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  1. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2007
    Global

    There is important evidence to suggest that corruption is a key factor contributing to the degradation of renewable natural resources. Forestry officials and law enforcement officers who are in the pockets of corrupt logging firms often turn a blind eye to activities that threaten the sustainable management of a forest’s biodiversity. Similarly, fishery inspectors endanger stocks when they accept bribes to ignore official quotas for trawlers.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    France, Brazil, Nigeria, Zambia, Ethiopia, Niger, China

    From November 19 to 21, 2014, some of the world’s most noted specialists on forest landscape restoration gathered in Rio de Janeiro to assess Natural Regeneration as a cost-effective strategy to achieve large-scale restoration throughout the world. Natural regeneration consists, in its most basic form, of letting remaining portions of the original ecosystem re-colonize a degraded area.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2007

    The study of the urban transformation of Cotia, located in the periphery of the metropolis, aims the documentation of the region urban development, starting on the 18 century, and its analysis, taking São Paulo city as reference. This analysis was elaborated from the social-economics and spatial relations of the urban development, from the city adequation to the metropolitan area planning, from the linearity that the Raposo Tavares highway imposes to the urban composition and the characteristics of the middle-class residence condominiums determined to the territory.

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    April, 2011

    This paper aims to propose a methodologyofanalysisthe sustainability of localproductivearrangements, which combines the traditional methods of assessing thecompetitiveness of the methodologies for measuring sustainability, considering theindicators of sustainable land development (municipality in which the arrangement isinserted) and the social and environmental responsibility (CSR).

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2009
    Brazil

    In many cities of Brazil, social inequality is illustrated by violence, poverty, and unemployment located next to luxurious residential towers and armored passenger cars. In the face of this situation, the National Movement of Urban Reform encouraged the inclusion of the social function of property in Brazil's new constitution of 1988. Surface rights represent an urbanistic instrument in the city statute that is best aligned to the constitutional principles and urban policies.

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2003

    This research focuses the land and urban legalizing process of spontaneous shantytown settlements between 1980 and 1999, from the perspective of three such communities, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro and which form the basis of this case study. The aim of this work is to suggest different possibilities to intervene in these areas from a urban and land standpoint. Despite not being the only solution to the housing problem, it was found that the land formalization process helps improve the lives of vast numbers of people which today live in inadequate housing arrangements.

  7. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2009
    Brazil

    This paper discusses the agrarian problem in Brazilian rural areas from the environmental point of view. The objective is to examine how the private appropriation of the Brazilian rural space came about, attributing to the environmental factor a role whose logic was relevant in the inherited agricultural context. According to this hypothesis, the specificity of the private appropriation process of public land, after 1850, is the origin of agricultural and environmental problems in the Brazilian rural space.

  8. Library Resource
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    Reports & Research
    November, 2023
    Angola, Bhutan

    La sortie du statut de PMA représente une étape hautement symbolique et positive dans le parcours d’un pays vers une plus grande prospérité socio-économique. Cependant, la baisse du soutien international qui en résulte ainsi que la perte des avantages proposés aux PMA menacent de bouleverser les plans d’adaptation, qui sont essentiels pour des pays de plus en plus vulnérables aux impacts du changement climatique. 

  9. Library Resource

    The Brazilian Experience in the Context of Latin America

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean

    Brazil grew 2.4 percent per year on average in the last 25 years-somewhat less than Latin America, a good deal less than the world, far less than the emerging countries of Asia in the same period, and indeed far less than Brazil itself in previous decades. If anything stands out favorably in recent Brazilian experience, it is not growth but stabilization and the successful opening of the economy. The purpose of this paper is more modest.

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