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The material presents the problem of forests, deforestation becoming nowadays a real global problem of mankind. Many … deforestation on many functions performed by the forest are evaluated, such as: carbon dioxide absorption and oxygen release …
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protection and amenity benefits. On the other hand, deforestation and suburban sprawl have substantially changed and fragmented … development and deforestation may reinforce the workings of emission reduction programs if co-benefits from land-based mitigation …
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concentrates the deforestation processes, so-called arc of deforestation. This region covers the total area of Acre, Amapá … what to do to reducing deforestation process. A compensation to no-deforestation is a way to this. This work estimated the … estimate this compensation. But, the no-deforestation option implies to the agent an opportunity cost, represented by expected …
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The relationship between land use and biodiversity is important to understand the decision support systems in order to attain sustainability. Nowadays, land use and biodiversity management is focused on protected areas, discarding other habitats, tending to favor exclusive property rights over...
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In the context of sustainable mobility great attention should be paid not only to urban mobility issues but also to suburban and interurban travels: an efficient collective transit service may represent an alternative to cars for these types of movements. Integrated approaches gathering urban...
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Recently, through the GMES program of ESA the Urban Atlas dataset was released. The Urban Atlas is providing pan-European comparable land use and land cover data for Large Urban Zones with more than 100.000 inhabitants as defined by the Urban Audit. The production of the various datasets started...
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Activity locations such as work locations or leisure facilities are not uniformly distributed geographically. Also, the travel access to different locations is not uniform. It is plausible to assume that locations with easier access to other activity locations are more attractive than locations...
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