Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 293-307).

Thesis topic is "Protecting the population in a social care institution with a large number of people". The theoretical part deals with issues of self-help and simple human assistance perception, which is a cornerstone of protecting the population. It is important to realize that the experience and the memory makes us ready and durable, but also vulnerable and fearful, and that prevention and preparedness are not identical. The thesis describes the history of the civil protection and its current status. These issues are constantly evolving and it is necessary to constantly respond to current threats not only in the area of law-making, but also preventatively and practically. The aim of the thesis is to identify the readiness of the staff in the Home for the elderly in Blatná to a possible outbreak of an emergency or crisis situation. The result of this thesis is to design measures to improve the readiness of personnel in social care institutions with applications for the Home for the elderly in Blatná. To clarify the objectives of the thesis a questionnaire construction was used focused on finding out the level of awareness of the personnel in the field of civil protection. Office staff, technical support, nursing and health care personnel have participated in the research. The research was conducted in June 2015. Collected data are sorted in the chapter "Results" and the results of these investigations are clearly displayed using graphs. The questionnaires were evaluated by descriptive and mathematical statistics. After evaluating the results of the level of awareness of the personnel in the field of protecting the population and after a consultation with the management of the Home for the elderly, a set of measures has been suggested and implemented to improve awareness using presentation. Preparedness and awareness of the staff in the Home for the elderly in Blatná to emergency and crisis situations, identified by questionnaire research was only partial, according to the documents related to protection of the population, and its level should be increased. The thesis can be an inspiration to the desired upgrade of the improving the preparedness of the personnel in the area of civil protection in social care institutions and to desirable change of the inappropriate name of the document dealing with emergency and crisis situations in the Home for the elderly in Blatná. Updates proposal and recommended development of the document are also parts of the thesis. The thesis also suggests measures to deal with the possible emergence of a fire in the clients' kitchenette. By a verification of information obtained from the presentation, which has been held in the Home for the elderly in Blatná in order to increase the level of personnel awareness of the people in the field of civil protection, it was found by identical questionnaires that staff awareness in the social care institution increased very positively. The readiness of social care institution for different emergencies is a very important factor in the managing these situations. By managing or mismanaging one event people are going to manage or mismanage following events.

published_or_final_version / Environmental Management / Master / Master of Science in Environmental Management

A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. April 2017 / Sustainable development is one of the major discourses of the twenty first century. In many instances sustainable development has been synonymous with the discourse of ecological modernisation. Ecological modernisation, as a discourse, has been proposed as an entreating means to reach the ideal of development that is sustainable, but has by and large only been tested within developed nations. There is, however, a prominent academic debate centred on the potential social and environmental justice concerns that may emanate from the promotion of ecological modernisation in environmental policy. This research project aimed to understand the degree to which ecological modernisation has been embraced in South Africa, and the environmental justice implications of this adoption. This was in an attempt to build an environmental justice policy framework for ecological modernisation in a bid to address environmental justice concerns. South African energy policy and practice was investigated in order to do this. Civil society hold an esteemed position in ecological modernisation, and as such in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a number of civil society activists who are involved in a range of campaigns for environmental justice. Their insights and solutions to potential environmental justice concerns that would result from using ecological modernisation were investigated. This was done in an attempt to build a list of environmental justice principles that can possibly be used to inform policies based on ecological modernisation in order to ensure just development. These criteria address the role of government, the role of society at large, as well as industry, and for the most part seek to understand if the disparate power dynamics that exist amongst these three actors can potentially be addressed. South African energy policies were analysed for evidence of these justice principles. It was found that South African energy policies do not address environmental justice in any measure that would truly allow for justice to be put into the practice of governing the environment. Therefore, by incorporating these environmental justice principles into ecological modernisation, ecological modernisation can potentially be stronger in approach to sustainable development than it presently is. / MT 2018

