Pobreza, Punição e Intervenção Social

Reflicto sobre elementos da produção teórica sociológica conducentes à compreensão do fenómeno da penalização da pobreza, seleccionando o contributo analítico de Loïc Wacquant para a produção de conhecimentos sociológicos estáveis acerca da intervenção estatal sobre a pobreza, procurando revelar e relevar a forte capacidade heurística e de replicação da sua agenda de pesquisa.

Merging traditional livelihood activities with new employment opportunities brought by ecotourism to Iona national park, Angola: rethinking social sustainability

Ecotourism activities and investment projects have been consistently increasing worldwide over the last few decades. In this process, ecotourism has contributed to fight poverty, to create local employment opportunities and to promote nature conservation. However, there are also plenty examples of nature-base tourism destinations where ecotourism principles have been distorted and negative impacts are on the rise. Therefore, studies that provide a deep understanding of the roots and consequences of those both positive and negative impacts are needed to achieve new higher tourism quality standards, to foster a sound local development and to promote an integrated and sustainable national growth. To obtain information useful to contribute specific recommendations aimed at linking tourism employers and job seekers, we have conducted a survey addressing locals’ demographic characteristics and their engagement in traditional livelihood activities. Data gathered from 202 respondents showed that in the largest villages traditional livelihood activities, excepting pastoralism, tend to have little expression while the same activities seem to play a key role in some small communities. Striking differences were found between nomadic or semi-nomadic people and people who have been assimilated into the western civilization and also have more sedentary life styles. Using this information and taking in consideration some new employment opportunities brought nature-based tourism to the Iona National Park, we have identified specific demographic profiles more suited for part-time and full-time jobs

Development of a multi-criteria collaborative decision model for performance management in networks of organisations

Páginas numeradas; I-XIII, 14-117Tese de mestrado. Gestão de Informação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 200

ActivitySpot: engaging, activity-centered experiences for occasional visitors

This paper presents the concepts, implementation details, and evaluation objectives of ActivitySpot, an infrastructure and toolkit aiming at supporting localized activities performed by occasional visitors. We are particularly interested in enabling a user experience that is activity-centered and that makes the most of the available ubiquitous computing resources for carrying out a localized activity, while not imposing to visitors any specific technological requirement. We adopted an activity-centered approach to the design of the conceptual framework supporting our work and we aim to evaluate how adequate is this approach to enable an engaging user experience for occasional visitors.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)