This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...

This work analyzes the main aspects pluriactive and multifunctional agriculture involving familiar with the territorial dynamics of larger scale, according to regional characteristics under which they operate. It is understood that the notion of multifunctionality analyze the interaction between...

Evaluation is a pillar of results-oriented public management, as necessary input to the decision making process, greater transparency in government actions, control the use of public resources and accountability to society. The evaluation of environmental policies is a relatively new field and...

Apesar de serem reconhecidamente importantes, o valor das perdas de produtos agrícolas é de difícil mensuração a partir dos dados econômicos mundiais. Estudo conduzido pela FAO (Gustavsson et al., 2011) buscou suprir esta deficiência, fornecendo estimativas para grupos de países...

From the negotiations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, environmental issues become ever more applicants in the international agenda and in the various multilateral agendas, not just as questions of environmental protection, but mainly sustainable development,...

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has had an important role in financing projects aimed at promoting sustainable development in developing countries. Yet this role has been bounded by transaction costs, with impacts on project-based carbon credit markets. This recognition has originated...

In this paper we study the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation through a discussion of the environmental Kuznets curve. We present the main results of an immense literature and assess its implications. Empirically, we reassess the validity of the environmental...

This text for discussion is part of a research aimed to understand the institutional constraints to the implementation of investment in infrastructure in contemporary Brazil and to propose public policy improvement. The rationale for their implementation is that there is evidence that indicate...

The interaction between the sea and the economy gives this environment enormous strategic importance. The forms of economic exploitation are diverse and include sectors such as energy, fishing, tourism, transportation, biotechnology, and shipbuilding. For Brazil, country with an extensive...

In 2009, Brazil has committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Since then, the National Policy on Climate Change has been instituted. In 2010, it was elaborated the Sector Plan for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change for the consolidation of a Low-Carbon Economy in Agriculture...