Download or read book Uma hist ria das florestas brasileiras written by Zé Pedro de Oliveira Costa and published by Autêntica Editora. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Com textos de Drauzio Varella, Fernando Gabeira e Fabio Feldmann, Uma história das florestas brasileiras ganha capa assinada por Sebastião Salgado e mais três fotos de sua autoria que ilustram desde o dia a dia dos povos indígenas à exuberância das matas brasileiras. A destruição de florestas e demais formas de vegetação nativa do Brasil é decorrência do tipo de desenvolvimento imposto desde a colonização do país, cuja expansão econômica se deve, principalmente, à exploração de recursos naturais. Mas esse suposto desenvolvimento tem trazido, no longo prazo, vantagens econômicas e sociais para a maioria da população? Cabe a quem impedir que a ocupação do território seja feita de forma cada vez mais agressiva ao meio ambiente? Para responder essas e outras perguntas, Zé Pedro de Oliveira Costa apresenta neste livro um panorama detalhado sobre as diferentes etapas da ocupação do território brasileiro a partir da derrubada de sua vegetação original. O autor foi o primeiro secretário do Meio Ambiente do estado de São Paulo, professor da Universidade de São Paulo por quarenta anos e hoje atua como pesquisador do Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade da Califórnia. Além de um dos organizadores do Sistema Ambiental brasileiro, Zé Pedro é um dos grandes responsáveis pela criação de parques e outras áreas protegidas de grande dimensão do país, tendo cravado muitas delas na lista do Patrimônio Mundial da UNESCO. Em Uma história das florestas brasileiras, acompanhamos desde a derrubada das matas litorâneas para a implantação dos canaviais, no século XVI, até a acelerada destruição da floresta amazônica no século XX. Chegamos ao século XXI com uma fúria destrutiva crescente sobre as florestas. O autor alerta sobre as consequências da devastação ao mesmo tempo que aponta caminhos para um futuro ecologicamente promissor, no qual intervenções à natureza serão realizadas com respeito aos indígenas, à fauna, à flora e às comunidades tradicionais que habitam, trabalham e vivem das matas. Mas são necessárias ações severas e imediatas de preservação. Caso contrário, os efeitos da intervenção humana sobre o meio ambiente serão irreversíveis.
Download or read book Pamphlets on Forestry in Brazil written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cotas de reserva ambiental no novo c digo florestal Brasileiro Uma avalia o ex ante written by Peter H. May and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O Código Florestal do Brasil (FC) requer que todas as propriedades privadas rurais mantenham uma proporção fixa da sua área em vegetação natural como uma reserva legal cujas proporções são diferenciadas por bioma. Os proprietários de terra têm muitas vezes ignoradas a lei. Atingir seu pleno cumprimento exigiria uma restauração cara em áreas convertidas para outros usos. Mudanças recentes no FC preveem que os proprietários possam compensar a sua escassez de reserva legal através da compra de excedentes existentes ou restaurações obrigatórias em outras propriedades. Este artigo discute questões políticas críticas a respeito de Cotas de Reserva Ambiental (CRA). Examinamos a eficácia ambiental relativa da CRA, a sua eficiência na utilização dos recursos e a sua justiça social, bem como potenciais problemas de implementação. Permitindo a compensação com base na conservação fora do local pode permitir atividades agropecuárias mais eficientes e menos fragmentadas, bem como a conservação das florestas, em comparação com a proposição de conservaçãopadronizada proporcionalmente. A CRA, como uma opção para a compensação, possui grande apelo intuitivo, embora persistem controvérsias em relação a sua implementação. Neste artigo revisamos a experiência internacional com instrumentos econômicos semelhantes, bem como estudos brasileiros que simulam os potenciais resultados da CRA. Entrevistas com os principais atores a respeito do instrumento complementam a revisão da literatura. Terminamos com uma avaliação sintética das implicações dos nossos resultados para a implementação da política.
Download or read book The context of natural forest management and FSC certification in Brazil written by Claudia Romero and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management decisions on appropriate practices and policies regarding tropical forests often need to be made in spite of innumerable uncertainties and complexities. Among the uncertainties are the lack of formalization of lessons learned regarding the impacts of previous programs and projects. Beyond the challenges of generating the proper information on these impacts, there are other difficulties that relate with how to socialize the information and knowledge gained so that change is transformational and enduring. The main complexities lie in understanding the interactions of social-ecological systems at different scales and how they varied through time in response to policy and other processes. This volume is part of a broad research effort to develop an independent evaluation of certification impacts with stakeholder input, which focuses on FSC certification of natural tropical forests. More specifically, the evaluation program aims at building the evidence base of the empirical biophysical, social, economic, and policy effects that FSC certification of natural forest has had in Brazil as well as in other tropical countries. The contents of this volume highlight the opportunities and constraints that those responsible for managing natural forests for timber production have experienced in their efforts to improve their practices in Brazil. As such, the goal of the studies in this volume is to serve as the foundation to design an impact evaluation framework of the impacts of FSC certification of natural forests in a participatory manner with interested parties, from institutions and organizations, to communities and individuals.
