Strategies and Tools for a Sustainable Rural Rio de Janeiro

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxii
 Rio de Janeiro: A State in Socio-ecological Transformation  (Udo Nehren, Dietmar Sattler, Claudia Raedig, Helga Hissa, Sabine Schlüter)....Pages 1-10
 Environmental History, Forests, and Landscape Uses in Rio de Janeiro State  (Rogério Oliveira, Joana Fraga, Mark Hickie)....Pages 11-22
 Sustainable Rural Development in Rio de Janeiro State: The Rio Rural Program  (Helga Restum Hissa, Nelson T. Alves Filho, Marcelo Costa, Guilherme Strauch, Lauro Bassi, Renato Linhares de Assis)....Pages 23-39
 The INTECRAL Project  (Sabine Schlüter, Udo Nehren, Dietmar Sattler, Claudia Raedig)....Pages 41-49
Front Matter ....Pages 51-51
 Soil and Water Management for Ecosystem Services Provision in Agricultural Landscapes: The Challenge of Monitoring  (Joyce Maria Guimarães Monteiro, Azeneth Eufrausino Schuler, Rachel Bardy Prado, Elaine Cristina Cardoso Fidalgo, Ana Paula Dias Turetta, Alba Leonor da Silva Martins et al.)....Pages 53-67
 Spatial Patterns of Farmland Abandonment in Rio de Janeiro State  (Pedro Castro, Rui Pedroso, Sven Lautenbach, Oscar Manuel Baez Villanueva, Raúl Vicens)....Pages 69-85
 From Design to Implementation: A Participatory Appraisal for Silvopastoral Systems  (Silvia Berenice Fischer, Alejandra Pedraza Luengas, Sabine Schlüter, Luiz Antonio Oliveira Antunes)....Pages 87-103
 Towards Good Agricultural Practices in Smallholder Dairy Production Systems from an Animal Welfare Perspective  (Maria Luisa Espinel, Sabine Schlüter, Carlos Marconi de Souza Resende)....Pages 105-119
 Adequate Harvesting Technology for Small- and Medium-Scale Sugarcane Farmers in Rio de Janeiro: The “Cologne Solution”  (Carl-Friedrich Gaese, Carlos Frederico de Menezes Veiga, José Márcio Ferreira, Torsten Meyer)....Pages 121-135
Front Matter ....Pages 137-137
 Integrating Biodiversity Conservation into Agroecosystem Management: Using Birds to Bring Conservation and Agricultural Production Together  (Augusto João Piratelli, Fatima Conceição Marquez Piña-Rodrigues, Claudia Raedig)....Pages 139-153
 Connectivity Conservation Management: Linking Private Protected Areas  (Lorena Valeria Guzmán Wolfhard, Claudia Raedig)....Pages 155-171
 Applicability of the German Hydromorphological Assessment Approach to Tropical Rivers  (Diana Birnbaum, Georg Lamberty)....Pages 173-189
 Use of Native Plant Species for Ecological Restoration and Rehabilitation Measures in Southeast Brazil  (Dietmar Sattler, Claudia Raedig, Anja Hebner, Jens Wesenberg)....Pages 191-204
 Use and Conservation of the Threatened Brazilian National Tree Paubrasilia echinata Lam.: A Potential for Rio de Janeiro State?  (Silke Lichtenberg, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Udo Nehren, Juan Antonio Reyes-Agüero)....Pages 205-219
Front Matter ....Pages 221-221
 Water Security in Rio de Janeiro State  (Lars Ribbe, Rosa Maria Formiga-Johnsson, Juan Luis Ramirez Duval)....Pages 223-236
 Analyzing Hydro-Climatic Data to Improve Hydrological Understanding in Rural Rio de Janeiro, Southeast Brazil  (Juliana M. Santos, Annika Künne, Sven Kralisch, Manfred Fink, Alexander Brenning)....Pages 237-255
 Ecohydrological Modeling and Scenario Impact Assessment in Rural Rio de Janeiro  (Annika Künne, Sven Kralisch, Juliana M. Santos, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel)....Pages 257-275
 Reuse-Oriented Decentralized Wastewater and Sewage Sludge Treatment for Small Urbanized Rural Settlements in Brazil: An Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis  (Jaime Cardona, Alena Lepilova, Daniel Gieseler, Kristina Kreter)....Pages 277-293
 A Tool to Assess Land Use Impacts on Surface Water Quality: Case Study from the Guapi-Macacu River Basin in Rio de Janeiro  (Santiago Penedo-Julien, Annika Künne, Rachel Bardy Prado, Lars Ribbe)....Pages 295-309
Front Matter ....Pages 311-311
 Natural Hazards and Climate Change Impacts in the State of Rio de Janeiro: A Landscape Historical Analysis  (Udo Nehren, André Kirchner, Wolfram Lange, Marco Follador, Dieter Anhuf)....Pages 313-330
 Disaster Risk Management in the State of Rio de Janeiro  (Beate Frank, Rosa Maria Formiga-Johnsson, Viviane Japiassú Viana, Silvia Marie Ikemoto)....Pages 331-343
 Ecosystem-Based Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Rio de Janeiro State  (Wolfram Lange, Simone Sandholz, Jennifer Viezzer, Martin Becher, Udo Nehren)....Pages 345-359
 Integrated Participatory Methodologies for Disaster Risk Reduction: Tools to Analyze Complex Systems Through Participatory Processes in Brazil  (Alicia Bustillos Ardaya, Mariele Evers, Lars Ribbe)....Pages 361-376
 Soil Degradation in Southeast Brazil: A Challenge for Restoration and Rehabilitation  (Antonio Soares da Silva, Roman Seliger, Dietmar Sattler, Jürgen Heinrich)....Pages 377-389
 Rehabilitation of Degraded Sloped Pastures: Lessons Learned in Itaocara, Rio de Janeiro  (Roman Seliger, Dietmar Sattler, Antonio Soares da Silva, Gabriel Campos Pereira da Costa, Jürgen Heinrich)....Pages 391-404
 Multicriteria Site Prioritization for Land Rehabilitation in the Guapi-Macacu Watershed, Rio de Janeiro  (Friederike Naegeli de Torres, Ronny Richter, Elaine Cristina Cardoso Fidalgo)....Pages 405-421
Front Matter ....Pages 423-423
 Evolution of Public Policies and Local Innovation in Landscape Conservation in Rio de Janeiro  (Peter H. May, Leonardo S. Fernandes, Vanesa Rodríguez Osuna)....Pages 425-441
 Promoting Sustainable Agriculture, Boosting Productivity, and Enhancing Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Through the RIO RURAL Program, Brazil  (Vanesa Rodríguez Osuna, Peter H. May, Joyce M. G. Monteiro, Roland Wollenweber, Helga Hissa, Marcelo Costa)....Pages 443-462
 Promotion of Alternative Income Diversification in Rural Rio de Janeiro: Making Use of Innovation Resources  (Omar Augusto Torres Zárate, Utz Dornberger)....Pages 463-476
 Regional Marketing Strategies for Sustainable Production in Rio de Janeiro State  (Laura Maria Noriega Gamarra, Claudia Raedig, Sabine Schlüter)....Pages 477-489
Front Matter ....Pages 491-491
 Rural Rio de Janeiro: Over the Hills and Far Away?  (Claudia Raedig, Helga Hissa, Sabine Schlüter, Dietmar Sattler, Udo Nehren)....Pages 493-503
Back Matter ....Pages 505-513