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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Brazilian Amazon"”.
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Sustainable development and development banks in the Brazilian Amazon
… examines the processes of development in the Brazilian Amazon, particularly the role of development banks (DBs) in those processes. It carries out that task by analyzing the performance of two multilateral development banks (MDBs), namely the World Bank Group and the Inter-American Development …
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Cost and rents to logging in the Brazilian Amazon
The logging industry of the Amazon is a topic that has received little attention in the literature, beyond specific single firm case studies. This has not allowed estimation of cost and production functions that can be used to predict changes in the industry in response to external market factors …
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National economic development and tropical deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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The economics of deforestation : evidence from the Brazilian Amazon and New England
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Essays on Labor Allocation by Small Scale Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon
… essays that use household survey data from the Brazilian Amazon to examine the conditions under which human health and other critical market conditions are important factors in determining household agriculture production choices and efficiency. Essay I (Chapter 2) examines how health affects …
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Modeling of oil palm energy surface fluxes and growth for Brazilian Amazon climate conditions
… is currently covered by forest, mainly by the Amazon Rainforest. Also, climate change has reduced the amount of land suitable for oil palm plantation in Brazil, since, under unfavorable climatic conditions, crop yield is reduced. To reconcile the increase in oil palm production in Brazil with …
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The Post-frontier: Land use and social change in the Brazilian Amazon (1992 - 2002)
… of the major drivers of land use change in the Amazon region. Much of the recent research in the Brazilian Amazon has been focused on modeling their behavior in order to prescribe policies that can curb current deforestation rates and promote more sustainable land use practices. The availability …
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Forests and fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon: Understanding incentives to comply with conservation efforts
… through the analysis of specific cases in the Brazilian Amazon. I first analyze the case of smallholder land clearing along the Transamazon and BR-163 highways in the face of Brazilian Forest Code enforcement by the federal government. My hypothesis is that smallholder land clearing paths over …
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Mineworkers' quality of life in remote communities : a multiple case study in the Brazilian Amazon
… of environmentally sensitive areas such as the Brazilian Amazon.
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Raça, Jinshu, Race: Whiteness, Japanese-ness, and Resistance in Sūkyō Mahikari in the Brazilian Amazon
… is practiced in the city of Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon. The teachings of Sūkyō Mahikari classify humanity into five races (yellow, white, red, blue/green, black/purple) and five religions (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism). In this classification, the original humans …
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Producing soy to save the planet? : Challenging sustainable soy governance in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado.
… their success in reducing land use change in the Brazilian Amazon. This thesis takes a different stance, analysing how their design and implementation relate to the agricultural production of soy and its associated consumption patterns. Based on documentary analysis and qualitative interviews with …
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Impact of environmental law enforcement on deforestation, land use and natural regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon
… law enforcement, mostly ground operations in the Brazilian Amazon region, on reducing deforestation, reshaping land use change, through livestock, agriculture and natural restoration, and the persistence of natural regeneration. First, I assess the influence of law enforcement on forest loss …
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Effects of land-use change on tropical forest biodiversity: a multi-scale assessment in the Brazilian Amazon
A Amazônia Brasileira compreende cerca de 40% das florestas tropicais do globo, abrigando uma enorme parte da biodiversidade mundial. Todavia, taxas alarmantes de desmatamento são encontradas por toda a região amazônica. Demandas cada vez mais altas por recursos naturais são uma das maiores ameaças …
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An anthropological exploration of the effects of family cash transfers on the diets of mothers and children in the Brazilian Amazon
… (BFP) has reached almost a quarter of the Brazilian population. The program targets households in extreme poverty through direct cash transfers from the federal government. Essentially, debit cards are issued, preferably to mothers in a household, and monthly cash transfers are made on the …
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The price of being local in a global natural resource Local perceptions and global challenges Case study: Manaus and Novo Airão, Brazilian Amazon
… people in Manaus and Novo Airão perceive the Brazilian Amazon as a ‘global natural resource’, essential for ‘global human and environmental security’. Using an ‘emic’ approach, based on in-depth interviews and participant observation, the findings reveal that global demands have been …
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Beyond protected areas : assessing the role of legal reserves and permanent preservation areas for conserving tropical forests in private properties in the eastern Brazilian Amazon
… of forest on private lands is regulated by the Brazilian Environmental Law (Law N° 12.651, 25 March 2012), commonly known as the Forest Code, and focus on two main mechanisms: Legal Reserves (LR) and Permanent Preservation Areas (APP in Portuguese). The aim of this thesis is to advance our …
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Remote Sensing of Fire, Flooding, and White Sand Ecosystems in the Amazon
<p>Human and natural disturbance affect the Amazon basin at several spatial and temporal scales. In this thesis, I used satellite-detected hot pixels to examine patterns of human-caused disturbance and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon from 1996-2006. Deforestation fires, as measured by hot …
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Investigating Access to Wildlife and Other Natural Resources in the Urbanizing Amazon
… the complex socio-ecological dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon, focusing on the mechanisms that allow Amazonians to access natural resources along the gradient of urbanization. While Amazonian conservation and development policies have traditionally targeted rural areas, there is a growing need …
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Smallholder Fire Prevention and Burning Activities Under the Threat of Accidental Fire: A Household Model Application from the Tapajós National Forest in the State of Pará, Brazil
Land-clearing fires set by settlers in the Brazilian Amazon give rise to large scale wildfires that threaten mature forests, agricultural plantations, and settlement areas. Our purpose is to examine labor devoted to fire prevention (firebreak establishment) and burning for crop production for …
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The making, mobility, and mutation of the “Amazonian bioeconomy” in Brazil: A processualist analysis of an emergent economic imaginary
… the making, mobilisation, and mutation of the “Amazonian bioeconomy” (AB) in Brazil. The AB is an emergent economic imaginary that seeks to reconcile economic growth with tropical forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. I scrutinise the AB through Cultural Political Economy (CPE), which …
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