Drug development, Brazilian biodiversity and political choices: Where are we heading?

PMP Ferreira, DDR Arcanjo… - Journal of Toxicology and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this review was to (i) acknowledge structural advantages of natural products
(NPs) for designing therapeutic drugs;(ii) emphasize how wildlife conservation is socially …

Offshore oil spills in Brazil: An extensive review and further development

DC Zacharias, AT Lemos, P Keramea, RC Dantas… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study offers an extensive overview on the evolution and current state of marine
oil spill research in Brazil and then discusses further directions. Given the historical and …

Risk governance in the response to global health emergencies: understanding the governance of chaos in Brazil's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic

GM Di Giulio, IM Mendes, FDR Campos… - Health Policy and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The Covid-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has shown how inadequate institutional
strategies interact with, and exacerbate, social inequalities, thus impacting upon the intensity …

Disputing the bioeconomy-biodiversity nexus in Brazil: Coalitions, discourses and policies

G de Queiroz-Stein, FS Martinelli, T Dietz… - Forest Policy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Existing literature on bioeconomy has mostly focused on industrialized countries in the
global North and has not paid much attention to the role of biodiversity in promoting new …

Understanding deforestation lock-in: Insights from Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon

G Russo Lopes, MG Bastos Lima - Frontiers in Forests and Global …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cropland and pasture expansion continues to erase natural ecosystems at a staggering
speed globally, notably in the tropics. Conventional policy approaches, usually focused on a …

Fingerprinting an oil spill event (August of 2021) in the oceanic Fernando de Noronha archipelago using biomarkers and stable carbon isotopes

LPH Bastos, D da Costa Cavalcante, CLF Alferes… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
After the most catastrophic oil spill event on the Brazilian coast (2019/2020), a new incident
of unknown causes sent, in August of 2021, approximately 1.3 tons of plastics and oil to the …

The impacts of political activity on fires and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest: An analysis of social media and satellite data

VP Rodrigues, MAL Caetano - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Social media has become a one-stop shop for consuming news and expressing political
views. Politics has become increasingly emotional, and the ensuing polarization has created …

Climate (of) change: the promise and perils of technology in achieving a just transition

S Monaco - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The paper aims to contribute to the broader literature on just transition by
examining the intersection of technology and justice, and identifying opportunities for …

[HTML][HTML] Dispossessions in Bolsonaro's Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic

D Bin - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
In 2020–2021 Brazil simultaneously experienced the far-right presidency of Jair Bolsonaro
and the world's largest health crisis in a century. The Covid-19 pandemic struck the country …

Transformações na governança ambiental brasileira: análise da evolução da participação social e do desenho institucional do Conselho Nacional de Meio Ambiente …

RR Monteiro, EM da Silva… - Boletim de …, 2023 - revista.ioles.com.br
No atual cenário de busca global pelos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS), a
governança ambiental no Brasil destaca-se, especialmente pela inclusão da participação …