This study investigated the existence of impacts on per capita incomes from the designations of wilderness areas. It developed one model to explain county-level per capita incomes in the six western states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, and Wyoming. This model examined effects of various factors believed to affect incomes, such as the industry mix of an economy, population densities, unemployment rates, government expenditures, and the existence of colleges, Indian reservations, and wilderness areas. The analysis indicated that per capita incomes in these states did not fall by an increase in wilderness lands. In fact, counties in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Idaho experienced higher incomes if they contained wilderness areas. Counties in all states experienced higher incomes if a greater percentage of revenues came from the tourism and extractive industry sectors. However, the analysis indicated that, on average, increases in revenues from tourism increased incomes more than increases in revenues from extractive industries. No definitive analysis could be performed to determine the difference between wilderness and extractive industry effects because the variables are not measured in the same units. However, the income elasticities were calculated with respect to the means of the relevant explanatory variables. The income elasticity with respect to changes in the extractive industry was the highest elasticity computed, as extractive industry mean values were much larger than the other mean values. As in all econometric studies, estimated coefficients suggest relationships, not causality. Results from this study in particular cannot be taken out of context and interpreted without close examination of all factors pertaining to the stated results.

Syftet med föreliggande avhandling är att studera användning och förekomst av lektionsbeteckningar på scheman i skolor utan en nationellt fastställd timplan, samt belysa hur elever upplever de lokala val som görs vad gäller vissa av dessa lektionsbeteckningar. Den teoretiska referensramen har sin grund i didaktikens selektionsfråga och kommunikationsfråga, och Bernsteins båda begrepp klassifikation och inramning. Avhandlingen består av två delstudier. I delstudie I analyseras, såväl kvalitativt som kvantitativt, 326 scheman från 33 skolor som på försök arbetar utan timplan. 163 scheman från skolor med timplan har analyserats i jämförande syfte. I delstudie II genomförs tio gruppintervjuer med totalt 41 elever kring tre typer av icke ämnesrelaterade lektionsbeteckningar (lagtid, verkstad och mentorstid), som är vanligt förekommande på elevers scheman. I avhandlingen visas att en mängd schemabeteckningar (170 stycken) används för att beskriva vad elever och lärare ämnar ägna sig åt. Utöver traditionella ämnen, schemaläggs arbetsmetoder, gruppbaserad tid, skriv- och lästid, social samspelstid, rekreationstid samt lektioner där eleverna involveras i val, planering och utvärdering. Den här typen av alternativa schemabeteckningar används i signifikant större utsträckning i skolorna utan timplan och i de tidigare årskurserna. När skolorna utan timplan använder alternativa beteckningar leder det huvudsakligen till schemapositioner med svagare inramning och svagare klassifikation, samt en förskjutning från innehåll mot metod/form. Eleverna upplever att lektionerna med svagare inramning och klassifikation har ett värdefullt och verklighetsanknutet innehåll, men att de inte är lika viktiga som ämnena. De upplevs ibland vara slöseri med lektionstid. Resultaten diskuteras i ljuset av annan forskning om skolor utan timplan och avhandlingens didaktiska perspektiv. / The aim of the present thesis is to study the existence and use of lesson designations on the schedules in schools that do not work according to a nationally set timetable, and to elucidate how pupils experience the local choices as regards some of these designations. The theoretical frame of reference is based on the didactical questions of selection and communication together with Bernstein’s concepts of classification and framing. The thesis includes two studies. Study I is a qualitative as well as quantitative analysis of 326 schedules from 33 schools that take part in an experiment where they work without the nationally set timetable. For the purpose of comparison 163 schedules from schools following the set timetable have also been analysed. In study II ten group interviews with a total of 41 pupils are carried out concerning three types of non-subject related lesson designations (team time, workshop, and mentor time), which frequently appear on the pupils’ schedules. In the thesis it is demonstrated that a large number of lesson designations (170 in all) are used to describe what the pupils and the teachers are doing at school. Apart from traditional subjects, working methods, group-based time, time for reading and writing as well as social interaction and recreation, and lessons, where pupils are involved in selecting, planning and evaluating activities, are included on the agenda. These types of alternative lesson designations are used to a significantly higher degree in schools without a timetable and in the lower grades. The use of alternative designations at the schools without timetable primarily leads to lessons with weak framing and weak classification and, in addition, to a change of focus from content to method or form. The pupils think that lessons with weak framing and classification have a meaningful content related to their everyday life but they are not as important as the ‘real’ subjects. They are sometimes experienced as a waste of valuable lesson time. The thesis has an overall didactic perspective, and the results of the two studies are discussed in the light of previous research about schools using no set timetable.

