The aim of this thesis was identify the application of environmental-friendly approaches offer of accommodation in subject areas, assess the importance of responsible approaches in strategy of companies offering accommodation, research into preferences of visitors of the former České Budějovice district concerning a specific offer of responsible tourism industry. The results of paper and concept of measure for České Budějovice district are at the close of the paper.

In recent decades, the environmental literacy and its output dimension, responsible environmental behavior represents an important construct, which is studied by a number of researchers from many countries. In this dissertation, firstly we introduce environmental literacy from a theoretical point of view, then the development of approaches to this construct as well as a review of research in past decades. In our own research, we initially sought for a suitable research instrument to be used to identify and measure selected aspects of environmental literacy among pre-service primary teachers. The research tool was found in a combination of Nature relatedness scale and Environmental Behavior scale, supplemented by data collection using concept mapping with the central concept of the greenhouse effect. The variables that affect various aspects of environmental literacy were found on a sample of more than five hundred of the respondents using this tool and its modifications. Higher values were found within the respondents who were engaged in regular environmentally-themed activities, respondents from villages up to 100 inhabitants and the older respondents. The nature relatedness has moderately positive effect on the responsible environmental behavior, cognitive component of environmental literacy does not have such influence. The international comparison showed lower results from the respondents from Slovakia in comparison with students from the Czech Republic and Turkey. Nature relatedness scale proved to be useful for measuring a particular element of the affective component of environmental literacy across countries, by contrast, Environmental behavior scale reached low psychometric results on all foreign respondents.

The aim of the thesis was to identify environment-friendly approaches in the offer of accommodation in subject area - Cesky Krumlov, to assess the importance of friendly approaches in the strategy of companies offering accommodation and to determine preferences and interest of visitors of the area about range of accommodation that is environmentally friendly. The results of paper and concept of measure for Český Krumlov district are at the close of the paper.

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ARAÚJO, Liane Marli Silva de. Etnoictiologia como ferramenta para uma gestão pesqueira participativa e sustentável. 2013. 107 f. : Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente-PRODEMA, Fortaleza,CE, 2013. / Submitted by guaracy araujo (guaraa3355@gmail.com) on 2016-05-09T19:16:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dis_lmsaraújo.pdf: 812644 bytes, checksum: 600526b594b533b682f6ab79e1c9f49b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by guaracy araujo (guaraa3355@gmail.com) on 2016-05-09T19:17:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dis_lmsaraújo.pdf: 812644 bytes, checksum: 600526b594b533b682f6ab79e1c9f49b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-09T19:17:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dis_lmsaraújo.pdf: 812644 bytes, checksum: 600526b594b533b682f6ab79e1c9f49b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / This study aimed to investigate the relations between the Ceará coastal fishermen and fisheries resources with respect to the local ecological knowledge (LEK) about fish and fishing techniques. Specifically, we investigated the fishermen from Redonda Beach, in the municipality of Icapui (CE), and the fish species harvested by them. This location was chosen because those fishermen carries on the responsible fishing, that is aligned to the sustainability principles. For data collection, we used qualitative and quantitative methods in the light of ethnoichthyology, which deals with the interactions between humans and fish. The research techniques used in this study were the following: "snowball"sampling ; direct observation, guided tours, open interviews, and semi-structured and structured questionnaires. The survey was applied to the Redonda fishermen and 30 persons from the community. The results showed that Redonda fishermen have practiced artisanal fishing, usually in sailing vessels, using relatively simple tools, and that fishing is an economic, sociocultural and subsistence activity for them. The fish species most havested (and showing higher use value) were cavala (Aconthocybium solandri); biquara (Haemulon plumierii) and serra (Scomberomorus brasiliensis). We suggest that