The diploma paper themed "Application of environmental product declaration of moulded plastic parts" concentrates on the area of optional instruments within the environment. The subject of the search is a life cycle assessment (LCA) applied to a plastic product supplied to the automotive industry. This method evaluates the impact of various phases of products on the environment, focusing on the phases of production of granulate, transportation and moulding of the product. Information regarding energetic and material inputs and outputs during previously mentioned phases of the product life cycle is essential. The LCA constitutes basis for a further optional instrument of the environmental policy, mainly to the environmental product declaration. This certificated declaration features the marketing instrument for the company and simultaneously shows the impact of the product on the environment and possibilities of improvement its environmental profile.

The end of the Cold War changed radically the international environment as well as the scope of development aid and cooperation within it. The development agenda in the new millenium has started to significantly focus on the develpment aid effectiveness. In this context the use of the instrument of budget support is rising. The thesis aims to assess the concept of the partnership general budget support and the way it responds to the requirements imposed on development aid mainly by the Paris Declaration On Aid Effectiveness in 2005.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-06-05T16:52:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Luiza Treichel Vianna_.pdf: 2476495 bytes, checksum: a9ab76ea2bc22203a6695c157c4cd24e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-05T16:52:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Luiza Treichel Vianna_.pdf: 2476495 bytes, checksum: a9ab76ea2bc22203a6695c157c4cd24e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / CNJ - Conselho Nacional de Justiça / Este trabalho teve por objetivo investigar os fatores linguísticos e tradutórios envolvidos na Declaração de Pequim (ONU, 1995; 2006 [1995]) em língua inglesa e na sua tradução em língua portuguesa, analisando as unidades de tradução (ALVES, 2014) relativas à noção de gênero e verificando como a sensibilidade do tema pode afetar a tradução do documento. Pelo viés da tradução, a declaração da ONU pode ser considerada um texto sensível, pois trata de direito das mulheres, gênero, empoderamento da mulher e sexo versus gênero, pontos que afetam a tradução do texto. Para tanto, utilizamos a Linguística de Corpus como abordagem metodológica tanto para a construção do corpus, composto pela Declaração de Pequim em inglês e português, como para o alinhamento dos textos e criação de grafos. Para nossa análise de dados, selecionamos, qualitativamente, as unidades de tradução empowerment, gender, women and men e men and women, que apresentaram indícios de sensibilidade textual na Declaração de Pequim. A partir das variações e mudanças encontradas, percebemos que o tradutor utilizou distintas técnicas e estratégias de tradução (HURTADO ALBIR; MOLINA, 2002; AIXELÁ, 1996) pensando no propósito tradutório, na cultura da língua-alvo e na recepção do texto-alvo. Por fim, destacamos que a tradução de um texto sensível é um desafio para os tradutores, pois é preciso considerar diferentes fatores contextuais e situacionais no ato tradutório, como o objetivo da tradução, o propósito, a língua-alvo e a cultura alvo, a fim de não causar um choque social ou um estranhamento ao público leitor. / This study aimed to investigate the linguistic and translational aspects involved in Bejing Declaration (ONU, 1995; 2006 [1995]) in English and its translation into Portuguese, analyzing the translation units (ALVES, 2014) related to the notion of gender and verifying how the sensibility of the theme could affect the translation of the document. By translation bias, the UN Declaration could be considered a sensitive text, because its about women’s rights, gender, empowerment of women and sex versus gender, points that affect the translation of the text. For this purpose, we used the Corpus Linguistics as methodological approach to build the corpus, composed by the Beijing Declaration in English and in Portuguese, as to the text alignment and the creation of the graphs. For our data analysis, we select, qualitatively, the translation units empowerment, gender, women and men and men and women, that presented evidences of textual sensibility in Beijing Declaration. From the variations and changes found, we realized that the translator used different translation techniques and strategies (HURTADO ALBIR; MOLINA, 2002; AIXELÁ, 1996) thinking about the translation purpose, the culture of the target-language and the reception of the target-text. Finally, we emphasize that the translation of a sensitive text is a challenge for translators, because its necessary to consider different contextual and situational factors in the translational act, as the translation objective, the purpose, the target-language and the target-culture, in order not to cause a social shock or a strangerness in the readership.

