Environmental Reserve Quotas In Brazil S New Forest Legislation

Author : Peter H May,Paula Bernasconi,Sven Wunder,Ruben Lubowski
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786023870042

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Environmental reserve quotas in Brazil’s new forest legislation by Peter H May,Paula Bernasconi,Sven Wunder,Ruben Lubowski Pdf

The Brazilian Forest Code (FC) requires all private rural properties to maintain a fixed proportion of their area in natural vegetation as a “legal reserve” whose proportions are differentiated by biome. Landowners have often ignored the law. Regaining full compliance would require costly restoration in areas converted. Recent changes to the FC provide that landowners may “compensate” their legal reserve shortages by purchasing surplus compliance obligations from other properties. This paper discusses critical policy issues regarding Environmental Reserve Quotas or Cotas de Reserva Ambiental (CRA). We examine the relative environmental effectiveness of the CRA, its efficiency in resource use and social justice, as well as potential implementation hurdles. Allowing for compensation with off-site conservation can enable both more efficient, and less fragmented agricultural production, as well as forest conservation, compared to the default on-farm conservation proposition. CRA as a means for compensation has great intuitive appeal, yet controversy exists regarding its implementation. We review international experience with similar economic instruments, as well as Brazilian studies simulating the potential results of the CRA. Interviews with leading actors regarding the instrument complement the literature review. We finish with a synthetic assessment of the implications of our results for policy implementation.

Author : Peter H. May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066671677

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Environmental reserve quotas in Brazilʹs new forest legislation by Peter H. May Pdf

Author : Udo Nehren,Sabine Schlϋter,Claudia Raedig,Dietmar Sattler,Helga Hissa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319896441

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Strategies and Tools for a Sustainable Rural Rio de Janeiro by Udo Nehren,Sabine Schlϋter,Claudia Raedig,Dietmar Sattler,Helga Hissa Pdf

This book is a compilation of recent developments in land, ecosystem, and water management in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. The state is located in the biodiversity hotspot of the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica), a biome characterized by high biological diversity and endemism. At the same time the state of Rio de Janeiro emerged to one of the economic hubs in Latin America. This development process has been accompanied by population growth, industrialization, urbanization, as well as consumption and degradation of land and water resources. In the past years many efforts have been made to stop or at least slow down these degradation processes and restore degraded environments with the overall goal to bring together sustainable management of natural resources, nature conservation, and economic development. An overview is provided of the different strategies and tools that have been developed in the fields of agriculture, ecosystem management and biodiversity, integrated water management, land restoration, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, as well as environmental governance and economic instruments. This book covers a wide spectrum from applied research to science‐policy interfaces, planning concepts, and technical tools and has a model character for other rural areas in Latin America. Target groups are scientists, practitioners, policy makers and graduate students in the field of environmental management. The different chapters are written by researchers and practitioners of the German‐Brazilian project INTECRAL (Integrated Eco Technologies and Services for a Sustainable Rural Rio de Janeiro), the rural development program Rio Rural under the state secretary for agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as invited scientists from Brazilian universities and research institutes. It bridges existing gaps between science, policies, and practice in rural development.

Author : Liz-Rejane Issberner,Philippe Léna
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134844227

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Brazil in the Anthropocene by Liz-Rejane Issberner,Philippe Léna Pdf

Brazil is considered one of the world’s most important environmental powers. With a continental territory containing almost 70 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, along with a rich biodiversity and huge amount of natural resources, its geopolitical role in environmental decisions is crucial to ongoing global negotiations surrounding climate change. Development policies based on extraction and exportation of raw materials by the mining and agribusiness sectors threaten the global environmental balance and the long-term sustainability of Brazil’s economy. Brazil in the Anthropocene examines Brazil's role within the global ecological crisis and considers how national and international policy is influenced by the interdependence of social, political, ethical, scientific and economic factors in the modern age. With chapters from a diverse range of international scholars this interdisciplinary volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, environmental sociology and the environmental humanities.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264303201

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Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development by OECD Pdf

Drawing on experiences and insights from 16 megadiverse countries, this report examines how biodiversity is being mainstreamed in four key areas.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264240094

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OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Brazil 2015 by OECD Pdf

This report is the first OECD review of Brazil’s environmental performance. It evaluates progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and protected areas.

