A presente pesquisa analisou as feiras agroecológicas realizadas por camponeses no estado da Paraíba, experiência que se constituiu na comercialização direta de alimentos produzidos em assentamentos rurais e pequenas propriedades. Essa iniciativa foi resultado de soluções para problemas provocados pelo uso de agrotóxicos, a venda da produção para atravessadores e a busca pela constituição da vida na terra conquistada. Os camponeses que encabeçaram essa experiência traziam uma vivência de enfrentamento contra os latifúndios improdutivos e oligarquias rurais. Foi na longa trajetória percorrida na luta pela terra que se formaram as bases políticas e sociais no sentido que pretendiam dotar a vida na terra conquistada. Dessa forma, a não utilização de agrotóxicos e de fertilizantes químicos, bem como a recusa em plantar as sementes transgênicas fizeram parte de uma prática agrícola contra-hegemônica, que buscou diminuir a dependência das famílias camponesas dos oligopólios mundiais. Diante disso, objetivamos compreender o protagonismo camponês na luta por condições mais justas no campo, diante da concentrada estrutura fundiária brasileira e dos privilégios governamentais concedidos ao agronegócio. Nesse contexto, identificamos que até concretizarem a realização da primeira feira agroecológica, as famílias camponesas enfrentaram uma série de dificuldades, desde a falta de apoio governamental até a proibição de instalação de feiras em algumas cidades. Mesmo diante das adversidades, constatamos uma série de resultados positivos, como melhoria da saúde das famílias, oferta de alimentos saudáveis para a cidade, melhoria do solo agrícola e aumento da renda familiar. Todavia, apesar das conquistas, o número de integrantes que praticam uma agricultura contra-hegemônica ainda é pequeno diante da agricultura convencional. Dessa forma, a partir dos estudos da geografia agrária, buscamos analisar os processos de monopolização do território e territorialização do monopólio na agricultura, para compreender os processos de criação e recriação do campesinato. Portanto, com base nesses processos, levantamos a tese da possibilidade de superação da condição de subordinação camponesa a partir da realização de projetos como o das feiras agroecológicas, enquanto concepção mais ampla de vida e de transformações sociais, interligadas às discussões da construção da soberania alimentar. / This research analysed the agroecological fairs held by peasants in the state of Paraíba, as an experience that was constituted in the direct commercialization of food produced in rural settlements and small properties, an initiative that was the result of solutions to issues such as the problems caused using agrochemicals, the sale of production for middlemen and the constitution of life in the conquered land. The peasants who led this experience brought an experience of confrontation against the unproductive latifundios and rural oligarchies. It was throughout the long trajectory crossed in the struggle for land that the political and social foundations were formed in the sense that they intended to endow their life in the conquered land. Thus, the non-use of agrochemicals and chemical fertilizers, as well as the refusal to plant transgenic seeds, were part of an anti-hegemonic agricultural practice that sought to reduce the dependence of peasant families on global oligopolies. Based on this, we aim to understand the peasant protagonism in the fight for fairer conditions in rural, facing the concentrated Brazilian land structure and the governmental privileges granted to agribusiness. In this context, we identified that until the first agroecological fair was held, the peasant families faced a series of difficulties, from the lack of government support to the prohibition of the installation of fairs in some cities. Even in the face of adversity, we have seen many positive results, such as improving the health of families, providing healthy food for the city, improving agricultural land and increasing family income. However, despite the achievements, the number of members who practice an anti-hegemonic agriculture is still small compared to conventional agriculture. Thus, from the studies of agrarian geography, we seek to analyse the processes of monopolization of the territory and territorialization of the monopoly in agriculture, in order to understand the processes of creation and recreation of the peasantry. Therefore, based on these processes, we raised the thesis of the possibility of overcoming the condition of peasant subordination from the realization of projects such as agroecological fairs, as a broader conception of life and social transformations, linked to the discussions of the construction of food sovereignty.

