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Consideradas o grande desafio do século XXI as questões ambientais e ecológicas evidenciam a necessidade de que diversos saberes sejam articulados na busca por soluções inovadoras diante da complexidade dos problemas que envolvem estas temáticas. Neste contexto, destacamos o papel fundamental que os meios de comunicação exercem no processo educativo, no debate e na problematização dos temas relacionados à questão ambiental e à promoção do desenvolvimento comunitário. A partir dos anos 1970, vários estudiosos começaram a demonstrar preocupações acerca do papel que a mídia exerce no processo de desenvolvimento humano dos países. Atualmente, esta temática tem merecido estudos que buscam descobrir estratégias comunicacionais que contribuam para educar e sensibilizar para a adoção de novos comportamentos e atitudes por parte das pessoas em relação à natureza, e para a melhoria das condições de vida da população.
Esta reescrita dissertativa enfoca uma discussão sobre o processo histórico das relações entre sociedades humanas e naturezas, a crise ambiental, a emergência da conscientização ecológica, o surgimento do movimento ecológico nos anos de 1960 e a formação do campo crítico ambiental, tendo como foco a cidade do Rio Grande/RS. No mesmo contexto, ocorreu o surgimento de um jornalismo ambiental, com isso, as manifestações ambientalistas passaram a reverberar nos jornais, rádios e nas emissoras de televisão. Nos anos de 1970, a Associação Gaúcha de Proteção ao Ambiente Natural constituiu-se como referência na luta ambiental nacional e também como espaço de práticas educativo-ambientais, influenciando a formação de opinião pública e o ativismo ecológico. No período já mencionado acima, em Rio Grande, surgiu uma coluna jornalística, no jornal Agora, denominada, “Crônica Ecológica”, escrita pelos ecologistas da AGAPAN que é objeto da presente escrita.
Como se articulam as lutas sociais e a resistência no Sul do Brasil? Essa foi a questão que tínhamos em mente quando pensamos em organizar este livro. Sobre a região Sul, por suas particularidades históricas, construiu-se um imaginário, em especial nos últimos anos, de local do conservadorismo, em que haveria um domínio de ideias reacionárias.
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Social robots are embodied agents that perform knowledge-intensive tasks involving several kinds of information from different heterogeneous sources. This book, Engineering Background Knowledge for Social Robots, introduces a component-based architecture for supporting the knowledge-intensive tasks performed by social robots. The design was based on the requirements of a real socially-assistive robotic application, and all the components contribute to and benefit from the knowledge base which is its cornerstone. The knowledge base is structured by a set of interconnected and modularized ontologies which model the information, and is initially populated with linguistic, ontological and factua...
Medicinal Spices and Vegetables from Africa: Therapeutic Potential against Metabolic, Inflammatory, Infectious and Systemic Diseases provides a detailed look at medicinal spices and vegetables that have proven safe-and-effective for consumption and the treatment of diseases, including infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. It provides pharmacological evidence, such as the latest information related to efficacy and safety data, in vitro and in vivo studies, clinical trials, and more, to illustrate the use of these spices and vegetables as both palliative and alternative treatments with the goal of furthering research in this area to produce safer and more effective drugs. - Provides scientific evidence for the potential of medicinal spices and vegetables used in Africa to fight metabolic, inflammatory, and infectious diseases - Includes a review of the latest methods used to investigate the effects of medicinal plants in the treatment of disease - Offers an updated resource for students sand scientists in the fields of pharmaceutical science, pharmacognosy, complementary and alternative medicine, ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, biochemistry, and more
This book gathers the proceedings of the 30th Scientific-Experts Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry, held on September 26-27, 2019, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reports on the application of innovative technologies in food sciences and agriculture, and covers research in plant and animal production, agricultural economics and food production. Further, the book discusses key social and environmental issues, and proposes answers to current challenges. The conference was jointly organized by the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Faculty of Agriculture of Ege University, Turkey, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Medical and Biological Engineering Society, and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. The proceedings offer a timely snapshot of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research and developments in modern agriculture. As such, they address the needs of researchers and professionals, agricultural companies, food producers, and regulatory and food safety agencies.
Considering the detrimental environmental impact of current food systems, and the concerns raised about their sustainability, there is an urgent need to promote diets that are healthy and have low environmental impacts. These diets also need to be socio-culturally acceptable and economically accessible for all. Acknowledging the existence of diverging views on the concepts of sustainable diets and healthy diets, countries have requested guidance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on what constitutes sustainable healthy diets. These guiding principles take a holistic approach to diets; they consider international nutr...
Active botanical ingredients are a prime requirement for herbal formulations and discovering a drug is all about integration of science disciplines. In recent decades there has been a growing interest in treating wounds and diseases using traditional remedies based on local herbs, combined with chemical advances. Although this has led to the development of new bioactive ingredients from plants, there has been little success in terms of clinical trials and post-marketing studies to comply with FDA guidelines. Plants have been used as a source of medicine throughout history and continue to serve as the basis for many pharmaceuticals used today. However, despite the modern pharmaceutical indust...