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In the article examines the cooperation between the European Union and Brazil in the fields of healthcare and environmen-tal protection, which represents a key aspect of their interac-tion, encompassing areas with a significant impact on socie-ty's well-being and the preservation of natural resources and ecosystems on the planet. This article explores the opportuni-ties and challenges of cooperation between the EU and Brazil in healthcare and environmental protection, with a focus on their shared strategic priorities. The author highlights an im-portant factor: the new government of Brazil, led by L. da Sil-va, raises the issue of the alignment of Brazil's policy with EU priorities and its commitment to post-pandemic development and sustainable green growth. The article covers both existing programs and initiatives and potential prospects for Brazilian-European cooperation, emphasizing how such collaboration can contribute to European support for ensuring a sustainable future for Brazil as a representative of the Global South. It is argued that for successful cooperation, the parties must focus on finding compromises and incentives to combat deforesta-tion, promote environmental security, and achieve post-pandemic sustainable development. The author underscores the need to deepen cooperation between Brazil and the EU through the use of multilateral platforms, including the revival of regular "EU-Brazil" summits to develop a common agenda and enhance mutual understanding.

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This work aims to express the extension actions of the Support Center for Management in Social Entities (NAGES), developed in the period from 2022 to 2023. This report highlights the growing importance of sustainability, addressing the global commitment to the Development Objectives Sustainable. In the postredemocratization Brazilian context, the third sector emerges as a hybrid approach to promoting social wellbeing. In this sense, the NAGES Extension Project, linked to the Dean of Extension at the Federal University of Cariri, seeks to train third sector organizations and municipal councils, focusing on budgetary and financial management and sustainable practices aiming at a cultural transformation based on efficiency, efficiency and effectiveness in the use of human and financial resources. An exploratory research in public schools reveals challenges in financial-budgetary execution and knowledge about sustainability. The project contributes not only to the sustainable development of social organizations, but also to the academic and professional growth of the students involved, promoting critical awareness about efficient and sustainable management in the third sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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ABSTRACT China is currently the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, reflecting the country’s energy sector and its dependence on fossil fuels. However, the model of economic growth supported by polluting energy is no longer sustainable, which leads to pressure for changes in favor of greener energy, in a way to meet the interests of the country’s new development strategy, in addition to ensuring energy security. In face of this framework, this article analyzes the ongoing process of decarbonization of the Chinese energy mix, concluding that efforts for energy transition in the country already reflect advances in renewable energy sectors, and converge with the goals of modernizing the economy.

ABSTRACT Objectives: to describe the development of a Health Information and Communication Technology for the health care of long-haul truck drivers and their families. Methods: this is a description of the development of an Information and Communication Technology, developed from March to September 2023, following the systematization of the experience in five steps: 1) starting point, 2) initial questions, 3) recovery of the lived process, 4) background reflection, and 5) arrival points. Results: the technology called “Work-Family Balance,” electronically available, presents resources for the health care of long-haul truck drivers. It is anchored in studies on the health of long-haul truck drivers, notes from the International Labor Organization, the Strategic Action Plan for Confronting Chronic Diseases and Non-Communicable Diseases in Brazil, 2021-2030, and the Declaration by the International Association of Family Nursing. Final Considerations: the theoretical improvement of nursing can potentially improve the health care of long-haul truck drivers, prevent Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, and promote work-life balance to achieve the goals of Agenda 2030.

This study focuses on the environmental issue in Portugal after the 25th of April, analysing the problem from three main perspectives: the contextual diachronic perspective of the critical Anthropocene construction; the relevance of the environmental issue at national and international level and environmental policies in the Portuguese legislative framework, involving questions relating to the normativity of environmental law, legislative discourse and the semantic value of the expressions “environmental quality”, “nature conservation”, “self- sustaining development”, “sustainable development”, “environmental education”, “natural environment”, and “human environment” as concepts associated with the evolution of environmental policies in post-April 25th Portugal. The question is that the Portuguese legal framework use of these concepts may contain an ambivalent valuation, oscillating between conservationist or environmentalist goals and developmentalist aims. The qualitative research methodology is mixed, using the exploratory and the comparative method according to the principles of concordance and difference in analysing legislative discourse.