The purpose of the present thesis is to analyse the relationship between competition law and economics on the example of the USA and the EU. In the first chapter is mentioned the context that led to the issuance of antitrust laws in the USA, the EU and other countries, as well as the most significant economic theories which had a major influence on the application of competition law. This is followed by the description of the institutional framework of competition law in the USA and the EU, their respective primary sources of law, including non-legislative documents. The second chapter analyses the most significant anticompetitive conducts for both antitrust areas (i.e. anticompetitive agreements and unilateral conducts), with a special attention to the most harmful anticompetitive conducts (e.g. horizontal price fixing) and to relatively new and dynamically developing areas of antitrust law (e.g. refusal to deal related to intellectual property). Each selected conduct is introduced by the description of potential anticompetitive effects of the conduct and it is followed by relevant significant American and European precedents. The last sub-chapters analyse non-legislative documents issued by the FTC, DoJ and EC which enable to educe their current general approach to mergers.

The aim of the dissertation is to understand the formation and development of the market for construction materials (cement, lime and bricks) in Cisleithania and Czechoslovakia. Emphasis is placed on market trends (changes in consumer habits, new technologies), market monopolisation, state interventionism and institutional changes in business activities (capital inputs of the banking sector and the spread of capital companies). The dissertation contentrates on the basic market conditions and market structure, as well as the strategies of the market players. The market performance (the impacts of the construction materials industry on the Cisleithanian and Czechoslovak economies) is also included. The research is limited by the period of the so-called Great Depression (construction materials began to be produced on the industrial basis) and the turn of 1938/1939, marking the instrumentalization of the Czech lands in favor of the German economy. The dissertation is based on methods of industrial economics (Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm), economics, economic geography and traditional methodology of economic history (especially business history, hermeneutic and statistical method).

Företaget Google är i dag ett av världens mest kända varumärke och deras sökmotor står för 70 % av internetsökningarna i USA och 90 % i Europa. De har lyckats få en dominans på sökmotorsmarknaden framför sina konkurrenter som Yahoo, Ask och Bing. Människor över hela världen använder flera utav Googles tjänster varje dag och många av dem reflekterar inte över den makt som Google har. Kan den här monopolliknande positionen Google har vara så pass transparent att användarna inte ens reflekterat över det? Vår önskan med uppsatsen är att ge läsaren en inblick i Googles varumärkesstrategi och hur användarnas attityder är gentemot företaget. Vi vill ta reda på om användarnas attityder stämmer överens med vad Google vill kommunicera till sina användare och om användarna reflekterar över den maktposition och dominans Google har på internet. För att samla empiriska data, valde vi att göra en webbenkät som besvarades av medie- och kommunikationsstudenter på Högskolan i Jönköping. Utifrån resultatet kunde vi konstatera att en stor del av respondenterna är väl medvetna om den dominans och maktposition som Google har på marknaden. Trots denna medvetenhet har vi inte sett detta påverka respondenternas generella attityder om Google som företag. Däremot kunde vi urskilja viss skepticism hos respondenterna när det kom till en del av Googles funktioner. / Google is today one of the world’s most known brand and their search engine stand for 70 % of the internet searches i the U.S. and 90 % for those i Europe. That means that they have managed to reach monopoly on the search engine market prior to its competitors such as Yahoo, Ask and Bing. People all over the world use several of Google’s services each day and many of them doesn’t reflect over the power that Google has. Can this monopoly and their positions of power be that translucent that the users don’t reflect on it? Our desire with this thesis is to give the reader a deeper understanding about Google’s marketing strategy and about the user’s attitudes towards the company. We want to find out if the attitudes of the user’s correspond to what Google wants to communicate to its users. We also want to find out if the users reflect any on the monopoly and positions of power that Google has on the Internet. To be able to gain empirical data, we chose to design a web-based survey and had media and communications student at Jönköping University to answer it. From the results we found that a large proportion of the respondents is very much aware of the monopoly and positions of power that Google has on the market. However, despite this awareness we could not see that this affected the user’s general attitudes towards the company. On the other hand, we could notice some skepticism when it came to some of the functions of Google’s services.

