high. It was found that the subjects of biomedical, researches at the end of the study, have been neglected in accessing therapeutic benefits of the drug or procedure which they cooperated for its approval. Ending the research, there are many claims against the State, formulated by the subjects participating in the trial. Objectives: To discuss matters pertaining to the judicial control of public policies for the supply of medicines to the research participant, after the end of the study. Methods: A qualitative survey to identify an interpretive north, and from it develop a critical approach and propose a decision-making standard that besides being legally backed, also being ethically consistent to the standards of conduct of procedures involving the research participant, in order to recognize it as a moral subject worthy of equal respect and consideration. Results: The case-study carried out can not provide a clear ratio decidendi in the topic. Discussion: the state has assumed constitutional duty to ensure integrate health care, therefore has standing to be sued in actions which the participant within the survey seeks at the end of the study, the continuity of medicine supply. However, both the CNS Resolution No. 466/2012, and the Declaration of Helsinki, which impose rules to be observed by researchers and sponsors, assured the participants access to products or agents obtained. Final considerations: the research participant securitization subjective right to supply the drug after closure. State and research actors (sponsor and institution) are joint debtors of this obligation. The lawsuit directed to one, or its condemnation authorizes the call or return in the face of the other.

Marine and coastal ecosystems are subject to diverse and increasingly intensive anthropogenic activities, making understanding cumulative effects critically important. However, accurately accounting for the cumulative effects of human impacts can be difficult, with the possibility of multiple stressors interacting and having greater impacts than expected, compounding direct and indirect effects on individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. Assessment of multiple stressors therefore requires extensive scientific research that directly tests how single or multiple ecological components are affected by stressors, both singly and when combined, and as a consequence, cumulative effects assessments are now increasingly included in environmental assessments. Currently, there is a need to assess these at larger spatial scales, with additional research also urgently needed on the responses of ecological components, processes and functions to single and cumulative stressors. As cumulative environmental impacts could be better addressed by regional stressor effects assessments that combine methods for predicting multiple pressures on ecosystem recovery alongside degradation, this study used several separate approaches that can be used in parallel to give support for local management measures. I tested four completely different methods - a range of multi-metric indices, a food web model (Ecopath), a predictive model (Ecosim) and a Bayesian Belief Network model. Each approach was tested and compared in two shallow water estuarine systems, in Scotland and England, initially concerning the impact of nutrient enrichment and subsequent recovery and was followed by an investigation of how the addition of multiple stressors (nutrient levels, temperature and river-flow rates) would impact the future state of each system. The response to stressors was highly context dependent, varying between and within geographic locations. Overall, each of the four different approaches complemented each other and gave strong support for the need to make big reductions in the pressures and to consider trade-offs between impacting pressures. The models and tools also indicate that in order to reach an improved overall environmental state of each ecosystem, a focus on nutrient reductions are likely to be the most effective of the controls on stressors explored and that cumulative effects of the management of nutrient inputs and increased water temperatures and river-flow are likely to exist.

Trafficking in human beings is considered to be one of the most serious crimes in which there is a significant violation of fundamental human rights. Through recommendations and binding documents, international organisations call on states to prevent human trafficking, and if it occurs, to allow for the settlement of human rights of its victims. National governments are responsible for compliance with human rights commitments, not only on the level of policy formulation, but also in terms of their implementation in practice. However, experience of social work with trafficked persons in the Czech Republic shows that victims of this serious crime have no access to settlement of their rights. The aim of this paper was to evaluate whether the Czech Republic meets the selected human rights standards that ensure the victims' access to their rights. The evaluation of the situation was based on the selected criteria defining the meeting of individual human rights standards of the Aim for Human Rights organisation. Fulfilling the selected criteria was examined on the case of proceeding of state authorities in the case of exploitation of hundreds of foreign workers in the forestry industry, known as the "Stromkaři" (Tree Workers) case. The evaluation showed that while on the formal level the standards required by the...

自2010年9月以來,中國大陸限制對日稀土出口所造成影響，在全球演然以成為熱門話題，亦為我所探究本論文鵠的。當時中國大陸在一片撻伐聲中，似成麻煩製造者，因影響片及整體稀土元素供需市場，特別是那些缺乏稀土元素生產卻又非常依賴中國大陸稀土的進口廠商所發出來的抗議。然事實上，稀土這元素在地球上並不匱乏，但因為它的開採上的成本高利潤卻不高，相對存量卻一直減少造成許多國家並不願去開採它，漸漸全球高逹95%以上的生產量由中國取代，卻也間接造成中國在稀土市場上的獨佔市場地位，但中國卻又是整個稀土市場價格的接受者，供需不均衡所造成的結果卻是相反地。因此中國政府當局大力支持與整合稀土產業進行一連串的體制改造及革新計畫整體架構十分迅速進行中。 此篇論文藉由所蒐集匱乏資料分析瞭解中國大陸稀土元素的發展，並透過經濟、政治分析中國不宜過度依賴稀土短期優勢，事實上，應可加強其稀土整體計劃在國際發展空間、提升稀土產業效能及加速其產業整合與技術提煉上改進，並同時兼顧環保及降低開採上污染等多個面向的思考，再者更瞭解稀土資源不但可增進人類的生活品質，其根本是歸屬大地之母-地球所擁有。 / The objective of this paper is to explore the hot issues of China’s Rare Earths Elements (REEs) on the global. Using a commonly-accepted methods and materials to research of China’s REEs, On the whole, the impact of China’s REEs restriction is almost regarded as mainstream troublemaker who become overshadows influence the REEs market in the world. However it’s not, On the contrary, the Earth is not in shortage of rare earth resources. The problem is in the worldwide supply and demand structure of REEs unbalance and the price is not reasonable for China’s REEs. China’s REEs growing forcefulness regards as a new strength called attention to foreign powers claim China stops exports of rare earth is completely groundless. REEs are as a new symbol of strength and high value metals in upcoming century changed China’s REEs racial policies turn into aggressively to enhance its national level security and pursing its welfare and hegemony in REEs. China is devoted to manage its REEs output quota reduced reliance on demand countries as strategic policies but so to the foreign countries changed their policies. Analysis of the paper indicated basic findings. China holds a main of capturing a larger portion of the global supply but couldn’t depend on its superiority of REEs’ reserves. In other words, China should be devoted to develop its REEs policies as a way to promote and engage China’s REEs grow space agenda with the rest of the world. Find ways to deals with the rough harsh international reality, strive to streamline its rare earth industry, accelerate industrial upgrading, technological innovation in accordance to protect its domestic REEs industries, the environment, reserve REEs resources and learn how to get along with other countries. Extremely, the China government should recognize the resources of REEs are belonging to human-beings and the Earth, not only to China has.

