Officers played an important role on the vessel, including instrument operations, navigational safety, and cargo handling. Therefore, all the shipping companies desired to recruit outstanding people to fit the business strategies and enhance organizational performance. In 2005, according to BIMCO (Baltic International Maritime Council) / ISF (International Shipping Federation), there is the imbalance of the demand and supply. Shipping industry acts as an important role for Taiwan¡¦s economic development in past decades. An effective shipping development policy must contain those projects of officers¡¦ training, employment, and welfare scheme. All these measures have to be adopted through legislative efforts which will rely on the efforts of government and private sectors. In view of Taiwan¡¦s officers¡¦ policy has faced some challenges and needs to be reviewed in order to provide solutions to the difficulties. In this way, this study focuses on those officers of S company by qualitative interview, knowing the imbalance of the demand and supply and provides strategies recommendations. The results showed that small and medium carriers operate this industry with limited funds and lacking of complete structure. In this situation, those officers¡¦ welfare need to be enforced. The Government should develop complete and effective policies. In this way, we can build up a promising marine industry. In this case, we can find out that the company in the whole welfare system is worse than other companies. The policy-related issues including the flag of convenience problem, national mechanism for the overall training system, and the imbalance of demand and supply¡Ketc. We expect that the industry, government, academia provides an effective and sustainable policies to enhance and develop the shipping business. Keywords: Shipping development policy, officer¡¦s policy, imbalance of officer¡¦s supply and demand

In this study, inventory&ndash / distribution system of a company operating in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry is analyzed. The system is a multi&ndash / item, two-echelon, divergent inventory&ndash / distribution system with transportation constraints. The warehouses in the system are nonidentical and all of the warehouses are allowed to hold stock. The goal is to achive target customer service levels. Throughout the system, inventory is controlled by echelon stock periodic review (R, S) order-up-to level policy. The problem is the determination of inventory control parameters in the system and effective replenishment of the inventories of many items at regional warehouses under transportation constraints. An approach consisting of three modules operating in a hierarchy is developed to manage the system. The approach calculates the inventory control parameters of the items (order-up-to levels at the regional warehouses and stock allocation fractions) / determines the replenishment periods of the items with the objective of balancing the vehicle requirements among periods and performs the daily replenishment of inventories minimizing the maximum deviation from the inventory policy under transportation constraints. A heuristic approach is adapted from the literature for the inventory control parameter determination part of the approach / an IP model is formulated for the replenishment period scheduling part and a MIP model is constructed for the replenishment process. The proposed approach is simulated with retrospective data of the company and compared with the existing system in the company, in terms of the performance measures defined. Satisfactory results are obtained with the proposed system.

Sammanfattning Bakgrund: Att finna det goda chefskapet som är kopplat till ett bra ledarskap är en svår uppgift som alla chefer idag är medvetna om. Dessutom behöver chefen i sitt ledarskap få med sig gruppen som gör att arbetsmiljö gynnas positivt och bidrar till en mer stabil arbetsgrupp. Kunderna belönas av chefens goda ledarskap tillsammans med medarbetarna som kunnat skapa en positiv känsla som ger mer till kunderna i äldreomsorgen i längden. Syftet: Studien är uppbyggd att utifrån ett ledarskapsperspektiv se hur cheferna uppfattar sitt ledarskap som chef och som arbetsledare. Metod: Arbetslivsforskaren använde semistrukturerade kvalitativa frågor utifrån en intervjuguide.  