Projetos de Pesquisa

This project aims to gain better understandings of the impacts of changes in demographic factors, household size/structure, living arrangements and population aging on care needs for disabled older adults in the recent past and future decades in nine developing countries of Brazil, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippine, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam (the 9 countries are listed according to alphabetical order).

This proposal argues that the solution for solid waste issues involves not only technical or economic regulations or both, but also real changes in individuals behaviour. Doing so requires an empirical understanding of the decision processes that people bring to this issue.This study aims at contributing to the dual goal of understanding how people make decisions and using this understanding to encourage pro-environmental behaviour.

This network aims to bring together researchers that are examining institutions and practices of confinement. We aim to create a space where we can discuss research findings and ethnographic experiences resulting from the examination of current forms of confinement. Confinement is today exercised in a diversity of contexts and institutions.