Pirmoji tarptautinė sutartis, be kitų nuostatų įtvirtinanti ir minimalius geografinių ir kilmės vietos nuorodų teisinės apsaugos standartus – Paryžiaus konvencija dėl pramoninės nuosavybės apsaugos - buvo priimta dar 1883 metais, tačiau šis netradicinis intelektinės nuosavybės objektas ilgą laiką nesulaukė didesnio pasaulinio susidomėjimo, o geografinių nuorodų apsaugos teikiama nauda buvo nepelnytai nuvertinama. Geografinių nuorodų teisinės apsaugos atgimimas yra siejamas su 1994 m. Pasaulio prekybos organizacijos Sutarties dėl intelektinės nuosavybės teisių aspektų, susijusių su prekyba (TRIPS) įsigaliojimu. Pagaliau buvo suvoktos didelės geografinių nuorodų panaudojimo komercinėje veikloje galimybės. Europos Sąjunga bei ją palaikančios besivystančios valstybės ėmėsi iniciatyvos kiek įmanoma stiprinti tradicinių vietovardžių teisinę apsaugą. Vis dėlto Lietuvai šis teisės institutas yra gana naujas, todėl kol kas nėra daug praktikos šiuo klausimu, o ir esanti negausi praktika yra nevienareikšmiška. Būdingas geografinių nuorodų teisinės apsaugos bruožas yra itin didelė šio intelektinės nuosavybės objekto apsaugos koncepcijų įvairovė. Geografinių nuorodų apsaugai nacionaliniu ir regioniniu lygmeniu gali būti taikomos labai skirtingos teisinės apsaugos sistemos: pradedant sui generis registruotų geografinių nuorodų ir kilmės vietos nuorodų apsauga, apsauga pagal kovą su nesąžininga konkurencija reglamentuojančius teisės aktus, baigiant geografinių nuorodų apsauga pagal prekių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The first international agreement inter alia establishing minimum standards for protections of geographical indications and designations of origin – the Paris Convention for Protection of Industrial Property - was adopted in 1883. However, for quite a long time geographical indications were considered to be the kind of intellectual property that nobody really understood and the advantage of their protection was wantonly depreciated. The resurgence of legal protection of geographical indications is considered to be a result of coming into force of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Law (TRIPS) of 1994. Since then the possibilities of using the protection of geographical indications in commercial activity were finally realized. Therefore, European Union as well as developing countries took the initiative to strengthen the protection of traditional geographical names. Nonetheless, this institute is rather new for Lithuania. That is why there is almost no case law on this issue. The distinctive feature of protection of geographical indication is that there is a big variety of concepts for their protection. Various forms of protection of geographical indications might be used on international and national level: starting with sui generis protection of registered geographical indications and designations of origin as well as protections under laws on fair competition and ending with protection based on existing trademark registration systems. Taking... [to full text]

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação.pdf: 479433 bytes, checksum: 16567ad3cff9d13aa371575b19716053 (MD5) / O presente trabalho tem como aporte teórico a Análise do Discurso de fundação francesa e como objeto de pesquisa o discurso sobre os “sujeitos do campo” - os quais, são definidos segundo Caldart (2002) como indivíduos que vivem e trabalham no campo como pequenos agricultores, quilombolas, povos indígenas, pescadores, camponeses, assentados, reassentados, ribeirinhos, povos da floresta, caipiras, lavradores, roceiros, sem-terra, agregados, caboclos, meeiros, boias-frias, entre outros. Esses sujeitos vivem e produzem cultura a partir das relações sociais estabelecidas no campo, as quais são mediadas pelo trabalho na terra. A pesquisa objetiva analisar os efeitos de sentidos que se constituem para os "sujeitos do campo" em documentos do Instituto Federal do Pará-Campus Rural de Marabá e busca, na identificação das designações atribuídas a eles, refletir sobre os dizeres que circulam nos documentos. O corpusem análise é constituído por recortes discursivos extraídos do Projeto Político Pedagógico do campus, o qual está localizado a 25 km da sede do município de Marabá, na PA–150, sentido Eldorado dos Carajás, em uma área de 354 ha e que foi estrategicamente implantado para ter uma forte integração com um Projeto de Assentamento (PA 26 de Março), além debuscar fortalecer a permanência dos educandos no contexto social, econômico, cultural e ambiental do qual fazem parte. Esse campus foi pensado num contexto de mobilização e organização da luta camponesa por reforma agrária e pela constituição de condições favoráveis ao desenvolvimento e à sustentabilidade da produção familiar no sul e sudeste paraense. São analisadas nesta pesquisa as expressões linguísticas que designam os “sujeitos do campo”, bem como os dizeres que constituem efeitos de sentidos para esses sujeitos.Em nossos gestos de análise observamos que o documento não apresenta uma definição sobre esses sujeitos porque eles são designados de muitas formas e o discurso do Campus Rural de Marabá funciona na produção de dizeres que se constituem por não ditos, contradições e apagamentos que apontam nos dizeres, apenas uma enumeração instável de grupos que representam esses sujeitos, os quais são vistos como inferiores