A COMUNICAÇÃO NA VALORIZAÇÃO DO DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL SUSTENTÁVEL NAS FAVELAS DO COMPLEXO DO ALEMÃO NO RIO DE JANEIRO

Poor waste management in shanty towns across developing countries has significantly impacted public health, contributing to widespread outbreaks of diseases such as cholera, malaria, and typhoid due to unsanitary living conditions and contaminated environments. Limited efforts by residents and governments to implement effective waste disposal practices exacerbate these health risks, perpetuating a cycle of poor sanitation, increased disease transmission, and environmental degradation. This study investigates the impact of poor waste management on public health in informal settlements and explores strategies to mitigate these risks through improved practices and collaborative efforts. The study employed a cross-sectional research design and collected data using semi-structured questionnaires to collect data from 217 households in Tandale, Manzese, and Tandika in the Dar es Salaam region. The findings confirm that inadequate waste collection services, lack of proper disposal sites, high costs of waste management, and poor public awareness are key contributors to the accumulation of waste and the prevalence of diseases. Hypothesis testing further reveals that inadequate waste collection services significantly impact public health challenges, while public health initiatives on waste management significantly improve health outcomes and reduce disease prevalence. The study’s recommendations include increasing the frequency of waste collection, fostering community-led waste management initiatives, enhancing public education on the health risks of poor waste disposal, and providing subsidized resources such as waste bins and bags. Additionally, strengthened collaboration between local governments, NGOs, and community members is essential for mobilizing resources and implementing sustainable waste management practices. These measures are vital to reducing public health risks and creating healthier living conditions in underserved communities.

“Egalité des chances”:Success as mandatory treason Mireille Rosello Whenever I start researching any aspect of what we call "racism," I find myself going back and forth between disciplines, convinced, on the one hand, by those discourses who dismiss the theses of scientific racists ("human races" simply and purely do not exist) but also aware, like many sociologists, anthropologists, or humanities scholars in general that such critical preconditions do not constitute fruitful parameters when the issue is to analyze the relationship between discrimination, inequality, alienation caused by those human races that do not exist. My case study today involves a constant to and fro between literature and politics but also between two supposedly radically different tactics or agendas proposed by one subject who falls into the category of the ethnic minority in France. I am talking about a political figure, who is also a sociologist, an activist, and a novelist who writes autobiographical novels about a child whose Algerian parents had to bring him up in a shanty town and who has, since then, become the "ministre délégué à la promotion de l'égalité des chances" (no mention of "race" here). He was nominated by President Chirac, the head of a clearly right-wing government. What I propose to do today is to connect what may appear to be the two "sides" of Azouz Begag's coin: the work of the novelist, and more specifically a pam ssage from his second novel, Béni ou le paradis privé and the politician's attempt at introducing policies that would promote what he calls "égalité des chances" (equal opportunity) rather than "positive discrimination" although it is clear that he is especially thinking about the youths from the disenfranchised urban areas where he himself grew up. I propose that the relationship between what might appear two distinct discourses is in fact a sort of self-deconstructing double mirror image, each discourse being implicitly critiqued by the [End Page 231] other. Their encounter thus constitutes a precious antidote against the temptation of privileging one or the other, the politician or the novelist, the legislator and the storyteller, the Republic and the "I." The tension between the two also highlights the aporias of each set of proposals. Both discourses are part of the solution and part of the problem, and if we systematically endeavor to bring them together, the exercise may teach us the difficult art of allowing two apparently incompatible sets of values to coexist. At least one thing has changed in the past ten years in France: it is no longer safe to assume that it is culturally irrelevant to discuss the issue of racial discrimination. But of course, talking about anything that even involves the concept of human race requires that we pay attention to the historical, ideological or rhetorical constraints, borders within which the concept finds itself confined. The parameters of the debate are already an agenda and what I would like to explore is happening to a conversation in French that has recently included such phrases as "discrimination positive" and "égalité des chances." "Discrimination positive" is not the same as "affirmative action" or even "positive discrimination" and "égalité des chances" is not the same as "equal opportunity." Saying that new ways of imagining the identity of Republican subjects and French citizens are currently displacing the paradigmatic ungendered, racially unmarked and rational abstraction endowed with the same rights and the same Republican duties is a political statement. It allows social actors, including of course politicians but also artists such as writers or filmmakers to map their agreements or disagreements at different nodal points. It used to be relatively easy to distinguish between the so-called "Républicains" and the "communautaristes" who respectively accuse each other of hypocrisy and racism or of threatening the very foundation of the French identity. Today, the points of disagreement are perhaps more productive because they are not so binary. Even the possibility to use the word "racism" is sometimes a luxury that requires certain symbolic and ideological struggles to have been won. For example, the fact that public conversations make understandable, i.e. legitimate within the parameters of the public sphere, a category such as...

