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This work aims to demonstrate the possibility of inclusion of environmental indicators in the Current Port Performance System (SDP) used to evaluate the Brazilian ports. The environmental indicators are very important because of the scope of the environmental issue and, when used...

The present article proposes a structured approach to assessing environmental performance through a procedure that establishes a course of action to complete the evaluation of corporate environmental performance, integrating environmental indicators that respond to major policies...

Social-environmental indicators: evolution and perspectives. This article deals with the balance of sustainability indicators and/or sustainable development indicators. Major gaps and blocks - both conceptual and operational - still hinder the socio-environmental governance from ...

This thesis investigates the sustainability of peasant or family farm agriculture in the south of Brazil. Two different technological approaches adopted by those farmers were scrutinized: the agroecological and the conventional technological systems. A methodology to identify agr...

Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) configure protected areas, covered or not by native vegetation, legally established by law. These areas have environmental functions that integrate with each other and are associated with their different categories. The study aimed the adaptati...

This study is an analysis of the use of indicators for sustainability at the port of Santos - SP. Aims to discuss the use of this kind of indicators for port activities, its importance and difficulties. The exploratory research was based on literature and documents provided by po...

Some parasites of fishes can be utilized as indicators of water quality and environmental health. As intermediate and paratenic hosts, generally small and delicate, belonging to a complex relationship chain, they must vary their population in accordance to the variety of pollutan...

This work aimed to analyze the Environmental Management indicators of municipalities fully or partially inserted in the watershed of Japaratuba River in the State of Sergipe.Through specific objectives were identified and measured the indicators of institutional capacity and envi...

The literature on analytical methods of accounting and corporate financial analysis models and cr edit indicators is large , and among the methods of credit risk classification is the classification model ratings, through which institutions classifie s customers according to thei...

The Brazilian financial sector has made considerable advances in the incorporation of environmental issues, seeking to integrate the exercise of its social role into business practices. Owing to this responsibility, the banks need to evaluate economic issues alongside each compan...

The present dissertation analyses the production systems and the environmental, economic and sociopolitical sustainability of properties of familybased coffee production with different levels of use of agroecological management in the agroecosystem and in the participation in soc...

Although the creation of Conservation Units has been a widely used strategy by many countries to contain the increasing threat to their biomes, it is already a consensus in the literature that the mere definition of these areas through legal instruments is not enough to assure it...

This study aimed to create EI Scal, an environmental impact assessment scal, related to construction materials used in the reinforced concrete structure production. The main reason for that was based on the need to classify the environmental impact levels through indicators to as...

This study presents the methodology of construction of the Agricultural Environmental Sustainability Index (ISAGRI). This Index was evaluated in the watersheds of the rivers Oriçanga and Araras, both belonging to the Mogi Guaçu river basin. This is a representative area of differ...

In considering the development of forest harvesting in the country, it is observed that the progress was very big. Since the 60 s until the present day there were many changes occurred in this sector, with the operations evolved from a manual process for the semimechanized, becam...

ABSTRACT Modern society faces serious challenges, among them, the complexity of environmental problems. Thus, there are several possible sources of environmental degradation, however, the waste produced by health services have an important peculiarity due to its toxic or pathogen...

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This dissertation aims to establish indicators for the evaluation of the environmental performance of the railway operations, as well as to establish a hierarchy among them regarding their importance given by specialists in the transportation and environment areas. A survey was c...

The study of biological soil quality indicators in areas with Araucaria is very important to understand ecological processes in these systems, since groups of the soil fauna are major factors in the decomposition and mineralization of organic matter, as well as modifiers of soil ...

This work analyzes the use of Environmental Management Instruments, by environmental Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), based on principles of environmental economy. It investigates the management instruments application by environmental NGOs, regarding with its contribution ...

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