em relação ao sujeitos que não são do campo / This work has as theoretical support the analysis of the French foundation speech and as a research object the speech from the "countryside people" - which are defined according Caldart (2002) as individuals who live and work in the countryside as small farmers, Quilombolas, indigenous peoples, fishermen, peasants, settlers, resettled, riverside, forest peoples, farmers, partners, landless, aggregates, caboclos, servants, cold stores, among others. These individuals have their own cultural identity, which has roots in their way of living and working, finally, a "culture that is produced through social relations mediated by work on the land" (FERNANDES, CERIOLI, CALDART, 1998). The research aims to analyze the effects of senses that are constituted for the "countryside people" in documents of the Federal Institute of Pará - Marabá Countryside Campus and search, in the identification of the designations assigned to them, to reflect on the sayings that circulate in the documents. The corpus under examination consists of extracted discursives the Pedagogical Political Project of the campus, which is located 25 km from the headquarters of the city of Maraba, the PA- 150 toward Eldorado dos Carajás, in an area of 354 ha and which was strategically deployed to have a strong integration with a Settlement Project (PA March 26), and seek to strengthen the permanence of the students in social, economic, cultural and environmental to which they belong. This campus has been designed in the context of mobilization and organization of the peasant struggle for land reform and the creation of favorable conditions for the development and sustainability of family farms in the south and southeast of Pará. In this research the linguistic expressions that designate the "countryside people" are analyzed, as well as the sayings that constitute sense effects for these people. In our gestures of analysis we observe that the document does not present a definition about these people because they are designated in many ways and the speech from the Rural Campus of Marabá works in the production of sayings that are constituted by not said, contradictions and deletions that point in the sayings, only an unstable enumeration of groups representing these people, which are seen as inferior to people who are not from the countryside

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-08-23T18:52:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 katiaaparecidamagalhaesprovette.pdf: 3275344 bytes, checksum: 9cde8cb35920448cccc6af1fd1bc37d8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-08-28T12:31:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 katiaaparecidamagalhaesprovette.pdf: 3275344 bytes, checksum: 9cde8cb35920448cccc6af1fd1bc37d8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-28T12:31:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 katiaaparecidamagalhaesprovette.pdf: 3275344 bytes, checksum: 9cde8cb35920448cccc6af1fd1bc37d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-01-26 / A presente dissertação é desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação Pública (PPGP) do Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). O caso de gestão aqui estudado descreve e analisa as designações buscando identificar entraves e dificuldades na troca de informações entre o Setor de Pagamento da Superintendência Regional de Ensino de Caratinga (SRE) e as escolas estaduais de sua circunscrição. Tais entraves e dificuldades ocasionam erros e inconsistências durante a inclusão de designações no Sistema de Administração de Pessoal do Estado de Minas Gerais (SISAP). Pretende-se conhecer como as informações e orientações referentes às designações são repassadas às escolas e a forma como as instituições de ensino tratam tais informações para realizar o trabalho com a folha de pagamento. O objetivo geral deste estudo é analisar os possíveis entraves ao fluxo de informações entre o setor de Pagamento da SRE Caratinga e as escolas estaduais de sua circunscrição, no que se refere às designações, trazendo propostas de intervenção para minimizar suas consequências. Os objetivos específicos são: (i) descrever como ocorre o fluxo de informações referentes às designações entre as escolas e o setor de Pagamento da SRE Caratinga; (ii) analisar o fluxo de informações entre escolas e o setor de Pagamento e identificar os problemas e os erros recorrentes nas designações; (iii) propor ações que minimizem a ocorrência de erros e aprimorem o funcionamento do setor de Pagamento da SRE Caratinga pela elevação do padrão de qualidade dos dados e informações prestados pelas escolas para a alimentação do SISAP. Para tanto a questão que norteia o presente caso é a seguinte: Como solucionar os entraves que dificultam/prejudicam o fluxo de informações entre as escolas e o setor de Pagamento da SRE Caratinga, no que se refere às designações de professores e demais servidores escolares? A metodologia usada na pesquisa tem cunho qualitativo com a utilização de levantamento e análise de dados obtidos por meio de pesquisa documental, entrevista semiestruturada com a coordenadora do setor de Pagamento, com a servidora que trabalha no balcão de atendimento e com dois taxadores, sendo um com experiência de pelo menos nove anos no setor e outro com ingresso mais recente nessa