Search for dissertations about: "Brazil"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 107 swedish dissertations containing the word Brazil.
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11. Improving the greenhouse gas balances of bioenergy systems: The cases of Brazilian ethanol production and combined biofuel/district heat production in Europe
Abstract : 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. READ MORE
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12. A Procedure for Ecological Tiered Assessment of Risks (PETAR)
Abstract : 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. READ MORE
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13. Clientelism, conditional cash transfers, and cross-class coalitions: why governments expand pro-poor redistribution
Abstract : 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. READ MORE
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14. Land Matters : Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange, and Appropriation of Ecological Space
Abstract : 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). READ MORE
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15. Labor Markets in Transformation: Case Studies of Latin America
Abstract : This dissertation contains three independent studies that analyze labor markets in transformation. They focus on two central elements of labor markets in developing countries: non-agricultural employment in the rural economy and informal employment in the urban economy. READ MORE