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Opportunity cost of environmental preservation : the case of the Brazilian Legal Amazon
Chagas, André Luis Squarize; Andrade, Luiza Cardoso de - 2013
Currently, the region named Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) represents the agricultural frontier of Brazil, and it … Brazil's Midwest, a region near to BLA, in the seventies and eighties, can provide a proxy. The Midwest was region of more … intensive agricultural growth in last forty years in Brazil. So, the agents in BLA can compare the actual development stage, in …
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Disabling the steering wheel? : national and international actors' climate change mitigation strategies in Latin America
Rodriguez Lopez, Miguel; Nascimento, Daniele Vieira do; … - 2015
This article addresses the question of how Brazil, Costa Rica, and Colombia came to decide on their climate change …
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Climate and weather impacts on agriculture: the case of Brazil
Pereda, Paula Carvalho; Alves, Denisard C. O. - 2019
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Agriculture, incomes, and gender in Latin America by 2050 : an assessment of climate change impacts and household resilience for Brazil, Mexico, and Peru
Andersen, Lykke E.; Breisinger, Clemens; Mason-D'Croz, … - 2014
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies : learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Robalino, Juan David; Reis, … - 2018
To reduce SDG tradeoffs in infrastructure provision, and to inform searches for SDG synergies, the authors show that roads’ impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests varied significantly across frontiers. Impacts varied predictably with prior development – prior roads and prior deforestation –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806397
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies : learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Robalino, Juan David; Reis, … - 2017
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development - both prior roads and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807977
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Bringing local voices to the global negotiation table : norm dissemination and consensus building on tropical forests and climate change
Rodrigues, Maria Guadalupe - In: New global studies 9 (2015) 2, pp. 125-157
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Linking forest tenure reform, environmental compliance, and incentives : lessons from REDD+ initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon
Duchelle, Amy E.; Cromberg, Marina; Gebara, Maria Fernanda - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 55 (2014), pp. 53-67
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How are REDD+ proponents addressing tenure problems? : evidence from Brazil, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Vietnam
Sunderlin, William D.; Larson, Anne M.; Duchelle, Amy E.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 55 (2014), pp. 37-52
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Brazilian Crops in the Global Market : The Emergence of Brazil as a World Agribusiness Exporter Since 1950
Klein, Herbert S.; Luna, Francisco Vidal - 2023
national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with … censuses from 1920 to 2017 to illustrate the increasing efficiency of Brazil’s agricultural workers. The book then discusses …
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