Author : Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers,Marcel T. J. Kok
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108847759

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Transforming Biodiversity Governance by Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers,Marcel T. J. Kok Pdf

Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to develop and implement a transformative framework for the coming decades. However, the question of what transformative biodiversity governance entails and how it can be implemented is complex. This book argues that transformative biodiversity governance means prioritizing ecocentric, compassionate and just sustainable development. This involves implementing five governance approaches - integrative, inclusive, adaptive, transdisciplinary and anticipatory governance - in conjunction and focused on the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and unsustainability. Transforming Biodiversity Governance is an invaluable source for academics, policy makers and practitioners working in biodiversity and sustainability governance. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Claudia Romero,Manuel R. Guariguata,Francis E. Putz,Erin O. Sills,Guilherme R. Lima,Luciana Papp,Maureen Voigtlaender,Edson Vidal
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786023870257

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The context of natural forest management and FSC certification in Brazil by Claudia Romero,Manuel R. Guariguata,Francis E. Putz,Erin O. Sills,Guilherme R. Lima,Luciana Papp,Maureen Voigtlaender,Edson Vidal Pdf

Management decisions on appropriate practices and policies regarding tropical forests often need to be made in spite of innumerable uncertainties and complexities. Among the uncertainties are the lack of formalization of lessons learned regarding the impacts of previous programs and projects. Beyond the challenges of generating the proper information on these impacts, there are other difficulties that relate with how to socialize the information and knowledge gained so that change is transformational and enduring. The main complexities lie in understanding the interactions of social-ecological systems at different scales and how they varied through time in response to policy and other processes. This volume is part of a broad research effort to develop an independent evaluation of certification impacts with stakeholder input, which focuses on FSC certification of natural tropical forests. More specifically, the evaluation program aims at building the evidence base of the empirical biophysical, social, economic, and policy effects that FSC certification of natural forest has had in Brazil as well as in other tropical countries. The contents of this volume highlight the opportunities and constraints that those responsible for managing natural forests for timber production have experienced in their efforts to improve their practices in Brazil. As such, the goal of the studies in this volume is to serve as the foundation to design an impact evaluation framework of the impacts of FSC certification of natural forests in a participatory manner with interested parties, from institutions and organizations, to communities and individuals.

Author : Peter H. May,Paula Bernasconi,Sven Wunder,Ruben Lubowski
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786023870240

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Cotas de reserva ambiental no novo código florestal Brasileiro: Uma avaliação ex-ante by Peter H. May,Paula Bernasconi,Sven Wunder,Ruben Lubowski Pdf

O Código Florestal do Brasil (FC) requer que todas as propriedades privadas rurais mantenham uma proporção fixa da sua área em vegetação natural como uma “reserva legal” cujas proporções são diferenciadas por bioma. Os proprietários de terra têm muitas vezes ignoradas a lei. Atingir seu pleno cumprimento exigiria uma restauração cara em áreas convertidas para outros usos. Mudanças recentes no FC preveem que os proprietários possam “compensar” a sua escassez de reserva legal através da compra de excedentes existentes ou restaurações obrigatórias em outras propriedades. Este artigo discute questões políticas críticas a respeito de Cotas de Reserva Ambiental (CRA). Examinamos a eficácia ambiental relativa da CRA, a sua eficiência na utilização dos recursos e a sua justiça social, bem como potenciais problemas de implementação. Permitindo a compensação com base na conservação fora do local pode permitir atividades agropecuárias mais eficientes e menos fragmentadas, bem como a conservação das florestas, em comparação com a proposição de conservaçãopadronizada proporcionalmente. A CRA, como uma opção para a compensação, possui grande apelo intuitivo, embora persistem controvérsias em relação a sua implementação. Neste artigo revisamos a experiência internacional com instrumentos econômicos semelhantes, bem como estudos brasileiros que simulam os potenciais resultados da CRA. Entrevistas com os principais atores a respeito do instrumento complementam a revisão da literatura. Terminamos com uma avaliação sintética das implicações dos nossos resultados para a implementação da política.

Author : Andrew Miccolis,Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade,Pablo Pacheco
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786021504659

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Land-use trends and environmental governance policies in Brazil by Andrew Miccolis,Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade,Pablo Pacheco Pdf

Historically, the policy framework in Brazil has played a decisive role in shaping land use and changes in the rural landscape. Over the last three decades, the country has made impressive gains on socioeconomic, environmental and rural development policy fronts. Nonetheless, an overall analysis of Brazil’s policy framework pertaining to land use shows contradictions and constraints that need to be addressed in the long run. One such contradiction is given by disparities in rural credit and finance policies, with greater amounts favoring large-scale farming as opposed to family farming, despite the key role of smallholders in food production and job creation, and still low resources allocated to programs promoting low-carbon agricultural practices. Another contradiction is the dichotomy between climate change policies and mainstream agricultural and rural development policies. Brazil’s overriding challenge is harmonizing and effectively coordinating these different policy agendas at their various levels of implementation so as to effectively manage trade-offs. The question is what measures can be put in place to enable continued growth of agricultural production while also reducing its negative social and environmental costs? The answer lies partly in increasing support for implementing and up-scaling initiatives to promote low emissions agriculture and providing other economic incentives for adopting more sustainable use and conservation-oriented agricultural and land-use practices. Ultimately, reconciling agricultural production with conservation and rural livelihoods requires greater coordination and harmonization among sectoral policies at various levels of government. Achieving this goal requires the adoption of a combination of a value chain-based and territorial approach to land-use planning with more integrated farming systems in order to enable making improved decisions according to multiple trade-offs and impacts.