Tillsammans med tre ledarsskapspolicydokument som finns i tre likastora olika kommuner som fanns i en storstadsregion i Sverige, kan arbetslivsforskaren hämta mer stöd med hjälp av dokumenten till sin forskning. Detta för att se hur ledarskapet förankras i de olika hemtjänstgrupperna ifråga om tydlighet, engagemang och delaktighet. Arbetslivsforskaren har sedan analyserat texterna med hjälp av fenomenologin. Detta för att arbetslivsforskaren skall få en så tydlig bild som möjligt, användes frågeställningar som handlar om vilka erfarenheter medarbetarna och cheferna har om ledarskapet. Cheferna och medarbetarna är verksamma i äldreomsorgens hemtjänst i tre olika kommuner. Resultat: Det som framkom efter att ha analyserat textmaterialet 0ch intervjuerna var att det upplevdes finnas ett samspel mellan medarbetare och chefer. Detta samspel kan liknas vid att chefen har tillit till sin personal och vet att de kan ta egna beslut i oväntade situationer. Resultatet pekar på ett centralt begrepp som handlar om chefernas komplexa arbetsroll och tre underkategorier som handlade om tydlighet, engagemang och delaktighet i ledarskapet. Slutsats: Arbetslivsforskaren tolkar genom textanalys i resultatet att det goda ledarskapet kännetecknas av delaktighet, engagemang och tydlighet. I hela studien jämförde olika ledarstilar och skillnaden mellan dessa. Forskning och citat från respondenternas erfarenheter ger en bra bild av hur ledarskapet uppfattas om tydlighet, engagemang och delaktighet i hemtjänstgrupperna. / Background: Finding the good leadership associated with good leadership is a difficult task all the managers today are aware of. In addition, the manager in his leadership needs to join the group, which makes the work environment beneficial and contributes to a more stable working group. Customers are rewarded by the manager's good leadership together with the employees who were able to create a positive feeling that gives more to the elderly care customers in the long run. Purpose: The study is based on a leadership perspective, looking at how managers perceive their leadership as a manager and as a supervisor. Method: The working life researcher used semi-structured qualitative questions based on an interview guide. Together with three leadership policy papers that exist in three equal municipalities that existed in a metropolitan region in Sweden, workforce researchers can obtain more support with the help of the documents for their research. This is to see how leadership is rooted in the different homework groups in terms of clarity, dedication and participation. The working life researcher has then analyzed the texts using phenomenology. In order for the work life researcher to get as clear a picture as possible, questions were used that deal with the experiences of employees and managers about leadership. The managers and employees are active in the elderly care home service in three different municipalities. Result: What emerged after analyzing the text material 0ch interviews was that there was an interaction between employees and managers. This interaction may be similar to the fact that the boss trusts his staff and knows that they can make their own decisions in unexpected situations. The result points to a central concept that deals with the managers' complex work roll and three subcategories that deal with clarity, dedication and participation in leadership. Conclusion: The work life researcher interprets through text analysis in the result that good leadership is characterized by involvement, dedication and clarity. Throughout the study, different leadership styles and the differences between them compared. Research and quotes from the respondents' experiences give a good picture of how leadership is perceived about clarity, dedication and participation in the home service groups / <p>OBS! Presenterade magisteruppsatsen vt 2016 och blev nu klar med rättningen av uppsatsen</p>

This paper analyzes the Spain’s immigrants’ integration policy with the aim to reveal Spain’s national approach model using path dependence as a theory to search for the consistent and stable constraining or motivating ideas that dictate the direction of Spain’s immigrants’ integration policy. This paper finds out that the public philosophy of Spain is premised on historical ties, the interest is motivated by shared culture and the problem definition is framed based on the country of origin of the immigrants. However, these ideas make Spain’s immigrants’ policy to be restrictive or liberal to some group of immigrants depending on their country of origin. Immigrants from Third country nationals consisting of Latin- America, Andorra, the Philippines, Guinea Equatorial, Portugal and the Sephardic Jews who have had historical experience acquire Spanish Nationality faster than the other immigrants from third country nationals composed mainly of Morocco, Africa and Asia because of the way laws regulating immigrants acquisition of Spanish nationality is designed.

Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo discursivo de determinados aspectos do Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (DPD), obra publicada em 2005 pela Real Academia Española (RAE) e a Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE). Tomamos como base teórica a articulação feita no Brasil entre a Análise do Discurso de linha materialista e a História das Ideias Linguísticas (HIL). Nesse contexto, consideramos o dicionário como um instrumento linguístico (AUROUX, 1992), inserido em determinadas condições de produção fato este que nos permite abordá-lo como um objeto discursivo (ORLANDI, 2007). Deste modo, analisamos recortes de sua materialidade incluindo seu paratexto (GENETTE, [1987] 2009) e sua nomenclatura a fim de detectar gestos que trabalham a relação deste instrumento com as rotinas de funcionamento da memória da/na língua (PAYER, 2006). Organizamos nossa análise em duas partes. Na primeira, abordamos elementos que consideramos ser o entorno do dicionário: a página inicial dos sites no qual pode ser consultado e sua capa. Nesse movimento, impôs-se a necessidade de analisarmos a relação que designamos como contraditória (PECHEUX, 1990) entre suas instituições autoras a RAE e a ASALE pelo fato de o nome e os emblemas destas constarem na referida capa. Em seguida, ainda nesta parte, analisamos seus textos introdutórios observando como se constrói neles a imagem de dúvida e como a ela se entrelaçam as de sujeito e de língua. Na segunda parte, o foco está na nomenclatura desse mesmo dicionário. No recorte que fazemos observamos, primeiramente, que se destaca, em número, a classe dos 9 topónimos e extranjerismos, o que se vincula a um viés importante no funcionamento da política pan-hispânica: a relação da língua espanhola com outras línguas. Além disso, detectamos como, na materialidade desse objeto, é resolvida a dúvida; aspecto este que nos levou a colocá-lo em relação com o Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DRAE), abordando, fundamentalmente, a relação que se trava entre ambos instrumentos linguísticos no jogo de uma política de língua(s) (ORLANDI, 2007). Na trama das diversas análises realizadas ao longo desta dissertação detectamos, então, alguns dos gestos mais regulares que, nos instrumentos linguísticos abordados, afetam o funcionamento do que chamamos memória da/na língua. / This dissertation presents a discursive study of some aspects of the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas pan-Hispanic doubt dictionary (DPD), work published in 2005 by Real Academia Española the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and Asociación de Academias de la Lenguat Española the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASALE). The basis of our work relies on the articulation made in Brazil between the theories of the Discourse Analysis (DA) and the History of Linguistic Ideas (HLI). In this context, we consider the dictionary a linguistic instrument (AUROUX, 1992), inserted in determined production conditions fact that allows us to take it as a discursive object (ORLANDI, 2007). This way we analyze fragments of its materiality that includes its paratext (GENETTE, 1987) and its nomenclature in order to detect gestures that work the relation between this instrument and the routines of the memory of/in the language (PAYER, 2006). We organize our analysis in two parts. In the first one, we deal with elements that we consider as the dictionary surrounding: the first page of the site where it can be consulted and its cover. With this movement, there was a need to analyze another relation, that we designate as being contradictious (PÊCHEUX, 1990) between the institutions which are its authors RAE and ASALE because their names and coat of arms appear on the referred cover. On the second part, we focus the dictionary nomenclature. We observe fragments in which the number of toponyms and foreignisms stand out, what is related to an important bias in how the pan-hispanic policy works: the relation between Spanish and other languages. 11 Besides, we highlight how, in the instrument materiality the doubt is solved, aspect which compelled us to analyze the relation between the DPD and another linguistic instrument: the Diccionario de la Lengua Española Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DRAE), covering, specially, the relation that both linguistic instruments have in the language(s) policy (ORLANDI, 2007) game. On the web of the several analysis developed through this dissertation we detect some of the most regular gestures that, in the linguistic instruments covered, affect the so called memory of/in the language functioning.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:53:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tais Regina Guths.pdf: 2218234 bytes, checksum: d215bf6dbdced0d80af71088dbbe0f8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aims to discuss the relations between language and identity taking into consideration some of the language policies employed in the city of Itaiópolis/SC, where many Polish, Ukrainian and German immigrants live in contact with a native Indian tribe, which represents a multilingual and multicultural context. It seems important to emphasize that our research focuses on the Polish language, once the city is legally recognized as the Polish Culture Capital in the State. Thus, two projects related to the Polish language in development were observed: the Polish Language teaching project offered by the Catholic Church in the city and the interchange project developed in one of the city State schools, in order to discuss how the in vivo policies are related to the in vitro (CALVET, 2002, 2007) ones. Since the projects have been