Energy, bio fuels and development: comparing Brazil and the United states / edited by Edmund Amann

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2011. Oxon:Description: xxiv,: 332pISBN:

9780415567206

Subject(s):

Energy development-Brazil

DDC classification:

333.790973 ENE

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Donald V. Coes -- pt. I Macroeconomic and distributional dimensions of energy shocks -- 2. Oil price shocks and the macro economy: the United States versus Brazil / Joao Tovar Jalles -- 3. Energy and income distribution in Brazil's development process / Werner Baer -- 4. The earth is finite and other irrelevancies about the world's ultimate oil supply / Fred Gottheil -- 5. Energy restrictions to growth: the past, present and future of energy supply in Brazil / Luciano Losekann -- 6. Oil prices and inflation in Brazil: exchange rate versus inflation targeting / Claudio A.C. Paiva -- 7. Brazilian energy independence: petroleum, trade and economic efficiency / Donald V. Coes -- 8. The role played by the BNDES in funding electricity investments in Brazil / Simone Uderman -- pt. II Social, local and environmental impacts of changes in the energy market. 9. Climate change, energy use and long-run growth in Brazil / Fabio Kanczuk -- 10. Spatial interactions between energy and energy-intensive sectors in the Brazilian economy: a field of influence approach / Denise Imori -- 11. Determinants of the income of workers in sugar cane plantations and in the sugar and ethanol industries in the North-Northeast and Center-South regions of Brazil / Marcia Azanha Ferraz Dias De Moraes -- 12. A framework for examining the impact of bio fuels on the poor in Brazil / Mary Arends-Kuenning -- 13. Bio fuels, food, and trade: a comparison of bio fuel development efforts in two communities in Illinois / Stephen Gasteyer -- 14. Oligopolistic behavior of Brazilian gas stations / Luciano Menezes Bezerra Sampaio -- pt. III The impacts of bio and alternative fuels -- 15. The journey to the next-generation of bioeconomy: the US perspective / Hans P. Blaschek -- 16. Between sustainability and development: bioenergy, land use, food security and lifecycle analysis / Jurgen Scheffran. 17. Bio energy efficiency and a flex-mill simulation in Mato Grosso / Carolina Guimaraes -- 18. The impacts of agriculture-based energy sources on land use in Brazil / Carlos Jose Caetano Bacha -- 19. Fossil fuels, bio fuels, and food: ranking priorities / Joaquim Jose Martins Guilhoto -- 20. The expansion of ethanol and land use in Brazil's Cerrado / Geraldo Bueno Martha Jr. -- 21. The viability of the biodiesel program as an instrument of social inclusion / Paulo Araujo Pontes -- 22. The expansion of sugarcane cultivation and its impact on municipal revenues: an application of dynamic spatial panels to municipalities in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil / Carlos Azzoni -- pt. IV Conclusions -- 23. Conclusions / Werner Baer.

Summary: This collection examines the important and topical issue of the economic, social and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. The book expertly examines this issue by focusing on the contrasting experiences of two major economies.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Donald V. Coes --
pt. I Macroeconomic and distributional dimensions of energy shocks --
2. Oil price shocks and the macro economy: the United States versus Brazil / Joao Tovar Jalles --
3. Energy and income distribution in Brazil's development process / Werner Baer --
4. The earth is finite and other irrelevancies about the world's ultimate oil supply / Fred Gottheil --
5. Energy restrictions to growth: the past, present and future of energy supply in Brazil / Luciano Losekann --
6. Oil prices and inflation in Brazil: exchange rate versus inflation targeting / Claudio A.C. Paiva --
7. Brazilian energy independence: petroleum, trade and economic efficiency / Donald V. Coes --
8. The role played by the BNDES in funding electricity investments in Brazil / Simone Uderman --
pt. II Social, local and environmental impacts of changes in the energy market. 9. Climate change, energy use and long-run growth in Brazil / Fabio Kanczuk --
10. Spatial interactions between energy and energy-intensive sectors in the Brazilian economy: a field of influence approach / Denise Imori --
11. Determinants of the income of workers in sugar cane plantations and in the sugar and ethanol industries in the North-Northeast and Center-South regions of Brazil / Marcia Azanha Ferraz Dias De Moraes --
12. A framework for examining the impact of bio fuels on the poor in Brazil / Mary Arends-Kuenning --
13. Bio fuels, food, and trade: a comparison of bio fuel development efforts in two communities in Illinois / Stephen Gasteyer --
14. Oligopolistic behavior of Brazilian gas stations / Luciano Menezes Bezerra Sampaio --
pt. III The impacts of bio and alternative fuels --
15. The journey to the next-generation of bioeconomy: the US perspective / Hans P. Blaschek --
16. Between sustainability and development: bioenergy, land use, food security and lifecycle analysis / Jurgen Scheffran. 17. Bio energy efficiency and a flex-mill simulation in Mato Grosso / Carolina Guimaraes --
18. The impacts of agriculture-based energy sources on land use in Brazil / Carlos Jose Caetano Bacha --
19. Fossil fuels, bio fuels, and food: ranking priorities / Joaquim Jose Martins Guilhoto --
20. The expansion of ethanol and land use in Brazil's Cerrado / Geraldo Bueno Martha Jr. --
21. The viability of the biodiesel program as an instrument of social inclusion / Paulo Araujo Pontes --
22. The expansion of sugarcane cultivation and its impact on municipal revenues: an application of dynamic spatial panels to municipalities in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil / Carlos Azzoni --
pt. IV Conclusions --
23. Conclusions / Werner Baer.

This collection examines the important and topical issue of the economic, social and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. The book expertly examines this issue by focusing on the contrasting experiences of two major economies.

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