In 1995, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established as an interim Palestinian government on shreds of land within the West Bank and Gaza. One of the new authority’s lesser-known administrative mandates is protection of the environment from pollution. Though the PA was to have a semblance of “self-rule,” the Oslo Accords that established the PA also stipulated that the latter seek Israeli approval when building most large-scale infrastructures—including those designed to manage waste. Meanwhile, emergent ideas about the environment defined it as a limitless expanse. The environment projected out from PA enclaves on thirty percent of the land in all directions—including into the air above and into the subterrain below. The Accords projected environmental responsibility into Israel proper as well as into areas it “shares” with Palestinians in the occupied territories. As a consequence, Palestinian waste infrastructures are objects of concern not only to the Palestinian communities they are designed to serve but also to the Israeli state, to Israeli settlements, to regional neighbors and to foreign donors in far-flung offices who are concerned with “environmental security.” This dissertation investigates a series of multimillion dollar PA projects aimed at protecting what came to be called the “shared” environment through management of Palestinian wastes. In doing so it analyzes the tension between the insistence, on the one hand, that the PA govern “its” population within strictly defined borders as part of a hierarchical system of nested sovereignties in which Israel’s is the superior form, and the imperative, on the other hand, that this territorially-defined, officially interim government perform care for the territory’s longterm ecological future. It tends to be taken for granted that Oslo produced a period of separation by enclosing the West Bank and Gaza and cleaving them off from Israel proper. Millions of West Bank Palestinians are no longer permitted to work in, travel through or even visit Jerusalem or Israel. Israel has prohibited Israeli citizens’ entry into PA areas of the West Bank. This allows PA areas to appear relatively autonomous—insofar as they are viewed as separate from Israel. But in a number of significant ways, Israel continues to control and to direct the daily experiences and future possibilities of West Bank Palestinians. Separation and control are thus equally accurate characterizations of Palestinians’ experiences post-Oslo. This dissertation contends that their particular combination in the post-Oslo period has allowed people living in the West Bank to experience PA governance as what, borrowing a term I heard there, I call a phantom state (shibih dowlah). Palestinians see the limits of PA autonomy vis-a-vis Israel and the PA’s many donors. The PA is specter-like: an appearance without stable material follow-through. People nevertheless treat the PA as a matter-of-fact, tangible part of their lives: as an address for appeal, requests and complaints, as a distinct entity upon which responsibility, blame and, very occasionally, even praise is bestowed. Studies of garbage at the turn of the twenty-first century show that modern waste has the capacity to destabilize and to undermine political systems because of the risks it is perceived to pose and because of the difficulty of keeping it stable and contained. Unlike water, oil and electricity, waste is an infrastructural substrate whose flows should move out from inhabited areas rather than into them. As mobile, abject matter that perpetually threatens the environment, it requires constant monitoring. It is managed at regional scales. In the Palestinian context, waste therefore reveals some of the spatial-geographical complexities that render the treatment of separation and control as an either/or dynamic impossible to sustain. It also reveals the ways in which believing both separation and control to be true for the people experiencing them in combination means living, working and planning within a logic of constant contradiction. Waste is not the only infrastructural substrate that reveals the Mobius strip of separation and connectedness of the post-Oslo period. But waste and its infrastructures are uniquely useful for showing the impossibility and the partialness of a politics of separation more broadly in an emergent era of environmental securitization. This dissertation thus analyzes an incommensurable tension in what Achille Mbembe has called a “late-modern colonial occupation” that operates in the style of older forms of indirect colonial rule. That tension renders governance of people and territory both difficult and incoherent. It produces environmental hazards while seeking to eliminate them. And it performs major political displacements among colonized and colonizers alike.

