PUBLIC POLICIES, NEOEXTRATIVIST DEVELOPMENT AND INDIAN COSMOVISION: THE POLITICAL PROJECT OF THE HIGHWAY CUTTING TIPNIS IN BOLIVIA by Liton Lanes Pilau Sobrinho, Cleide Calgaro, Thiago dos Santos da Silva

“…This article analyzes the highway project proposed by Evo Morales, as a way of development, verifying the risks and socioenvironmental problems caused to the indigenous population and to the environment. …”
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A implantação de vias e o manejo de áreas protegidas na região do jalapão: a rodovia TO 110 e o seu entorno / THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ROUTES AND MANAGEMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS IN THE JALAPÃO REGION: THE HIGHWAY TO 110 AND ITS SURROUNDINGS by Bruno Machado Carneiro, Lucio Flavo Marini Adorno

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Principais determinantes do preço do frete rodoviário para o transporte de soja em grãos em diferentes estados brasileiros: uma análise econométrica by Goncilio Correa Junior, Jose Vicente Caixeta Filho

“…From a multiple linear regression model, results have shown, in higher or lower degree, that the variables related to distance, number of tolls, unloading time at ports, seasonal demand for transport, quality conditions of the highways, influenced differently the rates of the freights in these states, during the periods of high and low seasons. …”
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INCÊNDIOS FLORESTAIS NO ENTORNO DE UNIDADES DE CONSERVAÇÃO - ESTUDO DE CASO NA ESTAÇÃO ECOLÓGICA DE ÁGUAS EMENDADAS, DISTRITO FEDERAL by Eugênio P. Costa, Nilton C. Fiedler, Marcelo B. Medeiros, Fernando B. Wanderley

“…Results had shown that most inclined areas to forest fire occurrence (33.4% highways edges and secondary roads) had their localization related to urban environment, in which 34% of residents used fire as land cleanness. …”
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A construção da BR-364 de Rio Branco a Cruzeiro do Sul - Acre: sonhos, desilusões e desafios dos viajantes da estrada by Fernando Ferreira

“…This article aims to outline aspects of the construction of highway 364, between Rio Branco/Cruzeiro do Sul –Acre. …”
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DESENVOLVIMENTO ECONÔMICO E SOCIAL POR MEIO DE INVESTIMENTOS EM INFRAESTRUTURA: O CASO DA BR-163 by Fernando Vinícius da Rocha, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes

“…The article analyzes the effects of the BR-163 highway in the Brazilian human development index (HDI) of the municipalities in the states of Mato Grosso (MT) and Pará (PA). …”
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A Logística da Exportação de Soja do Estado de Mato Grosso para o Porto de Santos by Maria Lúcia Rangel Filardo, Antonio Augusto Ilario, Gerson Daniel da Silva, Marcelo Alves de Carvalho

“…First of all, the cost of the highway transportation will be analyzed within the State of Mato Grosso, followed by a survey of the available options’ costs to transport the soybeans from Mato Grosso to Santos Seaport where, the embarkment conditions will be discussed at end. …”
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Competitividade das Empresas no Arranjo Produtivo Local de Grãos em Santarém e Belterra/Pará by Cyntia Meireles de Oliveira, Antônio Cordeiro de Santana

“…The construction of the terminal company Cargill Agrícola S.A. and the possibility of paving the BR- 163 highway were determining factors for attracting many producers in the Midwest and South of Brazil to Santarém and Belterra, Pará, which contributed to a rapid change in the production base of grain production along the BR-163 highway through the use of appropriate technologies. …”
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O Nordeste e o Mercado Nacional de Fragrâncias: notas para um mapa da produção/consumo de perfumes no Brasil by Maria Salete de Souza Nery

“…From the symbolic embracing of the Boticário Group’s Distribution Center by the São Gonçalo community members (State of Bahia), at the interstate highway BR-101, this study seeks to understand fragrance market in Brazil and, specifically, the role the Northeast Region plays in it. …”
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Análise de alternativas de rotas disponíveis para a movimentação de grãos e farelos através da hidrovia Tietê-Paraná by João Carlos Vianna de Oliveira, José Vicente Caixeta Filho

“…In this study, through the use of a network model, it is observed that multi-mode alternatives which include that alternative suffer competition of variable level from the road system, which is mainly determined as a function of the origin-destination pair involved, the increase in the distance hauled in comparison to the transportation through the highway system, the cost of transhipment and the waterway costs. …”
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Transamazonic Immigrants: perceptions of the civil-military governmental regime in the political context of 1970. “Memories of three immigrants about the Brazilian Amazon” by Pedro Sérgio Santos da Costa, Francisco Pereira Smith Junior, Paulo Santiago de Sousa

“…This article proposes a reflection on the conceptions concerning the way of living and understanding the civil-military dictatorship in the 70s, particularly in the view of three pioneer migrants, residents of one of the first village inaugurated on the Transamazon Highway and having as a period historical context of the construction of the road in the period of the Civil-Military dictatorship regime. …”
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