As a road map for a structural transformation of socially and ecologically self-destructive consumer societies, the paradigm of sustainability is increasingly regarded as a spent force. Yet, its exhaustion seems to coincide with the rebirth of several ideas reminiscent of earlier, more radical currents of eco-political thought: liberation from capitalism, consumerism and the logic of growth. May the exhaustion of the sustainability paradigm finally re-open the intellectual and political space for the big push beyond the established socio-economic order? Looking from the perspective of social and eco-political theory, this article argues that the new narratives (and social practices) of postcapitalism, degrowth and post-consumerism cannot plausibly be read as signalling a new eco-political departure. It suggests that beyond the exhaustion of the sustainability paradigm, we are witnessing, more than anything, the further advancement of the politics of unsustainability - and that in this politics the new narratives of hope may themselves be playing a crucial role.

n modern democratic consumer societies, decentralized, participative, and consensus-oriented forms of multi-stakeholder governance are supplementing, and often replacing, conventional forms of state-centered environmental government. The engagement in all phases of the policy process of diverse social actors has become a hallmark of environmental good governance. This does not mean to say, however, that these modes of policy-making have proved particularly successful in resolving the widely debated multiple sustainability crisis. In fact, they have been found wanting in terms of their ability to respond to democratic needs and their capacity to resolve environmental problems. So why have these participatory forms of environmental governance become so prominent? What exactly is their appeal? What do they deliver? Exploring these questions from the perspective of eco-political and sociological theory, this article suggests that these forms of environmental governance represent a performative kind of eco-politics that helps liberal consumer societies to manage their inability and unwillingness to achieve the socio-ecological transformation that scientists and environmental activists say is urgently required. This reading of the prevailing policy approaches as the collaborative management of sustained unsustainability adds an important dimension to the understanding of environmental governance and contemporary eco-politics more generally.

Helon Habila left Nigeria for the first time to receive the Caine prize in England in 2001 (​The Guardian​) and was at the time still working as a journalist. The narrator of his Novel ​Oil on Water (2011)​ is also a journalist. Rufus is a journalist seeking the truth. The purpose of this essay is to show how unsustainability manifests itself in Helon Habila's ​Oil on Water. Unsustainability is either economic, a form of neocolonialism, or ecological in Habila's novel. I use economic, neocolonialist and ecocritical references and theories to illustrate my interpretation of ​Oil on Water​ and to show that Habila denounces all the previously mentioned forms of unsustainability. In pursuing this aim I finally evoke potential ideas that could lead to the path of a more sustainable future for the Niger Delta.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:46:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IZA MARIA FINOTTI.pdf: 3365243 bytes, checksum: 93fccf4fb5a1bf8c73aeef083a4fa84e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-24 / This academic work aims to analyze the development of the Goiânia City, since its original conception to the present day, showing that such growth occured so rapidly, disorganized and in view solely of the desires of the speculative real estate, resulting, obviously, in clear degradation of the environment of the City. Thus, especially in the face of the failure of public policies that prevent uncontrolled exploitation of Goiânia, is that the progressive capital of the Goiás state has been marking time on environmental issues in the history of human evolution. Being so, it can even predict that it no longer is to fulfill its social function, in that it does not guarantee its inhabitants the minimum conditions for a healthy life s quality and, what is even more serious, do not worry about its sustainability. All this hurt even the country that has legislation on the subject, the maxim exposed the norm in art. 225 of the 1988 Constitution and other statutes governing s troubles. It is true that the large urban centers, not only in Brazil but all over the world are overblown for high density population, environmental degradation and omissions of public authorities in control of these issues, given that in Goiânia would be no