Browsing by Author "Oliveira, José Antônio Puppim de"
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Biofuels in sub-Sahara Africa: drivers, impacts and priority policy areas
2015-05There has been a growing interest in jatropha- and sugarcane-based biofuels across Sub-Sahara Africa. Biofuel expansion in the region reflects policy concerns related to energy security, poverty alleviation and economic ... -
Brazilian public administration: shaping and being shaped by governance and development
2017-03This manuscript analyzes the changes in Brazilian public administration and its relation with governance and development trends in the country. The case of the environmental agencies is used to exemplify those changes in ... -
Breaking resilience in the urban system for improving resource efficiency: the case of the waste sector in Penang, Malaysia
2017Many have emphasised the importance of strengthening urban system resilience. However, resilience can affect cities in adverse ways. Weak governance in cities in developing countries has detrimental outcomes, which are ... -
Can oil corporations positively transform angola and equatorial guinea?
2017Oil production has been a major source of export revenues for many African countries, and yet has played a questionable role in the development of sub-Saharan Africa. Multinational companies in the oil sector have had ... -
Denser and greener cities: green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature
2022Green spaces in urban areas—like remnant habitat, parks, constructed wetlands, and street trees—supply multiple benefits. Many studies show green spaces in and near urban areas play important roles harbouring biodiversity ... -
Desafios do planejamento em políticas públicas: diferentes visões e práticas
2006Este artigo analisa conceitualmente as diversas maneiras de se pensar planejamento, particularmente com respeito a políticas públicas. O artigo focaliza principalmente os problemas de planejamento nos chamados países em ... -
Determinants of urban mobility in India: lessons for promoting sustainable and inclusive urban transportation in developing countries
2016-08Studies from developed economies have analyzed the key factors for understanding urban mobility, which are important to design appropriate interventions to reduce the volume of transport needs and to promote more sustainable ... -
Enforcing protected area guidelines in Brazil: what explains participation in the implementation process?
2005-08This article examines key factors that influence the participation of local actors in policy implementation. Specifically, it reviews case studies in the implementation of environmentally protected area (APA) policy at the ... -
Environmental management, climate change, CSR, and governance in clusters of small firms in developing countries: toward an integrated analytical framework
2017-01One of the key debates in the literature on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing countries has to do with the role that local industrial districts, or so-called ... -
From global 'North-South' to local 'Urban-Rural': a shifting paradigm in climate governance?
2015As the world takes an unprecedented rural-urban population tilt, the 21st century poses a challenge in further tinkering the internationally evident disparities in access and allocation of carbon. Traditionally, inequalities ... -
Fuel switching in slum and non-slum households in urban India
2015-05-01Improving access to modern fuels is essential in developing countries for reducing adverse human health and environmental impacts caused by traditional fuels. Fuels use in developing countries is heterogeneous across ... -
Governance and networks for health co-benefits of climate change mitigation: Lessons from two Indian cities
2016Health has been the main driver for many urban environmental interventions, particularly in cases of significant health problems linked to poor urban environmental conditions. This paper examines empirically the links ... -
Governmental responses to tourism development: three Brazilian case studies
2003-02This article examines how and why governments responded to actual or potential investments in tourism development in terms of strategies for environmental management. Three case studies were selected in the Brazilian ... -
Implementation challenges in protecting the global environmental commons: the case of climate change policies in Brazil
2008-12The effective control of climate chance rests, to a great extent, on governance mechanisms to protect the global commons as a type of common pool resource on a global scale. This calls for action beyond the boundaries of ... -
Implementing environmental policies in developing countries through decentralization: the case of protected areas in Bahia, Brazil
2002-10Governments have two apparently conflicting roles to play: promoter of economic development and protector of environmental quality. Economic development interests tend to have priority on the agenda of most developing ... -
Innovating in sub-national climate policy: the mandatory emissions reduction scheme in Tokyo
2017This study analyses the drivers behind the policy-making and implementation of the recently developed climate policies in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). In 2010, the TMG introduced a mandatory CO2 emission reduction ... -
Innovating in urban green and blue infrastructure to improve the food-water-energy nexus: an implementation guide for cities and subnational governments
2022-06-20This is a guide to cities to improve “Food-Water-Energy Nexus” (FWEN) using green and blue infrastructure in cities. IFWEN is a new framework to address old problems in cities: unsustainable use and scarcity of natural ...