developed in distinct places, the role of the Catholic Church and the State school in relation to the continuity of the Polish Language Use and other Polish cultural practices is also addressed. The methodology employed is qualitative (OLIVEIRA, M., 2007), and the analysis gathers data obtained through observations, whose impressions were registered in a field diary, interviews and documental analysis. The research participants were teachers and students who took part in the relevant projects, besides members of the community that were involved with discussions regarding the language policies used in the city, totaling eight people. The theoretical background was supported with the Applied Linguistics contributions (MOITA LOPES, 2006, 2013; FABRÍCIO, 2006), from which the following themes were approached: multilingualism in Brazil (OLIVEIRA, G., 2009; MAHER, 2013), language policy and language teaching (CALVET, 2007; RAJAGOPALAN, 2013), language policies related to the Polish language (WACHOWICZ, 2002), the monolingualism myth creation (ALTENHOFEN, 2003, 2013; PINTO, 2014), and language, identity and culture (WOODWARD, 2000; HALL, 2000, 2006; SILVA, 2000). The results obtained point out that the Catholic Church has an important role regarding the thinking of language policies in the city once, in addition to offering Polish classes and using it in most masses and celebrations, it also occupies a space which is not used by the State as it also created the interchange project which has been developed in the State school. By following the projects it was possible to see that the issue of identity – the fact that most people are Polish descendents – is one of the main factors that motivate the participants to have more contact with this language. However, it was also concluded that there is shock between the community language and that considered standard Polish, which shows that the concept of language must be problematized, so that the project of teaching immigration languages seen as the result of language policy to support the use of this language does not have an inverse effect, that is, in order not to strengthen the monolingualism myth. Therefore, the study was developed with the hope to contribute with the discussions about situations which are sociolinguistically complex, so that the complexity inherent to language and identity relations is perceived. / Este trabalho objetiva problematizar relações entre língua e identidade a partir de algumas políticas linguísticas empregadas no município de Itaiópolis/SC, cidade essa que recebeu imigrantes poloneses, ucranianos e alemães, além de contar com uma aldeia indígena, apresentando, portanto, um contexto multilíngue e multicultural inegável. Ressaltamos que nosso recorte de pesquisa diz respeito à língua polonesa, já que a cidade é, por lei, reconhecida como Capital Catarinense de Cultura Polonesa. Desse modo, acompanhamos o desenvolvimento de dois projetos relacionados à língua polonesa: o projeto de ensino de língua polonesa oferecido pela Igreja Católica do município e o projeto de intercâmbio desenvolvido em uma das escolas estaduais da cidade, a fim de discutir de que modo as políticas in vivo se relacionam com as políticas in vitro (CALVET, 2002, 2007). Assim, por acompanharmos projetos desenvolvidos em dois espaços distintos, discutimos também qual o papel desempenhado pela Igreja Católica e pela escola estadual em questão em relação à manutenção do uso da língua polonesa e de outras práticas culturais polonesas. A metodologia utilizada é qualitativa (OLIVEIRA, M., 2007), de forma que a análise reúne dados obtidos por meio de observações, cujas impressões foram registradas em diário de campo, e entrevistas, além de fazermos uso de análise documental. Participaram da pesquisa professores e alunos integrantes dos projetos em questão, além de membros da comunidade que estivessem envolvidos com o pensar sobre as políticas linguísticas empregadas no município, totalizando oito participantes. O aparato teórico norteou-se por contribuições advindas da Linguística Aplicada (MOITA LOPES, 2006, 2013; FABRÍCIO, 2006), a partir das quais abordamos os seguintes temas: multilinguismo no Brasil (OLIVEIRA, G., 2009; MAHER, 2013), política linguística e o ensino de línguas (CALVET, 2007; RAJAGOPALAN, 2013), políticas linguísticas relacionadas à língua polonesa (WACHOWICZ, 2002), criação do mito do monolinguismo (ALTENHOFEN, 2003, 2013; PINTO, 2014) e língua, identidade e cultura (WOODWARD, 2000; HALL, 2000, 2006; SILVA, 2000). Os resultados obtidos sugerem que a Igreja Católica desempenha um papel de destaque no pensar sobre as políticas linguísticas da cidade, uma vez que, além de oferecer o ensino de língua polonesa e utilizá-la em praticamente todas as suas missas e celebrações, ainda busca ocupar um espaço que não é utilizado pelo estado, pois também é idealizadora do projeto de intercâmbio que ocorre na escola estadual. Percebemos pelo acompanhamento dos projetos que a questão identitária - o fato de ser descendente de poloneses -, é um dos principais fatores que levam os participantes a buscarem um maior contato com essa língua. Contudo, concluímos que há um choque entre a língua da comunidade e o polonês considerado padrão, o que indica ser necessário que o conceito de língua seja problematizado, para que o projeto de ensino de língua de imigração entendido como fruto de políticas linguísticas de manutenção do uso dessa língua não tenha implicações contrárias, ou seja, não aja em prol do fortalecimento do mito do monolinguismo. Assim, com esta pesquisa, esperamos ter contribuído para discussões sobre situações sociolinguisticamente complexas, a fim de que percebamos a complexidade inerente às relações entre língua e identidade.

