%A"Oberling, Daniel Fontana" %D2008 %I; Coordenacao dos Programas de Pos-Graduacao de Engenharia (COPPE/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). Programa de Planejamento Energetico %2 %J[] %K09 BIOMASS FUELS, 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT, ETHANOL FUELS, PRODUCTION, BRAZIL, ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS %PMedium: ED; Size: 225 pages %TStrategic environmental assessment of Brazil's ethanol expansion: a methodological proposal and its preliminary application; Avaliacao ambiental estrategica da expansao de etanol no Brasil: uma proposta metodologica e sua aplicacao preliminar %XThe main objective of this dissertation is to adapt the methodology of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to the case of ethanol fuel production in Brazil. The results are be utilized in decision-making processes as well as in the discussion on future tendencies of risks and opportunities regarding the development of ethanol as the principal renewable liquid fuel. Taking into account the international experiences of countries with a tradition in sectoral planning, SEA is found to be the instrument in public environmental management that can most adequately consider the environmental variable - beginning already at the planning stage of the ethanol industry, a necessity that has strongly unfolded itself following the deregulation of the sector in Brazil. The conflicts that may emerge from large ethanol production surpluses for export are also identified through the application of specifically designed indicators. (author) %0Thesis/Dissertation %NETDE-BR-1960;TRN: BR11V1342 %1 %CBrazil %Rhttps://doi.org/ TRN: BR11V1342 BR %GPortuguese