8 results on '"*ENVIRONMENTAL policy"'
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2. A model-based assessment of the environmental impact of land-use change across scales in Southern Amazonia.
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Schaldach, Rüdiger, Meurer, Katharina H. E., Jungkunst, Hermann F., Nendel, Claas, Lakes, Tobia, Gollnow, Florian, Göpel, Jan, Boy, Jens, Guggenberger, Georg, Strey, Robert, Strey, Simone, Berger, Thomas, Gerold, Gerhard, Schönenberg, Regine, Böhner, Jürgen, Schindewolf, Marcus, Latynskiy, Evgeny, Hampf, Anna, Parker, Phillip S., and Sentelhas, Paulo César
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LAND use ,LAND use & the environment ,ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis ,SOIL erosion ,FARM produce ,GREENHOUSE gases ,ENVIRONMENTAL policy - Abstract
This article describes the design of a new model-based assessment framework to identify and analyse possible future trajectories of agricultural development and their environmental consequences within the states of Mato Grosso and Pará in Southern Amazonia, Brazil. The objective is to provide a tool for improving the information basis for scientists and policy makers regarding the effects of global change and national environmental policies on land-use change and the resulting impacts on the loss of natural vegetation, greenhouse gas emissions, hydrological processes, and soil erosion within the region. For this purpose, the framework combines the regional land-use models, LandSHIFT and alucR, the farm-level model, MPMAS, and the MONICA crop model, with a set of environmental impact models that are operating at the regional and watershed levels. As a first application of the framework, four scenarios with the time horizon 2030 were specified and analysed. Future land-use change will strongly depend on the interplay between the production of agricultural commodities, the agricultural intensification in terms of increasing crop yields and pasture biomass productivity, and the enforcement of environmental laws and policies. On the regional level, the scenarios with the highest increase in agricultural production in combination with weak law enforcement ( Trend and Illegal Intensification) generated the highest losses in natural vegetation due to the expansion of agricultural area as well as the highest greenhouse gas emissions . Also, at the watershed level, these scenarios are characterised by the highest changes in river discharge and soil erosion that might lead to a further decline in soil fertility in the long term. Moreover, the analysis of the Sustainable Development scenario indicates that a shift in agricultural production patterns from livestock to crop cultivation, together with effective law enforcement, can effectively reduce land-use change and its negative effects on the environment. With the scenario analysis, we could illustrate that our assessment framework is capable to provide a large variety of valuable information to support the development of future land-use strategies in the study region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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3. VISIONS OF THE AMAZON.
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Slater, Candace
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RAIN forests , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *JUNGLES - Abstract
For many people throughout much of the world today, the terms ".Amazon" and "rain forest" are synonymous-- indeed, it seems as if the two must have always intertwined. However, while this much-invoked realm of shimmering, fragile nature, together with its ferocious jungle alter ego, does have deep roots in the past, its present-day incarnation has much to do with the global environmental movement that began emerging in the 1960s and has continued to morph over time. This article examines contemporary representations of the Amazon with an eye to what is now changing, as well as why. It underscores the key role that these depictions play in shaping policy, which gives them an importance far transcending purely narrative concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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4. LAS COMUNIDADES NATIVAS DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA Y EL CUMPLIMIENTO DE LOS INCISOS C) Y D) DEL ARTÍCULO 10 DEL CONVENIO SOBRE DIVERSIDAD BIOLÓGICA. SITUACIONES ANÁLOGAS EN LA UNIÓN EUROPEA.
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Rueda Romero, Paulino Saúl
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *SUSTAINABLE development , *INDIGENOUS peoples ,CONVENTION on Biological Diversity (1992) - Abstract
In the United Nations conference on environment and development, signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, which obliges the signatory States to combat the extinction of species throughout the world. Its executive secretary said: "the services that nature offers us are free, but the man has a deep unconscious of what he represents their destruction [...] If humanity does not brake to the degradation of biodiversity, the legacy for future generations will be mortgaged [...] must have the courage to look our children in the eye and admit failure [...] admit that we continue losing biodiversity at an unprecedented pace, we are mortgaging their future". Words that initialed by premonitions future about the treatment of the extinction of a large part of the existing biodiversity, that if we do not a treatment, their destruction would speed up and we would be going against the new scheme of sustainable development. In this paper, I analyze and discuss from the perspective of social rights, environmental, and economic, compliance with subparagraphs (c) and (d) of article 10 of the said convention in the native communities of the Peruvian Amazon, an area of permanent armed con ict between the Peruvian State and the native communities. The work consists of six parts. The first explains the legal framework and jurisprudence; the second covers the methodology, and will draw attention to the method and the approach of hypotheses; the third the theoretical framework, the geographical framework and the gathering of information; The fourth on analysis and interpretation; in the fifth set out an analogy with some of the results of the European Union and countries of south America; in the sixth part formulates some conclusions and new perspectives for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
5. Defending public interests in private lands: compliance, costs and potential environmental consequences of the Brazilian Forest Code in Mato Grosso.
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Stickler, Claudia M., Nepstad, Daniel C., Azevedo, Andrea A., and McGrath, David G.
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DEFORESTATION , *FOREST management , *LAND use laws , *ECOSYSTEM services , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy - Abstract
Land-use regulations are a critical component of forest governance and conservation strategies, but their effectiveness in shaping landholder behaviour is poorly understood. We conducted a spatial and temporal analysis of the Brazilian ForestCode (BFC) to understand the patterns of regulatory compliance over time and across changes in the policy, and the implications of these compliance patterns for the perceived costs to landholders and environmental performance of agricultural landscapes in the southern Amazon state of Mato Grosso. Landholdings tended to remain in compliance or not according to their status at the beginning of the study period. The perceived economic burden of BFC compliance on soya bean and beef producers (US$3-5.6 billion in net present value of the land)may in part explain themassive, successful campaign launched by the farm lobby to change the BFC. The ecological benefits of compliance (e.g. greater connectivity and carbon) with the BFC are diffuse and do not compete effectively with the economic benefits of non-compliance that are perceived by landholders. Volatile regulation of land-use decisions that affect billions in economic rent that could be captured is an inadequate forest governance instrument; effectiveness of such regulations may increase when implemented in tandem with positive incentives for forest conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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6. Trees of knowledge.
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CONTROL of deforestation , *RAIN forest conservation , *RAIN forests , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy - Abstract
The article examines efforts in Brazil to prevent the deforestation of rain forests in the Amazon River region of the country. Environmental policies and laws enacted by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva following his election in 2003 are discussed. The use of information generated from artificial satellites to measure deforestation is discussed. Improved ranching methods reducing the need for deforestation are examined.
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- 2013
7. Internacionalización de la Amazonía.
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GLOBALIZATION & the environment , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation on environmental policy , *INDUSTRIALIZATION & the environment , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation on environmental protection - Abstract
El artículo discurre sobre el estado actual de la internacionalización de la Selva Amazónica. El autor comenta sobre el rol de los gobiernos del mundo en la protección de la Amazonía y describe los peligros asociados con la industrialización y la globalización en el medio ambiente amazónico.
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- 2012
8. Slash and Burn.
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Margolis, Mac
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RAIN forests , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *DEFORESTATION , *ECONOMIC development , *AIR pollution - Abstract
The article discusses environmental conditions and policy in Brazil as of June 2013, with a focus on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Topics include a report by the nonprofit watchdog organization Imazon on forest cutting by farmers and ranchers in Brazil, carbon emissions, and the effects of reduced rainfall on Brazil's economic development.
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- 2013
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