After Cold war, the trend of economical globalization has led the region cooperation development. As China is going to focus on economic growing, its good neighborhood policy is most important especially in East Asia.In 2002, ASEAN and China decide to build up a free trade area between each other. The China-ASEAN free trade area is expected to be an important economic area in 2010. The study is using Neo-functionalism to analyze China¡¦s policy in East Asia.To explore the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area ,its circumstance and development.

Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo discursivo de determinados aspectos do Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (DPD), obra publicada em 2005 pela Real Academia Española (RAE) e a Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE). Tomamos como base teórica a articulação feita no Brasil entre a Análise do Discurso de linha materialista e a História das Ideias Linguísticas (HIL). Nesse contexto, consideramos o dicionário como um instrumento linguístico (AUROUX, 1992), inserido em determinadas condições de produção fato este que nos permite abordá-lo como um objeto discursivo (ORLANDI, 2007). Deste modo, analisamos recortes de sua materialidade incluindo seu paratexto (GENETTE, [1987] 2009) e sua nomenclatura a fim de detectar gestos que trabalham a relação deste instrumento com as rotinas de funcionamento da memória da/na língua (PAYER, 2006). Organizamos nossa análise em duas partes. Na primeira, abordamos elementos que consideramos ser o entorno do dicionário: a página inicial dos sites no qual pode ser consultado e sua capa. Nesse movimento, impôs-se a necessidade de analisarmos a relação que designamos como contraditória (PECHEUX, 1990) entre suas instituições autoras a RAE e a ASALE pelo fato de o nome e os emblemas destas constarem na referida capa. Em seguida, ainda nesta parte, analisamos seus textos introdutórios observando como se constrói neles a imagem de dúvida e como a ela se entrelaçam as de sujeito e de língua. Na segunda parte, o foco está na nomenclatura desse mesmo dicionário. No recorte que fazemos observamos, primeiramente, que se destaca, em número, a classe dos 9 topónimos e extranjerismos, o que se vincula a um viés importante no funcionamento da política pan-hispânica: a relação da língua espanhola com outras línguas. Além disso, detectamos como, na materialidade desse objeto, é resolvida a dúvida; aspecto este que nos levou a colocá-lo em relação com o Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DRAE), abordando, fundamentalmente, a relação que se trava entre ambos instrumentos linguísticos no jogo de uma política de língua(s) (ORLANDI, 2007). Na trama das diversas análises realizadas ao longo desta dissertação detectamos, então, alguns dos gestos mais regulares que, nos instrumentos linguísticos abordados, afetam o funcionamento do que chamamos memória da/na língua. / This dissertation presents a discursive study of some aspects of the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas pan-Hispanic doubt dictionary (DPD), work published in 2005 by Real Academia Española the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and Asociación de Academias de la Lenguat Española the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASALE). The basis of our work relies on the articulation made in Brazil between the theories of the Discourse Analysis (DA) and the History of Linguistic Ideas (HLI). In this context, we consider the dictionary a linguistic instrument (AUROUX, 1992), inserted in determined production conditions fact that allows us to take it as a discursive object (ORLANDI, 2007). This way we analyze fragments of its materiality that includes its paratext (GENETTE, 1987) and its nomenclature in order to detect gestures that work the relation between this instrument and the routines of the memory of/in the language (PAYER, 2006). We organize our analysis in two parts. In the first one, we deal with elements that we consider as the dictionary surrounding: the first page of the site where it can be consulted and its cover. With this movement, there was a need to analyze another relation, that we designate as being contradictious (PÊCHEUX, 1990) between the institutions which are its authors RAE and ASALE because their names and coat of arms appear on the referred cover. On the second part, we focus the dictionary nomenclature. We observe fragments in which the number of toponyms and foreignisms stand out, what is related to an important bias in how the pan-hispanic policy works: the relation between Spanish and other languages. 11 Besides, we highlight how, in the instrument materiality the doubt is solved, aspect which compelled us to analyze the relation between the DPD and another linguistic instrument: the Diccionario de la Lengua Española Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DRAE), covering, specially, the relation that both linguistic instruments have in the language(s) policy (ORLANDI, 2007) game. On the web of the several analysis developed through this dissertation we detect some of the most regular gestures that, in the linguistic instruments covered, affect the so called memory of/in the language functioning.

