Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index.
Globalization, economic valuation, and natural resource policies in Brazil / Peter H. May -- Measuring sustainability: forest values and agropastoral expansion in Brazil / Peter H. May -- Developing a quantitative framework for sustainable resource-use planning in the Brazilian Amazon / Oriana Trindade De Almeida and Christopher Uhl -- Charcoal-fueled steel production in Brazil: an exercise in environmental valuation / Josemar X. De Medeiros -- Economic valuation of mangrove ecosystems / Monica Grasso and Yara Schaeffer-Novelli -- Contingent valuation in Brazil: an estimation of pollution damage in the Pantanal / Dominic Moran and Andr ̌Steffens Moraes -- Estimation of water quality control benefits and instruments in Brazil / Ronaldo Serḁ da Motta and Leonardo Rezende -- Valuing social sustainability: environmental recuperation on Favela hillsides in Rio de Janeiro / Peter H. May.