Cette thèse porte sur les formes d'engagement et des revendications de légitimité affirmés au tour des organisations de desocupados. Elle compare des militants avec les non militants observés dans leur même milieu social. Elle analyse deux mouvements de travailleurs desocupados (MTD) situés dans les villes de Berisso et Berazategui entre 2003 et 2007. Cette interrogation s'appuis sur une analyse ethnographique des liens établis entre membres et non membres, notamment parmi leurs proches et vecinos. Les parcours sont perméables sur le long terme entre engagement et retrait, division du travail entre familiers pour répartir les responsabilités privées, économiques et publiques. L'analyse porte sur le mouvement piquetero en tant qu'acteur politique, mais aussi, sur le mode de vie, les conceptions de l'activité et de la justice mises en œuvre par l'engagement dans ces organisations. Une première partie montre la manière dont les actions politiques des mouvements de desocupados sont imbriquées dans le vécu quotidien des acteurs. Se dégagent au fils des observations, des moments militants dans les milieux sociaux concernés. La seconde partie analyse la notion de travail et de l'activité étendue, également, à l'activité politique. Le travail demeure au centre des représentations de l'activité légitime, mais recouvre de nouvelles pratiques et de nouvelles formes d'activité radicalement opposées à la seule loi du marché. " Vivre en travaillant " peut devenir " vivre des productivos ". Enfin, le rapport à la parole des membres et non membres au sein du groupe signale une forme de publicité faite d'une confiance mutuelle, provisoire, qui étend la délibération aux lieux de travail.

The amendment to Act No. 359/1999 Coll. on social and legal protection of children professes support the idea of foster care, foster care and mainly due to changes not only in working practices of child protection agencies are trying to better reflect the situation in families and map suitable for children and parents mediation foster care. Condition for reducing the number of children in institutions and removal of children from orphanages in the care of foster parents, but the existence of sufficient foster parents and those interested in securing alternative family care, whether professional or foster care temporarily . From interviews with actors issue shows that this condition is not fulfilled and vice versa should be a focus on supporting families to remove the children might not occur. The prize money is a welcome support for foster parents foster parents, but not to such an extent sufficient to rise the number of people interested in arranging foster care. In terms of abuse can be financial rewards for those interested in foster care is not favorable to the prize money was not the motivation. From the perspective of the foster mother contacted a financial reward enough for foster parents, but rather as a financial incentive Posts definitely perceive. What is important is the overall attitude...

The aim of this dissertation is to examine approaches to social work dealing with children at risk and their families. Of particular interest to this examination are the processes of social work practice, support of vulnerable children, family's effect upon child's endangered situation as well as the role of family in the process of social work practice with the child. Further subjects of investigation are specific methods and instruments of social work practice with children in need, competence and role of social workers along with legal standards in this field of social work. The first part of the work describes general and theoretical structure of social work practice with socially endangered children. Following part consists of social work methods applied in Mezipatro Children's Centre. The research part includes an analysis of semi- structured interviews conducted with social workers from Mezipatro Children's Centre and is focused on efficiency and risks of social work tools used in Mezipatro Children's Centre.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-10-04T19:13:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 KÊNIA CRISTINA LOPES ABRÃO.pdf: 1171418 bytes, checksum: 196b270c72b49dab2b7caa3d78f40c65 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-04T19:13:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 KÊNIA CRISTINA LOPES ABRÃO.pdf: 1171418 bytes, checksum: 196b270c72b49dab2b7caa3d78f40c65 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-05 / This dissertation results from a research that aimed to know the impact of the Social Assistance National Policy (PNAS) on living conditions of the families attended by social workers at the Reference Centers of Social Assistance (CRAS). It seeks unveil the daily work of these professionals about procedures of demands, routines and activities. Six units of CRAS, which provider for basic social protection, were defined as universe of the research. Ten social workers from the institutions programs focused on families were elected, as sample, for a semi-structured interview under qualitative approach. A documental and bibliographic research was carried out on family, especially its relation with the PNAS. The theoretical background adopted was the critical dialectic Marxism method, who led to unveil the immediacy aspects through the categories: public policy, social protection and family. Survey considerations indicate difficulties and limitations at the daily professional of the social workers and, moreover, little autonomy in their attitudes facing adversity. / A presente dissertação é o resultado de uma pesquisa que buscou conhecer o impacto da Política Nacional de Assistência Social (PNAS) nas condições de vida das famílias atendidas nos Centros de Referência de Assistência Social (CRAS), mediante a intervenção das assistentes sociais. Buscou-se desvelar o cotidiano profissional destas profissionais no encaminhamento das demandas, rotinas e atividades por elas realizadas. Foram escolhidos para a pesquisa seis unidades dos CRAS, serviços responsáveis pela execução da proteção social básica. Para a amostragem, foram eleitas dez assistentes sociais que atuam em programas da instituição voltados para as famílias, para entrevista semiestruturada mediante abordagem qualitativa. Foi realizada pesquisa documental e bibliográfica sobre a temática família, com destaque na PNAS. A fundamentação teórica adotada foi o método crítico dialético marxista, que propiciou o desvelamento da imediaticidade do objeto por meio da incorporação das categorias: política pública, proteção social e família. As considerações deste estudo apontam dificuldades e limitações no exercício profissional do assistente social e, por outro lado, uma postura profissional pouco autônoma diante das adversidades.

