Success of active restoration in grasslands: a case study of birds in southern Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaiane W. Silva ◽  
Carla S. Fontana
Keyword(s):  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Active Restoration

Smart practices in HEIs and the contribution to the SDGs: implementation in Brazilian university

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liane Dalla Gasperina ◽  
Janaina Mazutti ◽  
Luciana Londero Brandli ◽  
Roberto dos Santos Rabello
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Infrastructure Management ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Development Goals

Purpose Smart campuses can be seen as the future of higher education efforts, especially for their contributions to sustainability and to encourage innovation. This paper aims to present the benefits of smart practices in a Higher Education Institutions and highlights its connections to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach The methodology is divided into three steps: first, an international search and assessment of smart practices at universities; second, the identification of smart practices in a university campus in southern Brazil; and third, the presentation of the benefits of smart practices and their relationship with the SDGs. Findings The results showed that globally, the area most covered by smart practices in universities is the environment and, specifically, focused on waste reduction. in the context of this case study, the benefits of implementing smart practices mainly reach SDGs 4 and SDG 9, especially due to aspects of teaching technologies for the new classroom models and the optimization of campus infrastructure management. Practical implications The study encourages other universities to implement smart practices in their campuses, to becoming smart campuses while they also collaborate in achieving the SDGs while raising the discussion on the importance of committed actions taken on a university campus with the UN SDGs, to leverage synergies on campus operations at universities. Originality/value This paper presents a set of smart practices that universities are applying both globally and locally (in southern Brazil). In addition, it contributes to sustainability research by showing how smart practices have the potential to promote SDGs in universities, especially through campus operations.

Geostatistical Framework for Modelling Clay Deposits: Nova Veneza Case Study in Southern Brazil

2002 ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Roger Luis Stangler ◽  
Adelir José Strieder ◽  
Jair Carlos Koppe ◽  
João Felipe Costa ◽  
Margaret Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Clay Deposits

scholarly journals Social Organization and Agricultural Strategies to Face Climate Variability: A Case Study in Guaraciaba, Southern Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Bonatti ◽  
Sandro L. Schlindwein ◽  
Ana Carolina F. De Vasconcelos ◽  
Stefan Sieber ◽  
Luiz Renato D Agostini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Biodiversity Management ◽  
Crop Species

<p>Climate scenarios and projections have suggested that the impacts of climate change on land use will be noticed particularly by the communities that depend on natural resources for their subsistence. The climate vulnerability of poor communities varies greatly, but in general, climate change combines with other threats and becomes superimposed on existing vulnerabilities. This paper presents a case study that strives to understand the social organization in a vulnerable community of Guaraciaba, in southern Brazil, to investigate aspects of an adaptation strategy to climate change based on the local development and conservation of landraces of a set of crop species. Landraces are varieties better adapted to adversities, especially drought, which is an important threat to the famers in the region. Every farmer receives annually a “kit of biodiversity”, a set of local varieties with the amount of seeds necessary to be cultivated in order to produce enough food for the family. The study had a qualitative approach and was carried out through semi-structured interviews with technicians and 30% of the rural families who farm with landraces. The study concludes that the factors that make this adaptation strategy sustainable are: the ability to undertake actions strongly based on local socio-cultural needs (a social support network), biodiversity management practices designed to reduce external economic dependence, self management of genetic resources, the establishment of priorities based on locally available resources, a work plan for community participation (field days, a community based festival), the establishment of the roles of community in the planning and implementation of programs for biodiversity management.</p>

Evaluation of toxic and genotoxic potential of a wet gas scrubber effluent obtained from wooden-based biomass furnaces: A case study in the red ceramic industry in southern Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 259-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Bortolotto ◽  
Jaqueline da Silva ◽  
Alex Célio Sant’Ana ◽  
Kamila Osowski Tomazi ◽  
Reginaldo Geremias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ceramic Industry ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Genotoxic Potential ◽  
Wet Gas

Grazing supplementation and crop diversification benefits for southern Brazil beef: A case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina H. Pereira ◽  
Harold O. Patino ◽  
Aaron K. Hoshide ◽  
Daniel C. Abreu ◽  
C. Alan Rotz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crop Diversification ◽  
Southern Brazil

From Local to Global: The Anti-Dam Movement in Southern Brazil, 1979-1992

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin Rothman ◽  
Pamela Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Power Company ◽  
Financial Base

A case study of the anti-dam movement in southern Brazil shows how particular local mobilizations are linked to national and global economics, politics, and social movements. In the early stages, the progressive church was the predominant influence and was largely responsible for framing the key issue as peasants' right to land, while left intellectuals contributed a class analytical frame. After 1988, the weakening of the regional power company ELETROSUL, the crisis of the Left after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the defeat of the agrarian reform movement, the rise of national and international ecology movements, and the anti-dam movement's need for a broader political and financial base all contributed to the adoption of a broadened and more pro-active land/energy/ecology frame and an alliance with international environmentalism.

Industrial symbiosis in the forestry sector: A case study in southern Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1470-1482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Júlia Wahrlich ◽  
Flávio José Simioni
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Symbiosis ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Forestry Sector
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