RESUMEN - Introducción/objetivo: en el contexto actual, la economía verde ha ganado en importancia como campo de estudio y línea de investigación multidisciplinaria. Por ello, se precisó alcanzar un entendimiento profundo de sus tendencias bibliométricas, las principales líneas y los retos fundamentales que enfrenta en la matriz del desarrollo sostenible. Con el fin de explorar la literatura de impacto, el estudio se condujo en la base de datos Scopus (2022-2024). Metodología: se realizó un estudio mixto de revisión en dos fases con estructura embebida (Cuan-cual), la primera con diseño bibliométrico y la segunda con enfoque hermenéutico. Se analizaron un total de 822 estudios en la primera fase y 23 en la segunda. Resultados: los hallazgos confirman el crecimiento del campo, así como el incremento de su relevancia, y a la vez permitieron elaborar los ejes de tensión que dan forma a la intersección entre sostenibilidad y economía verde. Conclusiones: se presenta una síntesis de los desafíos y potencialidades, así como se ofrecen ideas para entender el estado de la economía verde como campo y la realización de estudios futuros. ABSTRACT - Introduction/Objective: In today’s context, the green economy has emerged as a pivotal multidisciplinary field of study and research. This study aims to delve deeply into its bibliometric trends, primary research themes, and critical challenges within the framework of sustainable development. The objective was to explore influential literature, conducted through analysis of the Scopus database spanning from 2022 to 2024. Methodology: This study employed a two-phase mixed-method review with an embedded design (quan-qual). The first phase utilized bibliometric analysis, while the second phase adopted a hermeneutic approach. A total of 822 studies were analyzed in the initial phase, followed by an in-depth examination of 23 studies in the second phase. Results: The findings underscore the burgeoning growth and increasing relevance of the green economy. Moreover, they outline the key thematic tensions that define the intersection between sustainability and the principles of the green economy. Conclusions: This study provides a comprehensive synthesis of the challenges and potentials inherent in the green economy as a field of study. It also offers insights into future research directions to further elucidate its current state and trajectory.

Objective. The rational use of medicines offers a cost-saving strategy to maximize therapeutic outcomes for developing and developed countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the rational use of medicines for selected noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) at three pharmacies at public hospitals in Jamaica using the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) prescribing indicators. Methods. In this retrospective cross-sectional study, prescriptions for adult outpatients containing at least one medicine for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma that were filled between January and July 2019 were reviewed using WHO’s prescribing indicators for the rational use of medicines. Data were analyzed and expressed as descriptive and inferential statistics. For all analyses conducted, significance was determined at P < 0.05. Results. A total of 1 500 prescriptions covering 5 979 medicines were reviewed; prescriptions were mostly written for female patients aged 42–60 years. Polypharmacy was observed in 35.6% (534) of prescriptions, and there was an average of 4 medicines per prescription, with a maximum of 17. Most of the prescriptions at each site were filled, with the main reason for not dispensing a medicine being that it was out of stock. Generic prescribing was high for all sites, accounting for more than 95% (5 722) of prescribed medicines. There was full compliance with prescribing according to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines at two of the sites, but it was just off the target at Site 1, by 1.4%. Conclusions. The WHO guidelines for the rational use of medicines were followed with respect to the proportion of medicines prescribed from the WHO Model List and the proportion of antibiotics prescribed. The number of medicines per prescription and the proportion of medicines prescribed by generic name did not meet the WHO criteria. However, prescribing was aligned with treatment guidelines for the selected NCDs.