Besides spatial heterogeneity, an important component of diversity of the protist communities is also the variation in species assemblages through time (temporal turnover). Spatial and temporal variation in patterns of distribution and abundance of lentic microphytobenthos assemblages is often large and occurs at relatively small spatial scale. Desmids (Zygnematophyceae) often constitute a characteristic part of the microphytobenthos of peat bogs. Despite their important role in primary production and fact that they are useful indicators of ecosystem uniqueness, investigations of their seasonality and spatial distribution are scarce. In my thesis I have investigated if desmid epipelic communities are driven rather by neutral or niche-based processes, and I also focused on the factors affecting their diversity, seasonal dynamics and spatial patterns at the local spatial scale. The study was conducted at the two different types of biotopes - minerotrophic lowland peat bogs (Doksy region) and ombrotrophic raised bogs (Jizera Mountains region). Seasonal changes in species composition and diversity of assemblages were not evident. This may be affected by a monopolization effect and also that local abundance of species was positively correlated with population persistence, which suggests that high local...

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T18:13:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARCELOBARR.pdf: 2249492 bytes, checksum: 375fe81a8a3f01a00dd41b057e7faa9b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present work aim to propose a comprehension about the peasantry production on the Araucaria Forest region of Parana nowadays, precisely the one known as Faxinal System. The Faxinais peasantry organization consolidated on the half part of the XIXth century, when the economical activity of the mate herb production started to increase on the state. Among this period, several manufacturing industrial units started to appear next to the coast and around the city of Curitiba. Those industries used to obtain from those peasants the mate herb primary manufactured as raw material to feed their production faced to overseas market. Due to this activity crisis, during the dacade of 1930, provoked by the increase of the mate herb production in Argentina, the biggest market for the brazilian mate herb, those faxinais communities started to orginize into several cooperatives. The mate cooperatives on the region lasted till the half of the 80`s, when a new crisis took place, this time provoked by the closure of the uruguaian market. Whe the mate herb production reestarded its productin with significative levels, the mate herb industries decided to realocate their manufacturing plants. This time, together with the raw material on the Center-south of Parana. From this time on, those factories did no obbtained the pimary manufactured mate herb from the peasants anymore, but the green leaf for the total manufacturing inside the industrial process. This way, it was retired from peasantry hands the possibility of the obbtainance of income. With the accsition of the green leaf and not primary manufactured, the mate herb industrial capital finds a possibility of reproduction in peasantry lands through the territory monopolization. This way, distincts spatialities are been created on the Faxinals territory. Through the process of fighting and resistance on their land, the Faxinais do not dissolve and keep reproducting as peasants till nowadays. / O presente trabalho tem por finalidade propor uma compreensão sobre a produção camponesa na região da Floresta com Araucária do Paraná na atualidade, mais precisamente aquela inserida nos moldes do Sistema Faxinal. A organização camponesa dos Faxinais consolidou-se em meados do século XIX, quando a atividade econômica de produção da erva-mate tomou grandes proporções no estado. Neste período surgiram no litoral e nos arredores de Curitiba várias unidades industriais de beneficiamento da erva-mate. Essas indústrias adquiriam desses camponeses a erva-mate primariamente beneficiada como matéria prima para alimentar a sua produção, voltada para o mercado externo. Com a crise dessa atividade, na década de 1930, devido ao aumento da atividade ervateira na Argentina, que era o maior mercado para o mate brasileiro, essas comunidades de Faxinais começaram a se organizar em torno de cooperativas. As cooperativas do mate na região perduraram até meados da década de 1980, quando veio uma nova crise, provocada pelo fechamento do mercado uruguaio. Quando a produção do mate retomou seus níveis significativos, as indústrias ervateiras optaram por uma realocação das suas plantas fabris. Agora junto à matéria prima, no Centro-sul do Paraná. A partir desses momento, as fábricas passaram a adquirir dos camponeses não mais erva-mate beneficiada de forma artesanal em suas comunidades e sim a folha verde para o beneficiamento total dentro do processo industrial. Dessa forma, retirou-se das mãos dos camponeses a possibilidade da obtenção de renda. Com a aquisição da folha verde e não da beneficiada, o capital industrial ervateiro encontra possibilidades de se reproduzir em terras camponesas por meio da monopolização do território. Dessa forma, distintas espacilalidades acabam sendo criadas em território faxinalense. Por meio do processo de luta e resistência na terra, os Faxinais não se dissolvem e continuam se reproduzindo como camponeses até os dias atuais.