Thesis (B.A. (Hons.))--University of Adelaide, (1988?). / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-95).

Zugl.: Port-au-Prince, Internat. Faith Theol. Seminary Univ. College, Diss., 2008

The failed projects of modernism and post-modernism leaves a theoretical void. More specifically the author takes issue with the apparent purposelessness of architecture. At the outset of this project the author ventured a Faustian attempt at relevance. Appendix A is a speculative description of architecture as a market deliverable - a consumer product. It proposes a design method adapted to a production-line view of architectural production. In this view the architect is an integrator of ideas, constraints, processes, implications - his main deliverable is a drawing. However, during the course of researching and designing this scheme even these sentiments were found not to be watertight. Inevitably the discourse degenerated into questions of poetics and spontaneity, character and meaning, liveliness and above all - Design. The term ‘design’ mentioned here refers to the same idea encountered among pre-graduate architectural students and lay-people - consumers of architectural pornography. Design in the sense: “Can you add some design to our house. Design in the sense: “No, it doesn’t matter if it works or not - I just want to know what it’s going to look like”. The architect is the queerly dressed individual with dark-framed glasses always dressed in black - a designer, a critic, a satirist, an esoteric. At the 2005 UIA congress in Istanbul Peter Eisenmann prophesied the end of this concept of the role of architecture. Our fascination with the ocular - the image - came to a climax with 9/11. Assuming a cyclic trend he predicts that the importance of the visual spectacle will wane (Sobuwa, 2005). It is clear therefore that selling architecture to the free-market gives us a profession that is relevant but not essential. The architect is a fashion designer - his most valuable asset is his opinion packaged in reputation. His career is built on benevolent clients, dedicated to the cause of ‘good architecture’, which he meets through ‘contacts’. Here is a movement away from art - which uses a moral language to describe itself - pure forms, honest use of materials, truth, god is in the... etc - and therefore unfit for the free market (since money still resides outside moral good despite Ayn Rand’s every effort) - towards craft - which is fundamentally a method. The architect therefore does not ask why?, or in what manner? but how? The architectural craft, the acquisition of which is deemed to be the main quest of tertiary architectural education is then appropriated as a design method. This design method is a system of sequential activities manifesting nonsequential thinking and can be graphically expressed as in Figure 1. The project presented here is an attempt to apply this method. / Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Architecture / unrestricted

This treatise examines the discursive management of homework practices in three primary schools in Nelson Mandela Bay. Grade four is focused on as it is hoped that at this stage of their schooling, the learners are receiving homework and are familiar with the concept. The three schools are from differing social, historical, political and economic backgrounds. The schools chosen are a former model C school, a ‘Coloured’ school and a ‘Township’ school. These three diverse schools have been selected to identify the dominant Discourses that inform the homework practices. The eventual effect of these Discourses on the learners is also included. The material and personal effects on the learners is discussed. The prevalent Discourses on homework in the model C school, work to produce disciplined subjects who are able to ‘self govern’ and thereby succeed in society. At school’s B and C the dominant Discourses are of a deficit nature. These discursively position the learners as victims and subjects who are unable to manage their academic and private selves, as a result of their circumstance. While the staffs at schools B and C appear to be well intentioned, this abovementioned deficit model is perpetuated by their talk. These principals and teachers need to become aware of the power that their discursive formations contain and the impact thereof. A qualitative methodology is adopted in this study. Three different methods of data collection are employed in order to promote triangulation and thereby increase the validity of the findings. Discourse and Critical Discourse analysis provide the tools with which to analyse and draw conclusions from the gathered data.

The hypothesis for studying the hiring practices at the Port of Portland was simply that hiring practices have historically discriminated against non-whites through negative racial attitudes that are destructive and inappropriate if equal employment is to be practiced. The objective of this study was to provide the Port with information which could lead to the adjustment of hiring procedures which would be geared toward effective recruitment and hiring of minority individuals.

The purpose of this work, which is designed for the Port of Pascagoula, is to locate sedimentation problems, identify sediment characteristics, and devise a method to decrease the port’s dredging costs. In order to understand what sediment problems are typical of the Port of Pascagoula the characteristics that are associated with sediment transportation in the port’s harbors are examined. This examination consists of a field investigation followed by an extensive evaluation of the data. Once the characteristics that are unique to the harbors are identified, potential solutions are examined. These potential solutions are evaluated until a feasible and efficient plan is devised to reduce the ports dependency on dredging. Recommendations include agitation, a fluid mud trap, and the practice of active nautical depth. Each of these solutions would allow the port to reduce its dredge costs.

