Diógenes Salas Alves

Researcher and Lecturer-Advisor (Remote-Sensing, Earth-System, and Applied Computing Post-Graduate Programs), National Institute for Space Research (INPE) till 2019. Volunteer Contributor, INPE: 2019-2021. Visiting Professor, Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, USA: 1993-1994. Works combine satellite imagery, census and in-situ data to investigate deforestation, forest recovery and land use in Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forest. Main interests: environmental and climate change; general systems theory, methods, and epistemologies in the fields of environmental and climate change; political and institutional issues related to environmental and climate change. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)