DSpace Collection:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1432024-03-28T12:52:30Z2024-03-28T12:52:30ZEnvironmental Conflicts in Mining, Quarrying and Metallurgical Industries in the Iberian Peninsula (19th and 20th Century): Pollution and Popular ProtestGuimarães, Paulo Eduardohttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/124632015-01-19T17:34:21Z2014-07-11T23:00:00ZTitle: Environmental Conflicts in Mining, Quarrying and Metallurgical Industries in the Iberian Peninsula (19th and 20th Century): Pollution and Popular Protest
Authors: Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo
Abstract: ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS IN MINING, QUARRYING, AND METALLURGICAL INDUSTRIES IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA (19TH AND 20TH CENTURY): POLLUTION AND PUBLIC PROTEST.
Paulo E. Guimarães, NICPRI / University of Évora (Portugal)
J. D. Pérez Cebada, Universidad of Huelva (Spain)
Comparative and transnational analyses of social conflicts, related to the environmental changes produced by modern and contemporary mining industries, have been a topic of growing academic interest for the last two decades. Those conflicts were often presented in different contexts as anti-modern peasant protests, indigenous resistance, or conflicts of interest and as a cause for social disruption.
In the Iberian Peninsula, the more important mining basins were affected by the three classical types of pollution (atmospheric, water and soil pollution). Pollution also triggered persistent conflicts between mining companies and diverse social groups: rural communities, mining workers, scientists, sanitary professionals, and especially farmers and landowners. The former groups sometimes combined their forces, whereas the latter fought on their own.
This panel has gathered recent contributions on the environmental changes produced by the development of the mining industry in the Iberian Peninsula during the last two centuries and how it related with conflict and social change at community level and at the national and transnational levels.2014-07-11T23:00:00ZENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS IN THE PYRITES MINING INDUSTRY IN PORTUGAL (1850-1930)Guimarães, Paulo Eduardohttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/124402015-01-15T16:51:28Z2014-07-11T23:00:00ZTitle: ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS IN THE PYRITES MINING INDUSTRY IN PORTUGAL (1850-1930)
Authors: Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo
Abstract: During the second half of the 19th century, the development of the mining industry in Portugal was export oriented and led by foreign capitals. Those mining enterprises used local vital resources, changed landscapes and became a source of air and water pollution and of social conflicts.
In this paper we analyze three environmental conflicts derived from the environmental disruption due to the modern development of the pyrites mining industry in Portugal during the long period of material progress and relative prosperity (_Regeneração_) and the New State. Considering the facts shown by local records, parliamentary papers and State archives, we have reconstructed some of those conflicts, identifying social actors, strategies and forms of resolution.
The comparison between open conflicts across distinctive social and geographic contexts and time periods have shown different and recurrent behaviour and bargaining strategies by landowners, peasants, fishermen and mining companies within the unequal relationship established between them and the Liberal State in order to face the environmental damages created by the mining and metallurgical industry.
We show that the different group strategies were the result of the highly unequal power distribution, and of the resources they were able to mobilize. The State action was presented- and understood- as mediator and regulator. Within this framework, the large landowners promoted the parliamentary debate as a privileged form of intervention in defense of their interests during the First Republic (1910-1926). The legal framework that resulted from this experience did not reinforce the bargaining power of landowners and farmers in such way to enable them to effectively fight against the mining and industrial interests often promoted by foreign companies.2014-07-11T23:00:00ZCorporate Social Responsibility as a source of attracting talent: building an Iberian framework of analysis in the Tourism and Hospitality Management SectorBarrena-Martínez, JesusContreiras, JoaquimJorge, Fátimahttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/105172014-02-04T10:45:56Z2013-05-31T23:00:00ZTitle: Corporate Social Responsibility as a source of attracting talent: building an Iberian framework of analysis in the Tourism and Hospitality Management Sector
Authors: Barrena-Martínez, Jesus; Contreiras, Joaquim; Jorge, Fátima
Abstract: In the current context of turbulence, firms that are able to attract and retain the most qualified workers can obtain a source of sustainable competitive advantage from them in the market. In the last years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is acquiring a great relevance among academics and professionals as a management tool, which could send positive external signals to the prospective employees of companies. Considering this framework, this paper aims to demonstrate the important role of adopting a CSR orientation for companies in the process of attraction talented people. To support these objectives we based on the principles of stakeholders approach and signalling theory. The context of analysis will be framed in two countries with similar cultural and geographic location such as Spain and Portugal to get homogeneous results in order to make a comparison between them. The respondents of the study were students from Tourism and Hospitality Management in Technical Schools and Universities. The results obtained in the first focus of analysis in Portugal indicate a positive relationship among the candidates and their interest to work for companies that apply CSR activities. With this support, we are moving to Spain, concretely to Andalusia to test and contrast this framework in a similar population of students.2013-05-31T23:00:00ZResponsabilidade Social Empresarial – Abordagem Multicasos no AlentejoSilva, Maria LuísaJorge, Fátimahttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/105112014-02-04T10:12:17Z2013-02-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Responsabilidade Social Empresarial – Abordagem Multicasos no Alentejo
Authors: Silva, Maria Luísa; Jorge, Fátima
Abstract: A partir da análise teórica do conceito de responsabilidade social e tendo por base o modelo conceptual desenhado para o estudo Responsabilidade Social nas PME – Casos em Portugal (Santos et al., 2006), reflectimos, neste artigo, sobre as práticas de responsabilidade social adoptadas por quatro organizações escolhidas: a EDIA, S.A., uma sociedade anónima de capitais exclusivamente públicos; a Sociedade Agrícola Freixo do Meio, S.A., uma pequena empresa privada pertencente à sociedade que estrutura o grupo Sousa Cunhal – Investimento, SGPS S.A., a Delta Cafés SGPS, S.A., uma sociedade holding portuguesa de capitais inteiramente privados e o grupo de empresas Esporão, S.A.. Embora com características diferenciadas, estas organizações apresentam alguns aspectos comuns nas práticas de responsabilidade social, até ao nível dos factores que influenciam a sua implementação.2013-02-01T00:00:00Z