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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 113 avhandlingar innehållade ordet brazil.

1. 11. Improving the greenhouse gas balances of bioenergy systems: The cases of Brazilian ethanol production and combined biofuel/district heat production in Europe

   Författare :Andrea Egeskog; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; sugarcane ethanol; biofuels for transport; bioenergy; EU; district heating; Brazil;

   Sammanfattning : According to the Fourth Assessment Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the largest source of increased atmospheric CO2 concentration is fossil fuel use. The second largest is land-use change. LÄS MER

3. 12. Varia��o, contato e mudan�a lingu�stica em Mo�ambique e Cabo Verde : A concord�ncia vari�vel de n�mero em sintagmas nominais do portugu�s

   Författare :Anna Jon-And; Thomas Johnen; John Lipski; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; variable agreement; number; noun phrase; Portuguese; Mozambique; Cape Verde; Brazil; Africa; language contact; Ronga; Changana; Cape Verdean Creole; concordância variável; número; sintagma nominal; português; Moçambique; Cabo Verde; Brasil; África; contato linguístico; ronga; changana; Portuguese; portugisiska;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates variable noun phrase number agreement (VNA) in two second language varieties of Portuguese, spoken in Maputo, Mozambique and in Mindelo, Cape Verde. Quantitative VARBRUL analysis is carried out based on recordings made in Maputo and Mindelo 2007 and 2008. LÄS MER

4. 13. Land Matters : Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange, and Appropriation of Ecological Space

   Författare :Kenneth Hermele; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Land; Agrofuels; Ecologically unequal exchange; Environmental load displacement; Land grabbing; Malthus; Brazil; Ethanol; Resource wars; Land Use change; Indirect land use change;

   Sammanfattning : As a global society we are entering an era where land areas and land-based resources are coming to the fore once again for capital accumulation and economic growth, for the first time since the end of the 18th century when Malthus forecasted a contradiction between population growth and agricultural output. That constraint on economic growth, imposed by limited land areas, was overcome by the combination of fossil fuels (coal, oil) and appropriation of space overseas (colonialism, trade). LÄS MER

5. 14. A Procedure for Ecological Tiered Assessment of Risks (PETAR)

   Författare :Rosana Moraes; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; local scale; regional scale; developing country; Brazil; rain forest; multiple stressors; PETAR; ecological risk assessment; causality;

   Sammanfattning : Institutions in developed countries have proposed several Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) procedures, and the majority of study cases have been carried out there. The use of (often expensive) existing ERA procedures in developing countries is questionable given their limited resources and scarce background information of relevance for risk assessments. LÄS MER

7. 15. Clientelism, conditional cash transfers, and cross-class coalitions: why governments expand pro-poor redistribution

   Författare :Elin Bergman; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; redistribution; clientelism; vote buying; conditional cash transfers; upscale; poor; Latin America; Brazil; mixed methods;

   Sammanfattning : Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) allow poor households and individuals access to income support in return for investments in health and education. Originally adopted in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, CCTs are now present in developing countries across the world. LÄS MER