Download or read book Brasil Holand s written by Caspar Schmalkalden and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biodiversity and Ecology of Lepidoptera Insights and Advances written by Farzana Khan Perveen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity and Ecology of Lepidoptera - Insights and Advances presents a comprehensive overview of the order of winged insects known as Lepidoptera. It is organized into two sections and seven chapters. Section 1, "Lepidoptera: Behavioural Diversity", explores the myriad challenges faced by Lepidoptera globally. In the twenty-first century, the most pressing issue confronting them is the decline in biodiversity, necessitating the essential restoration of ecosystems. Concurrently, Lepidoptera exhibit mastery in camouflage and mimicry, enabling them to evade detection by predators and parasites, providing a reproductive advantage. This section also delves into gynandromorphy behavior, where individuals develop a mosaic of both male and female traits, with the left and right halves of the body displaying different sexes. Additionally, it reviews recent advances in non-coding RNAs, elucidating their role in regulating gene expression through chromosomes and their significance in the overall developmental process of Lepidoptera. Section 2, "Moths: Bioecology and Genetics", commences with the mapping of flight paths for feeding, reproduction, and pollination occurrence in hawkmoths in the family Sphingidae. The section then reveals the features of invasion into various ecosystems by five invasive leafminer moth species of the family Gracillariidae). Furthermore, it discusses the degree of genetic variability and phylogenetic relationships among 13 breeds of the mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori L.).
Download or read book With Broadax and Firebrand written by Warren Dean and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-04-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unprecedented historical account of the destruction of Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a required reading for those committed to its preservation, written with genuine love and knowledge."—José Roberto Borges, Brazil Program Director, Rainforest Action Network "After reading this volume, no one could fail to realize the uniqueness and importance of these coastal forests, which have played such a fascinating role in the history of Brazil."—Ghillean T. Prance, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Download or read book Hist ria Geral Da Agricultura Brasileira written by Luis Amaral and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amazon written by Paul A Collinvaux and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazon will prove a powerful tool for ecologists and climate modelers. It also contains brief reviews of pioneering pollen work in the Amazon to date; sections on pollen methods, pollen statistics, paleoecology, and lake coring methods.
Download or read book Hist ria Geral Da Agricultura Brasileira written by Luís C. Gurgel do Amaral and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Livros do Pr ncipe Introdu o miscel nea cleyeri written by Johan Maurits (Prince of Nassau-Siegen) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brazil A Biography written by Lilia M. Schwarcz and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown. In an extraordinary journey that spans five hundred years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling’s Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country. The authors not only reconstruct the epic story of the nation but follow the shifting byways of food, art, and popular culture; the plights of minorities; and the ups and downs of economic cycles. Drawing on a range of original scholarship in history, anthropology, political science, and economics, Schwarcz and Starling reveal a long process of unfinished social, political, and economic progress and struggle, a story in which the troubled legacy of the mixing of races and postcolonial political dysfunction persist to this day.
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Download or read book Revista Brasileira de Biologia written by Herman Lent and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nationalizing Nature written by Frederico Freitas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, one-quarter of all the land in Latin America is set apart for nature protection. In Nationalizing Nature, Frederico Freitas uncovers the crucial role played by conservation in the region's territorial development by exploring how Brazil and Argentina used national parks to nationalize borderlands. In the 1930s, Brazil and Argentina created some of their first national parks around the massive Iguazu Falls, shared by the two countries. The parks were designed as tools to attract migrants from their densely populated Atlantic seaboards to a sparsely inhabited borderland. In the 1970s, a change in paradigm led the military regimes in Brazil and Argentina to violently evict settlers from their national parks, highlighting the complicated relationship between authoritarianism and conservation in the Southern Cone. By tracking almost one hundred years of national park history in Latin America's largest countries, Nationalizing Nature shows how conservation policy promoted national programs of frontier development and border control.
Download or read book Environmental History in the Making written by Cristina Joanaz de Melo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how our cultural background and examples of past territorial intervention can help to combat political and cultural limitations through the common language of environmental benefits without disguising harmful past human interventions. Considering that political ideologies such as socialism and capitalism, as well as religion, fail to offer global paradigms for common ground, an environmentally positive discourse instead of an ecological determinism might serve as an umbrella common language to overcome blocking factors, real or invented, and avoid repeating ecological loss. Therefore, agency, environmental speech and historical research are urgently needed in order to sustain environmental paradigms and overcome political, cultural an economic interests in the public arena. This book intertwines reflections on our bonds with landscapes, processes of natural and scientific transfer across the globe, the changing of ecosystems, the way in which scientific knowledge has historically both accelerated destruction and allowed a better distribution of vital resources or as it, in today’s world, can offer alternatives that avoid harming those same vital natural resources: water, soil and air. In addition, it shows the relevance of cultural factors both in the taming of nature in favor of human comfort and in the role of the environment matters in the forging of cultural identities, which cannot be detached from technical intervention in the world. In short, the book firstly studies the past, approaching it as a data set of how the environment has shaped culture, secondly seeks to understand the present, and thirdly assesses future perspectives: what to keep, what to change, and what to dream anew, considering that conventional solutions have not sufficed to protect life on our planet.
