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V. I Mission possible: stellar Canadian performance in the global economy -- v. II Mission possible: a Canadian resources strategy for the boom and beyond -- v. III Mission possible: successful Canadian cities -- v. IV Mission possible executive summary: sustainable prosperity for Canada (an executive summary of Volumes I, II and III). / " ... set of four volumes comprising the final report of The Canada Project, Mission Possible: Sustainable Prosperity for Canada."--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online. Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar se os investimentos de empresas florestais brasileiras, em atividades que configuram responsabilidade social, se refletiram nos valores de suas ações. O contexto é o do desenvolvimento sustentável ou sustentabilidade, isto é, um paradigma social sobre a possibilidade de alcançar o desenvolvimento econômico, dentro da lógica de expansão e acumulação, sem comprometer sobremaneira os recursos naturais para as gerações futuras. A relevância deste trabalho reside na importância do tema nos dias atuais, na tentativa de avaliar uma empresa para além de seus aspectos econômico- financeiros e, ainda, na proposição de indicadores que relacionam tais aspectos com os de responsabilidade social. A presente investigação foi limitada às empresas florestais brasileiras listadas na BM&FBOVESPA, em maio de 2012. A responsabilidade social das empresas foi descrita pelos indicadores propostos pela Global Reporting Initiative e abordou os seguintes aspectos: ambiental, direitos humanos, práticas trabalhistas e trabalho digno, sociedade, responsabilidade sobre o produto, e econômico. Essa descrição restringiu-se ao período de 2009 e 2010. Os resultados mostraram que apenas cinco das nove empresas pesquisadas tinha elaborado relatórios de sustentabilidade, no período em questão. Para uma sociedade que deseja alcançar a sustentabilidade esse cenário é bastante preocupante, uma vez que tais empresas constituem o estrato elite do universo das empresas florestais brasileiras. Por sua vez, a análise dos índices de avaliação econômico-financeira das empresas investigadas foi realizada a partir dos dados obtidos em seus relatórios financeiros de 2009 a 2011. Esses dados foram analisados por meio de técnicas de estatística multivariada, especialmente a análise fatorial, que apontou 17 índices mais relevantes entre os 25 mais amplamente utilizados em matéria de avaliação econômico-financeira de uma empresa. Em relação aos valores das ações, os resultados da pesquisa destacam que, entre as empresas florestais brasileiras investigadas, aquelas com responsabilidade social configurada estavam mais adaptadas para permanecer no mercado, apresentaram maior transparência em suas práticas produtivas e ofereceram menor risco para os investidores em comparação com aquelas sem responsabilidade social configurada. Além disso, no atual estágio do desenvolvimento social e econômico do Brasil, relatórios de sustentabilidade já não devem ser meras recomendações comerciais, pois eles nutrem novas maneiras de pensar e agir sobre a sociedade. Eles devem ser obrigatórios, fiscalizados pelo poder público e a principal referência para se conceder recursos financeiros públicos. / This research aims to analyze whether investments of Brazilian forestry companies, concerning activities that shape social responsibility, are reflected in the values of their shares. Its context is that of sustainable development or sustainability, that is, a social paradigm about the possibility of achieving economic development, within the logic of expansion and accumulation, without greatly compromising the natural resources for future generations. The relevance of this research lies in the importance of the topic in the present days, in seeking to assess a company beyond its financial and economic aspects and in to proposing indicators that relate such aspects with those of social responsibility. The present investigation was limited to Brazilian forestry companies, listed on the BM&FBOVESPA, in May of 2012. The social responsibility of these companies was described by the indicators proposed by the Global Reporting Initiative and covered the following aspects: environmental, human rights, labor practices and decent work, society, product liability and economic. Such description was restricted to the period of 2009 and 2010. The results showed that only five out of nine surveyed companies had prepared sustainability reports within the period aforementioned. For a society that wants to achieve sustainability this scenario is rather disturbing, as such companies represent the elite stratum of the universe of Brazilian forestry companies. On its turn, the analysis of the investigated companies’ financial economic evaluation indexes was carried out from data obtained in their financial reports from 2009 to 2011. These data were analyzed by means of multivariate statistical techniques, especially the factor analysis, which scored 17 relevant indexes among the 25 most widely used ones concerning a company’s financial and economic evaluation. Regarding share values, the research findings highlight that among the Brazilian forestry companies that were investigated, the ones with configured social responsibility were better suited to stay in business, had greater transparency in their production practices and offered lower risk to investors compared to those without configured social responsibility. Furthermore, at the current stage of the Brazilian social and economic development, sustainability reports must no longer be taken as mere trade recommendations, as they nurture new ways of thinking and acting over society. They have to be supervised by the government and, consequently, understood as mandatory instruments of reference to grant public funds.

