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The Brazilian Blue Amazon under threat: Why has the oil spill continued for so long? [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
In August 2019, an oil spill incident washed the coast in Brazil affecting some of the country’s most visited and preserved beaches in Northeast and Southeast. This paper argues that the influence of power disconnects delayed the proper actions.
Leandra R. Gonçalves, DG Webster, Oran Young, Marcus Polette, Alexander Turra   +4 more
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Nature [PDF]

, 2012
International audienceFrom the ancient times to the present debates on nature and environment, the idea of Nature has been one of the main concepts which interested Geographers.
Ferretti, Federico, Schmidt Di Friedberg, Marcella   +1 more
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MIRACLE OR MIRAGE? CRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION IN LIGHT OF THE DESERTEC PROJECT [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
This investigation analyzes the Desertec project, which envisioned a transition to “clean energy” through constructing solar thermal power plants in the Sahara Desert and linking Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East via high voltage cables.
LUIZ ENRIQUE VIEIRA DE SOUZA, MARCELO FETZ, ALINA MIKHAILOVNA GILMANOVA CAVALCANTE   +2 more
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MARITIME SPACES AND THEIR GEOGRAPHY [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a set of themes deemed as significant in the preparation of an agenda of research about maritime spaces. It starts from a specific knowledge field - geography - in order to raise a connection with other knowledge
GISELA AQUINO PIRES DO RIO
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SEEDING THE CITY: HISTORY AND CURRENT AFFAIRS OF URBAN AGRICULTURE [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
Urban agriculture has its history tied to the development of civilizations. Aiming to identify the benefits generated by the practice and its motivations, a literature review and later analysis of articles describing current experiences, management ...
CARINA JÚLIA PENSA CORRÊA, KELLY CRISTINA TONELLO, ERNEST NNADI, ALEXANDRA GUIDELLI ROSA   +3 more
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PARTICIPATORY DESIGN OF A MONITORING PROTOCOL FOR THE SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES AT THE COMMUNITY OF TARITUBA, PARATY, RJ, BRAZIL [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
This paper aims to describe and analyze the design of the participatory monitoring protocol of Tarituba, a fishing community in Southern Brazil, and to discuss the setbacks for its implementation.
ANA CAROLINA ESTEVES DIAS, CRISTIANA SIMÃO SEIXAS   +1 more
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A discursive review of the textual use of ‘trapped’ in environmental migration studies: The conceptual birth and troubled teenage years of trapped populations [PDF]

, 2018
First mooted in 2011, the concept of Trapped Populations referring to people unable to move from environmentally high-risk areas broadened the study of human responses to environmental change.
A Baldwin, A Baldwin, A Carvalho, A Geddes, A Geddes, A Hansen, A Iftekhar, A Milan, A Sherbinin, AT Humble, B Anderson, B Hartmann, BC Thiede, C Folke, C Gray, C Methmann, Christopher D. Smith, D Kniveton, Dominic Kniveton, E Durkheim, E El-Hinnawi, E Piguet, EC Penning-Rowsell, EW Said, EW Said, F Hillmann, G Bettini, G Kibreab, GD Bhatta, H Adams, HK Bhabha, I Kelman, J Barnett, J Bogardi, J Carling, J Hyndman, J Morrissey, JJ Hess, JK Maldonado, JR Elliott, K Warner, KE McNamara, L Brown, LM Hunter, M Collyer, M Foucault, M Hulme, M KhosraviNik, M Lister, M Lu, M Pelling, M Stal, M Wagner, M Weiner, MS Archer, MT Boykoff, N Fairclough, N Fairclough, N Gill, N Myers, O Dun, OV Dun, P Blaikie, P Bourdieu, P Gale, P Sow, PD Gardner, PJ Smith, R Black, R Black, R Black, R Black, R Black, R Bronen, R Chambers, R Felli, R Jorgensen, R Reuveny, R Wodak, RM Stein, S Ayeb-Karlsson, S Castles, SC Lubkemann, SH Eriksen, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, T Afifi, T Cannon, T Dreher, WN Adger, WN Adger, WN Adger   +90 more
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Climate change and spatial justice in coastal planning in Cuba and Brazil [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
This article uses the category of spatial justice as an analytical variable to explore the coastal planning of Cuba and Brazil, in the face of the challenge of climate change.
Celene B. Milanés, Ofelia Pérez Montero, Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein, Márcia Aparecida da Silva Pimentel   +3 more
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Rio de Janeiro and climate crisis: governance, interactivity and discursive construction on Twitter [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
The rains that fell on the city of Rio de Janeiro in April 2019 were the heaviest in decades, affecting people’s lives in different ways and causing the death of ten people.
Francisca Marli Rodrigues de Andrade, Tarssio Brito Barreto, Alen Batista Henriques   +2 more
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Understanding the Energy System of the Paulista Macrometropolis: first step in local action toward climate change [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade
This paper analyzes the historical trends in the energy supply and demand for the Macrometrópole Paulista Energy System, as well as the existing options for harnessing the renewable energy potential of the region.
Flávia Mendes de Almeida Collaço, Raiana Schirmer Soares, João Marcos Mott Pavanelli, Lira Luz Benites-Lazaro, Guilherme Massignan Berejuk, Andrea Lampis, Célio Bermann   +6 more
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