The housing industry in the Developing World and for long time has suffered from underinvestment, the lack of knowhow and the lack of sufficient strategies and policies. This in turn, led to a total failure in performance, accumulative massive housing demand and underachieving. Consequently, and because of the massive growth in the world’s population, especially the Islamic World, people in the poorest countries have been the most affected and forced to live in slums and shanty towns which some worldwide have millions of occupants. This research paper presents a scientific approach to assist governments and decision makers in the Islamic World setting up most sufficient and effective strategies and policies on the mega-level (country level) for the housing industry. The final outcome of this research will produce a Decision Support System Model (DSS) which could be used by decision makers to setting up holistic, realistic and achievable strategies and policies based on the scientific interpretation of the interface of the DSS Model. The DSS Model operates using five engines and one interface to identify, calculate and compare between Financial Sources (Government, PFI, International Fund and Grants) and Total Cost of several variables such as, Know How (Local and Foreign), Labour (Local and Foreign), Training (Local PM and Skilled Labour), Building Materials (Local and Import), Land (Urban and Rural). This in turn gives a clear idea to governments on their financial sources, the total cost of the whole housing project, regulation and legislations necessary and required to facilitate and support the housing industry, etc. The research methodology will consist of two parts; literature review which shed light on DSS Model in terms of definition, stages, purposes, mechanism, how it functions, etc. The second will introduce Interpretive Structural Model (ISM), which is used previously in a different stage of research to identify and prioritise Housing Industry Variables and DSS Model. Finally, the DSS Model will be examined and tested using different scenarios for validation. The findings will be stated in the concluding section.

The present work intends to describe the main social and environmental characteristics of the Musgueira shanty-town and to present some of the results reached by the authors in their socio-demographic and psychological study of the community. The community known as the Musgueira shanty town is located in the northern area of Lisbon, and actually consists of two independent neighbourhoods: North and South Musgueira. According to the City Council plans, the residents (2,300 families) are to be rehoused within the next years in a large-scale housing project of Alto do Lumiar. The authors describe the emergence of both neighbourhoods during the 1960s, and analyse the differences between them, including demographic characteristics, housing patterns, densities, social activities, literacy rates, social aspirations and everyday life styles. The association between school performance of children and their housing conditions is stressed by the authors.

Within the archetypal vision of Dubai as ostentatious oil-rich global megacity, this essay’s alternative scoping sees a city of interconnected spatio-cultural archipelagos. In these crisscrossing synapses, marginal outsiders can occupy potentially disruptive positions within mainstream power matrices and exclusionary corridors of capitalism. Interrogating a commonly accepted paradigm of subaltern urbanism, I argue that the invariable typecasting of subaltern spaces and association of subaltern demographics with the spatial strictures of urban slums, shanty towns, ghettoes and favelas retrenches the imaginary of the subaltern as excluded abject destined to dwell apart and dislocated from the epicentre of legitimised social, cultural, economic and political activity. Instead, the subaltern presence within mainstream urban ecosystems of power concentration and capital dominance constitutes a chance for dispossessed outsiders to disrupt the legitimised linearity of privileged stakeholders’ entitlement and always-already assumed ‘right to the city‘. I will appraise two films where Dubai is positioned as a site for subaltern Asian disruptors acting as both silent and voluble agents from within elite social structures. British-Emirati director Ali F. Mostafa’s City of Life(2009) and Pakistani filmmaker Shazia Ali Khan’s Pinky Memsaab (2018) harness Dubai as a cosmopolitan canvas where inter-Asian informal and formal modes of lived experience intertwine with heterotopic transglobal textures of the city’s capital-dominated relational grid. Ultimately, this paper demonstrates how subaltern South Asian subjects in exilic global hubs such as Dubai carry potentiality of acting as internal agents, working within capitalism’s mainstream power structures to perform informality as a mode of organic and endogenous resistance.

