Uma Agenda de Transformação para Cabo Verde (Portuguese Edition)

Uma agenda de transformação para Cabo Verde by José Maria Neves(Book) 2 editions published in in Portuguese and held by 9 WorldCat member.
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This creates the need to make as many trips as possible, thus accounting for the high speed of many hiaces and the risk entailed in using road infrastructures that at times are inadequate. In the Calheta area in northeastern Santiago and Tarrafal in the north far fewer accidents take place. The majority accumulate on the outskirts of Praia, where there is significant vehicle transit. Such traffic build-up reveals extremely tight competition for clientele and the need to reach the destination quickly in the hopes of undertaking yet another trip as soon as possible in order to satisfy the urge to earn.

Be that as it may, the types of vehicle ownership and their link with labour conditions clearly influence the way that driving is performed. This is seen not only in the surface marking, i. Parallel to this, road lighting is virtually non-existent. The police do not supervise in any daily or rigorously disciplined manner, either on the roads or in the towns, except during major operations prompted by the celebration of festivals drawing people from different towns. A police officer tends to work in the same place where he lives, where he has his friends and family.

According to both high-ranking police officers, and ordinary traffic agents, they do not have the sufficient technical and human means. Despite the truth of this, certain drivers and passengers cause another practice to be added, one that is invisible to the public eye in so many societies: Furthermore, certain overload situations experienced by many passengers are examples of solidarity among drivers, as is the case of the last hiace to leave at night, i. The absence of interurban public transport makes dependence on hiaces absolute.

In the end the police have to perform the supervisory role that should be played by the citizens themselves. Here one must stress the extent to which risk perception differs from one social and urban-planning context to another. Indeed, one thinks of such concepts as risk society Beck — for example, on account of the technological changes in transport methods — and the surmounting of this very risk by its space, time and social limits Beck — exemplified in a situation as simple as the sale, in Europe, of a second-hand hiace in poor condition that will see its precarious driving life prolonged on Santiago roads.

Smeed relates the increase in risky behaviour by motor vehicles to improved infrastructures and technology. Bellaby , on the other hand, is of the opinion that discipline in vehicle driving behaviour only exists when drivers are accustomed to coexisting in an environment of motor traffic density. Also Adams refers to a reduction in road crashes as a response to increased road perception. As a result, there has been greater awareness of existing dangers, which has in turn led to fewer serious accidents without affecting the traffic flow Since , the hiace vehicle has been designed to take more and more passengers: Personal experience has shown this author more than once that up to 25 or 30 people can be crammed inside, even though some may be children or babies.

And often these people will add their own load — as is the case of fishmongers or other types of vendors —, which tends to accumulate in the second and last rows. Many younger drivers are unaware of this and the results are disastrous: Made also with cobblestones unlike some of the speed bumps found in Europe, manufactured with softer materials and winding forms, yet not as pronounced , these curved elevations across the road are graphically distinguished from the pavement continuum thanks to bright colours.

Breakdowns and damage occur repeatedly in wheels, suspensions and steering, as both drivers and mechanics attest. Indeed, such drivers stop literally wherever they like, even just beyond an extremely rare traffic sign prohibiting just that: The widespread disorder results in tie-ups in the midst of a road trip, caused in general by a pedestrian flagging down the vehicle in the hopes of boarding or because a passenger informs the driver, with next to no warning, of the place in which he or she wishes to de-board.

I myself have been not only a witness but also an actor in both situations on dozens of occasions. In a minute trip from Praia to Tarrafal, I witnessed six halts right in the middle of the road, two of which even included considerable backing-up. Another example is the overall refusal to wear seat belts, even though the driver and first-row passengers are obliged by law to use them. This must unquestionably be contextualised within the cultural role of imbibing grogu — the very potent alcoholic beverage of the island, distilled from sugar cane and within reach of humble Cape Verdeans, since beer is out of their price range.

It is here that the system of ownership, specifically the one in force for the most part in Praia and Somada, is recognised as a central element for provoking overall high risk situations.

Nor is there a hiace passengers association, meaning that at present any type of intervention concerning the organisation of hiace transport depends on the whims of the public administrations. On occasion, there are interpersonal agreements between passenger and driver that ensure a certain trust that the departure will take place at the appointed time. It should be mentioned that not even the designated pick-up and drop-off points are properly equipped, meaning that passengers must often wait interminably under the blazing central African sun or withstand the desert wind from the continent to the east, without a single shelter or even a bench to sit on.

What parameters then are used to measure social risk management? Regardless of the types of relations that may develop between the driver and female passengers — romantic or sexual, consented or negotiated — the experience of certain young drivers as little road gods 16 aggravates the likelihood of risk situations.

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Stronger commitments lead to higher speed or simply degrading service: The financial downturn has meant that many people cannot or need not travel, owing to unemployment — as different drivers and residents of different small towns and villages point out —, the consequences of which directly affect the length of working days and the conditions under which the trips are carried out: This decrease would explain the intensified competition between hiace and taxi drivers in Praia and at its international airport during this period.

If one adds the increased number of hiace vehicles in circulation, one begins to grasp the complexity of the situation.

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Though it is impossible to establish with any degree of certainty the different consequences that this would have on the use of space by Cape Verdean pedestrians, one can safely say that in many respects such a regulation would likely be to the further detriment of pedestrians as opposed to motor vehicles. Nonetheless, it would probably also bring about an improvement in both working conditions and in the transport of those concerned, and hence a foreseeable reduction in road crashes in urban and interurban areas.

This text has sought to relate the analytical perspective and the type of questions and approaches that guide our research into the uses of public space with our specific study objective: After contextualising the social phenomenon of interurban group transport on the island of Santiago, we have analysed, described and discussed 12 possible interrelated causes of road crashes involving hiaces. These causes span a variety of social dimensions that can be synthetically classified into eight main sections: Thus, different spheres of Cape Verdean society have been interrelated — economic, legal, political, labour, gender-based, cultural… — which are brought to bear in a particular way in the hiace world.

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Yet despite this, the generalised use of the term public space that has come into use since the late s and early s, understands this concept on the basis of a mixture of interpretations with clear political and economic connotations. A part of the improvements and teachers were done by Brazilian universities. All four institutions fully became associated with the University of Cape Verde with a specified judicial figure in the first year after the university was created. Under the law-decree no. On January 31, , three candidates ran for rector.

It was the first time in Cape Verdean history that a university rector would be directly chosen by the student body, faculty members as well as by the staff. Of the three candidates that vied for the position, Dr Judite de Nascimento overwhelmingly won the election and became the first elected university rector and first female rector.

The University of Cape Verde has five campuses: The largest university in Cape Verde offers 41 bachelor's degrees, 19 master's degrees including a medical degree , 20 associate's technical degrees, and 4 doctoral degrees. The university's rector building is in the Plateau of Praia , the city center, located in the middle of the north end of Avenida Andrade Corvo next to Rua Dr. Construction began somewhere in November. Construction began in , it will have the capacity of 4, students and professors, 61 halls, 5 auditoriums with a capacity of seats, other information halls, eight lecture halls, 34 laboratories, multi-use halls with a capacity of students seats, dorms, library and a sports pavilion.

For the city of Praia, the university is accessed with public transport with its bus stops by the university. Two transit lines passes near the university often or sometimes, they include: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. University of Cape Verde. Republic of Cape Verde. Expresso das Ilhas in Portuguese.