CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Senior Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP. He was the chair professor of the Josué de Castro Chair at the Faculty of Public Health at USP (September 2022 August 2024), where he is now an associate researcher. Professor in the Department of Economics at FEA/USP for thirty years. Full Professor since 2001. Senior Professor in the Environmental Science Program at the Institute of Energy and Environment at USP (since 2016).Author of Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in the Amazon (Ed. Elefante, 2022), Amazon: Towards a Knowledge Economy of Nature (Elefante/Terceira Via/Outras Palavras), Beyond the Green Economy (Ed. Planeta Sustentável/Abril, São Paulo, 2012), revised and published by Routledge (London) in 2016 under the same title. Lead co-author of the chapter on Bioeconomy in the Science Panel for the Amazon. Columnist for UOL from April 2020 to March 2022.Email: abramov@usp.brBlog: http://ricardoabramovay.com/Research focus: The monotony of the global agri-food system.Graduated in Philosophy from the University of Paris X Nanterre. Master's degree in Political Science from FFLCH at USP. PhD in Human Sciences from IFCH/UNICAMP. Postdoctoral studies at EHESS (Paris) and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris). He is the president of the Deliberative Board of IMAFLORA and a member of the Board of the Instituto Ibirapitanga. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Amazon deforestation issue is a question that concerns all the world as it has important consequences in terms of its environmental impacts and global warming. However, currently the question of possible environmental impacts of international agricultural markets' liberalization on Amazon deforestation is not definitively answered. These issues are crucial not only for the world, but …
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On the second national inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, the Ministry of Science and Technology records that changes in land use and forestry remained the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, accounting for 77% of total emissions (1,258,626 Gg CO2) (MCT, 2010). The changes in the Amazon biome (deforestation for agricultural crops or pastures) contributed with 51.5% of carbon d…
Biofuels based on agricultural commodities have recently lost support of several institutions and eminent researchers, not only because these renewable resources have presumably very limited potential to substitute oil. Encouragement has even harmed since the race to grow oleaginous and sugar crops signalized worrisome reverberations on landscape mosaics, food markets and working conditio…
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