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deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estimate panel data models for the years between 2002 and 2007 for 368 municipalities in …
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This paper presents the work of the WCS with the A'i Indigenous people in Colombia as part of a USAID-funded project between 2009 and 2011. The project had several dimensions that make it unusual. Unlike conventional “counter-mapping” attempts to represent Indigenous land claims as a counter...
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More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow …. Yet between 1996 and 2006 productivity of cattle grew by an astounding 57.5% in the average Amazon municipality. Does …
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This article analyses recent efforts to create a different institutional framework in Pará State, Brazilian Amazon to … promote sustainable development. The region is economically peripheral to capitalism. Historically, Amazon river delta has …
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The Environmental Conservation Support Program - Green Grant (Bolsa Verde - BV) is focused on the poor rural people residing in priority areas defined by the Brazilian federal government, such as sustainable use protected areas, environmentally differentiated settlement projects and areas...
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The paper estimates how much of the Amazon deforestation is due to the consumption of goods and services from … households who live within the Amazon region itself, comparing it to deforestation driven by consumers who live outside Amazon …. As the Brazilian Amazon contains 5 big Metropolitan Regions, and in order to take into account this referred urbanization …
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Historically, development in Brazilian Amazon was promoted by permits of deforestation and little territory control or … municipality for Brazilian`s Legal Amazon, composed by 686 municipalities, within a 12 year period: from 2002 to 2013. Statistics … controlling and reducing the level of deforestation in Legal Amazon, Moran`s I positive values show persistent spatial …
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deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estimate yearly panel data models (from 2002 to 2009) for 457 municipalities in the region …
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developmentalism. This comparative analysis is based on the study of two large dams planned to the Amazon, Tucurui and Belo Monte. We …
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current antitrust concerns re-garding electronic marketplaces like Facebook, Google, or Amazon. Based upon the state of …
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