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commodities are determinants that have been also pushing to more deforestation through the conversion of forest to new … deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The analysis also focuses on the expansion of crop and cattle activities, and other … over GDP--goes up, the result is more deforestation. We also find that beef cattle and the production of soybeans …
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Historically, development in Brazilian Amazon was promoted by permits of deforestation and little territory control or …, Brazilian's government has tighten deforestation control. Since 2004, political, institutional and market mechanisms have been … models in literature indicate for a spatial process of deforestation, all aspects of the spatial dynamic of deforestation has …
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within Brazil. For the consumption vector of one individual living within the Amazon metropolitan regions, the 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 …
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Brazil has been pointed out as the number one country chop downing tropical native forest. This process takes place … paces of deforestation. Using both analytical and econometric frameworks, this paper evaluates the causes of deforestation … government expenditure on transport have played important roles as stimulators for deforestation as well as an inertial process …
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violence associated to robbery, for example, the numbers of UNDOC (2012) for 2010 put Brazil, with rates (occurrences per one …), Brazil is one of the most violent country of the world, with homicide rates around 27.1 (homicides per one hundred thousand …, in fact, reflect a general situation of high violence related to other kinds of crime in the country; as related to the …
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Brazilian agriculture has grown enormously during the past three decades. An interesting aspect of this growth is the respective roles of family and non-family farming, and the seeming importance of this distinction to Brazilian agricultural policy, reflected in the existence of separate...
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mitigation efforts by regions is of great concern in a large country like Brazil, with substantial regional variation in economic … even to a larger extent. In order to analyze at regional level the current relationship between Brazil's CO2 emissions and … emissions for 2008 from Brazil's Ministry of Science and Technology. We are able to evaluate the CO2 emissions in each of the 27 …
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To extend existing population growth models, this article proposes a theoretical setting including spatial interaction effects. Using data pertaining to 3659 Brazilian Minimum Comparable Areas (MCA) over the period 1970-2010, this extension is tested by estimating a dynamic spatial panel model....
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literature that verify existence of those two phenomena to Brazil and no paper was found that makes these analyzes, using both … negative effects of this competition, residents choose a government that elevate those expenditures. Then, there is in Brazil …
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Biodiversity is influenced by the process of economic development, between the two there is a causal relationship - when development does not respect the environment, biodiversity experiences negative transformations. The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, which derives from the 2030 Agenda for...
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