Economic measures are advanced to environmental problems in EU nations. The economic approach imposes a constant economic load on activities negatively affecting the environment, and it is also a technique for giving a constant profit for activities conserving the environment. The whole society...

The Brazilian Amazon is a large piece of land that hosts only 12% of Brazilian population. Even this low figure and people mostly living in urban areas, the overexploitation of the forest resources driven by economic activities seems to be out-of-control. In the 1970s, abundant government...

Historically, development in Brazilian Amazon was promoted by permits of deforestation and little territory control or supervision. However, due to the importance of this biome for biodiversity and ecosystem balance in a global perspective, Brazilian's government has tighten deforestation...

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...

Brazil has been pointed out as the number one country chop downing tropical native forest. This process takes place especially in the Amazon River Basin Area, which holds the largest tropical forest area in the World and spread over nine different Brazilian states, compounded of 782 cities....