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Livestock Intensification and Environmental Sustainability
Most of the Brazilian beef production is concentrated in the Cerrado, which is predominantly maintained in extensive pastures. This land use class occupies ~50 Mha of the biome, of which approximately 2/3 show signs of degradation. Pasture recovery has become an environmental public policy in Brazil, as it improves land use efficiency and contributes to soil carbon sequestration. However, as intensification leads to higher cattle stocking rates and external inputs (fertilizers, liming, etc.), the impact of improved pastures on greenhouse gas mitigation is still debatable. This study focused on the Cerrado biome and aimed to (i) quantify soil carbon stock changes under different scenarios of ...
The Appropriation of Ecological Space
Although it is recognised that Thomas Robert Malthus was wrong when he posited a contradiction between population increase and agricultural growth, there are increasing signs that he could be proved right in the future. Perhaps Malthus was too late and too early in his prediction? He was too late, because he did not foresee the shift from land-based resources to fossil fuels, outing an end to the limits of agricultural growth, at least temporarily; and he was too early to witness that fossil fuels would come up against their own limits in terms of supply as well as in terms of global warming. This study deals with land-based resources and the role they play in the global socio-ecological metabolic regime, both now and in the future. In particular, the controversial use of agrofuels as a solution to coming scarcity is subjected to close scrutiny.
Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado
This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil’s Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains. This methodology is appropriate because Cerrado agriculture has been developed from scratch in a vast, previously barren area (204.7 million ha.) in which a spatial transformation has taken place. Until 40 years ago, this region, with its huge expanse of tropical savanna was believed to be unsuited to agriculture. Now, however, it has been transformed into an immense breadbasket, contributing to the mitigation of global food shortages. It also has contributed to the...
Acta amazonica
Each issue to contain material in each of seven subject fields: botany, forestry research, environmental sciences, phytochemistry, tropical medicine, zoology and technology.
Development for Sustainable Agriculture
Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.
Beyond the Green Economy
The world needs a new economy. In spite of tremendous and growing material prosperity, inequality is on the rise and the current organization of the Earth’s natural resources has failed to address the basic human needs of billions of people. This book exposes the bottlenecks of the present path of economic growth and discusses the main path to alternatives. In spite of undeniable advances, all evidence points towards the growing depletion of the very ecosystems that societies depend on. By placing ethics squarely in the middle of economic life, this book demonstrates the need for a new economy, one that fosters unity between society, nature, economics and ethics. It questions the most important scientific and political pillar that forms the basis for evaluating social resource use: economic growth. Written in a non-specialist language, this book is an introduction to the main issues involving sustainable development. It will be essential reading for both students and professionals working in the field of socio-environmental responsibility.
As Políticas Públicas frente à Transformação da Sociedade 3
A realidade das políticas públicas tem se tornando claramente complexas em função do número crescente de temáticas que, não apenas o Estado, mas a própria Sociedade Civil, passa a lidar no dia-a-dia no interesse da res pública, o que torna este campo de estudos particularmente rico na conformação de agendas de pesquisas e na projeção de análise descritivas e prescritivas com base em diferenciados paradigmas ideológicos. Tomando como objeto central de pesquisa a realidade empírica das políticas públicas no Brasil, a presente obra se apresenta como um trabalho coletivo desenvolvido com várias mãos e em colaboração intelectual em distintas partes do país, resultando assim...
O Catador de Pregos
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