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Vitor Mendes de Paula - 2016.pdf: 4322040 bytes, checksum: 7e2733f70513825625fac1f5ce885a5e (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-26 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / The changes by which the sugarcane agroindustry passed in its long period of production in Brazil reflected directly in the organization of the territory, either in the colonial period with the sugar economy or more recently with the production of energy provided by sugarcane. The productive restructuring of the sugarcane industry, based on technological innovations and normative and new spatialisation of the production of sugar, ethanol and energy, define the industry in the 21st century. The set of natural viabilities, political and economic conditions favored the expansion process of the Brazilian sugarcane energy sector by the areas of the Cerrado. The state of Goias became prominent, being responsible for redesigning the geography of production and the expansion of cultivation. In this context, the municipality of Cachoeira Dourada falls within the territory of the sugar-cane through the territorialisation of Group SJC Bioenergy through the Usina Rio Dourado. Thus, the present study aimed to understand the factors that contributed to the territorialisation of group SJC in Cachoeira Dourada, the strategies used by the group to exercise the monopolisation of the territory and the consequent effects for the population of Cachoeira do Sul, especially as regards the changes occurred in the productive chains with the replacement of the grains and livestock by sugar-cane and the new relations between capital and labor. From the readings taken in theoretical compiled, in lifting of secondary data and field research with achievement of interview, simple observation, confection of the field diary and photographic record, we found that the territorial configuration of Cachoeira Dourada in the beginning of XXI century is undergoing a process of transformation , spurred by the subjects of the sugar cane industry . We are therefore facing a hegemonic process that aims to develop a monopoly on the use of the territory by ethanol and energy production. From the new relations established in the municipality, is the crop conversion process, through its inclusion within the sugarcane. / As mudanças pelas quais a agroindústria canavieira passou em seu longo período de produção no Brasil refletiram diretamente na organização do território, seja no período colonial com a economia açucareira ou mais recentemente com a produção sucroenergética. A reestruturação produtiva da agroindústria canavieira, baseada em inovações tecnológicas e normativas e a nova espacialização da produção de açúcar, etanol e energia, definem o setor no século XXI. O conjunto de viabilidades naturais, políticas e econômicas favoreceram o processo da expansão canavieira pelas áreas do Cerrado. O estado de Goiás tornou-se destaque, sendo responsável por redesenhar a geografia de produção e de expansão do cultivo. Nesse contexto, o município de Cachoeira Dourada se insere no território da cana-de-açúcar através da territorialização do Grupo SJC Bioenergia por meio da Usina Rio Dourado. Desse modo, a presente pesquisa tem por objetivo compreender os fatores que contribuíram para a territorialização do grupo SJC em Cachoeira Dourada, as estratégias utilizadas pelo grupo para exercer a monopolização do território e os conseqüentes efeitos para a população cachoeirense-do-sul, sobretudo no que se refere as transformações ocorridas nas cadeias produtivas com a substituição dos grãos e da pecuária pela cana-de-açúcar e as novas relações entre capital e trabalho. A partir das leituras realizadas no referencial teórico compilado, no levantamento de dados secundários e pesquisa de campo com realização de entrevista, observação simples, confecção do diário de campo e registro fotográfico, constatamos que a configuração territorial de Cachoeira Dourada nesse início de século XXI está passando por um processo de transformação, dinamizado pelos sujeitos da agroindústria canavieira. Estamos, portanto, diante de um processo hegemônico que tem a finalidade de desenvolver o monopólio do uso do território através da produção de etanol e energia. A partir das novas relações estabelecidas no município, ocorre o processo de conversão de cultivos, por meio de sua inserção no território da cana-de-açúcar.

