Territoriality in the flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) is studied in the laboratory. In rectangular enclosures, male flies exhibit a lower tolerance (occupation of the same physical space) of same-sex conspecifics than do females. In circular arenas, male flies show significantly higher levels of spatial separation among themselves (as determined from nearest neighbour analyses) than do females: males show a slight tendency towards a uniform distribution, whereas females exhibit a slight tendency towards clustering. The male spatial behaviour occurs during the photophase but not the scotophase, suggesting that visual cues are required for maintenance of inter-individual spacing. No significant differences in male spacing behaviour occur between subjective day and subjective night in either constant dark or constant light conditions, suggesting that spatial patterning is not driven by a circadian rhythm.

Public space functions are essential for society to function because they can support social exchanges and building public life. This master thesis is a study of public life that unfolds in the setting of three redesigned public spaces in Rosengård, including Bokalerna, Rosens Röda Matta, and Rosengård Centrum. Drawing on a conceptual toolbox developed from a territorial actor-network theory (ANT) I examine the socio-material exchanges that take place because of the redesigned materialities of space and explore their impact on the quality of the selected public places. I employ qualitative methods - visual ethnography and interviews - to address the questions of 1) how material topographies mediate social exchange and 2) What actors or events are important for assembling everyday sociality in the selected three public spaces.I made use of six operative concepts of anchors, base camps, multicore and monocore spaces, tickets and rides, ladders, and finally punctiform, linear and field seating to explore their impact on the quality of the selected public places in terms of affording or hindering social exchanges. My field observations of the three sites and interviews indicate that the Rosengård Centrum accommodate a more pronounced public life compared the other, and perhaps the most popular one in the district. The programmed materialities and multiple points of organised activities allow space to facilitate heterogeneous clusterings of humans and non-human entities and the formation of a diverse collective. Moreover, the organization of a mixture of monocore and multicore space in combination with sheltered anchor spots appears to be essential for assembling and stabilising human collectives and everyday sociality in Rosengård.My findings suggest that, while many of the discussions in the literature concentrate on centres of cities or large metropolitan areas, much could still be learned from a thorough study of public spaces at a finer scale and neighbourhood level.

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Territoriality in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) was studied in the laboratory. In rectangular enclosures, male flies exhibited a lower tolerance (occupation of the same physical space) of same-sex conspecifics than did female flies. In circular arenas, male flies showed significantly higher levels of spatial separation among themselves (as determined from nearest neighbor analyses) than did females: males were distributed uniformly whereas females were nearly random. The male spatial behavior occurred during the photophase but not the scotophase of light-dark cycles, suggesting that visual cues are required for maintenance of inter-individual spacing. No significant differences in male spacing behavior occurred between subjective day and subjective night in either constant dark or constant light conditions, suggesting that spatial patterning is not driven by a circadian rhythm.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第23739号 / 理博第4829号 / 新制||理||1690(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科生物科学専攻 / (主査)教授 森 哲, 教授 中川 尚史, 教授 中務 真人 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

