The importance of forest extractive resources for income Generation and subsistence among caboclos and colonists in the brazilian Amazon.
We investigated the importance assigned to forest extractive resources (FR) for subsistence and income generation by colonist and Caboclos populations in the Brazilian Amazon. Key informants in 114 settlements (82 Caboclos and 32 colonists) in the southwest region of Pará classified on a four-level...
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17/02/2020
11:46 AM
Ecology and signal structure drive the evolution of synchronous displays.
Animal synchrony is found in phylogenetically distant animal groups, indicating behavioral adaptations to different selective pressures and in different signaling modalities. A notable example of synchronous display is found in fiddler crabs in that males wave their single enlarged claw during court...
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publicado
14/02/2020
2:01 PM
Ecological civilization for all?.
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publicado
30/01/2020
2:32 PM
Ecological civilization for all?.
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publicado
27/01/2020
3:34 PM
Land use and cover maps for Mato Grosso State in Brazil from 2001 to 2017
This paper presents a dataset of yearly land use and land cover classification maps for Mato Grosso State, Brazil, from 2001 to 2017. Mato Grosso is one of the worlds fast moving agricultural frontiers. To ensure multi-year compatibility, the work uses MODIS sensor analysis-ready products and an inn...
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27/01/2020
12:35 PM
Impacts of public and private sector policies on soybean and pasture expansion in mato Grosso-Brazil from 2001 to 2017
Demand for agricultural exports in Brazil has stimulated the expansion of crop production and cattle raising, which has caused environmental impacts. In response, Brazil developed public policies such as the new Forest Code (FC) and supply chain arrangements such the Soy and the Cattle Moratoriums. ...
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publicado
20/01/2020
12:32 PM
Analyzing the influence of the North Atlantic Ocean variability on the Atlantic meridional mode on decadal time scales.
Important features of the Atlantic meridional mode (AMM) are not fully understood. We still do not know what determines its dominant decadal variability or the complex physical processes that sustain it. Using reanalysis datasets, we investigated the influence of the North Atlantic Ocean variability...
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publicado
14/01/2020
2:11 PM
When climate change is not blamed: the politics of disaster attribution in international perspective.
Analyzing the politics and policy implications in Brazil of attributing extreme weather events to climate change, we argue for greater place-based sensitivity in recommendations for how to frame extreme weather events relative to climate change. Identifying geographical limits of current recommendat...
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publicado
14/01/2020
1:56 PM
Global fire season severity analysis and forecasting.
Fire activity has a huge impact on human lives. Different models have been proposed to predict fire activity, which can be classified into global and regional ones. Global fire models focus on longer timescale simulations and can be very complex. Regional fire models concentrate on seasonal forecast...
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publicado
14/01/2020
1:54 PM
The voices of youth in envisioning positive futures for nature and people.
The unpredictable Anthropocene poses the challenge of imagining a radically different, equitable and sustainable world. Looking 100 years ahead is not easy, and especially as millennials, it appears quite bleak. This paper is the outcome of a visioning exercise carried out in a 2-day workshop, atten...
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publicado
06/01/2020
7:20 PM
Sustentabilidade municipal no contexto de uma política pública de controle do desmatamento no Pará.
This work analyzed sustainability performance of 26 municipalities in the so-called amazon arch of deforestation in the state of Pang Brazil in the years 2000 and 2010, using the Sustainability Barometer with 31 indicators in social, economic and environmental dimensions. The results show that Altam...
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publicado
20/12/2019
12:38 PM
Data generated by evaluating the seasonal variability and trend analysis of the solar energy resource in the Northeastern Brazilian region
The solar radiation is the primary energy resource for several human activities. Nowadays, the environmental issues and climate concerning are boosting the substitution of fossil fuel resources by renewable energy resources, including the adoption of solar energy for power generation. Although the s...
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