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Este livro introduz a discussão sobre a relação da economia com a natureza na modernidade, apresentando a evolução do debate sobre o crescimento econômico e o desenvolvimento, com enfoque na questão da sustentabilidade. Também são discutidos outros tópicos que promovem o aprofundamento dos conteúdos. Tais tópicos abordam a economia ambiental e a economia ecológica, os mercados ambientais, a teoria das externalidades ambientais, além da valoração, da precificação e dos métodos de valoração de recursos naturais. Os objetivos da obra visam proporcionar reflexões em torno dos fundamentos teóricos e conceituais da economia e da ambientalidade e conhecer as políticas de planejamento e gestão para o uso da natureza.
Este livro apresenta os instrumentos de gestão ambiental, os modelos e os princípios básicos de minimização dos impactos ambientais nas organizações, a definição e a metodologia de produção mais limpa, a implantação de sistemas de gestão ambiental em unidades de produção agrícola e em organizações agroindustriais, e discute gestão ambiental e responsabilidade social empresarial
Este livro apresenta, de forma acessível, os temas abordados na disciplina Tópicos Especiais (DERAD 25), oferecida no Curso de Graduação Tecnológica Planejamento e Gestão para o Desenvolvimento Rural (PLAGEDER) da UFRGS, na modalidade a distância. Dividida em quatro partes, esta obra apresenta as bases do conhecimento sobre impacto ambiental, etnoecologia, educação do campo, segurança alimentar e nutricional e turismo rural, bem como as ferramentas aplicáveis à gestão do espaço rural. Busca-se, assim, contribuir para as transformações que conduzam à diversificação das atividades, à valorização dos saberes e práticas locais e ao fortalecimento dos agricultores familiares e das populações tradicionais, ações essas que fortalecem a multiculturalidade brasileira.
While there is growing interest in IFRS within the US, interest outside the US has exploded. Weygandt's fourth edition of Financial Accounting: IFRS highlights the integration of more US GAAP rules, a desired feature as more foreign companies find the United States to be their largest market. The highly anticipated new edition retains each of the key features (e.g. TOC, writing style, pedagogy, robust EOC) on which users of Weygandt Financial have come to rely, while putting the focus on international companies/examples, discussing financial accounting principles and procedures within the context of IFRS, and providing EOC exercises and problems that present students with foreign currency examples instead of solely U.S. dollars.
The contributors explore modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programmes in China and Zaire, and psychiatrists and their patients in Morocco and Ireland.
In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. At the heart of his approach is the proposition that culture is inherently ambivalent. With a major new introduction to this new edition, this classic work emerges as a crucial link in the development of Bauman's thought. By his own admission, it was the first of his books to grope towards a new kind of social theory, in contrast to the fals
This book is a product of Brazilian Academy of Sciences Study Group about water issue. The water cycle was addressed based on an integrated point of view, aiming at joining technological and ecological solutions and integrating quantitative and qualitative aspects of this important environmental asset. Issues such as the water resources management and irrigated agriculture, water and health, water and economy, conservation and reuse as management tools, water in the Brazilian semi arid, water in Amazon, urbanization and water resources, education for the sustainability of water resources, groundwater, availability, pollution and eutrophication of water and science, technology and innovation are of the utmost importance for this exact moment in Brazil, and particularly to the State of Sao Paulo. Addressing these issues will undoubtedly contribute towards a sustainable management of water resources trough the coordinated work of different fields of science, progressing a systemic view about water, that would then finally allow management professionals the possibility of an integral action in anticipating problems and thus anticipate solutions.
Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems surveys the fundamentals of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operations, from sensors, controls, and automation to regulations, safety procedures, and human factors. It is designed for the student or layperson and thus assumes no prior knowledge of UASs, engineering, or aeronautics. Dynamic and well-illustrated, the first edition of this popular primer was created in response to a need for a suitable university-level textbook on the subject. Fully updated and significantly expanded, this new Second Edition: Reflects the proliferation of technological capability, miniaturization, and demand for aerial intelligence in a post-9/11 world Presents the lates...
Contains full FDA-approved drug label information, including warnings and precautions, drug interactions, and hundreds of color pill images, as well as dosages, clinical-trials, side effects, and safety.