The implicit assumption in conventional inventory models is that the stored products maintain the same utility forever, i.e., they can be stored for an infinite period of time without losing their value or characteristics. However, generally speaking, almost all products experience some sort of deterioration over time. Some products have very small deterioration rates, and henceforth the effect of such deterioration can be neglected. Some products may be subject to significant rates of deterioration. Fruits, vegetables, drugs, alcohol and radioactive materials are examples that can experience significant deterioration during storage. Therefore the effect of deterioration must be explicitly taken into account in developing inventory models for such products. In most existing deteriorating inventory models, time is treated as a continuous variable, which is not exactly the case in practice. In real-life problems time factor is always measured on a discrete scale only, i.e. in terms of complete units of days, weeks, etc. In this research, we present several discrete-in-time inventory models and identify optimal ordering policies for a single deteriorating product by minimizing the expected overall costs over the planning horizon. The various conditions have been considered, e.g. periodic review, time-varying deterioration rate, waiting-time-dependent partial backlogging, time-dependent demand, stochastic demand etc. The objective of our research is two-fold: (a) To obtain optimal order quantity and useful insights for the inventory control of a single deteriorating product over a discrete time horizon with deterministic demand, variable deterioration rates and waiting-time-dependent partial backlogging ratios; (b) To identify optimal ordering policy for a single deteriorating product over a finite horizon with stochastic demand and partial backlogging. The explicit ordering policy will be developed for some special cases. Through computational experiments and sensitivity analysis, a thorough and insightful understanding of deteriorating inventory management will be achieved.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-01T11:58:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 9895320 bytes, checksum: df7252cc03f7f058ce75a4c24c03427b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation investigates the formation of the urban network in the Hinterland of Piranhas and Piancó throughout the eighteenth century. The urban network is understood from the urbanizing policy implemented by colonial agents, the State, the Church and the economic agents, that sparked the occurrence of fixed points (villages to indoctrinate the natives, barracks, villages, towns and cities) and communication routes, linked to the flows generated by the expansion process of cattle ranching. The main objective is to check how was the structure of this urban network in the Hinterland of Piranhas and Piancó in the eighteenth century, through the activities of colonization agents. This is a research of historical synthesis that adopted, as the main procedure, an analysis of historiography and written documentation and cartographic on the issue. Was concluded that the formation of an urban network, in Hinterland of Piranhas and Piancó, occurred in the first half of the eighteenth century, linked to the process of War of the Barbarians", resulting in barracks and in villages to indoctrinate the natives; and, in the second half of the eighteenth century, marked by post-war, was implemented a policy of forming villages, initially established in Pombal's Period (1750 - 1777) and conducted to the rest of the century. In parallel, throughout the eighteenth century, was verified a formation of chapels for the installation of settlements, as a result of the interests of landowners in their local setting, through donations of land assets, which gave the initial apparatus for its existence. It is intended to contribute to the study of eighteenth-century urban history of Paraíba from these findings. / A presente dissertação tem por objeto de investigação a formação da rede urbana no Sertão de Piranhas e Piancó ao longo do século XVIII. A rede urbana é entendida a partir da política urbanizadora executada pelos agentes coloniais, o Estado, a Igreja e os agentes econômicos, que proporcionou o surgimento de pontos fixos (aldeamentos, arraiais, povoações, vilas e cidades) e de vias de comunicação, vinculados aos fluxos gerados pelo processo de expansão da pecuária. O objetivo central é verificar como se deu a estruturação dessa rede urbana no Sertão de Piranhas e Piancó no século XVIII, através da atuação dos agentes da colonização. Trata-se de um trabalho de síntese histórica que adotou, como procedimento principal, uma análise da história e da documentação escrita e cartográfica sobre o tema. O resultado identificou que a formação de uma rede urbana, no Sertão de Piranhas e Piancó, ocorreu na primeira metade do século XVIII, vinculada ao processo de Guerra dos Bárbaros , tendo como resultado os arraiais e os aldeamentos de índios em missões; e, na segunda metade do século XVIII, marcada pelo pós-guerra, houve a realização de uma política de formação de vilas, instituída inicialmente no Período Pombalino (1750 1777) e conduzida ao restante do século. Em paralelo, ao longo de todo o século XVIII, foi verificada a formação de capelas para instalação de povoações, pelos interesses dos proprietários rurais em definir seu poder local, através de doações de patrimônios de terras, que dava o aparato inicial para a sua existência. Busca-se, a partir de tais constatações, contribuir para os estudos da história urbana na Paraíba setecentista.