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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...
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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...
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The objective of this research was to compare the economic impacts, in Brazil, of the New Forest Code considering two possible scenarios: in the first case there is no Environmental Reserve Quotas (ERQ); and in the second case there is no amnesty to small landowners. The methodology integrates...
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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...
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The lack of knowledge about the effects of deforestation on human health is an important gap for management of the … environment and health in Brazil and worldwide. In order to assess its occurrence and magnitude, we performed a panel analysis … of municipality, socioeconomic features and provision of public health services. Among the diseases that had sufficient …
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Voluntary and private sustainability standards (VSS) are increasing its importance to manage value chain production: they are required by large multinational networks (mainly retailers) from their suppliers to optimize logistics and harmonize product characteristics; have been recognized as...
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This study has as main objective the assessment of the sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector compared to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, in an attempt to contributing to the requirements as stated by the Roadmap for the OECD Accession of...
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