Granville High School Global Awareness Research

Brazil - Resources on various topics

Prepared by Magda El-Sherbini

Understaffed Schools

• ​Environmental Education and training in Brazil. Discussion paper no.4 
• Achieving world-class education in Brazil: the next agenda / Barbara Bruns, David Evans, Javier Luque 
• Commodifying Education : Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Financialization of Education Policies in Brazil Springer Science and Business Media : SensePublishers, 2016 
• Education: agreement between the United States of America and Brazil signed at Brasilia May 27, 2008 

• ​The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2009 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2010.) 
• International perspectives on teaching the four skills in ELT : listening, speaking, reading, writing / Anne Burns, Joseph Siegel, editor. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 

• International Workshop on Social, Semantic, Adaptive and Gamification Techniques and Technologies for Distance Learning (1st : 2017 : Maceió)
• Higher education for all: first International Workshop on Social, Semantic, Adaptive and Gamification Techniques and Technologies for Distance Learning, HEFA 2017, Maceió, March 20-24, 2017
• Critical Issues Facing Teacher Education and Teacher Education Research in Brazil

Favelas 

• A resistência à remoção de favelas no Rio de Janeiro, instituições do comum e resistências urbana : Rio de Janeiro : Editora Revan, [2016] 
• Postcards from Rio: favelas and the contested geographies of citizenship / Kátia da Costa Bezerra. New York : Fordham University Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) 
• Caracas: Gangs, Favelas and Miss Universe [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015 

• Slums: how informal real estate markets work / edited by Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, and Shahana Chattaraj . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) 
• The Posse / TVE International ; BBC Worldwide ; written and directed by Steve Bradshaw. [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017] 

• Visual imagery and human rights practice / editors, Sandra Ristovska and Monroe Price. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 
• Tentative transgressions [electronic resource] : homosexuality, AIDS, and the theatre in Brazil Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)

Disease 

• Albuquerque, Severino João Medeiros. Tentative transgressions [electronic resource] : homosexuality, AIDS, and the theatre in Brazil 
• Bovine tuberculosis control and eradication in Brazil: lessons to learn from the US and Australia. Food Control. 2018 
• Caregiving for patients with Alzheimer's disease or dementia and its association with psychiatric and clinical comorbidities and other health outcomes in Brazil. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2016
• Community and environment for physical activity among young people: a systematic review of the Report Card Brazil 2018. Brazilian Journal of Kineanthropometry & Human Performance 2018 

• Chronic diseases and socioeconomic inequalities in quality of life among Brazilian adults: findings from a population-based study in Southern Brazil. Chronic diseases and socioeconomic inequalities in quality of life among Brazilian adults: findings from a population-based study in Southern Brazil. 2018 
• Adopting the Female Condom in Kenya and Brazil: Perspectives of Women and Men: A Synthesis: The International AIDS/HIV Crisis, Part 1: 1985-1999. Nov. 1997. Archives of Sexuality & Gender, http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/97ZjM8. Accessed 13 Feb. 2019. 
• Cure for Chagas Disease Discovered 

• The politics and history of AIDS treatment in Brazil [electronic resource] / Amy Nunn. New York, NY : Springer, c2009 
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Brazilian National STD/AIDS Program: The International AIDS/HIV Crisis, Part 1: 1985-1999. 1999. Archives of Sexuality & Gender, 
• Predictors of Cognitive and Functional Decline in Patients With Alzheimer Disease Dementia From Brazil. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders. 2016 
• Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS in Brazil. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Retrieved from Anthropology Online database. 
• The prevalence of global physical activity among young people: a systematic review for the Report Card Brazil 2018.  Brazilian Journal of Kineanthropometry & Human Performance. 
• The Rheumatic Heart Disease Healthcare Paradox: Salvador, Brazil. eScholarship. 2017 
• Tuberculosis burden on AIDS in Brazil: A study using linked databases. Academic Search Complete. 2018 

Government Corruption 

• Accountability, Corruption and Local Government: Mapping the Control Steps.  Brazilian Political Science Review, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 1-31 (2017) 
• Audit risk and rent extraction: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Brazil. Journal of Development Economics. 2018 
• BRAZIL. 2004. BRAZIL. Sao Paulo. Inside a shop, Brazilian President Luis Inacio LULA da SILVA on television during his speech giving account for on accusations of corruption against his government. 2004. ARTstor Digital Library. 2004 
• Brazil's all-corrupt politics: electoral choice that is no choice. Le Monde Diplomatique. 2018 
• Brazil's Democracy Can Survive the Rise of a Diehard Demagogue.  Time. 2018 
• Brazil's fight against corruption.  IBA Global Insight. 2016 
• Brazil’s Never-Ending Corruption Crisis. Foreign Affairs. 2017 

