Marine Protected Areas in Brazil: An ecological approach regarding the large marine ecosystems

The objective of this study was to address the importance of implementing Coastal and Marine Protected Areas in Brazil and to examine their distribution, based on the delimitation of Large Marine Ecosystems. Out of a total of 336 protected areas identified in Brazilian coastal and marine areas, the North Platform has the largest protected area, but the ecosystem with the largest number of protected area, predominantly sustainable areas, was the East Coast followed by the South Platform. One of the reasons the eastern coast of Brazil to have more protected areas is the fact that there is a largest amount of coral reefs. Additionally there was political opportunities for the creation of protected areas for sustainable use. The coastal region of Brazil has achieved the goal proposed by the Seventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity - 7, but only then through the category V of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which is not the best efficient means of conserving resources. The goal for marine conservation shows only the area above the recommended under protection in North Platform. The Marine portion of the East Coast and the South Platform has few protected areas, regardless of category management. We consider the coastal region the range of 12 nautical miles from baselines determined in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. As for the number of strategies permitted by law and used for the conservation of coastal and marine systems, coastal systems show a higher number when compared with the marine system. We suggest that the Brazilian government should specify strategies for the protection of marine systems and expand the protected areas of all Large Marine Ecosystems. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

O potencial da agroenergia no Brasil na mitigação do clima: histórico jurídico

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Energia na Agricultura) - FCA

A atuação do Brasil no regime internacional de mudanças climáticas de 1995 a 2004

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

As relações Brasil–Estados Unidos no governo Clinton: a intersecção entre o debate teórico e a análise de política externa nas relações internacionais

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A política externa do presidente Lula da Silva no âmbito das mudanças climáticas (2003-2009)

Pós-graduação em Relações Internacionais (UNESP - UNICAMP - PUC-SP) - FFC

Conhecimentos tradicionais, propriedade intelectual e política externa brasileira

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Protocolo de Quioto e o comércio internacional dos créditos de carbono no âmbito do mecanismo de desenvolvimento limpo: oportunidades, possibilidades e perspectivas para o Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Levante sua bandeira! o estatuto da juventude no Brasil: teoria e prática no contexto juvenil (2004-2011)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Fundamentos das políticas de ação afirmativa etnicorracial no ensino superior

This article aims to contextualize the educational affirmative action policies for ethnic racial groups in Brazilian legal system, present the main philosophical fundamentals that support these educational policies and discuss the validity of those fundamentals. In the legal context, the principle of substantive equality and the fundamental objectives of the Federative Republic of Brazil, positivised in the Constitution of 1988, as well as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, allow the implementation of these policies. The philosophical fundamentals presented in this article are the thesis of compensatory justice and the thesis of distributive justice. The thesis of distributive justice has been refuted by logical legal arguments and by analysis of the right to higher education positivised in the Constitution. The thesis of compensatory justice has been considered a valid argument to support affirmative action policies, due to historical facts and sociological factors existing in the Brazilian context. It is concluded that the affirmative action policies for ethnic racial groups should be part of the Brazilian social policies, but these affirmative action policies should not invade the context of higher education, since the intended purposes are unrelated to this.

Preservation of wild feline semen by freeze-drying: experimental model

According to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, 36 wild feline species are threatened by extinction or severely endangered, and to save them is the target of several conservation programs. This study aimed to assess the viability of the freeze-drying technique for domestic cat sperm cells, with the ultimate goal of transferring this technology to the wild feline species. The domestic cat is an excellent experimental model for wild felids. It is in this scenario that the freeze-drying process (low-temperature vacuum dehydration) of sperm cells shows its value in preserving male cats' germplasm. Results from membrane and DNA integrity analysis are promising and validates the use of frozen-dried sperm samples in intracytoplasmic sperm injections (ICSIs). Further studies are still necessary to evaluate the ICSI embryo production using domestic cat frozen-dried sperm and the possibility of using such technology with wild felines.

O comércio internacional de resíduos rerigosos entre países OCDE e não OCDE: uma análise empírica com destaque para o Brasil

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Genocídio: o Conselho de Segurança da ONU nos casos de Ruanda e Darfur

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Impactos da legislação na pesquisa etnobotânica no Brasil, com ênfase na região amazônica

The Amazon region has a large sociobiodiversity, where lives people with traditional knowledge about the uses of its natural resources. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992 recognized the autonomy of each nation over its genetic resources and the rights of traditional populations about the knowledge of the use of these natural resources. In 2001 it was published the law M.P. 2.186-16/2001 which created the Conselho Nacional de Gestão do Patrimônio Genético (CGEN) and the first rules about access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in Brazil. Since his creation, the actions of CGEN have received criticism from various sectors, both private and public, and, unlike its initial proposal, has become one of the main obstacles of ethnobotanical studies, the bureaucracy, the long process analysis and communication difficulties with this organ.

A atuação internacional do Brasil para as mudanças climáticas: as COP de 2009 a 2015

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Análise dialógica de vinhetas de Maurício de Sousa: o caso do autismo

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)