policy measures should be adopted for those species such as minimum harvesting season. The study points out the need for creating spawning season for the Lutjanidae fish family: cioba, dentão, guaiuba, pargo e ariacó. This information is important for developing fisheries resource management and conservation plans, in addition to supporting the decision making to promote the fisheries sustainable management on the coast of Ceará. / Esse estudo teve como objetivo geral investigar as relações estabelecidas entre os pescadores do litoral leste do Ceará e os recursos pesqueiros no que diz respeito ao conhecimento ecológico local (CEL) sobre a ictiofauna e as técnicas de pesca para capturar as espécies. Especificamente, foram investigados os pescadores da praia de Redonda, município de Icapuí (CE), e as espécies de peixes mais exploradas por eles. A localidade foi escolhida pelo fato dos pescadores serem referência por praticarem uma pesca responsável, ou seja, em consonância com os princípios da sustentabilidade. Para coleta de dados foram utilizados métodos qualitativos e quantitativos à luz da Etnoictiologia, a qual trata das interações entre os seres humanos e os peixes. As técnicas de pesquisa utilizadas foram: amostragem “bola de neve”; observação direta; turnês guiadas; entrevistas abertas; e questionários estruturados e semi-estruturados. A pesquisa contou com a participação direta de 30 pescadores e de respondentes da comunidade em geral. Os resultados mostraram que os pescadores de Redonda realizam uma pesca artesanal, geralmente em embarcações à vela, utilizando instrumentos simples e que a pesca constitui-se como uma atividade econômica, sociocultural e de subsistência. As espécies de peixes mais capturadas (de maior valor de uso) foram cavala (Aconthocybium solandri); biquara (Haemulon plumierii) e serra (Scomberomorus brasiliensis). Sugere-se que sejam adotadas medidas mínimas do comprimento para captura dessas espécies. O estudo aponta a necessidade da criação de seguro defeso para peixes da família Lutjanidae: cioba, dentão, guaiuba, pargo e ariacó. Essas informações são importantes para a elaboração de planos de manejo e conservação dos recursos pesqueiros, além de subsidiar a tomada de decisão visando promover a gestão sustentável da pesca.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-11-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T21:05:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cintra_gar_dr_rcla.pdf: 1038909 bytes, checksum: 48e5ba72515ca5d0f4d3b4f90e4f710e (MD5) / A presente pesquisa teve como objeto de estudo os municípios de Presidente Epitácio e Rosana, localizados a sudoeste do Estado de São Paulo, às margens do rio Paraná. A opção por esses municípios ocorreu por estarem localizados numa área paulista denominada Pontal do Paranapanema, sendo parte de uma região denominada de Alta Sorocabana, extremo sudoeste de São Paulo, no triângulo formado pelos rios Paraná e Paranapanema, localização que traz a possibilidade de se desenvolver o turismo. O objetivo geral da pesquisa foi analisar os principais pontos turísticos e debater sobre a necessidade de se desenvolver um plano estratégico participativo para a realização de um turismo responsável/sustentável, a fim de que os impactos negativos da atividade sejam mitigados e os positivos maximizados. Como objetivos específicos foram verificados os impactos e analisados o papel do poder público, o perfil dos turistas e a opinião dos moradores sobre o desenvolvimento do turismo. A atividade turística, em sua complexidade, expressa relações sociais que são materializadas no espaço, por isso para se entender o fenômeno do turismo no enfoque geográfico foram escolhidas as categorias de análise: forma função, estrutura e processo / The present research has as object of study the cities of President Epitácio and Rosana, located at the southwest of the São Paulo State, to the edges of the Paraná River. The option for these cities occurred for being located in a São Paulo State area called Pontal of the Paranapanema, being part of a called region of High Sorocabana, southwestern extremity of São Paulo, in the triangle formed for the rivers Paraná and Paranapanema, localization that brings the possibility of developing the tourism. The general objective of the research was to analyze the main tourist points and to debate on the necessity of developing a participative strategically plan for the accomplishment of sustainable a responsible tourism, so that the negative impacts of the activity are mitigated and the positives maximized. As specific objective it was verified the impacts and analyzed the paper of the public power, the profile of the tourists and the opinion of the inhabitants on the development of the tourism. The tourist activity, in its complexity, express social relations that are materialized in the space, therefore to understand the phenomenon of the tourism, in the geographic approach had been chosen the categories of analysis: form function, structure and process

