The urban transportation sector's environmental, economic, and social footprint is immense and expanding. Many of the world's most vexing and pressing problems - fossil fuel dependency, global warming, poverty, and social exclusion - are inextricably tied to the transportation sector. Much of...

The paper provides historical and analytical perspectives for the assessment of the challenges and opportunities of cattle raising activities in the transition towards a lowcarbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The next section presents long run historical perspectives on the...

Philippines has a land mass of 30 million ha, 52.7 percent of which was classified as forestlands. The country was identified as a megadiverse area in terms of tropical forests and biodiverse ecosystems. Laws and policies were laid since 1975 in order to inform forest management strategies. The...