Cities and their populations have suffered from the impacts of accelerated urbanization, with natural disasters, especially involving urban waters. The human and material losses witnessed in recent years, in Brazil and in the world, call attention to the importance of the transition to more...

This Discussion Text aims to analyze the initiatives of the states for agriculture and agrarian organization in Brazil. We use open data, mainly from public transparency portals and consultations on websites of entities involved with policies. Policies, plans, programs, or actions are identified...

The aim of this paper is to identify the path of the gasoline price elasticity, ethanol price elasticity, ethanol-gasoline cross-price elasticity and the gasoline-ethanol cross-price elasticity for the flex-fuel vehicle market, as well as to discuss the taxation policies impact of the Economic...

This Discussion Paper is predicated on the assumption that solid waste (SW) is paramount for individuals, urban communities, and the natural environment. Furthermore, it is proposed that SW can be regarded as a resource with economic value throughout its life cycle rather than merely an object...

This article's main objective is to present an overview of the financing of public basic sanitation services in Brazil. We emphasize incentivized debenture-type bond issues as a complement to traditional credit mechanisms for the sector, based on the database of debentures issued in Brazil,...