Although more and more Hotels adopt sustainable management practices worldwide, understanding how to increase consumer booking intentions in such establishments remains a challenge. This project aims to apply and extend the Theory of planned behaviour and design communication messages to persuade hotel guests' booking intentions. The current report details a qualitative analysis of sustainable hotel management attributes, as well as guest perceived personal benefits resulting from staying in a sustainably managed establishment. The study used 12 common sustainable hotel management attributes to ascertain how experts and hotel guests perceive personal benefits linked to a stay in a sustainable hotel. The main research findings show that perceived personal benefits of staying in a sustainably managed hotel relate mostly to guests and experts linking sustainability to improved hotel quality. This experience can be described by specific words such as better quality service, more authentic experiences, more exposure to information, environmental and social awareness and actions and healthier living. The next project phase will apply the results from this research to empirically test how Swiss, German and US travel markets react to differently formulated marketing and communication messages and how these relate to their sustainable hotel booking intentions.

This study establishes evaluation indicators for sustainable forestry region management referring to a large number of literatures on the previous study and carry out the forestry sustainable development comprehensive evaluation, which has extremely important and practical significance to scientifically determine the region forestry region management, reasonable plan sustainable forest management measures and promote local forestry sustainable development and sustainable management.

Sustainable development is a priority research areas for technology philosophy in contemporary China. This article takes forestry resource in Jiangxi as the research object, collects data of forest resource in 2001and 2010, combines with previous research results of forestry sustainable development evaluation index, finally establishes evaluation indicators for sustainable forest resource management referring to a large number of literatures on the previous study. Secondly, using AHP method to carry out the forestry sustainable development comprehensive evaluation, which has extremely important and practical significance to scientifically determine the region forestry resource management, reasonably plan sustainable forest management measures and promote local forestry sustainable development and sustainable management.

Sustainable development is a priority research area for technology philosophy in contemporary China. This study takes forestry resource in Jiangxi as the research object, collects data of forest resource in 2001 and 2010, combines with previous research results of forestry sustainable development evaluation index, finally establishes evaluation indicators for sustainable forest resource management referring to a large number of literatures on the previous study. Secondly, using AHP method to carry out the forestry sustainable development comprehensive evaluation, which has extremely important and practical significance to scientifically determine the region forestry resource management, reasonably plan sustainable forest management measures and promote local forestry sustainable development and sustainable management.

West Java is a region in Indonesia experiencing significant population growth and economic activity, leading to a substantial increase in energy demand and presenting challenges for sustainable energy resource management. Energy is fundamental to economic and social activities, and efficient, sustainable management is essential for balancing economic growth with environmental preservation. Modeling energy usage intensity is crucial for understanding the dynamics of energy consumption and its influencing factors. This study aims to develop a model that accurately represents energy consumption patterns in West Java using a dynamic systems approach. The study utilizes Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD) and Stock Flow Diagrams (SFD) to systematically map and model the intricate dynamics of the energy system, providing a comprehensive understanding of the interactions and influences among various factors. The model was validated by comparing its outputs with historical data and calculating a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). This enhances confidence in the analyses and recommendations derived from the model, making it a valuable tool for understanding and influencing energy usage patterns in West Java. In conclusion, this study not only provides deep insights into energy consumption in West Java but also offers practical approaches for improved energy management, supporting sustainable development and environmental protection in the region.

