Capital flows to Latin America: first quarter 2005

Includes bibliography

O pólo calçadista de Itapetinga (BA): um estudo das relações produtivas e dos aspectos políticos do espaço industrial

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Créditos de nitrogênio, alterações nos atributos químicos do solo e nos componentes de produção da cultura do milho em função da aplicação de esterco bovino

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Produção Vegetal) - FCAV

A study on energy issues in the Caribbean: potential for mitigating climate change

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is seeking to provide support to the Governments of Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados in researching the potential for employing renewable energy technologies to mitigate climate change. This exercise involves the study of different types of renewable technologies and mitigative strategies, with the aim of making recommendations to the governments on the development of their renewable energy sector. The recommendations may also assist in achieving their long-term objectives of reducing poverty and promoting healthy economies and sustainable livelihoods in keeping with the Millennium Development Goals. Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados each face common and specific challenges in their efforts to adequately define and implement their energy and climate policies, in a way that allows them to contribute to the mitigation effort against climate change, while promoting sustainable development within their countries. Each country has demonstrated an understanding of the global and national challenges pertaining to climate change. They have attempted to address these challenges through policies and various programmes implemented by local and international agencies. Documented and undocumented policies have sought to outline the directions to be taken by each territory as they seek to deploy new technologies to address issues related to energy and the environment. While all territories have sought to deploy multiple alternate and renewable technologies simultaneously, it is clear that, given their sizes and resource limitations, no one territory can achieve excellence in all these areas. Guyana has demonstrated the greatest potential for hydro energy and should pursue it as their main area of expertise. The country also has an additional major strategy that includes forest credits and the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme. This approach will be brought to the negotiation table in the upcoming climate change meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009. Of the three countries, Jamaica has the only active significant wind farm deployment, while Barbados has a long tradition in solar energy. Each country might then supplement their energy and fuel mix with other energy and fuel sources and draw from the experience of other countries. Given the synergies that might accrue from adopting a regional approach, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) might be well positioned to play a coordinating role. This focus on renewable energy and biofuels should yield good, long-term results as it relates to mitigation against climate change, and good, short- and medium-term results as it relates to the development of sustainable economies. Each country might also achieve energy security, reduced oil dependence, significant reduction in harmful emissions and better foreign exchange management if they pursue good policies and implementation practices. Human and financial resources are critical to the success of planned interventions, and it will be necessary to successfully mobilize these resources in order to be effective in executing key plans.

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)

Otimização de um forno de reaquecimento a óleo - controle de emissões e crédito de carbono

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Análise de viabilidade técnico-econômica de repotenciação de PCHS com inserção de benefícios ambientais: estudo de caso

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Proposta de um sistema para aproveitamento energético de um aterro sanitário regional na cidade de Guaratinguetá

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estoque de carbono e dinâmica ecofisiológica em sistemas silvipastoris

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Vegetal) - IBRC

Agrobiodivesificacion de playas y barreales y su función en la economia familiar ribereña de la Amazônia Peruana

La agrobiodiversidad presente en playas y barreales de la Amazonía Peruana fue estudiada en Muyuy, sector ubicado a tres horas de la ciudad de Iquitos, capital de La Región Loreto. El objetivo de trabajo fue orientado a medir la agrobiodiversidad en estos ambientes dinámicos y su contribución en la economía familiar ribereña. Primeramente, vemos que la actividad agrícola practicada en playas y barreales se da a través de un rol de producción con cultivos de corto periodo vegetativo (arroz, caupí, maní, etc.); esto para disminuir el riesgo provocado por los repiquetes o el nuevo ciclo anual de inundación. Datos levantados en las campañas agrícolas de 1999 y 2004, permiten identificar el establecimiento de 9 y 2 cultivos respectivamente, esta variación se debe al diferente comportamiento de inundación; variación que a la vez influencia la formación de diferentes ambientes como playas y barreales: altos, medios, y bajos. A continuación, vemos que el ambiente de barreal óptimo para la producción de arroz, fue promocionado con créditos agrícolas - 2004; esto implicó consecuentemente la incursión de variedades certificadas o tardías (Inti, Ecoarroz, Jar, Capirona, y Amor 107), sensibles a una inundabilidad rápida como la sucedida en la campaña agrícola 2004. Los resultados muestran que las comunidades SPC, ODN, TPZ, CON y DDM beneficiadas con los créditos y afectadas por la inundabilidad, consiguieron rescatar hasta un 10% de la producción esperada del arroz; aquí, también se encuentran casos de agricultores de las comunidades DDM y MAZ empleando variedades precoces no promocionadas como el Milagrito, consiguiendo rescatar de 50 a 60 % de la producción. Los agricultores que establecieron caupí en playas consiguieron aprovechar aproximadamente 10% de la producción esperada. La inundación que afectó los cultivos cerca al periodo de cosecha creó ambientes propicios para la alimentación y protección de algunas especies de peces y tortugas, esto a la vez aumentó los factores o recursos de aprovechamiento para los agricultores; aquí, se ejecutó la labor de pesca tanto para el consumo general y la comercialización por parte de algunos casos encontrados en las comunidades estudiadas, el más representativo como la familia 11 muestra que a partir de esta labor de pesca consiguió el 2.9% de recuperación en base al cálculo rentable de los cultivos establecidos; y de la captura de tortugas el 3.1%. Se concluye que los cultivos perdidos por inundabilidad pueden ser recuperados en porcentajes más significativos, si se usara manejos adecuados sin alterar los ambientes de producción como ocurre con la aplicación de agroquímicos.

