The Problems of Tourist Sustainability in Cultural Cities: Socio-Political Perceptions and Interests Management

[Abstract]: The aim of this article is to analyse the social and political capacity of cities affected by cultural tourism. An investigation is carried out into the state of the situation in saturated destinations, the problems this poses to tourist sustainability and the positions of the various different interest groups. In Europe, many cultural cities-cum-tourist hotspots have reached such high levels of socio-political saturation that the resident population’s capacity for carrying tourism has become overstretched. This has led to a state of irritation among the local population. Social movements now include this on their agenda but the various different interest groups (residents, political groups, entrepreneurs, management bodies) all react differently. We present data relating to the case of Barcelona, with analyses of residents’ and tourists’ opinions, the actions of social mobilization carried out by pressure groups, media repercussion and the reactions of the business sector and political groups. We examine data collected from surveys and opinions carried in the media. The sustainability and management of interests indicate changes in both the number and the type of tourists, the occupation of public spaces, the distribution of profit among entrepreneurs, residents and the political and economic model of society in the future

Estado de bienestar y turismo para todos. Motivos para no viajar

El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar las características de las personas que no realizan viaje turístico en la Unión Europea y los motivos que le llevan a ello. Nos basamos en las desigualdades sociales analizadas a partir de variables individuales y contextuales. También estamos interesados en conocer cómo influyen las situaciones de crisis que afectaron a ciertos países de Europa. Empleamos los datos del Eurobarómetro. Aplicamos la técnica de Generalized Structural Equation Modeling (GSEM). Los resultados son que el no realizar viaje turístico se debe fundamentalmente a razones económicas y de tiempo libre que están influenciados por el modelo de Estado de Bienestar, las condiciones sociales de existencia y la percepción de riesgo de la crisis

Recovery of Incomplete Data of Statistical Livestock Number Applying an Entropy Approach

Livestock Production/Industries, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,

A minimum cross entropy model to generate disaggregated agricultural data at the local level

This work presents an entropy approach to disaggregate agricultural data at a local level. It comprises two different steps. In a first one, an information prior at disaggregated level based on experts’ opinions, available cartography of land use and biophysical data is created. In a second step, it’s used a minimum cross entropy process in order to manage these information inputs and to guaranty a solution compatible with all the different restrictions. The model was applied to the region of Algarve in the year of 1999, in order to disaggregate the data at the pixel and county level. Results show that the model was able to provide some satisfactory results since the estimated values obtained for the different areas revealed a good approximation to the true values. These results were then analyzed and provided a new insight about the policies’ consequences in the territory.Minimum cross entropy, data disaggregation, local level, Algarve, agricultural policies, Agricultural and Food Policy, C11, C81, Q15, R14,

Application of distributed optical fiber sensors for the health monitoring of two real structures in Barcelona

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering on 2018, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15732479.2018.1438479The versatility and ease of installation of Distributed Optical Fibre Sensors (DOFS) compared with traditional monitoring systems are important characteristics to consider when facing the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of real world structures. The DOFS used in this study provide continuous (in space) strain data along the optical fibre with high spatial resolution. The main issues and results of two different existing structures monitored with DOFS, are described in this paper. The main SHM results of the rehabilitation of an historical building used as hospital and the enlargement of a pre-stressed concrete bridge are presented. The results are obtained using a novel DOFS based on an Optical Backscattered Reflectometry (OBR) technique. The application of the optical fibre monitoring system to two different materials (masonry and concrete) provides also important insights on the great possibilities of this technique when monitoring existing structures. In fact, the influence of strain transfer between the DOFS and the bonding surface is one of the principal effects that should be considered in the application of the OBR technique to real structures. Moreover, and because structural surfaces generally present considerable roughness, the procedure to attach the optical fibre to the two monitored structures is described.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Conflito e tradução: uma análise sobre as realizações linguísticas dos conflitos armados entre grupos litigantes no corpus paralelo Grande sertão : veredas - The devil to pay in the backlands

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014.Esta tese apresenta um estudo de caso sobre a construção experiencial do conflito armado travado pelos grupos litigantes apresentados no corpus paraleloconstituído pelos textosGrande Sertão: Veredas (deGuimarães Rosa) e The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (por James L. Taylor e Harriet de Onís). Com esse trabalho, a tese pretende contribuir paraa proposta de Halliday (1998) ao investigar o conflito, enquanto experiência humanacotidiana, etambém contribuir para os Estudos da Tradução, ao oferecer, à linha de estudos proposta por Baker (2005, 2006, 2007 e 2010), um método de investigação baseado na proposta de Pagano e Figueredo (2011). Os dados - que, para este trabalho, são levantados por meio do concordanciador AntConc 3.2.4w - apontam para uma construção experiencial do ente inimigo e da situação de confronto direto por meio de Participantes- o que lhes confere a caraterística de permanência no eixo temporal e a capacidade de participação em diversos Processos - especialmente em Orações Materiais, o que condiz com a natureza dos fenômenos. No que diz respeito às vitórias e derrotas (vistas nesta tese como desdobramentos das situações de confronto), os dados apontam para uma menor relevância dessas situações na narrativa em relação às situações de confronto, além de apontar para expectativas com carga semântica negativa sendo construídas em torno das vitórias obtidas nas situações de confronto direto ? o que foge do padrão de expectativa desse fenômeno.Abstract : The dissertation herein presented investigates the linguistic construal of the armed conflicts, between disputing groups, portrayed in the novels Grande Sertão: Veredas (by Guimarães Rosa) and The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (by James L. Taylor and Harriet de Onís). The research follows the hallidayan design of construing a grammar of daily life (Halliday, 1998), while investigating conflict as an instance of the human experience, and follows the research on conflict and translation founded by Baker (2005, 2006, 2007 e 2010), contributing to it by presenting the investigation method proposed by on Pagano and Figueredo (2011) as a methodology of analysis. The data ? gathered by means of the software AntConc 3.2.4w ? points to an experiential construal of the enemy andof the processes of confrontation as Participants in Material Clauseswhich are, thus, construed as permanent in the temporal axis and given the possibility of taking part in different Processes. The victories and defeats that result from the processes of confrontation are given less prominence in the narratives and the data points to a negative semantic connotation around the victories ? which is differs from the patterns of expectancy usually related to such events

Management of estuarine beaches on the Amazon coast though the application of recreational carrying capacity indices

The purpose of this paper is to determine the Recreational Carrying Capacity of three estuarine beaches (Colares, Marudá and Murubira) on the Amazon coast of Brazil, based on the combined assessment of natural conditions and visitor facilities. In the final analysis, the carrying capacity of Colares beach was estimated to be 1089 visitors per day, and that of Murubira beach, 238 visitors per day. At Marudá beach, however, the inadequate quality of the water resulted in an RCC of zero, indicating that the beach should not be visited for recreational use. The results of this study may provide a valuable diagnostic tool for the development of future state and municipal coastal management programs. We believe that the procedures adopted in this study are applicable to other estuarine beaches on the Amazon coast, as well as in other estuarine beaches elsewhere with similar natural characteristics.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft