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Parque Farroupilha, a natureza na cidade: práticas de lazer e turismo cidadão

Peer-reviewed publication
juli, 2014

Trata-se este artigo de uma pesquisa de cunho qualitativo que busca investigar as formas de apropriação estabelecidas no Parque Farroupilha pelas práticas de lazer e turismo cidadão. Os parques urbanos são representativos nas paisagens das cidades, pois permitem a socialização e a contemplação/fruição da presença da natureza no meio urbano, capazes de romper com o universo do cotidiano.

A aplicação das metodologias de capacidade de carga turística e dos modelos de gestão da visitação no Brasil

Peer-reviewed publication
juli, 2014

Considerando a necessidade de conhecimento sobre o estado da arte atual dos estudos aplicados referentes à capacidade de carga turística e à gestão da visitação no Brasil, esta investigação de natureza qualitativa e quantitativa, teve por objetivo levantar e caracterizar tais estudos desenvolvidos com a participação de pesquisadores brasileiros, por meio do método bibliográfico em fontes secundárias, tendo sido eleitos para tanto os anais do Congresso Brasileiro de Unidades de Conservação, os anais dos seminários da Associação Nacional de Pós-graduação em Turismo, os anais do Seminário de P

Turismo receptivo em Curitiba: uma perspectiva da comercialização on-line pelas agências de turismo

Peer-reviewed publication
juli, 2014

O turista se utiliza de diversos canais de distribuição para poder viabilizar sua viagem e obter informações acerca do destino de seu interesse. Atualmente, a tecnologia oferece muitos recursos e ferramentas para consultas rápidas e práticas, que permitem o planejamento e a execução de uma viagem, por qualquer pessoa e de qualquer lugar do mundo. As agências de turismo receptivo são uma opção para o turista obter serviços na chegada ao destino, com comodidade e atendimento especializado.

Indonesia : Avoiding the Trap

juli, 2014

Within the next two decades Indonesia
aspires to generate prosperity, avoid a middle-income trap
and leave no one behind as it tries to catch up with
high-income economies. These are ambitious goals. Realizing
them requires sustained high growth and job creation, as
well as reduced inequality. Can Indonesia achieve them? This
report argues that the country has the potential to rise and
become more prosperous and equitable. But the risk of

Urban China : Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization

juli, 2014
China

In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, pollution threatens people’s health, and farmland and water resources are becoming scarce.

Urban Transport and CO2 Emissions : Some Evidence from Chinese Cities

juli, 2014

This working paper provides a bottom-up
estimate of energy use and Green-House Gas (GHG) emissions
for the transport sector based on data available at the city
and municipal levels. For urban transport in China, GHG
emissions primarily consist of carbon dioxide (CO2), so
these terms are used interchangeably. Energy use and CO2
emissions are also highly correlated based on the
predominance of fossil fuels in transport. A database of

Youth-Led Action Research on Land Commencement Workshop

Reports & Research
juni, 2014
Global

The land challenge is central to the broader youth dynamics of migration, employment, livelihoods and belonging. The more than 1.8 billion youth living worldwide represent not only a land challenge, but an untapped potential in moving the tenure security agenda forward.

Youth-led Action Research on Land builds on previous youth and land engagement and consultations that have identified critical needs and knowledge gapsin the space of youth and land.

Towards Enhanced Resilience in City Design: A Proposition

Peer-reviewed publication
juni, 2014

When we use the urban metabolism model for urban development, the input in the model is often valuable landscape, being the resource of the development, and output in the form of urban sprawl, as a result of city transformations. The resilience of these “output” areas is low. The lack of resilience is mainly caused by the inflexibility in these areas where existing buildings, infrastructure, and public space cannot be moved when deemed necessary.

Residential Location Preferences. The Significance of Socio-Cultural and Religious Attributes

Peer-reviewed publication
juni, 2014
Northern America

The objective of this paper is to explore residential location preferences and how they are related to travel behavior. The literature focuses on the preferences in relation to physical and demographic aspects, such as land uses, facilities, transportation facilities, transportation services, car ownership, income, household size and travel accessibility. However, this study suggests social and cultural issue such as racial diversity which is literally to be a significance context. The case study reported here is based on Iskandar Malaysia’s development region.

Land Law No. 45/2013/QH13.

Legislation
juni, 2014
Vietnam

This Law prescribes for the land ownership, powers and responsibilities of the State in representing the entire-people ownership of land and uniformly managing land, the land management and use regimes, and the rights and obligations of land users over the land in the territory of Vietnam. The persons taking responsibility before the State for land use are: 1. The head of an organization, a foreign organization with diplomatic functions, or a foreign invested enterprise, is responsible for the land use by his/her organization. 2.

Trade-offs between high class land and development: Recent and future pressures on Auckland's valuable soil resources

Peer-reviewed publication
juni, 2014
New Zealand

Sustainable land management is essential to meeting the global challenge of securing soil and water resources that can support an ever increasing population. In Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, population growth is forecast to increase from 1.5 to 2.5 million by 2040 which will put immense pressure on the region's soil resources.