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The paper strives to analyze the macroeconomic aspects related to agriculture and conjectural changes in recent years. In particular we analyze on the relationship between rural credit and sector performance characterizing some innovations of the period. With respect to family farming, the...
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A significant portion of the northeastern territory of Brazil has a population and water resources such that, when combined, they result in low to very low water availability per inhabitant. Over time, numerous human interventions were carried out in the region in an attempt to mitigate the...
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The supply of drinking water and the proper disposal of waste generated by human activities are two important factors that influence the quality of life and health of a population. In recent decades, access to basic sanitation services has shown advances in all Brazilian regions. Despite this,...
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In 2012, as a result of the Rio+20 Conference of the United Nations (UN), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created, including access to drinking water and basic sanitation (challenge 6 of the SDGs). In Brazil, the semiarid region is the region where achieving the goals of SDG 6 is...
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models already tried, as well as to highlight the different forms of action of the State and the private sector and to …
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Based on the acknowledged importance of the State actions in water supply and sewage services, this article aims to present a methodological proposal for prioritizing public investment in this area. Therefore, based on the attributions applied in the legislation, Brazilian municipalities were...
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Marine spatial planning (MSP) is an internationally known tool for organizing and governing marine spaces and activities, economic or otherwise, carried out in these spaces. Being a public process of mapping and analyzing the maritime area that involves multiple interests, actors and factors, it...
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Due to local climatic characteristics, water availability in the semi-arid region, a large territory that covers more than one thousand and four hundred municipalities in Brazil, is comparatively low. Initiatives by the federal public authorities to alleviate the consequences of low availability...
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The São Francisco Integration Program (PISF), known as the São Francisco transposition, represents the largest water infrastructure project aimed at increasing water supply in the driest region of Brazil. The level of success achieved in this regard can be enhanced through complementary...
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