different, mainly because it has a enormous potential for development, which has meant that people from various parts of the country they are traveling here, attracted either looking for work, business expansion or a better quality of life. However, this capital could - and still can - do it differently, just be guided by development planned, orderly and sustainable. / O presente trabalho tem por finalidade analisar o desenvolvimento da cidade de Goiânia, desde sua concepção original até os dias atuais, evidenciando que tal crescimento ocorre de modo célere, desorganizado e atendendo única e exclusivamente os anseios especulativos do setor imobiliário, resultando, por óbvio, em manifesta degradação do meio ambiente da aludida Urbe. Assim, e principalmente em face do não cumprimento das políticas públicas que obstam a exploração desordenada de Goiânia, tem-se que a Capital do progressista estado de Goiás vem marcando passo, em questões ambientais, na história da evolução da humanidade. Em assim sendo, já se pode até mesmo antever que ela não mais está a cumprir com a sua função social, na medida em que não garante aos seus habitantes as condições mínimas de uma saudável qualidade de vida e, o que é mais grave ainda, não se preocupa com a sua sustentabilidade. Tudo isso fere, inclusive, a legislação pátria que dispõe sobre o assunto, máxime a norma exposta no art. 225 da Constituição Federal de 1988, e demais diplomas legais que regem esta matéria. É certo que os grandes centros urbanos, não só no Brasil como em todo o mundo, passam por adensamentos populacionais descomedidos, degradações ambientais e omissões do poderes públicos no controle dessas questões, sendo certo que com Goiânia não seria diferente, principalmente por esta possuir um enorme potencial de desenvolvimento, o que tem feito com que pessoas de várias partes do País para cá se dirijam, atraídas quer em busca de trabalho, ampliação de negócios ou de uma melhor qualidade de vida. No entanto, essa Capital poderia - como ainda pode - fazer diferente, bastando pautar-se pelo desenvolvimento planejado, ordenado e sustentável.

Esta tese propõe-se a refletir a respeito do ensino superior em design de moda no Brasil na perspectiva de uma formação crítica e ativa no que se refere à (in)sustentabilidade. A pesquisa, qualitativa, desenvolve-se sob o enfoque epistemológico do materialismo históricodialético e se encontra estruturada de modo a representar o caminho percorrido. Em relação à perspectiva teórica, adota como ponto de partida o cenário da insustentabilidade, cujo percurso histórico e analítico permite entender sua estreita relação com o design de moda, e busca compreender, a partir de um olhar crítico e contextualizado a respeito da atividade, suas potencialidades em relação à sustentabilidade. Ao admitir a necessária transformação da prática em design de moda, mediante o exame a respeito dos paradigmas educacionais do ensino em design admite sua igualmente necessária alteração e, diante do cenário delineado a respeito do ensino superior em design de moda no Brasil, identifica, na predisposição dos cursos de bacharelado em incluir a questão da sustentabilidade em seus currículos, um campo pertinente a ser explorado. A partir da compreensão de que é preciso ir além de uma inclusão pro forma da questão nos currículos - e, portanto, da necessidade de explorar em profundidade a realidade do ensino superior em design de moda -, a pesquisa investiga, a partir de uma perspectiva empírica, a situação de três cursos de graduação no Brasil em relação à (in)sustentabilidade, buscando compreendê-los em sua pluralidade e singularidade: o bacharelado em Design de Moda da Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (SP), o bacharelado em Design de Moda da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (PR) e o bacharelado em Design - Moda da Universidade Federal do Ceará (CE). Complementarmente, investiga ainda os pontos de vista de professoras e pesquisadoras envolvidas com o objeto na Inglaterra, Finlândia e Dinamarca. As investigações revelam impressões não previstas ou de explicação insuficiente, se considerados unicamente os conteúdos abordados inicialmente no referencial teórico. Os olhares que constituem o cotidiano dos cursos no Brasil - institucional, docente e discente - desvelam questionamentos subjacentes à pergunta que norteia esta pesquisa e inferem que uma formação crítica e ativa no que diz respeito à (in) sustentabilidade se relaciona, para além dos conteúdos, à forma como estes são articulados. As perspectivas internacionais, não se atendo a conteúdos específicos, mas à forma como eles são articulados e a caminhos e desafios relacionados, repercutem e complementam as análises depreendidas em um contexto nacional. A pedagogia crítica freiriana emerge, então, como um espaço formidável e