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List of figures | p. xv |
List of tables | p. xvii |
List of contributors | p. xxi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Macroeconomic and distributional dimensions of energy shocks | p. 3 |
Oil price shocks and the macro economy: the United States versus Brazil | p. 5 |
Energy and income distribution in Brazil's development process | p. 23 |
The earth is finite and other irrelevancies about the world's ultimate oil supply | p. 38 |
Energy restrictions to growth: the past, present and future of energy supply in Brazil | p. 51 |
Oil prices and inflation in Brazil: exchange rate versus inflation targeting | p. 65 |
Brazilian energy independence: petroleum, trade and economic efficiency | p. 72 |
The role played by the BNDES in funding electricity investments in Brazil | p. 95 |
Social, local and environmental impacts of changes in the energy market | p. 111 |
Climate change, energy use and long-run growth in Brazil | p. 113 |
Spatial interactions between energy and energy-intensive sectors in the Brazilian economy: a field of influence approach | p. 122 |
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 | p. 137 |
A framework for examining the impact of bio fuels on the poor in Brazil | p. 151 |
Bio fuels, food, and trade: a comparison of bio fuel development efforts in two communities in Illinois | p. 164 |
Oligopolistic behavior of Brazilian gas stations | p. 178 |
The impacts of bio and alternative fuels | p. 195 |
The journey to the next-generation of bioeconomy: the US perspective | p. 197 |
Between sustain ability and development: bioenergy, land use, food security and lifecycle analysis | p. 203 |
Bio energy efficiency and a flex-mill simulation in Mato Grosso | p. 221 |
The impacts of agriculture-based energy sources on land use in Brazil | p. 236 |
Fossil fuels, bio fuels, and food: ranking priorities | p. 256 |
The expansion of ethanol and land use in Brazil's Cerrado | p. 268 |
The viability of the biodiesel program as an instrument of social inclusion | p. 285 |
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 | p. 292 |
Conclusions | p. 315 |
Conclusions | p. 317 |
Index | p. 322 |
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