Nesta pesquisa, busquei responder duas perguntas: a) Quais operações discursivas são utilizadas pelos sujeitos ao realizarem afirmações sobre a identidade étnica e lingüística de um grupo específico? b) Quais são as implicações dessas operações discursivas sobre a produção dos enunciados? Escolhi como objeto de estudo enunciados que foram produzidos em diferentes condições de produção, mas que buscam delinear a identidade étnica e lingüística associadas aos imigrantes japoneses e seus descendentes. A partir das análises realizadas, podem-se depreender algumas implicações entre as representações associadas às identidades e a produção dos próprios enunciados na tentativa de neutralizar as representações consideradas disfóricas em relação à identidade étnica japonesa . Ao se adotar essa postura, os enunciadores apropriam-se de recursos lingüísticos que possam funcionar como marcadores de suas próprias identidades. É esse processo que dá origem às condicionantes discursivas. O funcionamento dessas condicionantes discursivas atua tanto na produção lingüística quanto no processo de uniformização da língua, pois cria identidades consideradas ideais, as quais podem ser assumidas pela adesão às representações e à (re)produção dos recursos lingüísticos que supostamente estariam associados a essa identidade. / In this research, Ive tried to answer two questions: a) Which discursive operations were used by subjects when they declare their ethnic and linguistic identity? B) Which were the implications of theses discursive operations in the production of the declaration? Ive chosen as a study object declarations which were produced in different production conditions but they have a similar trace: try to define the identity of Japanese people and their descendent. Considering the analyses, its possible to infer some implications between the representations associated to the Japanese identity and the declarations product in order to neutralize dysphoric representations. When they adopt this attitude, the enunciators appropriate linguistics features that work as their own identity mark. These discursive conditions operate on either the linguistic production and the language uniformity process, because it creates ideal identities that can be adopted by the acceptance of the representations and the reproduction of linguistic features associated to this identity.

Soft law is a common feature of international governance, occupying a grey zone between the realms of politics and law. The multifaceted concept can refer to vague provisions or norms generally, but is most useful when defined as international instruments adopted in a non-binding form. Whilst the advantages and appeal of soft law have been widely studied, with its effects explored in both International Relations (IR) and International Law (IL) scholarship, states' behaviour on commitment to soft law per se has remained underexplored. It is often assumed that its non-binding status upon adoption makes commitment to soft law a relatively inconsequential endeavor, at least in comparison to hard law. In this thesis, incorporating insights from public international law into rationalist IR approaches, I argue that soft law instruments can have important effects over time and bring substantial costs for states to bear. This is particularly the case for soft law instruments 'hardening' through domestic law, treaties or customary international law, increasing the sovereignty and implementation costs attached to commitment. I further argue that those potential costs of soft law are taken into account by states when making decisions on commitment. Depending on the importance and likelihood of the costs foreseen, states can craft their commitment to mitigate these costs or block them from arising. Empirical evidence for the place of the costs of soft law in states' decision-making on commitment is offered through an in-depth case study of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with a focus on the opposition it faced upon adoption - an unusual occurrence for a UN declaration in the field of human rights. Recognizing the potential costs of soft law and their impact on state commitment helps to bridge theory and practice regarding the creation of non-binding instruments and sheds light on challenges raised by the use of soft law by states and non-state actors at the frontiers of international law-making.

The Czechs and Germans have been neighbours in the Central Europe since centuries. Due to the course of history, some discrepancies might be still present in the mutual Czech-German relations. To solve these historical issues, a "Czech-German declaration" was signed in 1997. The main task of this thesis is to analyse the Czech-German relations after the signature of the declaration. The German point of view is stressed while dealing with the topic. The first chapter explains the development of the Czech-German relations since founding of the Czechoslovakia in 1918 until the signature of the Czech-German declaration. The second chapter deals with the declaration itself. The third chapter refers to the detailed analysis of the Czech-German relations on both -- the bilateral and multilateral levels. On bilateral level, the political, business, cultural relations and other forms of mutual cooperation are being discussed. The cooperation between Czech Republic and Germany in the international organisations, specifically the European Union and NATO, is the main subject of the multilateral dimension of the Czech-German relations that this paper deals with.

The thesis analyses development cooperation in Kenya, including an example of personally realized development project. The goal of the thesis is to find out what is the current state and direction of development cooperation in Kenya, demonstrate some of the problems of Kenya and their possible solutions using an example of personally visited region and realized development project and to determine whether this project corresponds to the current trend of development cooperation in the world and in Kenya. The first chapter characterizes the current political, economic and social situation on Kenya. Following parts analyze the Kenyan development strategies and current trends in the area of development cooperation at the global level and in Kenya. The last chapter describes personally realized development project which is then evaluated from the point of view of new paradigm of development cooperation and concerning the overall impact.

