Floresta urbana: propostas de gestão e subsídios para políticas públicas em Rio Claro SP)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação do desempenho ambiental da produção canavieira com colheita mecanizada: contribuição à implantação de um sistema simplificado de gestão ambiental da propriedade

The consuming of the natural resources in the agricultural sector does not represent only one external factor of the productive process, but also it implies in a bigger cost for the production, justified for this environmental degradation. In view of the necessity of evaluating the sustainment of the agricultural businesses, the use of performance indicators if makes of extreme importance. The measurement of the support through environmentalindicators is one of the most accepted forms of performing the evaluation of one given agricultural activity. In this context, the Base System for Eco-certification of Agricultural Businesses (Eco-cert Rural) developed by the Embrapa Environment at Jaguariúna/SP, has for purpose to present a method of evaluation of the agricultural businesses, not only of the point of view of the ecological performance, as well as considering the social, economic and organizational aspects. Through the analysis of the performance of the activity and the regularization of the disconformities found, it makes possible the eco-certification of the activities in the varied existing protocols, offering technologies designed to the sustainable development of the agricultural businesses. Using Eco-cert.Rural, this work evaluated the contribution of the use of mechanized harvest in sugar cane handling, front to the traditional system of manual harvest, using the fire. In the Sugar Cane Activity General Performance Index, Agrícola Rio Claro scored 2,08 of a maximum of 15. Amongst all the indicators, those wich reached performance worse had been related to the Use of Energy and the Income, by increasing fossil fuel consumptiom, and implying income concentration due to resignations of rural workers. However, the improvements on the environment quality by supressing manual harvest through fire are very significant. Beyond the great reduction in...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)

O que é um lar? Revisão do conceito histórico de nação em Paradise (1997), de Toni Morrison, e em Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz (1997), de Heloisa Maranhão

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

Valoración económica de la reducción del ruido por tráfico vehicular: una aplicación para Medellín (Colombia)

El objetivo de este trabajo es la determinación de los beneficios económicos que obtendrían los hogares de zonas residenciales en la ciudad de Medellín (Colombia) por la reducción del ruido por tráfico vehicular. Para tal propósito se utilizó el método de valoración contingente en combinación con información de percepción de calidad acústica de los hogares. Este enfoque permitió estimar la disponibilidad a pagar esperada por la reducción de un decibel en los niveles de ruido a los cuales están expuestos los hogares. Los resultados demuestran que si  se aplica para la ciudad un programa, política o proyecto que logre una reducción generalizada de 5 decibeles en el ruido por tráfico vehicular los beneficios económicos agregados ascienden a 397 millones de pesos colombianos al año. El estudio concluye que estos resultados generan conocimiento importante para hacer más efectiva la toma de decisiones en el marco de políticas regionales con respecto a la gestión de la reducción del ruido por tráfico vehicular.