The dimensioning and behavior of environmental expenditures made by a country are required information to assess the relevance that the theme occupies in public and private agendas, because they allow for the understanding of priorities and commitments in the pursuit of sustainable development....

This study analyzes the federal government's environmental expenditures between 2001 and 2022 by applying the United Nations (UN) Classification of Environmental Activities (CEA) to budgetary actions. In addition, a qualitative and comparative analysis is carried out of expenditures and results...

The federal government's spending on the protection of biodiversity and landscapes between 2001 and 2022 was analyzed in detail by applying the Classification of Environmental Activities (CEA) to federal budgetary actions. To this end, the budgetary actions were classified into three adapted CEA...

In this study we examine how the use of private and public transport has changed since the early 2000s in Brazilian cities. We analyzed data on the changing patterns of consumption of transportation goods and services by Brazilian families over the last 20 years. We also analyzed how urban...

This study presents the results of an ex-ante assessment of the accessibility and equity impacts of a subway expansion in Fortaleza (Brazil). We analyze how the number of jobs, health facilities, and schools accessible by public transportation is expected to change with the implementation of a...

The development of several policies and research projects rely on data on the population socioeconomic characteristics and on the spatial distribution of economic activities and public services. Nonetheless, these data in Brazil are often difficult to access, require large computational power to...

This paper provides historical perspectives on regional economic inequalities in Brazil. It analyzes the changes in the spatial concentration of economic activities based upon data on the municipal distribution of the labor force by occupation from the Censuses of 1872 and 1920. The New Economic...

This paper presents a new methodology for hierarchical spatial clustering of contiguous polygons, based on a geographic coordinate system. The proposed algorithm is built upon a modification of traditional hierarchical clustering algorithm, commonly used in the multivariate analysis literature....

This paper studies a methodology for hierarchical spatial clustering of contiguous and homogeneous polygons, based on a set of binary variables. The proposed algorithm is built upon a modification of traditional agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm, commonly used in the multivariate...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the path followed by the regional inequality indicators of science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) during the last decade. The literature review i) reasserts the association between ST&I and the economic and social development; and ii) indicates a high...