função, além da aplicação de questionário aos servidores responsáveis pela folha de pagamento das escolas da circunscrição da SRE Caratinga. A pesquisa possibilitou a confirmação da maioria das hipóteses e suposições iniciais, bem como apontou alguns achados que não constavam das expectativas iniciais da pesquisadora. / This thesis has been developed within the scope of the Professional Master of Management and Assessment of Public Education (PPGP) in the Center for Public Policies and Educational Assessment of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The management case studied here describes and analyzes the designations seeking to identify obstacles and difficulties in the exchange of information between the Payment Sector of the Regional Education Board of Caratinga (SRE)) and the state schools of its constituency. These obstacles and difficulties cause errors and inconsistencies during the inclusion of designations in the System of Administration of Personnel of the State of Minas Gerais (SISAP). It is intended to understand how the information and guidelines are passed on to schools and how these educational institutions treat such information and guidelines for carry out the work with the payroll. The general objective of this study is to analyze the possible obstacles to the flow of information between the Payment Sector of SRE Caratinga and the state schools of its circumscription, with regard to the designations, bringing intervention proposals to minimize their consequences. The specific objectives are: (i) to describe how the flow of information regarding designations between schools and the Payment Sector of SRE Caratinga occurs; (ii) analyze the flow of information between schools and the Payment Sector and identify recurring problems and errors in designations; (iii) propose actions that minimize the occurrence of errors and improve the operation of the Payment Sector of SRE Caratinga by raising the quality standard of data and information provided by schools for SISAP. To this end, the question that guides the present case is: How to solve the obstacles that hamper the information flow between schools and the Payment Sector of SRE Caratinga, with regard to the designations of teachers and other school employees? The research methodology is qualitative with the use of a survey and analysis of data obtained through documentary research, semi-structured interview with the SRE Caratinga Payment Sector coordinator, with the server that works at the service desk and with two taxpayers, being one with at least nine years' experience in the sector, besides the application of a questionnaire to the servers responsible for the payroll of the SRE Caratinga constituency schools. The empirical research made it possible to confirm most of the hypotheses and initial assumptions, as well as pointed out some findings that were not part of the initial expectations of the researcher.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Throughout this study, we aim at pondering over the notion of language, by questioning delimitations usually established between Mother Tongue and Foreign Language in order to investigate meaning effects produced by these designations as well as by their (re)formulations. For be able to reflect upon the problematic related to the designations from the bias of Discourse Analysis, we focus on the discourse produced by the subject researcher on language, who experiences a situation concerning more than two languages and cultures. Thus, we are involved in an approaching of the discursive functioning allied to the production of linguistic knowledge, by dealing with the movement of saying in an academic-scientific ambit. Our hypothesis is that the ways of referring to language put in process by this subject could be a result of its identification with the languages among which it is in motion. In this way, we focus on the functioning of discourse from this subject position, which is marked by the movement among languages, with the purpose of observing which meaning effects are produced in a discourse about the language that signifies by the manners it is designed. / Por meio deste estudo, visamos a refletir sobre a noção de língua, questionando as delimitações que usualmente são estabelecidas entre Língua Materna e Língua Estrangeira, a fim de problematizarmos os efeitos de sentido que são produzidos a partir dessas designações e de suas (re)formulações. Para que possamos ponderar sobre a problemática relacionada às designações pelo viés dos estudos em Análise de Discurso, centramo-nos no dizer do sujeito pesquisador da linguagem que vivencia uma situação entre línguas e culturas. Envolvemo-nos, assim, em uma abordagem do funcionamento discursivo, aliado à produção do conhecimento linguístico, encaminhando-nos ao movimento dos dizeres no âmbito acadêmico-científico. Partimos da conjectura de que os modos de designar a língua, colocados em funcionamento por esse sujeito, seriam decorrentes de sua identificação com as línguas por entre as quais este se desloca. Dessa forma, atentamos para o funcionamento do discurso a partir dessa posição-sujeito, marcada por um lugar movente, que é o do deslocamento entre línguas, com o intuito de observar quais efeitos de sentido são produzidos em um discurso sobre a língua, que se mostra, na língua, pelas formas de designá-la.

