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Disabling the steering wheel? : national and international actors' climate change mitigation strategies in Latin America
Rodriguez Lopez, Miguel; Nascimento, Daniele Vieira do; … - 2015
This article addresses the question of how Brazil, Costa Rica, and Colombia came to decide on their climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375537
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Opportunity cost of environmental preservation : the case of the Brazilian Legal Amazon
Chagas, André Luis Squarize; Andrade, Luiza Cardoso de - 2013
Currently, the region named Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) represents the agricultural frontier of Brazil, and it … Brazil's Midwest, a region near to BLA, in the seventies and eighties, can provide a proxy. The Midwest was region of more … intensive agricultural growth in last forty years in Brazil. So, the agents in BLA can compare the actual development stage, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547167
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The political economy of clean energy transitions at sub-national level : understanding the role of international climate regimes in energy policy in two Brazilian states
Puppim de Oliveira, Jose Antonio; Andrade, Celio - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016
clean energy and climate change policies in the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The different mechanisms … new strategies and mechanisms for boosting clean energy in Brazil and the role that the Clean Development Mechanism and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458192
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Agriculture, incomes, and gender in Latin America by 2050 : an assessment of climate change impacts and household resilience for Brazil, Mexico, and Peru
Andersen, Lykke E.; Breisinger, Clemens; Mason-D'Croz, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460971
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Global environmental changes: environmental policies in China and Brazil
Ferreira, Leila da Costa; Barbi, Fabiana; Giesbrecht, … - In: Revista tempo do mundo 2 (2016) 1, pp. 99-122
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Malaria and Dengue: understanding two infectious diseases affecting developing countries and their link to climate change
Alas, Mirza - 2021
Developing countries will face more complex challenges as infectious disease patterns transform due to climate change and climate variability. These challenges include how to reduce the incidence of malaria (including the significant challenge of resistant malaria), dengue, and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604277
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Climate and weather impacts on agriculture: the case of Brazil
Pereda, Paula Carvalho; Alves, Denisard C. O. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036119
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies : learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Robalino, Juan David; Reis, … - 2018
To reduce SDG tradeoffs in infrastructure provision, and to inform searches for SDG synergies, the authors show that roads’ impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests varied significantly across frontiers. Impacts varied predictably with prior development – prior roads and prior deforestation –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806397
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies : learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Robalino, Juan David; Reis, … - 2017
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development - both prior roads and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807977
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies : learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Robalino, Juan David; Reis, … - 2017
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development - both prior roads and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731830