The Damage from Mega-Sporting Events in Brazil [PDF]
Over the past several years, Brazil’s federal government and the city and state governments of Rio de Janeiro have invested tens of billions of dollars to develop the transportation, stadium, tourist, communications and security infrastructure required ...
Woods, J. Justin
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Uso de SIG na avaliação da contaminação por chumbo e cobre no Canal do Cunha e no oeste da Baía de Guanabara , Rio de Janeiro, RJ. [PDF]
8 p. il.As well as other subbasins of Guanabara Bay, the Canal do Cunha's sub - basin, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, suffered a severe environmental degradation as from the 1950s due to the accelerated urban - industrial ...
BORGES, Renata Coura +4 more
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Responses of CYP450 dependent system to aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons body burden in transplanted mussels from South coast of Portugal [PDF]
Mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis were cross-transplanted at South Portugal from a reference site (site 1) to a site more contaminated with hydrocarbon compounds (site 2), and vice versa, in an active biomonitoring (ABM) concept, to assess the ...
Bebianno, Maria João +2 more
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Influence of copper on Euplotes sp. and associated bacterial population
The influence of copper on the ciliate Euplotes sp. and associated bacteria isolated from sediment samples of Guanabara Bay were investigated in bioassays.
Guilherme Oliveira Andrade da Silva +5 more
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Possible influence of shipping emissions on metals in size-segregated particulate matter in Guanabara Bay (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). [PDF]
Silveira RS, Corrêa SM, de M Neto N.
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As áreas naturais protegidas e a responsabilidade social e ambiental das empresas: o caso do Mosaico da Mata Atlântica Central Fluminense e do Comperj [PDF]
The article thinks about the pressures that defy the “protected areas” in order to sustain their politics of conservation in the case that the territory had been chose for setting an enormous industrial complex.
Gian Mario Giuliani
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In this study, geochemical and particle size analyses of thirty-four street sediment samples collected from an urban environment around Guanabara Bay, shows highway run-off to be a potential source of heavy metals for the pollution of near-shore ...
Edisio Pereira +3 more
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Environmental restoration of urban rivers in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]
Cet article porte sur les discours environnementaux et les pratiques concernant la restauration des eaux urbaines au Brésil en se penchant sur les rapports entre l’environnement et l’occupation urbaine.
Barcellos Pinheiro Machado, Denise +2 more
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A Tropical Cuauhtemoc: Celebrating the Cosmic Race at the Guanabara Bay
The paper analyzes José Vasconcelos’ participation before the Mexican delegation in the International Fair in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. In particular, it focuses on the manner in which Vasconcelos’ ideas regarding the cosmic race were transformed into acts and objects.
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