La riflessione pedagogica sull’ambiente è un ambito di studi articolato, connotato da una molteplicità di visioni e di intrecci con altri settori della ricerca sui temi ambientali. La scelta di concentrare l’attenzione su talune elaborazioni teoriche sorte nei contesti statunitense, britannico e australiano è connessa alla volontà di ricercare alcune emblematiche radici del pensiero educativo sull’ambiente nelle culture occidentali, oggetto in particolar modo della prima parte del presente lavoro. Il percorso delineato, con un intento esplorativo, prosegue nella seconda parte con una panoramica su alcune attuali linee progettuali della riflessione pedagogica sui temi ambientali, nella consapevolezza delle intrinseche dimensioni interdisciplinare e internazionale della ricerca in quest’ambito. La responsabilità umana nei confronti delle risorse naturali pone la persona al centro della riflessione pedagogica sia come destinataria della formazione sia come agente del cambiamento e protagonista creativa dell’immaginazione di inediti scenari futuri. La capacità di trascendere l’immediatezza dei confini spazio-temporali e dei limiti dei modelli di sviluppo fin qui implementati richiede agli attori dell’educazione di progettare con speranza l’impegno per la salvaguardia ambientale e per la promozione della giustizia sociale. / The pedagogical reflection on environment is a complex field of study, connoted by many visions and interconnections with other branches of research on environmental issues. The choice to focus my attention on some theoretical positions arisen in American, British and Australian contexts is linked to the will to find emblematic roots of environmental education in western cultures (first part of the work). The second part of the dissertation is an overview of some recent research strands of the pedagogical reflection on environmental issues. Human responsibility towards natural resources puts human beings at the core of education and calls for active involvement in change and creativity to imagine new scenarios. The ability to transcend the immediacy of space and time boundaries and the limits of development models implemented so far requires that everyone involved in education should commit themselves to environmental protection and social justice with hope.

Pavel Jelínek Title of the thesis: A Christian view of ethical issues in agriculture Abstract: The work deals with the ethical issues of Czech agriculture. With the help of some indicators from the field of politics and sociology, the situation of Czech farmers is characterized, which can influence their ethical decisions. There are several facts that appear to be ethically problematic and require a certain position. Based on the analysis of some biblical texts and reflections on the relevant ecclesiastical documents, appropriate Christian attitudes are sought, with which it is possible to approach agriculture. The aim of the thesis is to indicate the contribution of the Christian attitude to ethical issues in agriculture, to design such an ethical orientation that will best correspond to Christian teaching in the context of current ethical dilemmas and to think about how to apply this orientation in practice. Keywords: Ethics in agriculture, social teaching of the church, soil protection, food production, environment, Czech agriculture