How many green jobs are there in electricity generation? A replicable quantification method for developing countries under data constraints

Assessing the scale of green jobs and the socioeconomic effects of the energy transition is relevant and timely, while clear, comparable methodologies are still scarce. The discussion around just transitions, and the extent to which renewable energy creates more positive socioeconomic impacts than fossil fuels, increasingly attracts policymakers' and researchers' attention. However, data constraints, particularly in developing economies, expose a relevant gap in providing quantitative evidence for such discussions. This is especially relevant in countries with outstanding potential for renewable deployments, such as the case of Brazil. Existing data usually is considerably aggregated into activities irrespectively of technology or Greenhouse gas emission profile, and general international frameworks for such quantification may prove inadequate. In this paper, we propose a replicable data triangulation approach to disaggregate electricity jobs and wages into renewable and non-renewable electricity generation sources applied to the case of Brazil, using national accounts data, energy generation statistics and electricity-source specific employment coefficients from where data is available. One can use the resulting dataset either purely as the current scale of renewable and non-renewable electricity jobs and income or as the database for further modelling projections, particularly macroeconomic, multisectoral models, namely input-output and computable general equilibrium models

Estimativa de diversidade genética entre espécies de cana com potencial sucroenergético.

Edição Especial dos Anais do 3° Simpósio da Rede de Recursos Genéticos Vegetais do Nordeste, Aracaju, out. 2017

Sistema alternativo de criação de galinhas caipiras.

Origem genealógica e raças; Alimentação; Instalações e equipamentos; Reprodução; Comercialização.bitstream/item/80710/1/sistemaproducao-4.PD

Paving (through) Amazonia: Neoliberal Urbanism and the Reperipheralization of Roraima

This paper examines the neoliberal reshaping of infrastructure provision in Brazil's extreme north since the mid-1990s, when roadway investments resulted in unprecedented regional connectivity. The BR-174 upgrade, the era's most important project, marked a transition from resource-based developmentalism to free-market transnationalism. Primarily concerned with urban competitiveness, the federal government funded the trunk roadway's paving to facilitate manufacturing exports from Manaus. While an effort was made to minimize deforestation, planners sidelined development implications in adjacent Roraima. The state's urban system has thus experienced reperipheralization and intensified primacy. Market-led growth now compounds the inheritance of hierarchical centralism and ongoing governmental neglect. Our study shows a vast territory dependent on primate cities for basic goods and services. Travelling with Roraimans from bypassed towns, we detected long-distance passenger transportation and surface logistics with selective routes. Heterogeneous Roraiman (im)mobilities comprise middle-class tourism and heightened consumerism as well as informal mobility tactics and transnational circulations of precarious labor. The paper exhorts neoliberal urbanism research to look beyond both Euro America's metropoles and their Global South counterparts. Urbanization dynamics in Brazil's extreme north demonstrate that market-disciplined investments to globalize cities produce far-reaching spatial effects. These are felt even by functionally-articulated-yet-marginalized peripheries in ostensibly remote locations

Early and Late Pathogenic Events of Newborn Mice Encephalitis Experimentally Induced by Itacaiunas and Curionópolis Bracorhabdoviruses Infection

In previous reports we proposed a new genus for Rhabdoviridae and described neurotropic preference and gross neuropathology in newborn albino Swiss mice after Curionopolis and Itacaiunas infections. In the present report a time-course study of experimental encephalitis induced by Itacaiunas and Curionopolis virus was conducted both in vivo and in vitro to investigate cellular targets and the sequence of neuroinvasion. We also investigate, after intranasal inoculation, clinical signs, histopathology and apoptosis in correlation with viral immunolabeling at different time points. Curionopolis and Itacaiunas viral antigens were first detected in the parenchyma of olfactory pathways at 2 and 3 days post-inoculation (dpi) and the first clinical signs were observed at 4 and 8 dpi, respectively. After Curionopolis infection, the mortality rate was 100% between 5 and 6 dpi, and 35% between 8 and 15 dpi after Itacaiunas infection. We identified CNS mice cell types both in vivo and in vitro and the temporal sequence of neuroanatomical olfactory areas infected by Itacaiunas and Curionopolis virus. Distinct virulences were reflected in the neuropathological changes including TUNEL immunolabeling and cytopathic effects, more intense and precocious after intracerebral or in vitro inoculations of Curionopolis than after Itacaiunas virus. In vitro studies revealed neuronal but not astrocyte or microglial cytopathic effects at 2 dpi, with monolayer destruction occurring at 5 and 7 dpi with Curionopolis and Itacaiunas virus, respectively. Ultrastructural changes included virus budding associated with interstitial and perivascular edema, endothelial hypertrophy, a reduced and/or collapsed small vessel luminal area, thickening of the capillary basement membrane, and presence of phagocytosed apoptotic bodies. Glial cells with viral budding similar to oligodendrocytes were infected with Itacaiunas virus but not with Curionopolis virus. Thus, Curionopolis and Itacaiunas viruses share many pathological and clinical features present in other rhabdoviruses but distinct virulence and glial targets in newborn albino Swiss mice brain