fecundo de diálogo, e o referencial teórico que se constrói a partir dela possibilita completar a reflexão a respeito do ensino superior em design de moda no Brasil na perspectiva de uma formação crítica e ativa no que tange à (in)sustentabilidade: a formação que permite ao aluno, por meio de sua prática, desafiar o status quo em seu campo de atuação; a formação na qual o design de moda é ensinado, aprendido e praticado como um possível ato de proposição transformadora. / This dissertation proposes to reflect on fashion design higher education, in Brazil, from the perspective of a critical and active formation regarding (un)sustainability. The research is qualitative and developed under the historical-dialectical materialism epistemological approach, and is structured in such a way as to represent its development. Regarding a theoretical perspective, the research adopts, as a starting point, the unsustainability scenario, whose historical and analytical path allows us to understand its close relationship with fashion design. It seeks to understand, from a critical and contextualized look at fashion design activity, its potential in relation to sustainability. By admitting the necessary transformation on fashion design practice, in parallel, through examining the educational paradigms of design teaching, it admits their equally necessary transformation, and before the outlined scenario of fashion design higher education, in Brazil, it identifies in the predisposition of bachelor\'s degrees to include the issue of sustainability in their curricula, a relevant field to be explored. From the understanding that it is essential to go beyond a pro forma inclusion of the theme in the curricula, and therefore of the need to explore in depth the reality of fashion design higher education, the research investigates, from an empirical perspective, the situation of three undergraduate courses in Brazil regarding (un)sustainability, seeking to understand them in their plurality and singularity: Fashion Design bachelor\'s degree at Anhembi Morumbi University (SP), Fashion Design bachelor\'s degree at State University of Londrina (PR), and Design - Fashion bachelor\'s degree at Federal University of Ceará (CE). In addition, it also investigates the points of view from professors and researchers from England, Finland and Denmark who are involved with the object. The study reveals unexpected impressions, or of insufficient explanation if only the contents initially tackled in the theoretical framework are considered. The insights that make up the daily life of the courses in Brazil - institutional, teaching and student - reveal underlying questionings to the main question that guides this research, and infer that a critical and active formation regarding (un)sustainability relates to, beyond the contents, the way in which they are articulated. The international views, not focusing on specific contents, but on how these are articulated and their related paths and challenges, echo and complement the analysis realized in a national context. The freirian critical pedagogy then emerges as a formidable and fruitful field for dialogue, and the theoretical framework that builds up from it makes it possible to complete the reflection on fashion design higher education, in Brazil, from the perspective of a critical and active formation regarding (un)sustainability: the formation that allows the student to challenge the status quo, through his/her practice, in his/her field of action; where fashion design is taught, learned and practiced as a possible act of transforming proposition.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper presents from the thesis that the Right to Development in a broad sense correctly nurtured in national law and international instruments, the opposite sense, does not lend itself to protect properly and effectively the various dimensions of which it is based. This law as post is distorted losing its essence to bow to the capitalist system of which it is part. This distortion of the Right to Development away from the ideal of Justice and gives rise to social and environmental context its major conflicts and injustices. Thus arises, given the gravity and considerable increase in social and environmental injustices and inequalities and the difficulty of resolving the legal post-conflict social Development, Environment and Society, an irremediable question: To what extent it is possible to achieve the ideal of Social and Environmental Justice without denying the Right to Development? It is established from then on the need to analyze the relationship between justice (social) environmental and (sustainable) development in the construction of a new environmental paradigm. To develop the theme, is used as the method of approach and procedure Dialectics. Structured