Author : Niels Søndergaard,Camila Dias de Sá,Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031298530

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Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture by Niels Søndergaard,Camila Dias de Sá,Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau Pdf

With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on sustainable future pathways for Brazilian agriculture. In many cases, actors within the agricultural sector stand in a key position to address environmental concerns, which often has generated important breakthroughs and improvement of production practices. Drawing on contributions from authors within a variety of fields, this contribution presents a trans-disciplinary perspective on the problems and pathways through which multi-level interventions can lead to sustainable solutions within the Brazilian agricultural and livestock sector. This book hereby constitutes an informed and timely contribution to the important debates about Brazil’s potential role in confronting environmental problems. More broadly, this volume also sheds light on the process of agricultural transitions in the Global South, and how food security concerns may be reconciled with sustainable production.

Author : Alexandros Gasparatos,Katherine J. Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317934707

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Biodiversity in the Green Economy by Alexandros Gasparatos,Katherine J. Willis Pdf

In the past decade, the growing realization that biodiversity and human wellbeing are inextricably linked has led to the adoption of numerous environmental policies. The concept of the Green Economy has gained particular attention as an economic system where growth is possible within environmental limits. The preservation of ecosystem services and the halt of biodiversity loss are identified as key pillars of the Green Economy. Despite the concept’s momentum there is still no clear understanding of how biodiversity fits within a Green Economy. In the current debate, biodiversity is rarely acknowledged in economic sectors other than agriculture, forestry, fisheries and tourism, and when it is acknowledged biodiversity and its conservation feature more as buzzwords than as concrete and tangible components of the Green Economy. This book aims to identify, understand and offer pragmatic recommendations of how biodiversity conservation can become an agent of green economic development. This book establishes ways to assess biodiversity’s contributions to the economy and to meaningfully integrate biodiversity concerns in green-economy policies.

Author : Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne,Kevin R. Gray,Richard Tarasofsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199684601

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The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law by Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne,Kevin R. Gray,Richard Tarasofsky Pdf

"Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and has become one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. The radical changes which both developed and developing countries will need to make, in economic and in legal terms, to respond to climate change are unprecedented. International law, including treaty regimes, institutions, and customary international law, needs to address the myriad challenges and consequences of climate change, including variations in the weather patterns, sea level rise, and the resulting migration of peoples. ... This book addresses the major legal dimensions of the problems caused by climate change: including questions ranging from how to implement international legal frameworks at the national level, to how carbon trading systems can be used as a means of reducing the costs of meeting emission reduction targets."--Book jacket.

Author : Frederico Brandão,George Schoneveld
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The state of oil palm development in the Brazilian Amazon: Trends, value chain dynamics, and business models by Frederico Brandão,George Schoneveld Pdf

Over the past decade, the Brazilian government has actively promoted oil palm in the Amazon biome as an alternative biodiesel feedstock to soy. Because of oil palm’s comparatively high productivity, it places less demand on land than soy and could thereby contribute to reducing pressure on the Amazonian forest. Although oil palm has long been a leading driver of deforestation and social conflict in major producer countries in Southeast Asia, the Brazilian government has put in place a number of mechanisms to ensure oil palm is cultivated sustainably and the sector is inclusive of the rural poor. Through research conducted in Brazil’s leading palm oil producing state of Pará, this paper analyzes the evolution and dynamics of the Brazilian palm oil value chain and the economic, environmental and social challenges faced by the sector. In so doing, it shows that under the right institutional and regulatory conditions, the palm oil sector can expand sustainably and inclusively within forested ecosystems. This though translates into considerably higher production costs for producers, thus undermining the international competitiveness of the Brazilian palm oil sector.

Author : Richard Tarasofsky
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2831704723

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Assessing the International Forest Regime by Richard Tarasofsky Pdf

Provides an assessment of the international forest regime, in reponse to calls from many quarters, including the UN Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF) and the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, as well as several NGOs. The focus is mainly on action taken by countries at the global level, in the framework of legally binding instruments and institutions. It builds on previous analyses of the international forest regime by looking beyond the legal mandates to begin exploring the actual performance of the components against their mandates. With the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) Proposals for Action as the point for departure, the effectiveness and impact of individual legal instruments and global instutions are analyzed, as is the potential for synergy between them.