Over the last two decades, the use of professional designations as selection criteria has increased. In order to develop selection criteria, recruiters assess candidates from both job and organizational perspectives (Kristof-Brown 2000). No research exists that examines the degree to which organizational objectives, rooted in considerations that are not job-specific, may be affecting the increase in demand for these designations. This research attempts to close that gap by exploring the relationships among organizational objectives, the design of selection criteria, and the use of voluntary professional designations. The study explores the degree to which organizations use voluntary professional designations to assess person-organization (P-O) fit in environments emphasizing two objectives related to superior firm performance: the acquisition of competencies related to sustainable competitive advantages (SCAs) (Barney 1991; Porter 1985), and the development of characteristics associated with a high performance workplace culture (Huselid and Becker 1997). It also explores the extent to which a needs-supplies selection perspective is related to conceptualizations of P-O fit that are separate from notions of person-job (P-J) fit (Kristof 1996). Data were obtained from a sample of 292 HR professionals, representing a cross section of industries, who completed a Web-based survey. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the presence of positive and significant relationships between each of three organizational contingencies (i.e., a needs-supplies perspective, a high performance workplace system culture, the desire to acquire competencies perceived to be sustainable competitive advantages) and the construct of P-O fit. Perceptions that the competencies were inimitable had the strongest relationship to P-O fit. As well, a positive and significant relationship was found between the construct of P-O fit and the use of a professional designation. However, study results also indicated that only two dimensions of SCA were positively and significantly related to the use of a professional designation: perceptions that the competencies represented by the designation are rare, and perceptions that they add long-term value.

Over the last two decades, the use of professional designations as selection criteria has increased. In order to develop selection criteria, recruiters assess candidates from both job and organizational perspectives (Kristof-Brown 2000). No research exists that examines the degree to which organizational objectives, rooted in considerations that are not job-specific, may be affecting the increase in demand for these designations. This research attempts to close that gap by exploring the relationships among organizational objectives, the design of selection criteria, and the use of voluntary professional designations. The study explores the degree to which organizations use voluntary professional designations to assess person-organization (P-O) fit in environments emphasizing two objectives related to superior firm performance: the acquisition of competencies related to sustainable competitive advantages (SCAs) (Barney 1991; Porter 1985), and the development of characteristics associated with a high performance workplace culture (Huselid and Becker 1997). It also explores the extent to which a needs-supplies selection perspective is related to conceptualizations of P-O fit that are separate from notions of person-job (P-J) fit (Kristof 1996). Data were obtained from a sample of 292 HR professionals, representing a cross section of industries, who completed a Web-based survey. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the presence of positive and significant relationships between each of three organizational contingencies (i.e., a needs-supplies perspective, a high performance workplace system culture, the desire to acquire competencies perceived to be sustainable competitive advantages) and the construct of P-O fit. Perceptions that the competencies were inimitable had the strongest relationship to P-O fit. As well, a positive and significant relationship was found between the construct of P-O fit and the use of a professional designation. However, study results also indicated that only two dimensions of SCA were positively and significantly related to the use of a professional designation: perceptions that the competencies represented by the designation are rare, and perceptions that they add long-term value.