through literature, and manipulated through production of reviews, abstracts and fichamentos work is composed in three parts, constituents of the dialectic such question, namely the Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis. The first chapter presents the thesis statement as originally given, in the sense that, from a legal point of view, the development is a fundamental right. This law, in the context of a balance of power in the economic and political field became named "sustainable development", multidimensional concept that became part of numerous legal documents in the international and national level. The second chapter in antithesis to the first, opposes the thesis initially given, is that the reality points to the fact that the incorporation of the concept of sustainable development in different spheres: economic, political and legal has not realized to ensure justice in two dimensions: social and environmental - that is - a Social and Environmental Justice. Finally, the third chapter in the Synthesis dialectical conflict worked in the previous two chapters, the elements of this clash seeking the unity of the conflict for the construction of a new thesis work it, which is, that the social and environmental justice must be a (new) paradigm to unify both struggles for the right to sustainable development and to incorporate new dimensions to justice. / Este trabalho apresenta-se a partir da tese de que o Direito ao Desenvolvimento latu sensu devidamente tutelado no ordenamento jurídico nacional e nos instrumentos internacionais, a contrário senso, não se presta a tutelar devida e eficazmente as diversas dimensões do qual se fundamenta. Este direito tal como posto se desvirtua perdendo sua essência para se curvar ao sistema capitalista do qual faz parte. Este desvirtuamento do Direito ao Desenvolvimento o afasta do ideal de Justiça e enseja em âmbito Social e Ambiental seus principais conflitos e injustiças. Surge assim, diante da gravidade e aumento considerável de injustiças e desigualdades socioambientais, bem como da dificuldade de dirimir o posto conflito jurídico-social entre Desenvolvimento, Meio Ambiente e Sociedade, uma irremediável indagação: Em que medida é possível atingir o ideal de Justiça Socioambiental sem negar o Direito ao Desenvolvimento? Estabelece-se a partir de então a necessidade de analisar a relação entre justiça (sócio) ambiental e desenvolvimento (sustentável) na construção de um novo paradigma socioambiental. Para desenvolver o tema proposto, utiliza-se como do método de abordagem e procedimento a Dialética. Estruturada através de pesquisa bibliográfica, e instrumentalizada por intermédio de produção de resenhas, resumos e fichamentos o trabalho compõe-se em três grandes partes, constituintes da dialética questão posta, quais sejam a Tese, Antítese e Síntese. O primeiro capítulo apresenta a Tese como afirmação inicialmente dada, no sentido de que, do ponto de vista jurídico, o desenvolvimento é um direito fundamental. Este direito, no contexto de uma correlação de forças no campo econômico e político passou a ser nomeado de desenvolvimento sustentável , conceito pluridimensional que passou a integrar inúmeros documentos jurídicos na esfera internacional e nacional. O segundo capítulo em Antítese ao primeiro, se opõe à tese inicialmente dada, é a de que a realidade aponta para o fato de que a incorporação do conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável nas diferentes esferas: econômico, política e jurídica não tem dado conta de garantir a justiça na sua dupla dimensão: social e ambiental ou seja - uma Justiça Socioambiental. Por fim, no terceiro capítulo, em Síntese ao conflito dialético trabalhado nos dois capítulos anteriores, trabalham-se os elementos desse embate buscando a unidade do conflito para a construção de uma nova tese, qual seja, a de que a justiça socioambiental deve ser um (novo) paradigma a unificar tanto as lutas pelo direito a um desenvolvimento sustentável como para incorporar novas dimensões à Justiça.

The aim of the thesis called: Long-term sustainability of state debt financing and the impact on development activities of the Czech government, is to evaluate the long-term sustainability. To achieve this aim the analysis of the development of the Czech state debt and identification of factors working for the deepening of fiscal imbalance was conducted. The work also explores the relationship between state debt and state budget expenditures on development activities of the government. Spending on research, development and innovation were chosen to identify that relationship. On the basis of the analysis there are suggested possible changes in fiscal policy which could contribute to improving the current situation and rebalance.

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