.----------------------------------------------The paper discusses the National Program of Biofuel in Brazil. Since 2004 public and private actors are giving attention to the … program, specifically in the actions that are developing to the governmental decisions about energy models in Brazil. So, the …

biodiesel laws in Brazil, how that supposed production way of “sustainable energy” will occur. The results show that there wasn …

supply and demand for ethanol in Brazil, considering the period from 1995 to 2006. The method of analysis used was a …

farmers' communities and water in a place where exists seasonality in the natural availability of hidrics resources and, at … the same time, solids incentives for intensive projects in use of water. It tries to analyze, mainly, the community … handlings of the waters accomplished by family farmers, the relation amid water availability, production of foods and family …

princípio de ser submetido ao controlo democrático. ---------------------------------------------Water being essential to human … especially concerned with the issue of water availability and distribution. In what the satisfaction of basic needs is concerned …, one could fairly safely state that it is relatively easy and cheap to provide access to water to everybody. Why is there …

changes with water and sanitation taxes in response to change in households’ income in the main Brazilian regions (North …, indicating that water can be considered a normal good in the regions analyzed, and, for the country as a whole, the value … encountered was 0.4263. The estimations show also that, in general, the elasticity-income of expenditure of water and sanitation …

energéticas tradicionais. ---------------------------------------------For a long time, fossil fuels and water were the major … propellants of civilization and the economy. Brazil has also supported these energy sources for the development of industrial … and disadvantages of the use of biomass in Brazil, particularly, the generation of energy from sugar cane bagasse …

falta de participação popular.------------------This study has the waters as a theme managing the use of water, which have … research aimed to study the problems and more frequent conflicts related to the water in the rivers of Médio São Francisco, in … culminate in the formation of Water Basin Committees, and in what extent they can tackle such issues. Several problems that …

.-------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------The paper analyses price land in Brazil during the 1975 – 2006 period. To best information, we compare prices in Brazil … and cash rents by state, region and Brazil. United States information are from United States Department of Agriculture …