Ce travail de recherche doctorale interroge l'accessibilité sociale et économique au logement. Il est centré sur une recherche prospective de nouvelles formes et de nouveaux modes de production d'habitat écoresponsable qui privilégient un développement local. La question de l'habitat est centrale dans une société où l'accès de tous à un logement de qualité devient de plus en plus difficile et où le secteur de la construction doit évoluer pour réduire son empreinte écologique. À l'instar de la France, la Saône-et-Loire est confrontée à des enjeux sociaux, économiques, culturels et environnementaux complexes et en évolution, auxquels elle doit s'adapter pour garantir un développement durable sur son territoire. Dans le domaine de l'habitat, ceci oblige à explorer de nouvelles solutions en termes de formes et de modes de production. Dans un premier temps, une analyse des enjeux, potentiels et freins du territoire a été menée, basée sur des enquêtes de terrain croisées avec des références extérieures. Au regard de cette phase exploratoire s'est fondée une réflexion prospective pour comprendre et éclairer les possibles, faire émerger des pistes stratégiques, urbanistiques, architecturales ou constructives. Cette recherche a saisi l'opportunité d'une demande de réflexion de la part d'élus du département. Elle vise à constituer une aide à la décision pour l'orientation des politiques territoriales locales avec un regard d'architecte sur les nouvelles pensées du logement accessible. Elle contribue également à mettre en place une démarche pour mieux se saisir de la question de l'habitat et du développement d'un territoire, qui pourrait être applicable à d'autres situations. / The main purpose of this Ph D research is to cross-examine social and economical accessibility to housing. It focuses on a prospective study for new production modes and forms of eco-responsible housing that privileges a local development. Housing is a main issue in a society where it is increasingly difficult to access to a quality accommodation, and where the construction sector still has to evolve for reducing its ecological footprint. Like France, the French department of Saône-et-Loire is facing more complex and evolving social, economical, cultural and environmental issues, with which it must deal to warrant a sustainable development on its territory. In the housing field, this challenge forces to explore new solutions in terms of forms and production ways. At first stage, an analysis of the territory stakes, potentials and brakes has been done, based on field surveys crossed with external references. With regard to this explorative stage, a forwarding thinking was carried out to understand and throw light on possibilities in terms of strategic trends for town planning, architecture or construction. This research jumped at the opportunity of a reflexion request from some elected representatives of the department. It aims to set up a decision-making support for territorial policies according an architect point of view on affordable housing. It also contributes to set up an approach for better seizing housing and territorial development issues, which could be applicable to other situations.

Cette thèse de doctorat s'inscrit dans le courant de recherche qui étudie les implications financières associées à une meilleure responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE). Après un chapitre préliminaire qui nous permet de présenter la littérature antérieure et de situer notre recherche, nous effectuons trois études empiriques. Dans la première étude, nous étudions l'impact de la RSE sur le risque financier des entreprises (mesuré par le risque total, systématique et spécifique). En utilisant un échantillon de 5716 observations entre 2001 et 2011, nous montrons que les entreprises socialement responsables réduisent significativement leur risque systématique. Les résultats de cette étude suggèrent aussi que ces entreprises disposent d'un capital moral qui absorbe l'impact de potentiels chocs spécifiques. Quant à l'analyse des dimensions de la RSE, nous démontrons que les “ressources humaines” réduisent le plus le risque financier des firmes, suivies par le “ comportement sur le marché” et le “gouvernement d'entreprise”. Dans la deuxième étude empirique, nous nous intéressons à l'impact de la RSE sur la maturité de la dette des entreprises. En utilisant un large échantillon d'entreprises américaines, nous montrons que les entreprises socialement responsables réduisent significativement la maturité de leur dette. Nous montrons aussi que ces entreprises substituent les capitaux propres à la dette long-terme. Un niveau élevé de RSE réduit la proportion des investissements financés par de la dette long-terme et augmente la proportion des investissements financés par des capitaux