China’s rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international perspective, is not meant to continue on the...

The Southeastern Pará has been an area of extraordinary dynamics in the Brazilian Amazonia. There were allocated the great cattle ranching projects financed by SUDAM in the sixties and seventies, which confronted the moving frontiers of both peasants and gold miners. Main area of the Vale do...

China's rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international perspective, is not meant to continue on the...

This paper (a) surveys leading works on hedonic pricing modelling of the impact of four main categories of environmental attributes (pollution and amenities) and the impact of zoning regulations on urban property values in western jurisdictions and in Hong Kong, as an example of a high-density...

O Sudeste Paraense tem sido uma região de extraordinária dinâmica na Amazônia brasileira. Lá se alocaram os grandes projetos pecuários financiados pela SUDAM, os quais confrontaram frentes de expansão camponesas e surtos garimpeiros. Principal área de atuação da Vale do Rio Doce no...

China’s rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international perspective, is not meant to continue on the...

China’s rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international perspective, is not meant to continue on the...

The Southeast region of the state of Pará has been an extraordinarily dynamic area. The great cattle ranching projects financed by the SUDAM were implemented there the sixties, which confronted the old Brazil nut extraction structures and the expansion of family farming both spontaneous and...

A discussão atual sobre a emissão de carbono associada ao uso agropecuário da terra em prejuízo de florestas se recente de uma visão sistêmica. Dado que os esquemas de compensação implicam em entrada e saída de recursos em contextos econômicos amplos e sistêmicos, é fundamental...

A cross-sectional relationship between price dispersion among Russian regions and per capita income dispersion is used to measure the degree of integration between regional commodity markets. The sequence of cross-sectional estimations for each month of the period spanning 1992 through 2000...