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Who owns the Brazilian carbon?
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Land and Water Resources Engineering. (Environmental Management and Assessment)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8313-5845
Chalmers University, Energy and Environment.
University of São Paulo, Soil Dep..
Chalmers University, Energy and Environment.
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Keywords [en]
Land use policy, land tenure, forest act, ecosystem services protection, above-ground carbon, Brazil.
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Environmental Sciences Landscape Architecture Climate Research
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-206839OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-206839DiVA, id: diva2:1094085
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QC 20170509

Available from: 2017-05-09 Created: 2017-05-09 Last updated: 2022-06-27Bibliographically approved
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1. Brazilian land use policies and the development of ecosystem services
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2017 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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Concerns related to global environmental changes due to land use changes have been driving international communities towards more sustainable land use systems. Brazil is a country of global strategic importance in this matter considering that it is the nation with the largest extension of preserved tropical native vegetation, recognised for its ecosystem services and high and unique biodiversity. Expansion of forestry and agriculture is taking place rapidly in Brazil, partly over degraded pastureland, but also over native vegetation. Regulating policies to govern and limit this expansion is crucial to ensure the preservation of the ecosystems services provided by native vegetation.  This thesis aims at improving the understanding of the potential impacts of prevailing public and private policies in the conservation of nature in Brazil. For this end, the Land Use Policy Assessment (LUPA) model was employed to evaluate potential pathways of implementation of the land use policies. Paper 1 evaluated the effects of current private and public command and control regulations in the protection of above-ground carbon stocks, identifying the most relevant stakeholders holding carbon stocks. The findings suggest that about 10% of carbon stocks are unprotected, where other policy instruments based on the market will be mostly required. Paper 2 performed an assessment of the mechanism for offsetting the legal deficit of native vegetation among landholders, evaluating the different offsetting implementation practices and their impacts on nature protection and socio-economic development. The results indicate that the offsetting mechanism may have little or no additional effects on protection of native vegetation and its ecosystem services because most of the offsetting is likely to take place where native vegetation is already protected by current legislations. However, it is viable to maximise environmental and socio-economic returns from the offsetting mechanism.

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Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2017. p. 39
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TRITA-LWR. LIC, ISSN 1650-8629 ; 2017:01
Keywords
Brazil, Land use policy, Forest protection, Ecosystem services, Biodiversity, Offsetting of legal reserves
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Environmental Sciences Landscape Architecture Forest Science Environmental Management
Research subject
Land and Water Resources Engineering
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urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-206844 (URN)978-91-7729-433-7 (ISBN)
Presentation
2017-06-09, V1, Teknikringen 76, KTH, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2017-05-10 Created: 2017-05-09 Last updated: 2022-06-27Bibliographically approved

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