propres et de la dette court-terme. Dans la troisième étude empirique, nous utilisons un échantillon de 22389 observations entre 1991 et 2012 et nous nous intéressons à la relation entre la RSE et la politique de dividendes. Nous soulignons que les entreprises socialement responsables paient plus de dividendes que les entreprises non socialement responsables. Nous démontrons aussi que les entreprises socialement responsables ont une politique de dividendes plus stable. Globalement, nos résultats empiriques valident nos hypothèses. Ils suggèrent que les entreprises socialement responsables utilisent la maturité de leur dette et leur politique de dividendes comme des mécanismes qui permettent de contrôler les phénomènes de surinvestissement en RSE. Ces mécanismes permettent de renforcer les effets positifs liés à une meilleure RSE (i.e., la réduction du risque). / Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is, nowadays, considered one of the most debated topics in both theory and practice. This dissertation investigates some financial implications associated with high CSR involvement. After Synthesizing the existing literature in the field, we perform three empirical studies. The first empirical study examines the impact of CSR on firm financial risk (measured by total, systematic and specific risks). Using a database of 5,716 firm-year observations between 2001 and 2011, we show that a socially responsible firm avoids certain risks acknowledged by the financial market as socially responsible systematic risks, like environment penalties and consumer disloyalty. Socially responsible firms also own a moral capital that reduces the impact of some firm specific shocks and thus the idiosyncratic risk level. It appears that the most important reduction of financial risk is due to the “human resources” sub-rating, followed by “business behavior” and “corporate governance”. The second empirical study investigates the impact of CSR on firm debt maturity. Using a large sample of US firms, we find robust evidence that high CSR firms significantly reduce their debt maturity. Furthermore, high CSR firms substitute shareholders' equity for long-term debt. CSR decreases the extent to which investments are financed with long-term debt and increases the extent to which investments are financed by short-term debt and shareholders' equity. The third empirical study uses a sample of 22,839 US firm-year observations over the 1991–2012 period in order to explore the relationship between CSR and dividend payout policy. We find that high CSR firms pay more dividends than low CSR firms. Moreover, socially irresponsible firms adjust dividends quicker than socially responsible firms: dividend payout is more stable in high CSR firms than in low CSR firms. Additional results show that firms involved in two controversial activities –military business and alcohol – are associated with low dividend payouts, which is likely to be due to the high cost of external funding for these firms. Overall, our results support the expectation that socially responsible firms use debt maturity and dividend payout as mechanisms to avoid CSR overinvestment problems and to maintain the positive effects associated with high CSR strategies (i.e., risk reduction).

This study investigates the Co-responsible Professional Development (DPC, in Portuguese), in first language teachers’ formation (LM teachers, in Portuguese) based on the Holistic Activity Theory (THA, in Portuguese). The DPC is a triadic conception of professionalization that articulates, based on alliance and reciprocal confidence, three contexts: Academy, Graduation and Market. The DPC is one of the basic concepts of THA studied by Richter (2011) which pattern concerns on the inseparability among conduct, concept and quality in the professional practice, ordered in a systemic way through a set of criteria that are the basis of the parameterization of a specialized job in an autopoietic horizon, denominated as framework. The development of the investigation starts out from an analysis from an excerpt of the activity report of the Portuguese Language Course Subproject that integrates the Institutional Scholarship Program of Introduction to Teaching First Language (PIBID/Português, in Portuguese). Owing that, to implement a DPC, a professional alliance is necessary based on a link of confidence and on the adoption of a paradigm of consensual work (framework) between initial and in-service capacitation, this study begins by analyzing the PIBID/Português as a formative model able to anchor the necessary elements to the professional development of first language teachers. Through a case study within the scope of qualitative research and using the indiciary paradigm from GINZBURG (1989), it is possible to say, in a general way, that PIBID/Português revealed itself as a formative referential with a strong tendency to anchor a DPC and its