Due to intense environmental changes in recent decades, the territories of artisanal fishing (seas, rivers, estuaries, lakes, ponds) have suffered deep changes (pollution, reduction of fish stock, loss of biodiversity, predatory tourism, large public works, coastal erosion), which directly affects the lives of many communities of fishers. Some of these environmental changes have led those who depend on fishing for susbsistence to leave, with their families, their traditional places of work and residence. The general objective of this study is to understand the socio-cultural and economic processes of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization (TDR) experienced by artisanal fishermen,particularly when they were forced to leave their hometown, Cabeço thorp , due to the coastal erosion, in order to live in Saramém, in Brejo Grande, Sergipe. Saramém is located on the shore of the mouth of São Francisco river, as so was Cabeço. In order to understand these processes, the methodology used was the ethnography, which was built based on direct and participant observation, semistructured interviews about the life history of artisanal fishermen, photographic records and the use of a diary. In this sense, the ethnoknowledge of the fishermen was taken into consideration. The survey lasted from September 2012 to June 2013, and about 30 fishermen were interviewed. As a result, we obtained an understanding that the processes of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization caused material and immaterial damage, like the loss of traditional fishing places and changes in the spaces of common use (fishing territories. Moreover, neighborhood relations were changed and symbolic links with the territory were lost and (re)signified. As for the scientific and social relevance of the research, it is doubly important, both for public policies (to the understanding of the environmental impacts from the fishermen way of living), and for academic studies, especially for the notions of culturally defined spaces by the artisanal fishermen territoriality. Therefore, the importance of the ethnoknowledge as the approach of this dissertation. / Em decorrência de intensas mudanças socioambientais ocorridas nas últimas décadas, os territórios da pesca artesanal (mares, rios, estuários, lagos, lagoas, etc.) vêm sofrendo profundas transformações (poluição, diminuição dos estoques de pescados, perda da biodiversidade, turismo predatório, grandes obras públicas, erosão costeira), o que afeta diretamente o modo de vida de muitas comunidades de pescadores(as) no país. Algumas dessas transformações socioambientais têm levado diversos homens e mulheres, que vivem diretamente da pesca, a abandonar, com seus familiares, seus tradicionais lugares de trabalho e morada. O presente estudo possui como objetivo compreender os processos socioculturais e econômicos de territorialização, desterritorialização e reterritorialização (TDR) vividos pelos pescadores artesanais de Saramém, Brejo Grande-Sergipe, particularmente quando estes foram obrigados, devido ao avanço do mar, a ir morar nesta localidade, advindos do Povoado do Cabeço. Saramém localiza-se na margem da foz do Rio São Francisco, assim como era o Cabeço. Em busca da compreensão desses processos, a metodologia utilizada foi a etnografia, que se construiu com base na observação direta e participante, em entrevistas semiestruturadas sobre a história de vida dos pescadores artesanais, registros fotográficos e uso de um diário de campo. Nesse sentido, o etnoconhecimento dos pescadores também foi valorizado. A pesquisa durou de setembro de 2012 a junho de 2013, foram entrevistados trinta pescadores. Como resultado, obteve-se a compreensão de que os processos de territorialização, desterritorialização e reterritorialização provocaram danos materiais e imateriais, a exemplo das perdas dos lugares tradicionais de pesca, alterações nos espaços de uso comum (territórios de pesca), enquanto fruto de impactos negativos sobre os recursos naturais que se deram na foz do Rio São Francisco. Ademais, relações de vizinhança foram alteradas e elos simbólicos com o território perdidos e (re)significados. Quanto à relevância científica e social da pesquisa, entende-se que a mesma é duplamente importante, seja para as políticas públicas (compreensão dos impactos ambientais a partir do modo de vida dos pescadores), seja para os estudos acadêmicos, especialmente para as noções de espaços culturalmente definidos pelas territorialidades dos pescadores artesanais. Por isso, a importância do etnoconhecimento enquanto abordagem desta dissertação.

Master of Science / Department of Architecture / David R. Seamon / This thesis provides an overview of some key researchers and research topics in the field of environment-behavior studies (EBS), an interdisciplinary field that examines ways in which the natural and human-made environments contribute to human well-being. A key aim of environment-behavior studies is to better understand clients’ and users’ environmental needs, and to design the physical environment accordingly. Specifically, this thesis highlights two key research questions: (1) What are environment-behavior studies and why are they relevant to architecture and environmental design? and (2) How can environment-behavior studies be drawn upon practically to generate more effective architectural and environmental design? To provide answers to these two questions, the thesis first introduces five “pioneers” in environment-behavior studies— psychologist Roger Barker, anthropologist Edward Hall, psychologist Robert Sommer, urban designer Kevin Lynch, and architect Christopher Alexander—and reviews their major work. This discussion provides a general understanding as to what environment-behavior studies involve and how they have design significance. Next the thesis overviews three major theories developed in environment-behavior studies: (1) territoriality theory; (2) cognitive-mapping theory; and (3) prospect-refuge theory. Each of these theories is overviewed, and pragmatic examples are provided to indicate each theory’s value for architecture and environmental design.