Falls are a common problem among older adults, including those who are relatively healthy and living independently. Exercise has been recommended as an intervention to reduce falls by slowing and/or reversing age-related declines in balance, strength, and mobility. However, it remains unclear which types or combinations of programs are most effective. The objective of this study was to investigate whether exercise programs performed by healthy older adults were associated with superior balance, strength, and functional mobility measures that are pertinent to fall prevention. This study compared three distinct groups: participants of a balance- and strength-focused training program (i.e., Better Bones and Balance®), participants engaged in a general walking program, and sedentary individuals. Balance was measured using the Sensory Organization Test composite score and sensory ratios. Isometric strength of the lateral hip stabilizers (i.e., abductors and adductors) was measured in terms of maximum voluntary contraction and rapid torque production. Rapid torque measures included contractile impulse and rate of torque development evaluated at 0-100 ms and 0-300 ms from contraction onset. Functional mobility was measured by the time to complete the Four Square Step Test. Hip abduction contractile impulse (0-300 ms) was 1.905 Nm*s and 1.539 Nm*s higher for the Better Bones and Balance (BBB) group compared to the walking and sedentary groups, respectively. No differences were found among the groups for any of the hip adduction torque measures or Sensory Organization Test balance scores. The BBB group completed the Four Square Step Test faster than the walking and sedentary groups by 0.90 s and 1.06 s, respectively. In conclusion, participation in the balance- and strength-focused training program was associated with superior performance in some measures of strength and functional mobility that may be important for fall prevention. / Graduation date: 2013

This thesis, addresses the convergence between several strings of current research in the quest for a better understanding of the co-dependency and co-evolution of the human being and her ability to innovate, organize and provide products and services through competitive firms. The introduction and development of the concepts “Innovation Health” and “Systems of Innovation Health” aims at capturing emerging interdisciplinary understanding of early childhood developmental health and human life-spanning developmental conditions, to the extent that they are relevant for economic change, knowledge- and innovation related theory and research. An overview and analysis of global demographic changes, as they relate to Innovation Health is provided. Further, an extended view or possible emerging Theory of the Knowing and Innovating Firm is proposed and elaborated. Furthermore, Stein’s effort in the early 20th century to create a new philosophy of the humanities and a model of the human being is revisited. Her ontology of association, community and the human being is introduced in the context of organizational economics and knowledge-based theories. Her philosophy and “emergentis” ontology is applied as the theoretical framework of Innovation Health and the entire research effort.

Invasive alien plants in South Africa have become one of the major environmental problems affecting millions of hectares of productive and conservation land. Acacia mearnsii, black wattle, is a key invader species along the eastern escarpment. The major rivers of the country rise on this escarpment and the water catchments have been severely affected by black wattle invasion that has reduced water flow and increased soil erosion. The government introduced the Working For Water (WFW) programme in 1995 in order to address the problem of invasive alien plants in the country while, at the same time, creating job opportunities. This study researches the implementation of WFW projects in the small mountain village of Hogsback in the Amatola Mountains since their inception in 1996/97. The main research question posed by this study is: "What factors support or threaten sustainable environmental management through the Working For Water Programme in the Hogsback area?" It gives a history of the environmental changes since 1800 as a result of human disturbance. The social history of the area is described from the viewpoint of the social and cultural disturbances that led to the present day community conflict. The interface between the environmental and social history is then discussed. Semi-structured interviews were held with twenty eight members of the Hogsback community to solicit their views and perceptions of the WFW projects and the role of civil society and government in sustainable environmental management of invasive alien vegetation. Environmental and development plans undertaken for the Hogsback area were analysed. The results were then discussed in terms of the national and regional goals of WFW. The findings indicated that most of the goals of WFW have not met with great success in Hogsback. A number of limiting factors were identified, the primary one being community conflict, both within and without WFW. As the community struggles to address the aspirations of the landless and economically deprived black population while, at the same time, addressing the fears of the white population, the rapid rate of societal, governance and legislative change since the election of the democratic government in 1994 contributed to an environment of uncertainty. Within WFW, there are management problems that have limited the success achieved in clearing invasive alien species in the catchment. The lack of long-term strategic plans, sufficient accurate data and hands-on management are shortcomings in the local projects. The likely long-term effects of large scale clearing in this disturbed environment, without proper rehabilitation, are serious concerns. / Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999.