scholarly journals The spotted zebra: Cohabitation between informal solutions and public-owned infrastructures for water supply in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region

Water Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Maiello ◽  
Ana Lucia Nogueira de Paiva Britto ◽  
Suyá Quintslr
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Hybrid Systems ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
The One ◽  
Emerging And Developing Countries

Abstract In many emerging and developing countries hybrid systems, not completely public nor private, have become a regrettable unstandardized ‘standard’ for water and sanitation service (WSS) provisions. These spotted zebras deserve the attention of both the scientific community and policymakers being ambiguous solutions. On the one hand, the hybrid systems allow broadening the access to the water supply service in face of the challenge to manage, maintain and adapt large infrastructures in a time of increasing climate change impacts, water-supply demand and drinking water scarcity. On the other hand, by embodying informal artefacts and unregulated behaviours to use natural resources, the hybrid systems enhance the vulnerability and precariousness of the population that is normally not reached by the formal public infrastructure. The paper presents findings of research conducted in Queimados, in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area. Our study suggests that grassroots solutions, albeit being an opportunity when integrated, represent a threat when standing alone, and it is critical to further discuss ways to promote such integration within a structured institutional public framework. Conclusions stress the need to rethink the grassroots engagement within socio-technical transition emphasizing the nexus between political culture, civic education and infrastructural solutions.

scholarly journals Implantação de infra-estrutura de saneamento na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro: uma avaliação das ações do Programa de Despoluição da Baía de Guanabara

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Lucia Britto
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Pollution Abatement ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Guanabara Bay ◽  
The Public ◽  
Important Amount ◽  
Sanitation Infrastructure

Este trabalho apresenta alguns resultados de pesquisa em desenvolvimento sobre a implantação e gestão das infra-estruturas e serviços de saneamento na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro (RMRJ). Nele analisamos, com base no mais importante macroprograma em desenvolvimento, o Programa de Despoluição da Baía de Guanabara (PDBG), se ele vem contribuindo para uma ampliação do acesso aos serviços nas áreas carentes da RMRJ. Nossa análise mostra que o desenvolvimento do programa tem sido extremamente lento e que, apesar do volume importante de recursos aplicados por agentes financiadores externos, o PDBG ainda não logrou seus objetivos de ampliar o acesso e melhorar significativamente a qualidade desses serviços em áreas carentes da região.Palavras-chave: saneamento ambiental; meio ambiente; Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro; Baía de Guanabara; infra-estrutura urbana; gestão urbana; serviços urbanos. Sanitation infrastructure setup in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro: A avaliation of The Guanabara Bay Pollution Abatement Program actionsAbstract: This paper presents some results of a research that we are developing about the public polices concerning the extension of public services of water supply and sewage for urban dwellers in the Rio de Janeiro’s metropolitan area. We will analyze this subject focusing on the most important program for the improvement of these services, which has been developed in the last years, The Guanabara Bay Pollution Abatement Program. Our study discusses whether this program has contributed or not to the improvement of urban dwellers to access water supply and sewage services, and it shows that the program’s development is being very slow and that, in despite of the important amount of financial investments made by multilateral agencies, The Guanabara Bay Pollution Abatement Program has not achieved many of its goals. Keywords: sanitation; environment; Rio de Janeiro’s metropolitan area; Guanabara Bay; public polices; public services; urban administration.

Urgensi Pendidikan dalam Budaya Politik

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-328
Author(s):  
Luthfiyah Luthfiyah
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Fundamental Function ◽  
Group Orientation ◽  
Inner Self

The crisis of nation is caused by the crisis of inner self and moral degradations, that politic which must be oriented to safety people, but show emphasizing to individual or group orientation finally the politic, which must have service character precisely dominated and patronage character. So, it is significant to develop cognition, affection, and psicomotoric componens on a simultant scale through education. However education has antisipatoris and preparatoris characters. The identification of democaration values and provide a model through civic education will be concrete the fundamental function of education in effort to create the humanis people and shaped unresistant education to reality. So, education can cange political culture.

Democracy and Political Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross McKibbin
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social System ◽  
Political System ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

This book is an examination of Britain as a democratic society; what it means to describe it as such; and how we can attempt such an examination. The book does this via a number of ‘case-studies’ which approach the subject in different ways: J.M. Keynes and his analysis of British social structures; the political career of Harold Nicolson and his understanding of democratic politics; the novels of A.J. Cronin, especially The Citadel, and what they tell us about the definition of democracy in the interwar years. The book also investigates the evolution of the British party political system until the present day and attempts to suggest why it has become so apparently unstable. There are also two chapters on sport as representative of the British social system as a whole as well as the ways in which the British influenced the sporting systems of other countries. The book has a marked comparative theme, including one chapter which compares British and Australian political cultures and which shows British democracy in a somewhat different light from the one usually shone on it. The concluding chapter brings together the overall argument.

