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RESUMO Este artigo propõe uma discussão sobre a dinâmica da produção energética nacional e suas possibilidades no desenvolvimento hidrelétrico no interior do Brasil, tendo como suporte referencial a instalação do Complexo Hidrelétrico Urubupungá. Segundo maior complexo do mundo no período, planejado e executado entre as décadas de 1950 e 1970, foi representado como marco da engenharia nacional e elemento de integração territorial e econômica, tendo organismos de planejamento regional e grupos políticos atuando na condução de suas ações, decisões e encaminhamentos. Compreender seu projeto remete a uma teia de práticas, narrativas e poderes que, para além da produção energética, atrelaram este empreendimento como marco de memória do setor energético e promotor de transformações em diversos segmentos nacionais.

Active collaboration allows the development of synergies and tools to maintain a diversified, productive and sustainable system. In the framework of an ongoing research project having a case study ...

What if humans continue to pursue “more and better”? What if we continue living within our safe anthropocen-tric boundaries? What if we ignore the question of when too much is too much? Margaret Atwood’s “speculative fiction” presents no new worlds, as Atwood’s world resembles our own; her novels present, on the other hand, what-if realities. By extrapolating trends, Oryx and Crake poses the afore-mentioned questions within Modernity’s framework. Atwood’s novel revisits key concepts such as time and subjectivity and brings progression to a halt. What may the wish to stop time, our human condition, result in, after all? Modernity and its concepts are under scrutiny in a novel in which climate change and nature seem to have been surpassed. The present paper aims, therefore, at investigating what this “us without a world” story, which becomes a “world without us” one, can tell us about the pursuits of Modernity and their repercussions: that is, ecological awareness and the good Anthropocene.

The valorisation of technical lignins by conversion is herein demonstrated using an acidic deep eutectic solvent in the absence or presence of a co-catalyst (H2SO4 or H2O2).

The main objective of this study was to assess the extent to which accounting policies of social disclosure adopted by certain financial institutions are influenced by disclosure practices adopted by their larger peers. Thus, it was based on presumptions of the Institutional Theory [Meyer and Rowan (1977), DiMaggio and Powell (1983), and Zulker Tolbert (1999)], mainly considering the concept of mimetic isomorphism. We examined 24 social audits of the six largest brazilian banks, during the period between 2001 and 2005. The research provides evidences of a possible isomorphic process in the adoption of social and environmental disclosure policies among the organizations studied. After all, it was shown that smaller banks tend to copy models and disclosure practices adopted by larger banks. The results confirm the hypothesis that when organizations are faced with uncertainties and significant threats to its continuity, tend to copy structures and models adopted by others who are perceived as rational and efficient in the environment which they operate. This behavior was consistent with the precepts of institutional theory.