عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
شماره کتابشناسی ملی
شماره
TLets679775
عنوان و نام پديدآور
عنوان اصلي
Connecting biofuel and deforestation control policies in the Brazilian Amazon :
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Freitas, Tiago Miguel D'Ávila Martins De
عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر
the case of Mato Grosso
نام ساير پديدآوران
Bryant, Raymond Leslie ; Schofield, Richard Neill
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
King's College London
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
King's College London
امتياز متن
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Biofuels are a major element of Brazilian geopolitics and diplomacy. They replace fossil fuels, thereby underpinning national energy security and contribute to Brazilian exports and influence in the world. Biofuels are also one of the GHG mitigation options in the Brazilian climate change regime. However, once land-use related emissions from biofuel crop production are considered, the environmental payoff is measurably diluted, illustrating one area where two mitigation instruments - biofuel production and deforestation control - can clash. Decisions on how land should be used, whether for food, biofuel production or environmental preservation are therefore crucial, intertwined as they are with land tenure systems and geopolitical discourses and practices. The thesis investigates the connections between biofuel and deforestation control policies in the Brazilian Amazon with two case studies in the state of Mato Grosso. With a qualitative methodology, the case studies analyse the political ecology of biofuel land-use in the production pathways of biodiesel from soybeans and ethanol from sugar cane. The study identifies weaknesses in the inclusion of deforestation concerns in biofuel policies and further contradictions on the ground, thus casting doubts about the real GHG emission reduction potential of biofuels. Furthermore, there are also clear efforts at legitimising biofuel crop expansion in the Amazon as a result of discourses and practices operating within Mato Grosso and at the federal level, in contrast to the international commitments on deforestation control made by the Brazilian government. Biofuel and deforestation control policies have been important elements of Brazil's international 'green soft power' strategy, but their domestic contradictions, as the case studies show, are significant. This thesis examines these pressing issues in a novel way by combining a political ecology approach with critical geopolitics. It also provides the first in-depth analysis of this kind in the Brazilian context - a world biofuel leader - and highlights the need for further scholarship in this pivotal subject.
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
Freitas, Tiago Miguel D'Ávila Martins De
نام شخص - ( مسئولیت معنوی درجه دوم )
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
Schofield, Richard Neill
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
Bryant, Raymond Leslie
شناسه افزوده (تنالگان)
مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده
King's College London
دسترسی و محل الکترونیکی
نام الکترونيکي
مطالعه متن کتاب وضعیت انتشار
فرمت انتشار
p
اطلاعات رکورد کتابشناسی
نوع ماده
[Thesis]
کد کاربرگه
276903
اطلاعات دسترسی رکورد
سطح دسترسي
a
تكميل شده
Y