developments: principles of job framework founded by the DPC, absence of problems in the framework interfaces, setting up as a consequence of the absence of deviation in the means and relations with the socio-interacionist paradigm in the conceptual field of first language, which are revealers of what THA denominates as overcoming akrasia. In other words, this study brings out some positive aspects concerning the inseparability between conduct, concept and value in a triadic situation of professionalization. / Este estudo investiga o Desenvolvimento Profissional Corresponsável (DPC), especialmente, na formação do professor de Língua Materna (LM) à luz da Teoria Holística da Atividade (THA). O DPC consiste em uma concepção triádica de profissionalização, articulando, em bases de aliança e confiança recíproca, três lugares: Academia, Graduação e Mercado. O DPC é um dos conceitos básicos da THA, escudada por Richter (2011), cuja matriz diz respeito à inseparabilidade entre conduta, conceito e valor no exercício profissional, ordenados de forma sistêmica, por meio de um conjunto de critérios embasadores da parametrização de um trabalho especializado num horizonte autopoiético, (enquadramento). O desenvolvimento da investigação partiu da análise de uma parte do relatório de atividades do Subprojeto Letras Português, integrante do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência – PIBID. Tendo em vista que, para se implementar um DPC, é necessária uma aliança profissional alicerçada num elo de confiança e na adoção de um paradigma de trabalho (enquadramento) consensual entre capacitação inicial e emserviço, essa pesquisa parte da análise do PIBID/Português como um referencial formativo capaz de ancorar os fatores necessários ao desenvolvimento profissional de professores de LM. Por intermédio de um estudo de caso, no escopo das pesquisas de base qualitativa, e através do paradigma indiciário de GINZBURG (1989), pode-se dizer, de modo geral, que o PIBID/Português revelou-se como um referencial formativo, com forte tendência ao ancoramento de um DPC e seus desdobramentos: princípios de enquadramento de trabalho proposto pela THA, ausência de problemas nas interfaces do enquadramento, configurando, consequentemente, ausência de desvios aos meios e relações com o paradigma sociointeracionista no quadro conceitual do ensino de Língua Materna como marca de superação do que a THA denomina de acrasia. Em outras palavras, revelou aspectos positivos no tocante à inseparabilidade entre conduta, conceito e valor, em uma situação triádica de profissionalização.

Thesis (MTech (Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011 / This study explores the possibilities of using design interventions in mitigating crime. The study employs the Design Against Crime (DAC) philosophy in dealing with crime, which provides a holistic perspective regarding crimeand related issues.High crime levels in South Africa necessitate alternative approaches to dealing with crime, as it is becoming evident that the old strategies that have been utilised are not providing the desired effects.The focus is on the emergence of crime amongst youth at risk, living in communities-in-tension and more specifically,the Bridgetown community near Cape Town. Communities which constitute the lower socio-economic income level, usually suffer the most with regards to crime. The effects of crime negatively influence the development of the community, allowing the cycle of poverty and crime to continue. If the cycle of crime can be broken in these communities, development may take place which will strengthen them in a number of ways, including their standing in society. In order to gain a better understanding of the crime situation in South Africa, the study investigates the country‘s crime history and its widespread effects on society today. The research also looks at other factors such as personal and environmental settings that inform an individual‘s decision to commit crime. Delinquency and its results are also explored. The theoretical lens used in the study is that of Socially Responsible Design (SRD), with DAC as a subsection.SRDlooks at providing solutions to societal problems from a holistic point of view. The study uses a qualitative approach which focuses on people in real life situations,allowing the researcher to gain insight into what motivates people in their specific circumstances. The participants involved in the study are members of the Bridgetown community, youth from that community and theReconstructed Living Labs (RLabs) team, who were previously involved in crime. The researcher sought the views of experts in the field with regards to crime alleviation in communities such as Bridgetown. This research study concludes that opportunities exist forholistic and multi-faceted deployment of DAC strategies in that community to ameliorate crime, when these strategies targetyouth at risk.