Detta examensarbete syftar till att utreda vilka av Svenska kyrkans byggnader i Växjö som ska energideklareras samt utföra en energideklaration av en kontorsbyggnad. I energideklarationen ingår det även att ge åtgärdsförslag för olika energibesparingsmöjligheter. En fördjupad studie i nattkylning av stommen har också utförts. Examensarbetet är uppdelat i tre huvuddelar, indelning av byggnader, utförande av energideklaration samt fördjupad studie av nattkyla. I den första delen delas byggnaderna in i grupper utifrån verksamhet och byggnadstyp och därefter utreds om de ska energideklareras. Målet med denna indelning av byggnader är att Svenska kyrkan ska få vetskap om vilka av deras byggnader som berörs av lagen om energideklarationer. I andra delen görs en energideklaration för en kontorsbyggnad. Det visar sig att det finns en hel del energibesparande åtgärder som kan göras i kontorsbyggnaden. En del av åtgärderna är endast enkla åtgärder som inte kräver något större ingrepp i byggnaden för att utföras. I den tredje delen genomförs en fördjupad studie i nattkylning av stommen i byggnader, där tung och lätt stomme jämförs gentemot varandra. För att utföra jämförelsen används simuleringsprogrammet IDA Klimat och Energi. Resultatet av simuleringen visar ingen besparing av energi till följd av nattkylning av stommen i den simulerade byggnaden, vilket leder fram till en parameterdiskussion om hur olika parametrar påverkar lönsamheten vid nattkyla. / This diploma work aims to investigate which of the Swedish church’s buildings in Växjö that needs to be energy declared and also to perform an energy declaration of an office building. In the energy declaration there’s also included measures for various energy-saving potential. An in-depth study of night-cooling of the framework has also been performed. This diploma work is divided into three main parts, classification of buildings, carrying out the energy declaration and a depth study of night-cooling of the building’s framework. In the first part buildings where divided into different groups on the basis of activities and type of building and then investigated whether to be energy declaration or not. The objective of this classification of buildings is that the Swedish church will know which of their buildings that’s affected by the law concerning energy declarations. The second part is an energy declaration of an office building. It turns out that there are a lot of energy-saving measures that can be done in the office building. Some of them are only simple measures that don’t require any major interference in the building to be performed. In the third part is carried out an in-depth study of night-cooling of buildings’ frameworks, where heavy and light frames are compared against each other. In order to carry out the comparison the simulation program IDA Climate and Energy was used. The results of the simulation shows no saving of energy as a result of night-cooling of the building frame in the simulated building, which leads to a parameter discussion on how various parameters affecting the profitability of night-cooling.

This thesis analyzes the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict and the historical evolvement of the Palestinian issue by focusing on the practices during the British mandate period. First and foremost, the factors which transformed the Jewish question into the Palestinian question are elaborated. In this context, the emergence of modern political Zionism is presented as the landmark incident in arousing the interest of the Jews dispersed all around the world in the colonization of their promised lands. Although the motive in initiating the colonizing activities in Palestine came with the advent of political Zionist thought, Jewish settlement in Palestine was materialized as a result of the development of British interests in the Middle East. The contradictory promises given to the Arabs and Jews by the British in the course of World War I are treated as the source of the conflict between them. It is stated that the Balfour Declaration, which is the manifestation of the British-Zionist alliance, is the preliminary step of the project of a Jewish state on Palestinian territories. In order to shed light on the implications of Zionist colonization on the Palestinian Arab society, first the socio-economic and socio-political circumstances in the Ottoman era are discussed. Later, the impact of the exclusivist policies of the Jews on communal relations is handled in detail. Moreover, the ways in which the pro-Zionist stance of the British mandate administration contributed to the nation-building efforts of the Jews are argued. Lastly, the causes and consequences of the sporadic Arab tensions, which broke out in 1920, 1921, 1929 and 1936 as a reaction against the British and Zionist policies, are analyzed.