Promoting Landscape-Level Forest Management in Fire-Prone Areas: Delegate Management to a Multi-Owner Collaborative, Rent the Land, or Just Sell It?

Forest management at the landscape level is a requirement for reducing wildfire hazard. In contexts where non-industrial private forest ownership prevails, the collaboration among multiple owners has been proposed as the way forward to reach consistent fuel management at that level. The current literature has been focused on identifying the factors that lead to collaboration among owners. In this study we explored other ways to reach landscape-level management in addition to the collaborative way, such as those that may be promoted through land renting or selling. Different contexts and owner types may require different solutions. Thus, we explicitly asked which alternative would be chosen by a given forest owner, from the following set: keeping individual management, entering a multi-owner collaborative arrangement where they delegate management, renting to a pulp company; or selling the land. In a context of small-scale ownership and high recurrence of wildfires in Portugal, a face-to-face survey was carried out to a sample of landowners. Our results suggest that there is not an a priori generalized unwillingness of owners to delegate management, rent or sell the land and thus they seem prone to align themselves with policy strategies to promote management at the landscape level. Multinomial logit regression modelling allowed us to explain and predict owners’ choices among the aforementioned set of alternative management options. We found that choosing multi-ownership collaboration, as opposed to keeping current individual management, is associated with passive management under harsher conditions, by non-residents without bonding capital. The identified factors of owners’ choices show the limited scope of tenancy and land-market mechanisms to promote landscape-level management. The best policy option was found to depend on the owner profiles prevailing in the target area. This suggests that studying the existing context and owner types is required to design effective policiesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Social quality and policies for Higher Education in Brazil

Este texto incide numa revisão teórica e numa reflexão acerca de referenciais de qualidade social para as políticas de educação superior brasileira. Discutir a educação superior no âmbito das políticas educacionais no Brasil requer a compreensão do fenómeno educativo em sua totalidade, considerando os mais diversos contextos da vida social e política. Nesse sentido, requer uma reflexão sobre a economia, a política, a cultura, a arte, as questões éticas, filosóficas, científicas, tecnológicas, curriculares, pedagógicas e demais dimensões da vida humana, o que será aqui fundamentado, enfatizando a importância de uma educação superior de qualidade.This text consists of both a theoretical review and a reflection on references about social quality for higher education policies in Brazil. Discussing higher education in the scenery of educational policies in Brazil requires a comprehension of educative phenomenon as a whole, considering the several contexts of social and political life. Accordingly, requires a reflection on economy, politics, culture, art, such as ethical, philosophical, scientific, technological, curricular and pedagogical issues, besides on further dimensions of human life; it will be emphasized the defence of a higher education that is asserted in the centrality of quality proposals with social sense and values

Chemical and microbiological stability of the low caliber apple slices prepared by osmotic dehydration

Osmotic dehydration has received greater attention in recent years as an effective method for fruits and vegetables preservation. Process for preparation of Royal Gala apple slices using osmotic dehydration was standardized. The study was carried out with seleted apples of smaller caliber, produced in the Alcobaça region. For this study apples were seleted by their degree of maturation and absence of mechanical damages. Fully apple fruits were peeled and slices of 4 mm thickness were prepared. The apple slices were immersed in a sucrose solution (50% w/w) and in sucrose/sodium chloride solutions with NaCl concentrations (1% and 3%). After 4 h soaking, quick washing, blotting, the samples where drying at 20 °C up to constant weight. The dried products were packed in glass containers and stored at ambient conditions. The chemical and microbial and stability were monitored for 6 months. The osmo-dried apple slices prepared with 50% sucrose/1% sodium chloride showed an overall chemical acceptability (aw of 0.192; °Brix of 26.3; pH of 3.82; Na content of 0.51g/100g). Microbiologically the product was stable (aerobic mesophile osmotolerant or osmophilic bactéria counts < 2.75 log cfu g-1; fungi counts < 1.75 log cfu g-1) and safe (Clostridium spores and Staphylococcus were not confirmed in this study) up to 6 months of storage at ambient conditions.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

POR UM ENSINO DE LÍNGUA QUE REFLITA A REALIDADE LINGUÍSTICA BRASILEIRA

Resenha da obra:VIEIRA, Silvia Rodrigues & LIMA, Monique Débora (Orgs.). Variação, gêneros textuais e ensino de Português: da norma culta à norma-padrão. Rio de Janeiro: Letras UFRJ, 2019. 129p

