Incorporate the environmental dimension to the economic analysis and the decision-making of all stakeholders is important to analyse the expansion of agricultural frontier in Brazil. Demand for natural resources and land follows the growth of the economy. In Brazil, the occupation of new areas...

This research extends upon land cover change studies by incorporating methodological approaches, which are compatible with heterogeneous ecosystems, are able to link landscape changes to system processes, such as climate change, and provide potential linkages to concepts of ecological...

Environmental constraints have always had, and will always have, important consequences for human development. They have sometimes contributed to, or even caused, the reversal of such development. The possibility that such constraints, including climate change, will grow significantly this...

Many European municipalities develop energy supply concepts based on renewable energies to reduce energy related greenhouse gas emissions and stimulate regional and rural economies. Improvement of security of supply using regional energy sources is an additional motivation for renewable energy...

Environmental constraints have always had and will always have important consequences for human development. It has sometimes contributed to or even caused the reversal of such development. The possibility that such constraints will grow significantly throughout this century raises the concern...

We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth at the global level. We use a two-sector Schumpeterian model of growth, in which a manufacturing sector produces the traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector...

The agricultural frontier expanded through the Brazilian Cerrado, mainly due to the intensive use of knowledge and technology. Livestock production growth is shown in the regions of the Midwest, Matopiba (in the northeastern Cerrado) and Amazon border. It aims to present a diagnosis of this...

The agricultural frontier expanded through the Brazilian Cerrado, mainly due to the intensive use of knowledge and technology. Livestock production growth is shown in the regions of the Midwest, Matopiba (in the northeastern Cerrado) and Amazon border. It aims to present a diagnosis of this...