Análise termoeconômica da produção de biodiesel: aspectos técnicos, econômicos e ecológicos

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Modelagem e simulação de sistemas de geração de energia para o setor de petróleo e gás

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudo comparativo entre MDF e MDP utilizados na indústria moveleira

Increasingly, the furniture market is competitive. The construction industry presents itself in growth, mainly due to the lines of existing incentives and tax credits established by the government, assisting the impulse to purchase real estate, building materials and furniture. Factors that promote and strengthen the sector's growth. With high demand from the furniture market, demand for higher quality and increasing technological advances, research is often undertaken in search of solutions for process improvement and product features, focusing on the production of materials less harmful to the environment, provision of raw press to lower cost, improve the production process and product development of cost-effective. This research focuses on the comparative study between two materials widely used in furniture manufacturing. MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard) and MDP (Medium Density Particleboard). The subject provides the focus in furniture production, presenting and comparing data collected from three companies producing panels between physical and mechanical characteristics of the materials, also presenting some of the main factors of influence on the quality of the panels, their features and applications on mobile. The study shows the high potential of using the MDP (Medium Density Particleboard) in furniture designs, as well as MDF (Medium Density Particleboard), favoring the final terms of the project , resulting in better utilization of each material , avoiding waste and increase unnecessary cost . Currently, several projects are developed in MDP and MDF furniture, where there is no relevance to their characteristics regarding their limitations. Many of these furnishings are designed without a specific study of the best use and positioning of each material, with better utilization , favoring collateral design , especially furniture designed exclusively for each environment . The lack of technical ...

Da questão agrária brasileira: uma análise sobre o debate da década de 60 e 70

This monograph object of analysis is the agriculture modernization in Brazil between 1960 and 1980, highlighting the discussion of the economic and politic ideas around the Brazilian agrarian question. The first parte presents an introduction about this issue and the theoretical positions, as well as social and economic implications for the development of the productive forces on rural areas. Nevertheless, reflections of its development to the economy as a whole, highlighting the way the income distribution and concentration was realized. On the second part its presented the agriculture modernization Project on the centralized militar government point of view, by the propositions of that time Agriculture Minister, Antônio Delfim Netto. The approach is made through the proposals precreeded by the Rural Worker Statute and the Land Statute, before the Military Coup, with its news counterpoints settled in law by the Agriculture Modernization Project installed in 1964; the concessions of funding grants and subsidized credits; the relationship between the authoritarian State and the militarization of the land conflicts. The third part deals with the salary dinamics, income and profit on the modernized rural economy created by the agroindustrial productions system. Lastly the conclusion cross the economic and social results of the agrarian question evolution, to the Brazilian agriculture modernization on income distribution

Utilização do cavaco de madeira como combustível alternativo para a produção de vapor de água em uma caldeira aquatubular com grelha fixa do tipo PIN HOLE

The steady increase in the price of oil and its derivatives, carbon credits, the concern with the environment combined with the precipitation of rain water and lack of water resources that Brazil has suffered in 2014 caused a migration of participation sources of energy in the Brazilian energy matrix. The hydropower sector suffered big drop at 2013 and is suffering so far, contributing thus to the generation and cogeneration of thermal energy using renewable energy sources such as: sugarcane bagasse, wood chips, rice husks, among others. The selling price of the electricity market reached the level of R$ 807, 00 MWh in January 2014 (Source: ANEEL), heating the Brazilian thermoelectric sector. Although thermoelectric use in bulk water as vaporizing fluid to produce electricity and use in various processes, water reuse plans have become an important factor in these industries. The increased use of biomass has been the bagasse which is allied to the sugarcane sector, strong market in Brazil, and consists basically use the rest of sugar cane, sugarcane industries that would play out. The sugar and ethanol industry is very unstable and only lasts for 6-8 months a year, and the remaining time in the period known as between crop that corresponds to the planting and harvesting of sugarcane and then enter the period of vintage which is the constant cane harvesting and crushing it. This instability of the market and the thermoelectric idle period leads the thermoelectric industries to seek other sources of renewable energy, such as wood chips (pine, Eucalyptus, Orange), rice husk, sorghum among others, to not be dependent on alcohol sector. The present work aims to study the use of wood chips as an alternative biomass for burning a fuel that essentially uses bagasse, the thermoelectric in question consists of two boilers that produce together 350 t / h ... (Complete Abstract click electronic access below)