In this paper I investigate the energy cooperation between the EU and Russia from the political and economic points of view. The relevance of the issue is due to the growing role of energy sector, the need for security of energy supply and demand and for political and economic balance of power in the region, and closer economic integration. Two theoretical approaches, geopolitical and bureaucratic, guiding the research, explain the behavior of protagonists. To better understand the present level of cooperation I analyze the background and dynamics of EU - Russia energy trade relations. As a case study, I investigate the Nord Stream project as an example of successful cooperation of Germany as an EU member state and Russia in this field. I discuss challenges for the healthy mutual partnership in the energy sector, namely, high politicization of the issue, monopolization of Russian energy sector and low sustainability of Russian economic development, and mistrust between the protagonists. I attempt to identify possible policy changes aimed to improve this cooperation and achieve fruitful partnership, security and stability. Key words: Russia, EU, energy, cooperation, Realpolitik, international relations, oil, gas, energy dialogue, ECT, security, balance of power, geopolitics, interest groups,...

Using interaction analysis and discourse analysis as a method of data analysis, I take a cultural-historical approach to explore teacher-student and student-student interactions during out-of-classroom science projects. The database is composed of my fieldnotes, videotaped science fieldtrips, and videotaped computer sessions where students worked collaboratively to produce science digital videos, highlighting their experiences during science fieldtrips. This thesis is formed by three studies I conducted with elementary students from a public school in British Columbia, Canada. These three independent and yet interrelated studies have implications for science learning and instruction in general. More specifically, this thesis contributes to the understanding of student-student and teacher-student interactions during collaborative work when they are engaged in science activities that occurred out of the classroom settings, such as fieldtrips and in the computer laboratory.

The project entitled From the energy which is planted to the peasants subjects: The National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel and its effect in the backwoods of Sergipe , analyzes the contradictions of the National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel in the backwoods of Sergipe and its effect in the peasants production. The study got back the debate about the discovery of oil as a great energy potential during the Second Industrial Revolution, and later, the increase of consumption through the economic activities, which brought up a shortage context of this resource, responsible for imposing a review of the world energetic base. The demand for a new energetic base is joined with the creation of a new development approach that suggests the rational and sustainable use of natural resources. In this outlook, the continuation of the production model depends on the creation of this new base, and Brazil, created many programs to support the energy production, especially, through agrofuels, whose history brought changes in the Brazilian rural areas. In Sergipe, the National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel has been introduced in the country since 2007, presenting as an objective, the diesel production through the sunflower cultivation, and making it stand out by the promises of bringing environmental, social and economic benefits. Actually, the National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel expresses the importance of the context that no structure change is highlighted to definitely stamp out the poverty in the country. In the study area, a program was observed that after spatializing, it went deeper into the vulnerability of the country person to the market guidelines, as the oil seeds production happens under the command of an outside agent, supporting the capitalist relations nowadays. / A pesquisa intitulada Da energia que se planta à sujeição camponesa: O Programa Nacional de Produção e Uso de Biodiesel e seus rebatimentos no Alto Sertão Sergipano , analisam as contradições do Programa Nacional de Produção e Uso do Biodiesel (PNPB) no espaço agrário do Alto Sertão Sergipano e seus rebatimentos na unidade de produção camponesa. O estudo recuperou o debate acerca da descoberta do petróleo como um rico potencial energético na 2ª Revolução Industrial, e posteriormente, o aumento do consumo pelas atividades econômicas, que trouxe à tona um contexto de escassez desse recurso, responsável por impor uma revisão da matriz energética mundial. A situação de demanda por nova matriz energética se coloca ao lado da elaboração de um novo paradigma de desenvolvimento que sugere o uso racional e sustentável dos recursos da natureza. Nesse panorama, a continuidade do modelo de produção depende da criação dessa nova matriz, e o Brasil, criou vários programas para atender a produção de energia, principalmente, a partir de agrocombustíveis, cujas trajetórias trouxeram transformações no espaço rural brasileiro. Em Sergipe, o PNPB vem sendo introduzido no campo desde 2007, apresentando como objetivo a produção de diesel a partir do cultivo do girassol e destacando-se pela promessa de trazer benefícios econômicos, sociais e ambientais. Na realidade estudada, o PNPB expressa a sua importância no contexto em que nenhuma mudança estrutural é apontada para erradicar definitivamente a pobreza no campo. Na área de estudo, observou-se um programa que ao se espacializar, aprofundou a vulnerabilidade do camponês às diretrizes do mercado, à medida que a produção de oleaginosas se realiza sob o comando de um agente externo, atendendo ao momento atual das relações capitalistas.