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Expansión de la frontera agropecuaria en el eje San Ramón-La Merced de la selva central del Perú

Conference Papers & Reports
September, 1981
Peru

Examina las experiencias obtenidas en la ocupación económica del territorio comprendido en el eje San Ramón-La Merced, de la Selva Central del Perú. El análisis está orientado a determinar las políticas de acción utilizadas por el Gobierno, el sector privado y otros, en el proceso de expansión agropecuaria y sus incidencias en el uso de los nuevos espacios, en cuanto a la conservación y mejoramiento de los ecosistemas intervenidos.

Pobreza urbana y medio ambiente: orientaciones metodológicas

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 1981
South America
Central America

Realiza una revisión crítica de las teorías tradicionales de marginalidad urbana y del tratamiento que hacen de las dimensiones ecológicas del fenómeno. Analiza el impacto de las diferentes formas de integración desigual en las áreas precarias y la intervención planificada en asentamientos precarios. Presenta una pauta de orientaciones metodológicas para los estudios de casos.

Sustainable crop intensification through surface water irrigation in Bangladesh? A geospatial assessment of landscape-scale production potential

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2016
Bangladesh
United States of America
Southern Asia

Changing dietary preferences and population growth in South Asia have resulted in increasing demand for wheat and maize, along side high and sustained demand for rice. In the highly productive northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, farmers utilize groundwater irrigation to assure that at least two of these crops are sequenced on the same field within the same year. Such double cropping has had a significant and positive influence on regional agricultural productivity. But in the risk-prone and food insecure lower Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains (EIGP), cropping is less intensive.

Measuring environmental incomes beyond standard national and ecosystem accounting frameworks: testing and comparing the agroforestry Accounting System in a holm oak dehesa case study in Andalusia-Spain

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2020
Global

The standard System of National Accounts (SNA) omits the costs of the environmental inputs from nature and the environmental fixed asset degradation from the national/sub-national natural working landscapes. The United Nations Statistic Division (UNSD) is currently drafting the standardization of the Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (EEA), as part of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).

Singapore’s Lost Coast: Land Reclamation, National Development and the Erasure of Human and Ecological Communities, 1822–Present

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2019
Singapore

Beginning during the colonial period, and greatly accelerating following independence in 1965, Singapore has used land reclamation to increase its national domain by nearly 25 per cent. The construction of new land was a key component of the nation’s celebrated rise from ‘third world’ to ‘first world’ in the postcolonial period. But the economic benefits of remaking Singapore’s coastline came at significant ecological and social costs. Nearly all of the original shore, and its attendant mangrove forests and natural beaches, were lost. So too were two-thirds of Singapore’s coral reefs.

Price movement in the Brazilian land market (1994-2010): an analysis in the light of post-Keynesian theory

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
South America
Brazil
The present study aims to evaluate crop, pasture and forest land prices in Brazil, between 1994 and 2010, in the light of Post-Keynesian theory. The results provide evidence that land, more than just a simple factor of production, must be conceived of as an economic asset. In fact, the price of rural land is determined not only by the expected profitability deriving from agricultural activities but also by the agents’ expectations about its future appreciation and liquidity in an economic environment permeated with uncertainty.