Biodiversity & Bio-fuels in Brazilian Agricultural Areas (original) (raw)
Transparency and targeting of public policies as well as the questionning about what has been and will be done for achieving energy sustainability have been a problem for the Brazilian sugar-ethanol sector. It regards the negative impacts, such as loss of habitats, fragmentation and disturbance of natural areas, among others which the large-scale production and its expansion could generate. At the state level, Sao Paulo is the biggest sugar cane producer in Brazil and the first State which has developed the Agro-environmental Zoning for sugar-ethanol Sector defining appropriate areas to sugar cane expansion. This study shows the incorporation of the biodiversity analysis into the Agro-environmental zoning in order to discuss the future of conservation and land use planning. Although the inclusion of important areas (not protected by law) is a positive aspect of the zoning, the most part of Sao Paulo State may become a sugarcane monoculture; despite the restrictions areas indicated o...
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