Le territoire portuaire est inévitablement un lieu de conflits, notamment dans son processus de prise en compte de l'environnement. L'objet de notre travail de recherche est de voir comment l'environnement s'inscrit dans le développement portuaire à partir de l'analyse des recours contentieux, c'est-à-dire des conflits environnementaux qui engagent des acteurs publics et privés face aux tribunaux. Nous avons ainsi mis en place un outil méthodologique permettant de traiter les arrêts : une grille d'analyse géo-juridique des conflits environnementaux portuaires résolus par le juge qui permet de saisir la variété d'éléments caractérisant chaque conflit, et ainsi d'en faire une analyse quantitative et qualitative. L'originalité de cette thèse réside donc dans son approche de l'aménagement de l'espace par le droit. Travailler sur les contentieux donne en effet des éléments précieux pour comprendre les rapports qui s'établissent entre les différents acteurs dans la fabrique des territoires portuaires lorsque ceux-ci sont confrontés au développement et aux enjeux environnementaux. C'est à cet effet que nous proposons une typologie de la prise en compte de l'environnement dans le développement portuaire. Celle-ci pourrait permettre de mieux comprendre de nouveaux conflits environnementaux en les rapportant aux profils portuaires identifiés, voire de réfléchir aux moyens d'améliorer la prise en compte de l'environnement dans le territoire portuaire / Ports are inevitably the site of litigation born out of environmental issues. Our research aims to understand how the environment is taken into account in port development. For that purpose, we analysed litigation where public and private players went to court over environmental issues. To do so, we created a method based on a geo-law grid that we used to read and analyse judgements on environmental issues linked to ports, and to grasp the variety of characteristics of these judgements on which we can base a quantitative and qualitative analysis. Our thesis is unique in using a legal approach to study port development. Using the prism of litigation provides valuable information to understand the relationships between private and public players involved in the development of ports as they face environmental issues. As a contribution to this purpose, we provide profiles of how the environment has been taken into account in port development. These port profiles can help us better understand new environmental disputes, and help us find better ways to take the environment into account in port development

Ports are the foreign gateway for countries and regions, and it is playing an increasingly important role in the world economy. While embracing the economic benefits brought by port development, Chinese ports are also faced with an unprecedented number of environmental problems. The overall goal of this thesis is to explore the similarities and differences between Canadian and Chinese ports in terms of their environmental protection policies, environmental management, and environmental protection measures. The thesis also aims to sum up valuable environmental protection experiences from both countries, in an effort to provide a reference guide for environmental protection activities in China. In this paper, many research methods have been used, including a review of the literature, site inspection, expert advice and case analysis in order to explore the similarities and differences in policies, concepts and measurements of port environmental protection in Canada and China. This information will be used to define the advanced concepts, managerial methods and measurements of environmental protection in Canada that Chinese government departments and port authorities could learn from. Through this study, suggestions will be made regarding what China's port sectors can learn from Canada in the following areas: (1) connecting port authorities with relevant environmental protection experts to carry out environmental protection research; (2) expanding the scope of port environmental protection, paying attention to co-operation with other agencies to protect the environment; (3) enhancing the protection of the ecological environment of the port， (4) paying attention to public participation in the process of port environmental protection; and (5) upgrading the environmental protection management concept on the part of port managers. It will be suggested that from Canada, relevant Chinese government departments should learn to (1) promulgate operational laws and regulations related to port environmental protection; (2) set up port management institutions to improve the port environmental management; (3) clarify the role of government departments, ports and environmental regulatory authorities in the course of the environmental protection; and (4) strengthen enforcement and regulations. In addition, it will be suggested that the enhancement of public awareness regarding environmental protection be continued and that relevant laws be passed to expand the scope of public participation.