PROMETHEE-based ranking of project managers based on the five personality traits

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1083-1102
Author(s):  
Georgios N. Aretoulis ◽  
Jason Papathanasiou ◽  
Fani Antoniou
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Preference Ranking ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose This paper aims to rank and identify the most efficient project managers (PMs) based on personality traits, using Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE) methodology. Design/methodology/approach The proposed methodology relies on the five personality traits. These were used as the selection criteria. A questionnaire survey among 82 experienced engineers was used to estimate the required weights per personality trait. A second two-part questionnaire survey aimed at recording the PMs profile and assess the performance of personality traits per PM. PMs with the most years of experience are selected to be ranked through Visual PROMETHEE. Findings The findings suggest that a competent PM is the one that scores low on the “Neuroticism” trait and high especially on the “Conscientiousness” trait. Research limitations/implications The research applied a psychometric test specifically designed for Greek people. Furthermore, the proposed methodology is based on the personality characteristics to rank the PMs and does not consider the technical skills. Furthermore, the type of project is not considered in the process of ranking PMs. Practical implications The findings could contribute in the selection of the best PM that maximizes the project team’s performance. Social implications Improved project team communication and collaboration leading to improved project performance through better communication and collaboration. This is an additional benefit for the society, especially in the delivery of public infrastructure projects. A lot of public infrastructure projects deviate largely as far as cost and schedule is concerned and this is an additional burden for public and society. Proper project management through efficient PMs would save people’s money and time. Originality/value Identification of the best PMbased on a combination of multicriteria decision-making and psychometric tests, which focus on personality traits.

scholarly journals Stability analysis and controller synthesis for hybrid dynamical systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 368 (1930) ◽  
pp. 4937-4960 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. P. M. H. Heemels ◽  
B. De Schutter ◽  
J. Lunze ◽  
M. Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Hybrid Systems ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Hybrid Dynamical Systems ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Control Community ◽  
The One

Wherever continuous and discrete dynamics interact, hybrid systems arise. This is especially the case in many technological systems in which logic decision-making and embedded control actions are combined with continuous physical processes. Also for many mechanical, biological, electrical and economical systems the use of hybrid models is essential to adequately describe their behaviour. To capture the evolution of these systems, mathematical models are needed that combine in one way or another the dynamics of the continuous parts of the system with the dynamics of the logic and discrete parts. These mathematical models come in all kinds of variations, but basically consist of some form of differential or difference equations on the one hand and automata or other discrete-event models on the other hand. The collection of analysis and synthesis techniques based on these models forms the research area of hybrid systems theory, which plays an important role in the multi-disciplinary design of many technological systems that surround us. This paper presents an overview from the perspective of the control community on modelling, analysis and control design for hybrid dynamical systems and surveys the major research lines in this appealing and lively research area.

Britain of David Cameron

2012 ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
A. Terentiev
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
David Cameron ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The One

A year ago the era of the Laborist’s ruling has ended in Britain. As a result of the one of the most intensive campaign over the past decade in Downing Street residence was the leader of the Conservative party. David Cameron's Britain is seen the author as the antipode to Brown’s one. According to experts, the two politicians are opposite directions of British political culture: an epicurean and puritanical. The author analyses the determinants of the coming to power of the Conservatives, the personal qualities of the new leader, the main directions of his domestic and foreign policies, including the prospects of relations with Russia.

Régis Debray – the Last Oracle of the French Republic

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Natalia A. Rutkevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Late Work ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
Che Guevara

The article examines the main themes of the work of Régis Debray, one of the most important French philosophers and writers of our time. Debray is familiar to Russian readers primarily as an associate of Che Guevara and a theorist of the Cuban revolutionary movement, as well as the author of works on mediology – a science he himself created on the study of the transmission of ideas and sym­bols. Central to his mature and late work are the ideas of sacred in human com­munities, the conditions of the emergence, transmission and disappearance of re­ligious, national and other forms of sacrality, and the related evolution of world civilizations. Debray is recognized by his peers as one of the most perceptive an­alysts of French political culture, and his article, Are you a Democrat or a Re­publican?, written in the year of the bicentennial of the French revolution in 1989, anticipates the processes that will unfold over the next thirty years. Debray describes these processes as a gradual desacralization of the Republic, the emas­culation of its basic principles and its transformation into “a common Anglo-Saxon democracy”. As a result, the “one and indivisible secular Republic” is falling apart into communities, each of which establishes its own shrines. The dissolution of France’s particular republican model is taking place in the background, and as part of a more global process of the decline of European civilisation and its dissolution into Western Atlantic civilisation.

The drama of politics

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Binder
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Innovation ◽  
Strong Program ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
The One ◽  
Collective Representations

The concept of social performance is a major theoretical innovation of the strong program in cultural sociology, championed by Jeffrey C. Alexander. This article offers a critical assessment of Alexander’s last four monographs on political performances with the explicit aim of contributing to the future development of the performance approach. After an outline of Alexander’s theory of performance, I continue to discuss his book-length empirical contributions, highlighting the innovations introduced by each study. Confronting Alexander’s research strategies with his theoretical framework, I propose a recalibration of his ‘liberal’ sociology of performance, bringing ‘conservative’ aspects of political culture back in, first of all particularity and historicity. This entails a rethinking of performance effects in terms of ‘resonances’ attuned to particular audiences and a deeper hermeneutic engagement with specific historical backgrounds of collective representations in order to overcome the one-sidedness of Alexander’s constructivist approach.

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