This paper analyzed the variations in the economic sectors of the municipalities of Mato Grosso State in Brazil, between 2005 and 2020, investigating their levels and rates of growth. Using estimates of the Economic Growth Level Indicators (INC) and Economic Growth Rate Indicators (IRC), based on Gross Value Added (GVA) per capita by sector and resident population, a reduction in the dynamism of the agricultural sector was identified in comparison with other segments. On the other hand, services made significant progress, being the segment with the highest proportion of municipalities classified as developing in expansion. Industry, on the other hand, showed resilience, being predominant in many developing municipalities and presenting the lowest proportion of depressed municipalities. This heterogeneity highlights the need for public policies that promote balanced and sustainable development throughout the Mato Grosso State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to analyze sustainability in agroecological family farming in Santana do Livramento. The research is classified as qualitative, exploratory and descriptive, with a case study method. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation with nine agroecological family farmers, and the data was processed using content analysis. The results indicate that, economically, the activity sustains and generates new investments in production; socially and culturally, there is promotion of food security and exchanges of knowledge; ecologically, there is concern for the soil, water and native forests. In short, the actions have the potential to promote more harmonious and sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the potential of foreign direct investment (FDI) for infrastructure sustainability, based on concession projects from the Brazilian Government's Investment Partnership Program. Method: A descriptive research methodology to meet the research objective, with a documentary analysis carried out on 89 concession projects auctioned over seven years. Main Results: FDI was shown to have played a crucial role in consolidating concession projects in Brazil's infrastructure sector, despite the lack of explicit commitment to sustainable practices, revealing an untapped potential to attract FDI and promote sustainable development. Relevance / Originality: The academic relevance of the study lies in highlighting the complexity and evolution of the performance of infrastructure sectors in terms of sustainability, whereby the task of evaluating projects becomes challenging without objective criteria, tools, and feasible goals. Theoretical / Methodological Contributions: The study helps to emphasize the need to consider sustainability from the initial phases of concession projects and to compose a framework that encompasses projects and evaluation. Social / Management Contributions: The commitment of senior management and government support are fundamental factors for the successful implementation of sustainable practices in infrastructure, with the need to review supplier selection processes to appropriately incorporate sustainability criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the Cuban conception of a knowledge society in the context of sustainable socioeconomic development, contrasting it with Latin American discussions on the subject. Through a bibliographical review, the work analyzes the notion of knowledge in English and Spanish, the perspectives on the knowledge society for human or capital development, and the Cuban vision with its socialist characteristics. It is concluded that Cuba, imbued with its revolutionary history and Marxist-Leninist ideology, seeks to build a knowledge society that is aligned with the social and economic well-being of the population, prioritizing the integral formation of socialist citizens, applied research and centralized planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to analyze public policies for sustainable tourism in Brazil. To subsidize the reflections, a bibliographic research about the concept of sustainable tourism and this use on the development of tourism activity was carried out. Documentary research was also carried out on materials that corresponded to political and legal milestones, enabling an analysis about the concept of sustainable tourism from the perspectives of official tourism institutions. The results, analyzed in conjunction with the theoretical framework used, showed reflections about sustainable tourism and the sustainability of tourism present in discourses, in particular, by public institutions. In other words, if these discourses support the pursuit of sustainable tourism development; or the development of sustainable tourism. The perspective adopted for the research leads to a result that demonstrates a focus on a marketing logic in the tourism policies analyzed here, and questions what kind of tourism that wants to sustain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The urban mobility systems of municipalities are made up of various transport, passenger and freight services and subsystems. The mode of public passenger transport, the main one, in many cases, is operated by buses belonging to urban transport companies, and by the complementary service, operated by small vehicles. The great challenge of this format is to establish the corporate culture in the associations of operators of small vehicles, accustomed to an almost artisanal model, practically an extension of the informal or clandestine operation previously carried out. This challenge can be overcome through the actions of the Government, encouraging the formation of cooperatives, formed by these permittees. It must be considered that a cooperative has different specificities from a capital company. The management bodies of transport systems should encourage the assimilation of the management culture, more precisely the Management ® Excellence Model, which is desirable for cooperatives to have the necessary conditions to operate properly in transport systems. Hence, the general objective of this work is to provide the technical, economic, financial and structural conditions for cooperatives to have sustainability as an economic activity. The methodology used was based on an empirical, inductive and exploratory study, with the presentation of a strategic business management model. With this, it is intended to establish a management model to be followed by any entity that has delegation of operation by the Government, which, without a doubt, will constitute a great innovation in the institutional relationship with these individual operators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of modern society in large urban centers is linked to a consumption system that is loaded with territorial, political and socio-environmental problems. Since Brazil is considered the fourth greatest generator of solid waste in the world, the importance of strategic actions coming from public and private sectors and civil society that aim for better conditions in the management and valorization of this waste are highlighted. In the face of this, families act in the collection and sorting of recyclable materials, and they are often conceptualized as agents of sustainable practices. This article aims to investigate the intersection between territorial organization and local development within a recycling cooperative. In order to understand the socio-environmental dynamics on this research, a bibliometric portfolio was built that provided knowledge about Circular Economy practices and recyclable collectors. For data collection, support was sought through non-participant observation and structured and semi-structured interviews. The results showed that the strengthening of the cooperative developed from established social relationships in the surroundings of the recycling chain. It was concluded that, from the viability of relationships within the territory, scenarios may arise that guarantee the circularity and transformation of the waste, encompassing aspects aimed at social, environmental and economic sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of family farming in Nova Friburgo stems from the importance of producing vegetables and flowers, maintaining forest fragments, social and political organization to maintain achievements and meet desires, such as agroecological strategies from the extreme weather event that occurred in 2011. The objective was to characterize the municipality in terms of territorial, environmental, historical, productive and organizational aspects, as well as to highlight the presence of peasant and business dynamics in local production systems. 47 interviews were carried out with farmers and 4 with key actors in loco, using a semi-structured questionnaire with 57 questions, associated with the application of an innovative participatory tool in which was diagnosed social, productive, environmental aspects and the local dynamics of the agroecological transition were characterized. It emphasizes the importance of strengthening the action of sustainable rural development agents, represented by participatory research, collective rural extension and continued technical assistance in agroecology, bringing groups of organic agriculture and conventional agriculture together. It is concluded from the characterization of the municipality, that the quest for sustainability of family farming in the municipality must be based on a social management process, integrated with the action of agents of sustainable rural development, represented by participatory research, collective rural extension and technical assistance in agroecology and valorization of the historical richness and crops diversity of this production, from family farmers, socially organized in an associative way, aiming at sustainable rural development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses Conservation Units in the conservationist perspective, as instruments to protect nature, assuring the maintenance of Brazilian biodiversity and biomes, in order to build an ecologically balanced environment under the terms of the Federal Constitution of 1988. Through deductive method, exploratory, documental, and bibliographic research, and indirect analysis of Environmental Ministry and Environmental, Sustainable Development State Office data, it makes a legal-theoretical appreciation of the issue in Brazil. By looking at the Brazilian scenario, it notices that most part of the Conservation Units were created by the States and were focused, respectively, on Mata Atlântica, Cerrado, and the Amazon, and had sustainability as a legal-political fundament. The conjuncture of Goiás indicates that stating the Conservation Units existence is not enough, since more than half of Conservation Units lack landing regularization. Also, six out of twenty-five Conservation Units still do not have an Administrative Counsel. Twenty Conservation Units do not have a working plan, which, added to financial and staff difficulties may compromise the expected protection of nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]