Sustainability and Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil

Extending Security/Sustainability through Pervasive Spider Web Networks in Urbanism

 Corresponding Author; E-mail: [email protected] (Li-Yen Hsu), [email protected] (Shin-Shin Kao) AbstractFor sustainable growth and security of dominant cities, the radial-ring traffic pattern has been applied in adjacent areas. Moreover, reliable, real-time communication or operations on infrastructures for counter-terrorism or handling vulnerable outdoor/transportation environments...

[Health advocacy in contemporary Brazil].

The concept of health advocacy is presented by means of a description of its elements, practice and agents. The need to formulate this concept derives from one of the main functions of the university: the identification of social demands and the presentation of alternatives that aim at eliminating obstacles to their fulfillment. Social participation, as guaranteed by the 1988 Constitution, unde...

Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Brazil

Brazil: towards sustainability and equity in health.

With a new government in place since January and a woman, Dilma Rousseff , at the helm, together with an economic growth rate of 7·5% last year and a newly discovered oil fi eld off its coast, Brazil is a country in demand as a political and economic partner. Brazil now has an important and timely opportunity to cement its formidable health achievements towards its ultimate goal of universal, e...

[Food in the contemporary context: consumption, political action and sustainability].

The interdisciplinary field of reflections on food as politics goes through a process of expansion and overflow to the private sphere, and routine daily food consumption. This process seems to be a reflection of transformations in the global agrifood markets, the wide publicity and awareness of food hazards and the politicization of consumption. To the extent that individuals are to assume resp...