Política de preservação, conservação e restauração: patrimônio artístico e literário da UFBA

The Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) which had its origin in 19th century, accumulated a representative and expressive heritage of various fields of knowledges. This situation estimulated a project which established as target, specific politics of maintenance and preservation of its patrimony. In 2015, we initiated a listing of all artistic and cultural, movable and imovable properties in all campi of the UFBA, in Salvador. It resulted an inventory which shows compounds of identification of typologies and individual classification, state of conservation of samples of various academic unities, of priorities in field of conservation, preservation and restoration of our patrimony. The inventory, of qualitative and quantitative method, coumpounds a base of electronic dates, updated, of easy and democratric Access, which allows Access to academic community, researchers and society generally speaking. As to rare books are concerned, being at the coordination, named “Lugares de Memoria” (Places of Memory), 398 rare books of 18th, 19th and 20th centuries have been registered. Still we need to make the inventory of rare collections and books with special characteristics of 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. When estimating the results of this project, the investment on above mentioned proposals is worth, because they do benefit not only the UFBA, but the society too, once this institution will turn a pool disseminator and promoter of politics of preservation and protection of cultural patrimony which will be disposable in an institutional repository for consultation of external and internal community

A complexidade da classe dos adjetivos: repercussões para o ensino

Este artigo visa atender a dois objetivos principais: em primeiro lugar, pretende apresentar e discutir a complexidade da classe dos adjetivos, a partir de classificação e subclassificações propostas por linguistas. De fato, as subclassificações têm deixado muitas lacunas. Em segundo lugar, o trabalho pretende contribuir para o ensino e a aprendizagem dos itens dessa classe, que, numa perspectiva tradicional, têm sido realizados de maneira pouco aprofundada e demasiadamente simplificada. As reflexões aqui apresentadas contaram com o aporte teórico de diversos autores, sendo Casteleiro (1981), Borba (1996), Neves (2011) e Negrão et al. (2014) os que contribuíram de forma mais significativa para embasar a discussão. Os exemplos apresentados e analisados foram coletados de enunciados e de sintagmas nominais presentes em textos de diversos gêneros, orais e escritos, de ampla circulação. O corpus do trabalho, então, representa os usos reais da língua portuguesa, em sua variante brasileira

Professionalism and teacher professional development in technological education in Brazil

Abordamos questões relativas à profissionalidade e desenvolvimento profissional docente, enquadradas numa investigação realizada no âmbito do doutoramento em Ciências da Educação, na Universidade do Minho. Um dos objetivos deste estudo centrou-se na análise das relações entre identidade e desenvolvimento profissional de professores, tendo como amostra os docentes de um Curso de Tecnologia em Construção de Edifícios (CSTCE), de um instituto superior tecnológico do Brasil. Os resultados mostram que a profissionalidade e o desenvolvimento profissional dos docentes no CSTCE, se relaciona com a docência do ensino superior, em âmbitos individuais e coletivos, considerando as dimensões pessoais, profissionais e organizacionais.We discuss issues related to professionalism and teacher professional development, framed in a research carried out within the PhD in Educational Sciences, at the University of Minho. One of the objectives of this study was centered in the analysis of the relationship between identity and professional development of teachers, having as a sample the teachers of a Technology Course in Construction of Buildings (CSTCE) of a higher technological institute in Brazil. The results show that the professionalism and professional development of teachers in the CSTCE are related to higher education teaching in individual and collective settings, considering the personal, professional and organizational dimensions.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Estudo da comunidade de protozoários exposta a tóxicos em estações de tratamentos de águas residuais

A importância e o papel dos protozoários nos processos de tratamento aeróbio de águas residuais são bem conhecidos, e constituem um valioso instrumento da avaliação do funcionamento das ETAR, por permitir relacionar a densidade, diversidade ou a ocorrência de determinadas espécies com a composição do esgoto ou com os factores físico-químicos prevalecentes no tanque de arejamento. No presente trabalho, duas estações de tratamento de águas residuais experimentais foram alimentadas com esgoto real e as lamas foram expostas a diversas concentrações de cobre, zinco e cicloheximida. Nestas condições, foi estudada a evolução da comunidade de protozoários, em termos de diversidade, de densidade e da sua estrutura, utilizando o Índice Biótico de Lamas, e relacionada esta evolução com a eficiência de remoção da CQO.Programa Praxi