Perceived Diversity of Complex Environmental Systems: Multidimensional Measurement and Synthetic Indicators

The general attitude towards the sustainable management of environmental resources is evolving towards the implementation of ‘participatory’ (as opposed to the classical ‘command and control’) and, especially at local scale, ‘bottom up’ (as opposed to the classical ‘top down’) approaches. This progress pushes a major interest in the development and application of methodologies able to ‘discover’ and ‘measure’ how environmental systems tend to be perceived by the different Stakeholders. Due to the ‘nature’ of the investigated systems, often too ‘complex’ to be treated through a classical deterministic approach, as typical for ‘hard’ physical/mathematical sciences, any ‘measurement’ has necessarily to be multidimensional. In the present report an approach, more typical of ‘soft’ social sciences, is presented and applied to the analysis of the sustainable management of water resources in seven Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Watersheds. The methodology is based on the development and analysis (explorative factor analysis, multidimensional scaling) of a questionnaire and is aimed at the ‘discovery’ and ‘measurement’ of a latent multidimensional ‘underlying structure’ (‘conceptual map’). It is the opinion of the authors, that the identification of a set of ‘consistent’, ‘independent’, ‘bottom up’ and ‘shared’ synthetic indicators (aggregated indices) could be strongly facilitated by the interpretation of the dimensions of the emerging ‘underlying structure’.Participative Approach, Cognitive Map, Factor Analysis, Indicators of Sustainability, Sustainable Water, Management

Effects of Tourism Upon the Economy of Small and Medium-Sized European Cities. Cultural Tourists and “The Others”

The paper presents the results of the application of an Input-Output-based approach for the estimation of direct, indirect and induced effects of tourist spending on local economies, in a static partial equilibrium setting. The methodology has been successfully applied in three case studies – Bergen (Norway), Elche (Spain), Syracuse (Italy) –, in the framework of the 6th FP project PICTURE (Pro-active management of the Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Resources and Economies), in order to quantify the monetary impact of cultural tourism upon urban economies. The analysis was carried out in two major steps: firstly, interviews to tourists in each case study city, in order to estimate the scale and variability of the spending patterns of different profiles of visitors (e.g., culture-driven vs. leisure tourists); secondly, application of the Input-Output model of the economy of concern (eventually re-scaling the matrix at the Region or County level) to quantify the effects of tourist expenditure on sales, income and employment for the several impacted economic sectors. Tourists driven by cultural interest are often assumed, in literature, to have a higher than average income and to spend more on holiday. The paper reports the main findings of the analysis, discussing them against the “cultural tourist” stereotype. The analysis aims at assisting local decision makers in identifying the value of different tourist typologies to their region, in understanding how different sectors of local economy and society can benefit from tourism and in determining how to maximise, or more equally redistribute, the positive impact.Tourism, Cultural Tourism, Economic Impacts, Input-Output Analysis

Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Economies: An Econometric Exercise

In recent years, interest in tourism has spread rapidly throughout many small and medium European cities, which previously have not necessarily considered themselves as tourist destinations. Tourism is increasingly seen as a potential lever towards high economic growth, measured both in terms of income and employment. In the present Working Paper we report the analysis on the economic impact undertaken in the framework of the PICTURE Project, showing the results of a novel econometric exercise to statistically assess the impacts of cultural tourism upon European municipalities. More precisely the analysis aims at estimating the effects of tourism specialisation on local income and prices. The Working Paper is built as follows. Section 1 presents and discusses secondary data about tourism facts and figures, including the economic impact of tourism upon European economies, with a focus on cultural tourism. An extensive review of literature, which identifies the main categories of impacts and the currently available methodologies to assess them, is undertaken. Section 2 focuses on the state of the art. Section 3 describes the database built for the analysis, sources and variables. In order to visually represent the spatial variability of the main parameters, a series of thematic maps at NUTS 3 level(“Maps of European tourism”), using GIS (Geographical Information System) are also included in the Working Paper. Section 4 shows the results of the econometric analysis of European panel data for the estimation of the effects of tourism specialisation on both local incomes and prices. Section 5 concludes.Cultural Tourism, Economic Growth

A sala: Exposições 2014: Projeto de Extensão Ações Educativas na Galeria de Arte A Sala do Centro de Artes da UFPel

A SALA é de suma importância, enquanto instância educacional e expositiva pública, localizada no Centro de Artes, que promove a partilha da produção artística contemporânea com o corpo docente, o corpo discente e com a comunidade em geral. É o espaço que apresenta a obra de arte e promove a sua fruição, como também envolve práticas profissionais que possibilitam aos estudantes de arte conhecer as etapas que envolvem a realização de uma exposição, ou seja, os projetos de curadoria, de expografia, a montagem, a produção gráfica de divulgação, encontros com o artista, ações educativas, a documentação, entre outras atividades necessárias para que as mostras aconteçam. De maneira intensa e constante os alunos são colaboradores e apreciadores das exposições, adquirindo saberes indispensáveis à formação universitária

