Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil From State Intervention to a Free Market / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Moraes, Arcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de.
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- 其他題名：
- Natural Resource Management and Policy ;
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer
- 叢書名： Natural Resource Management and Policy ;v.43
- 主題： Biomass energy industries--Brazil. , Cellulosic ethanol--Brazil. , Economics/Management Science. , Environmental economics , Energy Policy, Economics and Management. , Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. , Development economics
- ISBN： 9783319031408 (electronic bk.) 、 9783319031392 (paper)
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CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
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- 系統號： 005113746 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in adopting policies designed to encourage the use of biofuels. Within this context, certain questions arise: Could the Brazilian experience be replicated in other countries? What were the conditions that enabled the creation of the Brazilian Proálcool (National Ethanol Program and what lessons can be learned? To examine these issues, it is important to understand the functioning of the key, interconnected markets (those for sugarcane, sugar and ethanol), which, from their inception, were the objects of extensive government intervention until 1999. Two main conditions enabled the creation of Proálcool: robust production of sugarcane and sugar (tightly regulated by the government, which applied the numerous regulations then in place); and the military regime that was in place at the time, whose decision-making and enforcement powers were quite broad, facilitating the carrying out of the necessary actions, as well as making it easier to coordinate the activities of the various stakeholders and sectors involved. This book increases understanding of the functioning of the sugarcane supply chain in Brazil, not only during the phase of government intervention but also in recent years (in the free-market environment). The lessons, positive and negative, gleaned from the Brazilian experience can contribute to reflection on and the development of alternative modalities of biofuel production in other countries, making the book of interest to scholars and policy-makers concerned with biofuel and renewable resources as well as economic development.