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    • Changes in soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus due to land-use changes in brazil 

      Groppo, J. D.; Lins, S. R. M.; Camargo, Plínio Barbosa de; Assad, Eduardo Delgado; Pinto, Hilton Silveira; Martins, S. C.; Salgado, P. R.; Evangelista, B.; Vasconcellos, Eduardo; Sano, Edson Eyji; Pavão, Eduardo; Luna, R.; Martinelli, Luiz Antõnio
      2015
      In this paper, soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and stocks were investigated in agricultural and natural areas in 17 plot-level paired sites and in a regional survey encompassing more than 100 pasture ...
    • Climate change policy in Brazil and Mexico: results from the MIT EPPA model 

      Octaviano, Claudia; Paltsev, Sergey; Gurgel, Ângelo Costa
      2016-05
      Based on an in-depth analysis of results from the MIT Economic Projection and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model of climate policies for Brazil and Mexico, we demonstrate that commitments by Mexico and Brazil for 2020 made during ...
    • Impactos da liberalização do comércio de etanol entre Brasil e Estados Unidos sobre o uso da terra e emissão de CO2 

      Nardy, Vanessa; Gurgel, Ângelo Costa
      2013-12-01
      This paper investigates the potential impacts from a cut in the U.S. trade tariffs to the Brazilian ethanol on land use and greenhouse gas emissions from such changes. A version of the GTAP global economic model is used ...
    • Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison 

      Schmitz, Christoph; Meijl, Hans van; Kyle, Page; Nelson, Gerald C.; Fujimori, Shinichiro; Gurgel, Angelo; Havlik, Petr; Heyhoe, Edwina; Mason-D'Croz, Daniel; Popp, Alexander; Sands, Ronald; Tabeau, Andrzej; Van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique; Lampe, Martin von; Wise, Marshall; Elodie Blanc; Hasegawa, Tomoko; Kavallari, Aikaterini; Valin, Hugo
      2014
      Changes in agricultural land use have important implications for environmental services. Previous studies of agricultural land-use futures have been published indicating large uncertainty due to different model assumptions ...
    • Lost in participation: how local knowledge was overlooked in land use planning and risk governance in Tohoku, Japan 

      Oliveira, José Antônio Puppim de; Fra Paleo, Urbano
      2016-03
      This article aims to identify gaps in public participation in land use planning to improve risk governance, using the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) in 2011. Overreliance on technical information and on the ...
    • Modelling beef and dairy sectors' productivities and their effects on land use change in Brazil 

      Harfuch, Leila; Nassar, André Meloni; Zambianco, Wilson Milani; Gurgel, Ângelo Costa
      2016-06-01
      This paper aims to develop new methodology for the Brazilian beef and dairy sectors incorporating different levels of productivities in the Brazilian Land Use Model (BLUM), analyzing land use dynamics. Several datasets ...
    • Towards a truthful land taxation mechanism in Brazil 

      Assunção, Juliano Junqueira; Moreira, Humberto
      2001-05-01
      This paper shows that the asymmetric information present in the relationship between the government and agricultural producers has led to persistent problems in the application of land taxes (Imposto Territorial Rural - ...
    • Using land to mitigate climate change: hitting the target, recognizing the trade-offs 

      Reilly, John; Melillo, Jerry; Cai, Yongxia; Kicklighter, David; Gurgel, Ângelo Costa; Paltsev, Sergey; Cronin, Timothy; Sokolov, Andrei; Schlosser, Adam
      2012-06-05
      Land can be used in several ways to mitigate climate change, but especially under changing environmental conditions there may be implications for food prices. Using an integrated global system model, We explore the roles ...