• Brazil's Odebrecht scandal: conglomerate that paid off a government.  Le Monde Diplomatique. 2017 
• Corruption and the erosion of citizen trust in Brazil and South Africa. African Journal of Public Affairs. 2017 
• Effects of primary health decentralization in Brazil on the corruption level of municipalities investigated by the central government.  Nova Economia. 2017 
• Explaining infrastructure underperformance in Brazil: cash, political institutions, corruption, and policy Gestalts. Policy Studies. 2017 
• Municipal administration and corruption in the implementation of federal education programs. RAP: Revista Brasileira de Administração Pública. 2018 
• Politics.(Hurricane Irma hits Caribbean Islands and Florida;earthquake in Mexico; and Brazil corruption scandal). The Economist. 2017 
• Protesters In Brazil Highlight Discontent With Government Corruption. All Things Considered. 2016. 

• Revealed Corruption, Taxation, and Fiscal Accountability: Evidence from Brazil.  World Development. 2015 
• The Brazilian crisis: corruption, neoliberalism, and the primary sector. Monthly Review. 2017 
• Weber's bureaucratic model in Brazil: The corruption of ideas as obstacles to the implementation of public policies.  Geoforum. 2018 

Pollution 

• Air Pollution and Deaths among Elderly Residents of Sao Paulo, Brazil: An Analysis of Mortality Displacement. Air Pollution and Deaths among Elderly Residents of Sao Paulo, Brazil: An Analysis of Mortality Displacement. 2017. 
• Barrie Machin's Brazil. [Nambiquara]. Lourenço Kithãulhu, Nambiquara and environmental pollution. Alexander Street Press. 2018 
• Concentration, distribution and source apportionment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in Poxim River sediments, Brazil.  Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2018 

• Geochemical behavior, environmental availability, and reconstruction of historical trends of Cu, Pb, and Zn in sediment cores of the Cananeia-Iguape coastal system, southeastern Brazil. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2018. 
• Mapping groundwater pollution vulnerability with application in a basin in southern Brazil. Environmental Earth Sciences. 2018 
• Nitrogen and oxygen isotopes as indicators of pollution sources in the Faxinal Dam watershed, southern Brazil.  Environmental Earth Sciences. 2018 
• Quality reference values and background concentrations of potentially toxic elements in soils from the eastern Amazon, Brazil.  Journal of Geochemical Exploration.2018 
• Small-Scale Variations in Urban Air Pollution Levels Are Significantly Associated with Premature Births: A Case Study in São Paulo, Brazil. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health. 2018 
• The response of neotropical fish species (Brazil) on the water pollution: metal bioaccumulation and genotoxicity. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 2018 
• Tree rings reveal the reduction of Cd, Cu, Ni and Pb pollution in the central region of São Paulo, Brazil.  Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex: 1987). 2018 

Deforestation 

• Altered nature of terrestrial organic matter transferred to aquatic systems following deforestation in the Amazon. Applied Geochemistry. 2017. 
• Cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by sparing land from deforestation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2014 
• Deforestation control and agricultural supply in Brazil. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2015. 
• Deforestation Dynamics on an Amazonian Peri-Urban Frontier: Simulating the Influence of the Rio Negro Bridge in Manaus, Brazil. Environmental Management. 2018. 
• Evolutionary models of sustainable economic change in Brazil: No-till agriculture, reduced deforestation and ethanol biofuels. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 2017. 

• Historic carbon burial spike in an Amazon floodplain lake linked to riparian deforestation near Santarem, Brazil.  Biogeosciences 2018. 
• Land use change increases streamflow across the arc of deforestation in Brazil. Geophysical Research Letters. 2018. 
• Mangrove Response to Land Use Change in Estuaries along the Semiarid Coast of Ceará, Brazil.  Computers & Applied Sciences Complete. 2018. 
• Quantitative analysis of the beef cattle industry in the state of Para, Brazil. Semina: Ciencias Agrarias. 2018. 
• Towards zero deforestation and forest restoration in the Amazon region of Maranhão state, Brazil.  Land Use Policy. 2017.