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar se os investimentos de empresas florestais brasileiras, em atividades que configuram responsabilidade social, se refletiram nos valores de suas ações. O contexto é o do desenvolvimento sustentável ou sustentabilidade, isto é, um paradigma social sobre a possibilidade de alcançar o desenvolvimento econômico, dentro da lógica de expansão e acumulação, sem comprometer sobremaneira os recursos naturais para as gerações futuras. A relevância deste trabalho reside na importância do tema nos dias atuais, na tentativa de avaliar uma empresa para além de seus aspectos econômico- financeiros e, ainda, na proposição de indicadores que relacionam tais aspectos com os de responsabilidade social. A presente investigação foi limitada às empresas florestais brasileiras listadas na BM&FBOVESPA, em maio de 2012. A responsabilidade social das empresas foi descrita pelos indicadores propostos pela Global Reporting Initiative e abordou os seguintes aspectos: ambiental, direitos humanos, práticas trabalhistas e trabalho digno, sociedade, responsabilidade sobre o produto, e econômico. Essa descrição restringiu-se ao período de 2009 e 2010. Os resultados mostraram que apenas cinco das nove empresas pesquisadas tinha elaborado relatórios de sustentabilidade, no período em questão. Para uma sociedade que deseja alcançar a sustentabilidade esse cenário é bastante preocupante, uma vez que tais empresas constituem o estrato elite do universo das empresas florestais brasileiras. Por sua vez, a análise dos índices de avaliação econômico-financeira das empresas investigadas foi realizada a partir dos dados obtidos em seus relatórios financeiros de 2009 a 2011. Esses dados foram analisados por meio de técnicas de estatística multivariada, especialmente a análise fatorial, que apontou 17 índices mais relevantes entre os 25 mais amplamente utilizados em matéria de avaliação econômico-financeira de uma empresa. Em relação aos valores das ações, os resultados da pesquisa destacam que, entre as empresas florestais brasileiras investigadas, aquelas com responsabilidade social configurada estavam mais adaptadas para permanecer no mercado, apresentaram maior transparência em suas práticas produtivas e ofereceram menor risco para os investidores em comparação com aquelas sem responsabilidade social configurada. Além disso, no atual estágio do desenvolvimento social e econômico do Brasil, relatórios de sustentabilidade já não devem ser meras recomendações comerciais, pois eles nutrem novas maneiras de pensar e agir sobre a sociedade. Eles devem ser obrigatórios, fiscalizados pelo poder público e a principal referência para se conceder recursos financeiros públicos. / This research aims to analyze whether investments of Brazilian forestry companies, concerning activities that shape social responsibility, are reflected in the values of their shares. Its context is that of sustainable development or sustainability, that is, a social paradigm about the possibility of achieving economic development, within the logic of expansion and accumulation, without greatly compromising the natural resources for future generations. The relevance of this research lies in the importance of the topic in the present days, in seeking to assess a company beyond its financial and economic aspects and in to proposing indicators that relate such aspects with those of social responsibility. The present investigation was limited to Brazilian forestry companies, listed on the BM&FBOVESPA, in May of 2012. The social responsibility of these companies was described by the indicators proposed by the Global Reporting Initiative and covered the following aspects: environmental, human rights, labor practices and decent work, society, product liability and economic. Such description was restricted to the period of 2009 and 2010. The results showed that only five out of nine surveyed companies had prepared sustainability reports within the period aforementioned. For a society that wants to achieve sustainability this scenario is rather disturbing, as such companies represent the elite stratum of the universe of Brazilian forestry companies. On its turn, the analysis of the investigated companies’ financial economic evaluation indexes was carried out from data obtained in their financial reports from 2009 to 2011. These data were analyzed by means of multivariate statistical techniques, especially the factor analysis, which scored 17 relevant indexes among the 25 most widely used ones concerning a company’s financial and economic evaluation. Regarding share values, the research findings highlight that among the Brazilian forestry companies that were investigated, the ones with configured social responsibility were better suited to stay in business, had greater transparency in their production practices and offered lower risk to investors compared to those without configured social responsibility. Furthermore, at the current stage of the Brazilian social and economic development, sustainability reports must no longer be taken as mere trade recommendations, as they nurture new ways of thinking and acting over society. They have to be supervised by the government and, consequently, understood as mandatory instruments of reference to grant public funds.

The aim of the research is to quantify the HIV prevalence in human resources of forestry contracting businesses and to develop a management framework to promote economic sustainability of forestry contractors. HIV tests were conducted in the forest industry on the employees of contracting concerns from 2002/2003 to 2004/2005 with an accompanying questionnaire to collect demographic data. The HIV test results were analyzed with the demographic data to determine relationships between HIV prevalence and demographic factors. Contractors responded to a questionnaire on the effect of HIV and AIDS prevalence on (their) contracting businesses. The questionnaire also collected information about HIV and AIDS interventions and assistance to HIV and AIDS affected employees. Key stakeholders of other forestry sub-sectors were interviewed to facilitate comparison of the different sub-sectors and to establish if there were major differences between the sub-sectors, however, the focus was on the human resources of the forestry contracting sub-sector. The research results indicated that the HIV prevalence was increasing for the research period and was, in some regions, exceeding 40 per cent. The highest prevalence was recorded in the Highveld and Zululand regions and the lowest prevalence in the North-Eastern Cape. The HIV prevalence for females was constantly higher than the incidence for males and the ratio of males to females (all regions) approximated 68 per cent to 32 per cent. The high prevalence of HIV results in major social and economic impacts. The economic impact is aggravated through regulation (due to perceived market failure) and a bid for more equal distribution of wealth in the economy. The result of the sum of the impacts alludes to a conversion from labour to capital; however, to make well-informed decisions, various scenarios should be simulated to establish the optimum labour to capital ratio. The research further established that appropriate staffing is increasingly difficult and that the development of human capital is under pressure due to the high prevalence of HIV and AIDS. HIV and AIDS mitigation programmes will make a significant contribution to the return on human capital assets, as the economic life and productivity of such assets will be enhanced by such interventions. The management framework developed was assessed to be visually acceptable and useful by domain experts; however, to realise the full potential of the framework it should be used with anticipation of the research results regarding prevalence and future estimated AIDS releases and in conjunction with industry cost simulation models.