A l'heure actuelle, de nombreuses entreprises peuvent d'ores et déjà exercer leurs activités dans d'autres pays sans avoir besoin d'y établir une présence physique. Dans le cadre de ce travail, la principale problématique était de savoir comment préserver le recouvrement des recettes publiques (la TVA et l'impôt sur les bénéfices des sociétés) en matière de services immatériels transfrontaliers à l'ère des technologies de l'information et de la communication. Dans cette perspective, il apparaît que la question du rattachement territorial des prestations de services immatérielles est étroitement liée à une problématique d'identification et de localisation des protagonistes. Dès lors, il est nécessaire de poursuivre le développement de la synergie entre les différentes administrations de l'Etat, et de renforcer la coopération, voire la coordination, entre les administrations fiscales et les acteurs du numérique. / Currently, many companies may already operate in other countries without needing to have a physical presence. In this work, the main problem was to know how to preserve the revenue of the states (VAT and tax on corporate profits) in the context of immaterial beyond-borders services in the era of IT. In this perspective, it appears that the question of territorial connection of immaterial services is closely related to a problem of identification and location of the parties.Therefore, it is necessary to continue the cooperation and even to coordinate, first, between various authorities in France, and secondly, between tax authorities and IT providers.

Les succursales implantées dans un pays étranger sont plus autonomes que leurs consoeurs situées dans le même pays que la maison mère. Elles évoluent dans un environnement juridique différent et par conséquent les liens avec la maison mère sont distendus. Le tribunal de l’Etat d’accueil de la succursale est compétent et les lois de ce pays sont applicables. Toutefois, les lois du pays d’accueil ne sont pas les seules à être applicables. L’absence de personnalité juridique des succursales aura pour conséquence la sollicitation des lois de la maison mère. La cohabitation entre territorialité et extraterritorialité des lois peut donner lieu soit à des conflits soit à des situations de fraude. En l’absence de coopération entre Etats, les succursales qui sont des formes de rayonnement extérieur de la société deviennent des instruments pour pratiquer non seulement le forum shopping mais aussi le law shopping et le tax shopping. / The branches implanted in foreign countries are more autonomous than branches situated in some country as the parent Company. They evolve in a different legal environment and consequently the links with the parent Company are distended. The Court of the State of reception of the branch is competent and laws of this Country are applicable. But the laws of the host country are not the only ones to be applicable. The cohabitation between territoriality and extraterritoriality of the laws can give rise either to conflicts or the situations of fraud. In the absence of cooperation between States the branches witch are forms of brilliance exterior of the Company are transformed into instruments to have a practice not only forum shopping but also law shopping and tax shopping.

Créé en 2006, l’outil Parc naturel marin (PNM) a pour objectif d’instaurer une gestion durable et participative des milieux littoraux et marins, en France métropolitaine et ultramarine. Le premier PNM créé Outre-mer a vu le jour en janvier 2010, à Mayotte. Centré sur le processus de mise en place de ce parc, ce travail de thèse a pour objectif d’interroger le caractère participatif, et à ce titre innovant, d’un tel processus, dans le domaine de la gestion de l’environnement littoral et marin. Cette problématique se décline en trois points clefs. Il s’agit d’une part de poser la question de l’identification des acteurs concernés par la mise en place de ce PNM : la mission d’étude pour la création du PNM a-t-elle réussi à prendre en compte l’ensemble de ces acteurs et la complexité des liens qui les unissent à la mer et au littoral à Mayotte ? D’autre part, il convient de questionner les méthodes de concertation utilisées par la mission d’étude et de se demander dans quelle mesure elles peuvent être ou non considérées comme innovantes ? Enfin, à partir de là, il s’agit de mettre en évidence les conditions requises pour aboutir à une réelle participation des acteurs locaux à la construction d’un projet partagé de PNM. / Created in 2006, the status of Natural Marine Park (NMP) aims to promote a sustainable and participatory management of coastal and marine ecosystems, in metropolitan France and overseas French territories. In January 2010, the first oversea NMP was launched in Mayotte. Focused on the implementation process of this NMP, this work discusses the participatory nature of this process and its degree of innovation, within the framework of marine and coastal environment management. Three key issues were examined : First, the different stakeholders involved in the project were identified in order to estimate to which extent the implementation of the NMP took them into account as well as their specific relation to the littoral and marine territories. Then, the consultation methods of the preliminary study mission were analysed to assess their degree of innovation. Finally, the mandatory conditions to achieve a genuine involvment of local stakeholders in the implementation of the NMP were pointed out.