The current reality is that Korean insurance companies primarily focus on simplistic social contribution activities, such as making donations, rather than attaining sustainable management practices. So based on the case study methodology, this study examines the CSR activities of Kyobo Life Insurance for sustainable management and investigates how corporate values are aligned with the nature of the industry. The research analyzes Kyobo Life Insurance’s CSR initiatives across three dimensions: environmental, social, and economic, with a focus on sustainable management. The analysis identifies three distinct CSR characteristics of Kyobo Life Insurance. Firstly, the company demonstrates more active engagement in social initiatives compared to the environmental and economic aspects. Secondly, while prioritizing sustainable management through collaborative efforts with major stakeholders, the company exhibits a relatively greater emphasis on CSR activities targeting internal stakeholders. Lastly, since 2011, the company has been an industry leader in annually publishing sustainable management reports, showcasing its commitment to stakeholder communication and co-prosperity. The study suggests that life insurance companies should enhance their CSR activities to ensure greater sustainability and effectiveness while also providing guidance for companies to adapt to evolving industrial landscapes.

The impacts of mass tourism and COVID-19 crisis demonstrate the need for healthy, peaceful, and authentic recreation options, giving prominence to emerging destinations, such as remote Mediterranean islands. These, although endowed with exquisite land and underwater cultural heritage (UCH), are confronted with insularity drawbacks. However, the exceptional land and especially UCH, and the alternative tourism forms these can sustain, e.g., diving tourism, are highly acknowledged. The focus of this paper is on the power of participation and participatory planning in pursuing UCH preservation and sustainable management as a means for heritage-led local development in remote insular regions. Towards this end, the linkages between participation and (U)CH management from a policy perspective—i.e., the global and European policy scenery—and a conceptual one—cultural heritage cycle vs. planning cycle—are firstly explored. These, coupled with the potential offered by ICT-enabled participation, establish a framework for respective participatory cultural planning studies. This framework is validated in Leros Island, Greece, based on previous research conducted in this distinguishable insular territory and WWII battlefield scenery. The policy and conceptual considerations of this work, enriched by Leros evidence-based results, set the ground for featuring new, qualitative and extrovert, human-centric and heritage-led, developmental trails in remote insular communities.

This paper presents the local institutional and organizational development insights from a five-year ongoing interdisciplinary research project focused on advancing the implementation of sustainable urban water management. While it is broadly acknowledged that the inertia associated with administrative systems is possibly the most significant obstacle to advancing sustainable urban water management, contemporary research still largely prioritizes investigations at the technological level. This research is explicitly concerned with critically informing the design of methodologies for mobilizing and overcoming the administrative inertia of traditional urban water management practice. The results of fourteen in-depth case studies of local government organizations across Metropolitan Sydney primarily reveal that (i) the political institutionalization of environmental concern and (ii) the commitment to local leadership and organizational learning are key corporate attributes for enabling sustainable management. A typology of five organizational development phases has been proposed as both a heuristic and capacity benchmarking tool for urban water strategists, policy makers, and decision makers that are focused on improving the level of local implementation of sustainable urban water management activity. While this investigation has focused on local government, these findings do provide guideposts for assessing the development needs of future capacity building programs across a range of different institutional contexts.

The importance of corporate responsibility for society and environments is emphasized by increasing influence of firms on various stakeholders. Firms strengthen environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities, which are critical elements for sustainable management. However, there are inconsistent findings on the relationship between ESG activities and firms’ financial performance in prior studies because of the lack of full consideration of internal mechanisms and external conditions. To overcome this limitation, this study investigates the mediating effect of non-financial performance and the moderating effect of the institutional environment on the relationship between firms’ ESG activities and their financial performance in a unified moderated mediation model. Samples for empirical analyses were collected by a survey from 304 small and medium-sized Chinese manufacturers. The results of a mediation analysis reveal that each ESG activity has a positive effect on firms’ financial performance, and the impact of ESG activities on financial performance is completely mediated by non-financial performance. The results of a moderated mediation analysis further indicate that the mediating effect varies depending on the level of institutional pressure from the government, consumers, and competitors. The study suggests the need for interdisciplinary research in sustainable management and institutional theory and emphasizes the importance of sustainable management for performance improvement in a changing environment.

Influence of the geographical scope on the research foci of sustainable forest management: Insights from a content analysis