Publications by authors named "Gilberto Camara"
Ten facts about land systems for sustainability.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
February 2022
Article Synopsis
- Land use is crucial for sustainability, impacting areas like biodiversity, climate, and food security, with insights from land system science summarizing 10 key truths about these challenges.* ! -
- The 10 truths highlight complexities in land systems, including social values, unpredictable changes, and unequal distributions of benefits, suggesting that "win-win" scenarios in land use are rare.* ! -
- These facts inform governance strategies for sustainable land use, offering guiding principles rather than definitive solutions for scientists, policymakers, and practitioners.* !
This paper presents a dataset of yearly land use and land cover classification maps for Mato Grosso State, Brazil, from 2001 to 2017. Mato Grosso is one of the world's fast moving agricultural frontiers. To ensure multi-year compatibility, the work uses MODIS sensor analysis-ready products and an innovative method that applies machine learning techniques to classify satellite image time series.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Cerrado biome in Brazil is a tropical savanna and an important global biodiversity hot spot. Today, only a fraction of its original area remains undisturbed, and this habitat is at risk of conversion to agriculture, especially to soybeans. Here, we present the first quantitative analysis of expanding the Soy Moratorium (SoyM) from the Brazilian Amazon to the Cerrado biome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of violence on the population's health profile in large Brazilian cities is a real concern and has been incorporated into the country's public health agenda. Although violent crimes affect the entire population, they are distributed unequally in the city. In this context, analytical tools to evaluate the risk and spatial distribution of homicide are important for surveillance and prevention.
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