Anomia

The text below serves as program notes for Anomia. It was written by Júlio Machado in response to the piece Anomia. The text, differently from the musical piece, has the title “Anomias”: Anomias by Júlio Machado adapted by Bruno Ruviaro Leve: Um: sumir de si o … em que pela primeira vez foi primavera. Três: após as flores, desordem dos frutos sem o conforto das caixas. Cinco: De hora em hora, insectos soltos, frouxos, no ar. Sete: 14 onças tem meu corpo se preso ao tempo e livre do … Severa: Dois: ou sumir de si o … em que isso foi, no fundo do quintal. Quatro: Estação parada, flowres de flores, nada. Seis: insects forgotten de si, pousados no seco e na lama. Eight: 400 gramas tem um corpo if preso ao … e livre do espaço Chrônic: sumir de si o … em que pela primeira vez foi primavera. or sumir de si o … em que isso foi, no fundo do quintal. after the flores, desordem dos frutos without the comfort das caixas. estação parada, flores de flowers, nothing. de hour em hour, soltos insects, loose, in the air. insects minding their own business, landed on seco and mud. 14 onças has a corpo if preso ao tempo and livre from … . 400 grams has a body if tied to … e free from spaçe

Lady Gaga : um corpo além do corpo

De um modo sucinto, neste artigo, tentamos mostrar como o corpo se tornou para Lady Gaga num espaço de ficções. Corpo como espaço de todos os lugares e não-lugares. De performance em performance, Lady Gaga desmultiplica-se, metamorfoseia-se e torna-se uma fantasia. Um corpo pós-humano numa aliança estreita com a tecnociência.This article in a succinct way, we try to show how the body has become to Lady Gaga in the space of fiction. Body as a space of all places and non-places. Performance in performance Gaga multiplies itself, transforms itself and becomes a fantasy. A post-human body in close alliance with technoscienc

O corpo morto: mitos, ritos, superstições

Este estudo tem um cariz preponderantemente sócio-antropológico, versando as tradições, as crenças, os mitos, os ritos, enfim, o modo como a comunidade humana imagina o post mortem e cuida de alguém que morreu. No entanto, depois de uma rápida digressão histórica sobre a morte no Ocidente, tomando como fonte obras de Philippe Ariès (1975 e 1977), Louis-Vincent Thomas (1985), e Maria Manuel Oliveira (2007), o meu propósito visa sobretudo a contemporaneidade, onde as transformações operadas na cultura pelas tecnologias e pelos media, de tão profundas, vieram alterar, ao longo do século XX, o sentido que tanto damos à vida como à morte

Effects of tourism upon the economy of small and medium-sized European cities: Cultural tourists and 'the others'

The paper presents the results of the application of an Input-Output-based approach for the estimation of direct, indirect and induced effects of tourist spending on local economies, in a static partial equilibrium setting. The methodology has been successfully applied in three case studies Bergen (Norway), Elche (Spain), Syracuse (Italy) , in the framework of the 6th FP project PICTURE (Pro-active management of the Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Resources and Economies), in order to quantify the monetary impact of cultural tourism upon urban economies. The analysis was carried out in two major steps: firstly, interviews to tourists in each case study city, in order to estimate the scale and variability of the spending patterns of different profiles of visitors (e.g., culture-driven vs. leisure tourists); secondly, application of the Input-Output model of the economy of concern (eventually re-scaling the matrix at the Region or County level) to quantify the effects of tourist expenditure on sales, income and employment for the several impacted economic sectors. Tourists driven by cultural interest are often assumed, in literature, to have a higher than average income and to spend more on holiday. The paper reports the main findings of the analysis, discussing them against the 'cultural tourist' stereotype. The analysis aims at assisting local decision makers in identifying the value of different tourist typologies to their region, in understanding how different sectors of local economy and society can benefit from tourism and in determining how to maximise, or more equally redistribute, the positive impact

O corpo travestido enquanto objecto de desejo

Se entendermos o erotismo como uma busca de prazer de um modo intencional, prolongado, articulado e aprofundado, prazer esse que não só é procurado como é continuado no tempo, verifica-se que há uma área onde a informação é particularmente lacunar, a ligação do erotismo ao mundo do vestuário ligado às questões de género já que a grande maioria dos estudos realizados até ao presente na esfera da indumentária com características eróticas, abrangem maioritariamente os consumos de indumentária erótica pelos homens heterossexuais