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Managing hazards, reducing risks and increasing investments in agriculture -some perspectives : critical analysis of policy issues for repositioning agriculture in the Caribbean
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2007)
This special paper seeks to widen understanding and promote a new mindset with respect to three issues critical to the agriculture development process: 1) Natural hazards and disaster mangement in agriculture in the ...
O princípio da precaução e sua aplicação diante de riscos catastróficos
(Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2016-12-21)
The present paper studies the application of the Precautionary Principle in the face of the catastrophic risks. Environmental disasters have potential impact and complexity, which is why Brazil has developed a branch of ...
O princípio da precaução e sua aplicação diante de riscos catastróficos
(Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2016-12-21)
The present paper studies the application of the Precautionary Principle in the face of the catastrophic risks. Environmental disasters have potential impact and complexity, which is why Brazil has developed a branch of ...
Catastrophic regime shift in water reservoirs and São Paulo water supply crisis
(Public Library Science, 2015)
The relation between rainfall and water accumulated in reservoirs comprises nonlinear feedbacks. Here we show that they may generate alternative equilibrium regimes, one of high water-volume, the other of low water-volume. ...
¿Antropoceno o Capitaloceno? Más allá de los términos
(De La Salle ediciones, 2021-06)
En este artículo abordamos dos enfoques sobre la catástrofe ambiental: el Antropoceno y el Capitaloceno. Primero, establecemos una relación entre la sobreexplotación de la naturaleza y la concepción moderna de sujeto ...
A cultura da catástrofe ambiental
(Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio AmbienteUniversidade Federal de Sergipe, 2018)
Identifying drivers of historical genetic decline in an endemic Patagonian rodent, the colonial tuco-tuco, Ctenomys sociabilis (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)
(Oxford University Press, 2018-10)
Understanding the causes of pronounced losses of genetic diversity in natural populations may provide important insights into the evolutionary significance of these events. However, such analyses are typically based on ...