Ports are the foreign gateway for countries and regions, and it is playing an increasingly important role in the world economy. While embracing the economic benefits brought by port development, Chinese ports are also faced with an unprecedented number of environmental problems. The overall goal of this thesis is to explore the similarities and differences between Canadian and Chinese ports in terms of their environmental protection policies, environmental management, and environmental protection measures. The thesis also aims to sum up valuable environmental protection experiences from both countries, in an effort to provide a reference guide for environmental protection activities in China. In this paper, many research methods have been used, including a review of the literature, site inspection, expert advice and case analysis in order to explore the similarities and differences in policies, concepts and measurements of port environmental protection in Canada and China. This information will be used to define the advanced concepts, managerial methods and measurements of environmental protection in Canada that Chinese government departments and port authorities could learn from. Through this study, suggestions will be made regarding what China's port sectors can learn from Canada in the following areas: (1) connecting port authorities with relevant environmental protection experts to carry out environmental protection research; (2) expanding the scope of port environmental protection, paying attention to co-operation with other agencies to protect the environment; (3) enhancing the protection of the ecological environment of the port， (4) paying attention to public participation in the process of port environmental protection; and (5) upgrading the environmental protection management concept on the part of port managers. It will be suggested that from Canada, relevant Chinese government departments should learn to (1) promulgate operational laws and regulations related to port environmental protection; (2) set up port management institutions to improve the port environmental management; (3) clarify the role of government departments, ports and environmental regulatory authorities in the course of the environmental protection; and (4) strengthen enforcement and regulations. In addition, it will be suggested that the enhancement of public awareness regarding environmental protection be continued and that relevant laws be passed to expand the scope of public participation.

Os portos são elementos-chave para a competitividade dos setores exportadores e importadores que deles se utilizam e para o desenvolvimento das regiões em que estão inseridos. Para a adequada gestão portuária, é necessária a compreensão do porto em um sentido mais amplo, considerando o conjunto de atores que participam da cadeia logísticoportuária e as atividades por eles desenvolvidas. Nos últimos anos, vêm se aprofundando os estudos dos portos como aglomerados empresariais e dos mecanismos de coordenação ou governança dos diferentes atores da cadeia logístico-portuária. Nesse contexto, uma questão emergente diz respeito à análise dos modelos de governança e sua relação com a performance portuária. A governança de cadeias logístico-portuárias é um fator-chave para a competitividade dos portos, podendo ser definida como os mecanismos utilizados para coordenar as relações existentes entre os atores da cadeia logístico-portuária, buscando aumentar a eficiência e a eficácia dos fluxos logísticos relacionados e, consequentemente, melhorando a inserção competitiva do porto. Dado esse contexto, esta tese tem como objetivo propor um modelo de governança aplicado a cadeias logístico-portuárias. Para tanto, inicialmente são estudadas as diferentes classificações de portos, sendo considerados os elementos que as compõem e sua relação com a governança; são analisados os processos logístico-portuários, identificando-se possíveis oportunidades de melhoria e sua relação com a governança portuária; e é analisada a evolução dos estudos sobre governança portuária nos últimos anos, identificando-se os modelos de governança existentes e sua relação com a performance portuária. A partir desses elementos, é desenvolvido um modelo conceitual para apoiar a análise da governança em cadeias logístico-portuárias e, tendo como base o modelo proposto, é feita uma análise comparativa da governança das cadeias logístico-portuárias dos portos de Valência e de Santos. Os resultados evidenciam a existência de um modelo de governança mais eficiente e maduro no porto de Valência e revelam oportunidades de melhoria na governança dos dois portos. / Ports are key to the competitiveness of exporting and importing sectors that make use of them and for the development of the regions in which they are inserted. And, for the proper port management, is necessary to understand the port in a broader sense, considering the set of actors included in the port logistics chain and the activities developed by these actors. In recent years, studies have been developed focusing ports as business clusters and addressing the coordination mechanisms or governance of the different actors in the port logistics chain. In this context, an emerging issue concerns the analysis port governance models and its relation to port performance. Governance in port logistics chains is a key factor for the competitiveness of ports and represents the mechanisms used to coordinate relations between the actors of the port community and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of logistics flows related, thus improving the port competitive insertion. Given this context, this thesis aims to propose a governance model applied to port logistics chain. For this, initially are studied the different classifications of seaports, being considered the elements that compose them and their relation to governance; port logistics processes are analyzed, identifying possible opportunities for improvement and its relationship to port governance; and is analyzed the evolution of port governance studies in recent years, identifying the existing governance models and their relation to port performance. From these elements, a conceptual model is developed to support the analysis of governance in port logistics chains and based on the proposed model, is made a comparative analysis of governance in the ports of Santos and Valencia. The results show the existence of a more efficient and mature governance model in the port of Valencia and reveal opportunities for improvement in the governance of the two ports.