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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH) and Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Teaches at the Environmental Management Department, Graduate Programs in Modeling of Complex Systems (EACH), Applied Ecology (ESALQ/CENAP) and Environmental Science (PROCAM/IEE). Visiting Training Fellow at the Department of Anthropology - University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (1999-2000). Guest Researcher at the Department of Geography Geology - University of Copenhagen (2011) and at the Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics - Hohenheim University (2012). Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL, former-ACT) and Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University (2015-16). Lead author at the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment and the Brazilian Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Has experience in Human Ecology. Main academic interests: forest governance, socioecological systems, shifting cultivation, adaptation to tropical forests and forest-based livelihoods, Atlantic rainforest, Amazonia and Brazilian traditional people (Caboclos, Caiçaras and Quilombolas). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Amazon region is at the crossroads of development and sustainability, possibly bearing towards an ecological collapse. However, despite significant economic development, public policy interventions and the emergence of place-based sustainability initiatives over the past decades, it has proven difficult to reverse ecological degradation, as demonstrated by the number of fires, record …
The pristine nature of tropical rainforests has been questioned in the last decades. This is due to the premise that man is an essential part of their dynamic ecological processes. The shifting cultivation system (SCS) practiced in tropical forests has been part of these processes, but its sustainability is still under debate. The Quilombola populations from the Ribeira Valley are shiftin…
The main goal of this proposal is to build a Multiagent System Model (MAS) to unveil the process of technology adoption and diffusion in a small scale family agriculture system in the Atlantic Rainforest (Ribeira Valley, São Paulo, Brazil). Its innovative character resides in two main components: 1. the parameterization of the model will be based on empirical data, as opposed to more freq…
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Climate change intensifies socio-ecological risks in coastal areas, threatening both ecosystems and the livelihoods of traditional communities. The State Park of Ilha do Cardoso (PEIC), on the southern coast of São Paulo, shelters Caiçara and Guarani-Mbya populations increasingly affected by marine erosion, storm surges, and sea-level rise, facing the risk of forced displacement. This pro…
The shifiting cultivation systems, one of the oldest forms of agriculture, is still practiced by the quilombola communities from Vale do Ribeira-SP Brazil. However, the current restrictions of brazilian environmental legislation and the new economic needs, which do not exist in these communities, are some of the main reasons for the decline of this practice. The shifiting cultivation syst…
Este projeto pretende comparar as estratégias adaptativas de duas populações caboclas, adotadas para uma região de várzea estacional (Ilha de Ituquí, município de Santarém-PA) e outra de várzea estuarina (município de Ponta de Pedras-PA), localizadas no mesmo tipo de bacia (águas brancas). A eficiência adaptativa destas estratégias será medida tanto no que se refere à sobrevivência biológ…
Dados recentes, de diferentes linhas de pesquisa, demonstram que a ação antrópica sobre ecossistemas florestais tropicais pode ser benéfica em termos de biodiversidade. Além disso, há uma discussão internacional sobre a existência de uma relação "harmônica" entre populações tradicionais e biodiversidade/conservação. Este projeto pretende fazer um levantamento e uma análise da interpretaçã…
Tropical forests are complex adaptive systems and can be investigated/managed from the perspective of complexity science. This approach opens the possibility to investigate the ecological attributes of forests recognizing, at the same time,the existing feedbacks with the socio-economic andgovernance systems. Therefore, it's an improvement over the previously proposed frameworks for the ev…
Shifting cultivation used to be the backbone of smallholder agriculture throughout the tropics, but today it is abandoned in many places in favor of large scale cash crop production - e.g. for biofuels. The extent of these changes is not well documented because shifting cultivation land rarely appears on official maps and census data seldom identifies shifting cultivators. Moreover, the c…