A Amazônia tem um destacado papel na crise ambiental global uma vez que, no Brasil, há mais emissões de carbono por o desmatamento e queimadas do que pela queima de combustíveis de origem fóssil. Para discutir a problemática e a importância da inserção da Amazônia no mercado de...

Manejar uma floresta é administrar a obtenção de benefícios econômicos, sociais e ambientais, respeitando-se os mecanismos de sustentabilidade do ecossistema. O objetivo do artigo é identificar as etapas que compreendem o manejo florestal sustentável e propor um plano operacional para...

For decades South Africa's mining sector has been profiteering while neglecting mining communities' development needs. Most of these communities now have social problems. Recently, forces outside the sector - globalisation, the government, the communities themselves - have pressured the mining...

This study was prepared for the Financial Services and Poverty Reduction research project and was presented at the conference with the same name held at Bank headquarters in September of 2004. It first establishes the considerable welfare cost borne by the region's poor when facing uncovered...

Discounted-utilitarian welfare, the commonest social objective studied by economists, is the basis for the theory of green accounting in terms of social utility. Sustainability is a different type of social objective. Consequently, green accounting as derived in many empirical models is not...

Like any other human activity, without containing intentional elements, tourism, being a consumer of space and tourist resources, participates implicitly in the degradation and the pollution of the environment of the tourist potential, either through the direct pressure of the tourists on the...

The research and development and innovation, which is a crucial strategic component for economic development and social progress, is closely related to this field. Thus, science, technology and innovation are areas that consistently generate breakthrough, ensuring sustainability of future...