Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Antonio Juliani Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 324 ISBN: 9783659517686
Описание
The need to expand in a sustainable way the use of renewable energy sources has in the ethanol from sugar cane an economically viable alternative with significant potential of expansion. This book attempts to evaluate the environmental sustainability of the socio-economic development process of municipalities which are involved in ethanol production in Sao Paulo state that is the biggest producer of Brazil. The assessment proposed is done by means of the elaboration of an Ethanol sustainability Index of Sao Paulo state (IPSE) which is a system of environmental and socio-economic indicators to analyze 306 municipalities involved in the ethanol production and which have the planted area with sugar cane greater than 5.000 hectares. It is also developed a chapter with comparative analysis of the 127 municipalities that do not have planted area with sugar cane in its territory and do not belong to the ethanol production chain. At the end, along with the conclusions of the analysis are...
