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Autor:
Georgia O. Carvalho
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Environment & Development. 15:245-268
Since the energy shortage in 2001, there has been renewed interest in energy-generation projects in Brazil. Policy options under consideration include expansion of natural gas exploration and hydropower generation in the Amazon. This article analyzes
Autor:
Ana Cristina Barros, Márcio Santilli, David G. McGrath, Daniel C. Nepstad, Maria del Carmen Vera Diaz, Georgia O. Carvalho
Publikováno v:
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 44:34-44
(2002). Frontier Expansion in the Amazon: Balancing Development and Sustainability. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 34-44.
Autor:
Daniel C. Nepstad, João Paulo Capobianco, Georgia O. Carvalho, Paul Lefebvre, Ane Alencar, Urbano Lopes da Silva, E. M. Prins, Ana Cristina Barros, Paulo Moutinho, Josh Bishop
Publikováno v:
Forest Ecology and Management. 154:395-407
Fire poses the greatest threat to the forests of Amazonia. The magnitude of this threat is amplified by three positive feedback loops that drive the expansion of forest fire in the region: (1) Fire promotes drought, and therefore more fire, by releas
Autor:
Georgia O. Carvalho
Publikováno v:
Society & Natural Resources. 14:127-143
This article contends that although the environmental policy formation process in Brazil has been opened to new actors since the democratic transition, social sectors with clientelistic ties to the state still tend to dominate some policy arenas. To
Autor:
Georgia O. Carvalho
Publikováno v:
Sustainable Development. 9:61-73
The past few years have not been particularly auspicious in environmental terms; there is increasing evidence of a fairly widespread environmental crisis, increasing the pressure to rethink many of the concepts related to environment and development.
Autor:
Georgia O. Carvalho
Publikováno v:
Bulletin of Latin American Research. 19:461-478
Brazilian indigenous rights policy has been exclusionary. As a result indigenous people and their supporters have mobilised and politicised indigenous issues. Politicisation led to inclusion of indigenous rights in the 1988 Constitution. Nevertheless
Autor:
Georgia O. Carvalho
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Environment & Development. 8:397-406
There are renewed signs that the Brazilian government has retaken the path of large-scale development in the Amazon and that the strategy has been defined with practically no input from society. Among many other development projects for the region, t
Publikováno v:
Tropical Agriculture in Transition — Opportunities for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions? ISBN: 9789048163410
Amazonia contains more carbon (C) than a decade of global, human-induced CO2 emissions (60–80 billion tons). This C is gradually being released to the atmosphere through deforestation. Projected increases in Amazon deforestation associated with inv
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3604-6_9
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3604-6_9