scholarly journals Quem são e o que pensam os condutores de embarcações turísticas para observação de botos-cinza?

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josivânia Emanuelly Azevedo Dos Santos ◽  
Vitor de Oliveira Lunardi ◽  
Diana Carvalho de Freitas ◽  
Maria Mayara dos Santos Silva ◽  
Diana Gonçalves Lunardi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Sotalia Guianensis ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Guiana Dolphin ◽  
Dolphin Watching

Condutores turísticos podem exercer um papel relevante para o desenvolvimento sustentável do ecoturismo, sendo responsáveis pela condução dos turistas durante a visitação, promoção da sensibilização ambiental e cultural e contribuição no monitoramento de impactos socioambientais no local de visitação. Este estudo teve como objetivo descrever quem são e o que pensam os condutores de embarcações turísticas para observação de botos-cinza (Sotalia guianensis). Para tanto, foi registrada a interação entre condutores turísticos e turistas durante 22 passeios de observação de botos-cinza realizados entre 2014 e 2018 na Reserva de Fauna Costeira de Tibau do Sul (REFAUTS), Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. Adicionalmente, 22 questionários foram aplicados aos condutores de embarcações turísticas na REFAUTS, em maio de 2017 e julho de 2018. Durante os 22 passeios monitorados, os turistas não receberam qualquer informação sobre a REFAUTS ou receberam informação insuficiente sobre a biologia e ecologia de botos-cinza. De acordo com as respostas obtidas nos questionários, condutores turísticos da REFAUTS são predominantemente jovens, com nível de escolaridade fundamental e têm esta atividade como principal fonte de renda. Estes condutores declararam trabalhar na REFAUTS há pelo menos sete anos e ter conhecimento insuficiente sobre a existência desta Reserva. Uma parte significativa destes profissionais também declarou desconhecer a Lei Municipal nº 349/2007, que regulamenta o transporte marítimo na REFAUTS. Contudo, estes condutores declararam reconhecer a importância dos seguintes aspectos ambientais para a REFAUTS: boto-cinza, ambiente marinho protegido, normas de conduta, programa de fiscalização e cobrança da taxa turística para a REFAUTS. Os resultados deste estudo poderão subsidiar programas de educação ambiental voltados para os condutores turísticos, tornando-os importantes aliados na conservação de botos-cinza e agentes multiplicadores no processo de sensibilização ambiental de turistas na REFAUTS. Who are and what think the guiana dolphin-watching operators? Tour operators can play a relevant role in the sustainable development of ecotourism, being responsible for driving tourists during the visitation, promoting environmental and cultural awareness and contributing to the monitoring of social-environmental impacts in the place of visitation. This study aimed to describe who are and what think the Guiana dolphin-watching operators. We recorded the interaction between dolphin-watching operators and tourists during 22 tours conducted between 2014 and 2018 in the Coastal Wildlife Reserve of Tibau do Sul (REFAUTS), Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil. In addition, 22 questionnaires were applied to dolphin-watching operators at the REFAUTS in May 2017 and July 2018. During the 22 tours monitored, tourists did not receive any information about the REFAUTS or received insufficient information about the biology and ecology of Guiana dophin (Sotalia guianensis). According to the answers obtained in the questionnaires, dolphin-watching operators are predominantly young, with elementary scholarly and have this activity as the main source of income. These dolphin-watching operators reported that they have worked in the REFAUTS for at least seven years and that they have insufficient knowledge about the existence of this Reserve. A significant number of these professionals also reported that they do not know the Municipal Law no 349/2007, which regulates maritime transport at the REFAUTS. However, these dolphin-watching operators reported that they recognize the importance of the following environmental aspects for the REFAUTS: Guiana dolphin, protected marine area, codes of conduct, inspection program and tourist tax for the REFAUTS. The results of this study may subsidize environmental education programs for dolphin-watching operators, making them important partners in the conservation of Guiana dolphin and multipliers in the process of environmental awareness of tourists in the REFAUTS. KEYWORDS: Dolphin; Environmental Perception; Environmental Planning; Pipa Beach; Dolphin-Watching.

Rostrum Contact Behaviors by the Guiana Dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) in Ilhéus, Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Flavia B. Izidoro ◽  
Yvonnick Le Pendu
Keyword(s):  
Sotalia Guianensis ◽  
Guiana Dolphin

scholarly journals Does Emotional Intelligence Influence Academic Performance? The Role of Compassion and Engagement in Education for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1721
Author(s):  
Marta Estrada ◽  
Diego Monferrer ◽  
Alma Rodríguez ◽  
Miguel Ángel Moliner
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Equation Analysis ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Societies ◽  
Social Environmental

Education must guide students’ emotional development, not only to improve their skills and help them achieve their maximum performance, but to establish the foundations of a more cooperative and compassionate society. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, therefore, implies focusing on emotional aspects as well as financial, social, environmental, and scientific objectives. In this line, the goal of this study is to show how emotional intelligence, which is an essential dimension in the development and management of emotional competences required to build sustainable societies, plays a key role in optimising student’s academic performance in the classroom through compassion and academic commitment. The research model was tested with a questionnaire addressed to 550 students from four higher education institutions and one secondary school. The results of a structural equation analysis confirmed the study hypotheses. Emotional intelligence was shown to be positively related to compassion and higher levels of commitment, which, consequently, led to better academic performance. This finding will encourage interest in developing emotional intelligence, not only for its long-term value in training healthy citizens, but also for its short-term results in the classroom.

scholarly journals Inclusive development in the national tourist system: case of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Okhrimenko ◽  
Liudmila Bovsh
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Resource Saving ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Inclusive Business ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Social Environmental

The sustainable development of tourism, which provides for natural and cultural and historical resource-saving and increase, observing the environmental standards becomes dominant and is a requirement for tourism successful development. The main direction of sustainable tourism development within a certain country – national tourist system (NTS) is inclusiveness. According to the results of human and inclusive development indicators, the volumes of employment in tourism, there were defined the problems of Ukraine concerning the insufficient level of human development, the presence of displaced population from the military actions zone and the population that suffers from grievances and has features of poverty. It is emphasized that NTS can implement the inclusive business models through such key foundations: Particular attention is paid to substantiating the mutual satisfaction of the economic interests of stakeholders when forming the NTS inclusive business models. There was elaborated the vision of possible key strategies of business entities for expanding the economic opportunities in the context of inclusive development. According to the study results, there was presented the architectonics of the interaction of NTS subjects when implementing the inclusive business models, where the groups of stakeholders, directions, forms of activity, and possible effects of their implementation were defined. Attention is paid to the need for further systemic studies of the considered problem in response to challenges and threats to tourism as a global social, environmental, and economic phenomenon.

scholarly journals Feeding Strategies of the Guiana Dolphin Sotalia guianensis

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos R. Rossi-Santos ◽  
Paulo A.C. Flores
Keyword(s):  
Feeding Strategies ◽  
Sotalia Guianensis ◽  
Guiana Dolphin

scholarly journals Turismo de Base Comunitária sob influência do processo de Proteção da Natureza na Reserva Extrativista Prainha do Canto Verde (CE) e na Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Aventureiro (RJ)

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Cristina de Miranda Mendonça ◽  
Edilaine Albertino de Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Conservation Units ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Extractive Reserve ◽  
Social Environmental

EEste artigo apresenta como discussão temática o turismo de base comunitária sob influência do processo de proteção da natureza, que tem como estratégia a criação de Unidades de Conservação, das categorias Reserva Extrativista e Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Neste contexto, considera-se a lógica peculiar da dinâmica social, ambiental e cultural da Reserva Extrativista Prainha do Canto Verde (Ceará) e da Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Aventureiro (Rio de Janeiro). O objetivo do trabalho se define na descrição e análise sobre o processo de fortalecimento do turismo de base comunitária sob influência das Unidades de Conservação instituídas na área abrangente da Prainha do Canto Verde e da Vila do Aventureiro. O caminho metodológico de trabalho compreendeu pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e de campo, desde 2003, considerando dados de projetos de pesquisa e extensão universitária, como possibilidade de cobertura ampla de fenômenos semelhantes, permitindo uma comparação dos resultados obtidos para ampliar as perspectivas de análise temática. O resultado principal alcançado na pesquisa se baseia na importância da criação da Reserva Extrativista Prainha do Canto Verde e da Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Aventureiro para a valorização e validação do turismo de base comunitária, garantindo sua premissa básica: a concepção, o planejamento, a operação e a gestão do turismo pelos agentes locais. Community-based Tourism under the influence of Nature Protection process in the Extractive Reserve Prainha do Canto Verde (CE, Brazil) and the Sustainable Development Reserve Aventureiro (RJ, Brazil) ABSTRACT This paper discusses Community-based Tourism influenced by the process of nature protection and the strategic creation of Conservation Units, and the categories Extractive Reserve and Sustainable Development Reserve. In particular, we approach the peculiar logic of the social, environmental and cultural dynamics of the Extractive Reserve of Prainha do Canto (Ceará,Brazil) and the Sustainable Development Reserve of Aventureiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) to describe and analise the reinforcement of Community-based Tourism in the conservation units created in these Reserves. The methodology includes bibliographical, documental and field research conducted since 2003, and the extension and research academic projects covering similar phenomena to enable a comparison of the findings to widen the perspectives of the analysis. The main findings point to the relevance of the creation of Reserves for valorization and validation of Community-based Tourism assuring its basic assumption: the conception, planning, operation and management of tourism by local agents. KEYWORDS: Community-based Tourism; Nature Protection; Extractive Reserve; Sustainable Development Reserve.

scholarly journals Normative Environmental Configuration of SMEs within the Sustainable Development Discourse in South Africa: An Empirical Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6537
Author(s):  
Reginald Masocha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Social Environmental

This paper investigates the role of normative environmental configuration forces on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adopting sustainable development practices in South Africa. A research survey was performed, and data were gathered from SMEs utilizing owners and managers as respondents. Non-probability sampling at the hand of the convenience method was utilised and 220 respondents constituted the final sample. The analysis of data constituted factor analysis and hypotheses were tested through the structural equation modelling technique. The study hypothesised that normative forces have an impact on the participation of SMEs in the extents of sustainability practices, namely social, environmental and economic. The results led to the supporting of all the hypotheses postulated in the study. Thus, the major recommendation was to support the training, networking and professional affiliations of SMEs in sustainable development issues in order to ensure proliferation of sustainable development amongst these firms.

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