There is however an important sector in which Brazil has stood out: Earth observation and satellite imagery processing. With the largest tropical forest in the world, Brazil has an important role to play in the use of satellite capabilities as a tool to halt deforestation, and in recent years...
A coastal reach around the town of Alcobaa, located at the estuary of the homonymous river, was monitored through daily observations of meteorologic, oceano-graphic and sedimentologic parameters during 10 months. Two points are of special interest in the Alcobaca dynamics: 1) the erosion ...
The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Brazil has two major opportunities to end the clearing of its Amazon forests and to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. The first is its ... D Nepstad,BS Soares-Filho,F Merry,... - 《Science》 被引量: 735发表: 2009年 An...
Unreported yet massive deforestation driving loss of endemic biodiversity in Indian Himalaya 2010 . Understanding land cover change using a harmonized classification system in the Himalayas: A case study from Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. Mountain... MK Pandit,NS Sodhi,PK Lian,... - 《...
Brazil has been considered to be a global example in terms of policies to reduce CO2 emissions (Nepstad et al., 2014), being recognized for its programmes, agreements and public policies to solidly and consistently reduce deforestation, particularly in the tropical forests of the Amazon region (...
2008. Deforestation and its impacts on indige- nous women: a case from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Gender, Technology and Development 12: 229-246.Dhali, H.H. 2008 . Deforestation and its impacts on indigenous women: a case from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Gender,...
While the role of cattle in deforestation in Brazil is subject to increasing public scrutiny, the leather commodity chain has remained in the shadows up until recently, presenting an interesting case to study the dispersal of deforestation risk. Moreover, leather production and trade are more ...
Intensive land use changes, such as deforestation, agricultural expansion, and urban sprawl, have drastically altered the natural landscape, directly affecting local and regional water cycles and water yield [27,28]. Human activities mainly affect water yield by altering land use, which in turn ...
& REIS A. Brazil's National Atlantic forest policy: A challenge for state-level environmental planning. The case of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Newcastle, v.40, n.3, p.335-348, 1997.Hodge, S.S., De Queiroz, M.H., and Reis, A., 1997. ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the country’s worst-ever environmental disaster. Under the agree