A great deal of more recent agricultural research in the Brazilian Amazon region has been focusing on the ‘hot spots’ of deforestation at the forest margins. Small-scale agriculturalists represent the largest group of the rural population and, apart from contributing to the high deforestation rates, are among the most affected by the environmental consequences of land use and land cover change in the Amazon region. This study attempts to contribute to the current debate on the sustainability of smallholder agriculture by focusing on one of the oldest colonization areas in the Brazilian Amazon region, the Zona Bragantina. An additional motivation for the study was the emergence of technological alternatives to the traditional land preparatio...
Brazil is considered one of the major players in World agriculture. Besides the economic relevance o...
This thesis is a contribution to the research project Regional Climate Change, funded by the German...
This dissertation was motivated by controversial statements of politicians and lobby groups for and ...
Currently, our society faces a significant challenge to eradicate hunger and poverty while preservin...
The model approach combines agricultural land use decisions of farmers with economic principles of c...
Global land-use change is a main driver of two of the biggest environmental alterations threatening ...
Written records about severe droughts in Brazils semi-arid northeast reach back until the countrys c...
There is a large interest in biofuels in Brazil and India as a substitute to fossil fuels, with a pu...
The aim of this work was to find ways of balancing natural and agricultural systems (AS) in the Atla...
The occupation of forest ecosystems in mountainous region of the Rio Grande do Sul state occurred wi...
This cumulative PhD thesis investigates the expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis Müll. Arg.) plan...
International audienceThis paper investigates emerging logics in the production of environmental kno...
The article presents a critical review of theoretical and methodological concepts upon which analyti...
Over the last decades, fast growing population along with urban and agricultural sprawl has drastica...
Climate change, rising oil prices and the global financial crisis has put sustainability and‘green g...
Brazil is considered one of the major players in World agriculture. Besides the economic relevance o...
This thesis is a contribution to the research project Regional Climate Change, funded by the German...
This dissertation was motivated by controversial statements of politicians and lobby groups for and ...
Currently, our society faces a significant challenge to eradicate hunger and poverty while preservin...
The model approach combines agricultural land use decisions of farmers with economic principles of c...
Global land-use change is a main driver of two of the biggest environmental alterations threatening ...
Written records about severe droughts in Brazils semi-arid northeast reach back until the countrys c...
There is a large interest in biofuels in Brazil and India as a substitute to fossil fuels, with a pu...
The aim of this work was to find ways of balancing natural and agricultural systems (AS) in the Atla...
The occupation of forest ecosystems in mountainous region of the Rio Grande do Sul state occurred wi...
This cumulative PhD thesis investigates the expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis Müll. Arg.) plan...
International audienceThis paper investigates emerging logics in the production of environmental kno...
The article presents a critical review of theoretical and methodological concepts upon which analyti...
Over the last decades, fast growing population along with urban and agricultural sprawl has drastica...
Climate change, rising oil prices and the global financial crisis has put sustainability and‘green g...
Brazil is considered one of the major players in World agriculture. Besides the economic relevance o...
This thesis is a contribution to the research project Regional Climate Change, funded by the German...
This dissertation was motivated by controversial statements of politicians and lobby groups for and ...