Agribusiness is an important sector to contribute the Brazilian trade surplus. The European Union and the United States are among the main destinations of agrofood products, taking part in 31.4% and 14.2% out of the exportations, respectively. The consumers, especially the Europeans, have presented themselves more demanding in what concerns farming products for human consumption, due to the nature of these products and the frequent food crisis. Thus, market segmentation based on information about the origin of the product and production process for differentiation and price attribution has become important, due to the fact that farming systems which are scale-based and linked to the production of commodities have become weakened beyond such markets. In this context, an alternative for development for certain regions is to consider regional/local specificities as factors that determine their identity, based on the concept of geographical indications. This scenario presents an opportunity for the farmers located in the APA of Ibirapuitã. Historically, the region is linked to animal production, due to the fact that the natural pastures there found provide a good support for this type of activity, which has marked the tradition, history and culture of the Gaúcho. The natural environment, therefore, characterises certain intrinsically specific attributes for the products that are originated from it, being that an important aspect in Geographical Indications. Thus, the geographical origin system, used in a Protected Designations of Origin or Protected Geographical Indications approach, is an alternative of development through the territorial perspective. This region is inserted in a conservation area legally known for its peculiar characteristics linked to the Pampa Bioma, which legitimizes extensive animal production. The development of a prototype of a system with a geo-referenced database occurred due to the need of obtaining the position of farmers in relation to the borders of the APA of Ibirapuitã. Finally the geographical indications can be used not only as tools to access other markets, but also for agricultural development, in the sense of valuing territories, mainly for small farmers that are strongly linked to their place of origin, history and culture. This space-time relation values the richness of natural, historical and cultural characteristics, i.e., the features which are fundamental for the differentiation of its production. This approach allows the origin of a product and/or its production processes to be valued, and to convert them into a differentiation and value aggregation factor, besides assuring the products identified according to pre-established parameters in what refers mainly to environmental, social and sanitary issues, as an alternative to the new barriers present in today s economical negotiations. / O agronegócio tem importante contribuição no superávit da balança comercial brasileira. A União Européia e os Estados Unidos estão entre os principais destinos dos produtos agrícolas, com uma participação de 31,4% e 14,2%, respectivamente. Os consumidores, principalmente europeus, têm se mostrado motivados em exigir maior transparência em relação aos produtos agroalimentares, devido à própria natureza destes produtos e às freqüentes crises alimentares. Assim, torna-se importante a segmentação de mercado baseado em informações sobre origem do produto e/ou processo de produção para diferenciação e agregação de valor, pois sistemas agropastoris baseados em escala e vinculados à produção de commodities se enfraqueceram frente a estes mercados. Dentro deste contexto, uma alternativa de desenvolvimento para certas regiões é considerar especificidades regionais/locais do território como determinantes de sua identidade, base do conceito de indicações geográficas. Este cenário possibilita uma oportunidade para os produtores localizados na APA do Ibirapuitã, historicamente a região está vinculada à pecuária, decorrente do suporte dos campos naturais ao desenvolvimento desta atividade, que marcou a tradição, história e cultura do gaúcho. O meio natural, portanto, caracteriza atributos intrínsecos específicos para produtos provenientes deste, sendo um aspecto importante nas Indicações Geográficas. Deste modo, o sistema de indicações geográficas, seja utilizando uma abordagem de Indicação de Procedência ou Denominação de Origem, é uma alternativa de desenvolvimento pela perspectiva territorial da região. A mesma está inserida numa unidade de conservação reconhecida legalmente por suas características pecualiares vinculadas à localização no Bioma Pampa, o que legitima a atividade de produção animal extensiva. O desenvolvimento do protótipo de um sistema com uma base de dados georreferenciada ocorreu pela necessidade de obtenção, neste primeiro momento, da localização dos produtores em relação aos limites APA do Ibirapuitã e de dados sobre recursos sócio-econômicos, objetivando obter um conhecimento prévio da área em estudo. A extensão geográfica - característica da área - associada à complexidade e diversidade de características dos sistemas agrários requer, sempre que possível, o uso de instrumentos e tecnologias disponíveis ao levantamento e análise de informações, processo que pode ser facilitado com a utilização de imagens de satélites, aplicação de fichas de levantamento adequadas à região e pelo uso de técnicas estatísticas para o tratamento dos dados. Analisando sobre estes aspectos, os resultados preliminares do protótipo desenvolvido foram adequados aos objetivos propostos, pois possibilitou a facilidade de armazenamento e obtenção de resultados baseados na análise dos dados, além da facilidade de localização destes produtores em relação aos limites desta unidade de conservação. Finalmente, as indicações geográficas podem ser utilizadas, não apenas como instrumentos para acesso a mercados, mas também como uma ferramenta de desenvolvimento rural, no sentido da valorização dos territórios, principalmente para os pequenos produtores que possuem forte vinculação com o local de origem, história e cultura. Esta relação espaço-tempo oferece a riqueza de seu patrimônio natural e histórico-cultural, ou seja, sua tipicidade fundamental à diferenciação de sua produção. Esta abordagem permite proteger e valorizar a origem de um produto e/ou processos de produção, e convertê-las em fator de diferenciação e agregação de valor, além de garantir produtos identificados de acordo com parâmetros pré-estabelecidos no que se refere principalmente a questões ambientais, sociais e sanitárias, alternativa às novas barreiras presentes nas atuais negociações econômicas.