Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

View all journals
Search
Log in

nature
search

Search

Advanced search

Filter By:

Journal Check one or more journals to show results from those journals only.

Nature Climate Change (2)
Nature Sustainability (1)

Choose more journals

Article type Check one or more article types to show results from those article types only.

Research (3)

Subject Check one or more subjects to show results from those subjects only.

Agriculture
Climate sciences
Energy and society
Environmental social sciences
Forestry

Date Choose a date option to show results from those dates only.

Today
Last 7 days
Last 30 days
Last 12 months
Last 2 years
Last 5 years

Custom date range

Clear all filters

Sort by:

Relevance

Date published (new to old)

Date published (old to new)

Showing 1–3 of 3 results

Advanced filters: Author: Gerd Sparovek Clear advanced filters

Potential increase of legal deforestation in Brazilian Amazon after Forest Act revision

A provision of the Forest Act in Brazil could legalize deforestation of an additional 6.5–15 million ha of private lands, under a plausible scenario of protected public land reaching 65% in some states.

Flavio L. M. Freitas
Gerd Sparovek
Ulla Mörtberg
Research13 Nov 2018
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 1, P: 665-670
Reply to: Brazilian ethanol expansion subject to limitations

Deepak Jaiswal
Amanda P. De Souza
Stephen P. Long
Research25 Feb 2019
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 9, P: 211-212
Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an expandable green alternative to crude oil use

Biofuels have lower CO₂ emissions than fossil fuels, but competing land demands can limit expansion of production. This study shows Brazilian sugarcane ethanol could displace up to 13% of global crude oil consumption by 2045 whilst balancing forest conservation and future land demand for food.

Deepak Jaiswal
Amanda P. De Souza
Stephen P. Long
Research23 Oct 2017
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 7, P: 788-792