About the Authors
Agnieszka Bartocha
Agnieszka Bartocha is a leader of the Research and Development Team in ATMOTERM Company. She completed her Master of Science in Energy and Environmental Systems at the Glasgow Caledonian University in 1996 and Master of Science in Environmental Engineering at the Wrocław University of Technology in 1998. She has 15 year-experience in air quality management. Since 2004, Agnieszka has become Air Quality Team Leader and she has been involved in more than 30 Air Quality Action Plans for Polish Regions and many expert works and reports concerning air quality issues for Polish government. In 2013, Agnieszka was a project manager of the implementation of the Directive on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe assessment and cost and benefits analysis of the new air quality package for Poland implementation for Polish government. She leads new research projects at the ATMOTERM concerning using the air quality sensors and implementation of the mining data methods in air quality analyses. She is interested in research projects concerning new strategies and tools for improvement of air quality policies.
Email: [email protected]
Agnieszka Latawiec
Dr. Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec is a co-founder of and a Research Director at the International Institute for Sustainability in Brazil and Associate Professor at the Opole University of Technology in Poland. She is also a post-doc researcher at the Department of Geography and the Environment at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She completed her PhD in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia where she is currently a Research Associate at the School of Environmental Sciences. Dr. Latawiec is interested in research on broader aspects of land management and has participated or led a number of projects related to land-use change and modelling. In 2013, she participated in designing of the first discipline of Sustainability Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She seeks collaborative interdisciplinary research in a range of topics including soil science, land management, environmental decision-making, land-use change, impact assessments, sustainability science and indicators.
Address: International Institute for Sustainability
Estrada Dona Castorina, 124 - Horto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CEP: 22460-320
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Tel: +5521971520011
Alejandro de las Heras
Alejandro de las Heras (1966- ), PhD (UEA, Norwich) has moved back and forth between France and Mexico for the last 40 years, first learning about sustainability at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques and most recently editing Sustainability Science and Technology: An Introduction (CRC Press, 2014). His interest is directed to all things sustainable, but leans toward what unites humans and nature (mostly in the Americas) and, sustainable home horticulture. Email: [email protected]
Alvaro Iribarrem
Dr. Alvaro Iribarrem concluded his Ph.D in Extragalactic Astrophysics in 2013 and has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Alvaro worked as a Ph.D. student at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters, in Garching bei München, from 2011 to 2012. Alvaro worked as a teacher from 2005 to 2009, at the Physics laboratory of the Santo Agostinho high school, in Rio, Brazil. Currently Alvaro is based at the International Institute for Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro where he works with mathematical modelling, numerical simulations and data analysis.
More at: http://www.iis-rio.org/en/equipe/alvaro#sthash.B2xOm9aI.dpuf
Amy Duchelle
Dr. Amy Duchelle is a Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Brazil. Her research interests include climate change mitigation, community forest management, multiple-use forest management, land use land cover change, and engagement of local stakeholders in the research process. Her work focuses on Latin America, and she has extensive fieldwork experience in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Amy holds a B.A. in Biology from Colorado College, a M.S. in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a Ph.D. in Tropical Forestry from the University of Florida. She currently analyzes the effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and co-benefits of sub-national REDD+ initiatives globally as part of CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (http://www1.cifor.org/gcs/global-comparative-study-on-redd.html).
Address: Amy Duchelle, Ph.D.
Scientist, Forests and Livelihoods
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Rua do Russel 450, Sala 601
CEP: 22210-010
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Tel: +55 (21) 98074 9696
Email: [email protected]
Bernardo BN Strassburg
Dr. Bernardo Strassburg is the founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, and Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Bernardo is an economist with a M.Sc. in environmental planning (focused on land-use change and ecosystem services in the Amazon), and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, focused on issues related to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Bernardo has led a number of projects in the interface of REDD, biodiversity, improved land use, ecological restoration and financial incentives and published several scientific articles and reports on these topics. He has provided consultancy services to the United Nations, the World Bank, Conservation International, World Wide Fund for Nature, the Brazilian and British governments, among others. Bernardo coordinates the Economics Working Group of the Pact for the Restoration of the Atlantic Rainforest.
Address: International Institute for Sustainability
Estrada Dona Castorina, 124 - Horto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CEP: 22460-320
Email: [email protected]
Claudio de Sassi
Dr. Claudio de Sassi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for International Forestry Research in Bogor, Indonesia, under the Forest and Livelihood portfolio. Current research is focused on the performance of subnational REDD+ as part of the CIFOR Global Comparative Study on REDD+. Claudio is broadly interested in climate change research at the interface of ecology and human dimensions. He previously studied Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich (MSc, 2006) and then worked on marine and terrestrial conservation project in Costa Rica and the Philippines. He most recently obtained his PhD from University of Canterbury (Ecology, 2012), New Zealand, where he studied the effects of climate change on biotic interaction networks.
Address: Jalan CIFOR
Situ Gede, Sindang Barang
Bogor (Barat) 16115, Indonesia
Tel: 62-251-8622-622
Email: [email protected]
Dariusz Latawiec
Dr. Dariusz Latawiec is Managing Director of water and wastewater company in southern Poland, Malopolska Province. He has been working in this sector of economy since 2001, formerly as a consultant, wastewater treatment plant manager and technical director. He completed his PhD in Wroclaw Technical University, Poland at Environmental Engineering Department. He also completed a Master of Science at Energy and Environmental Systems, Caledonian University, Glasgow and completed post-graduate studies in Controlling and Financing of Companies at Cracow University of Economics. He is interested in recognizing of possible impacts of rapid development on society and identification and proper addressing of education needs of society. Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Dorice Agol
Dr. Dorice Agol is an International Consultant in environment, natural resources management and international development and is a Research Fellow at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. Dorice has a PhD in International Development from UEA, MSc. Biological Sciences and Natural Resources Management, University of Leicester and BSc. University of Southampton, UK. Dorice is a multi-disciplinary research scientist with a range of expertise including: quantitative and qualitative research techniques, socio-economic environmental impact assessment, project management, legal and policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, natural resources governance, ecosystem services, water-food-energy security nexus, climate change, corporate social responsibility, and HIV/AIDS. She has over 15 years’ experience working in East and Southern Africa and Europe.
Address: P.O. Box 58500-00200 Nairobi, Kenya. Email: [email protected]
Farida Hassan
Ms. Farida Hassan is an environmental specialist with a strong focus on climate change adaptation and policy development. She has a wide experience in implementation of participatory community development programmes having worked with an international organisation - the German Technical Cooperation and a state owned parastatal - the Coast Development Authority. Ms. Hassan is currently managing a development fund for the coast under the Kenya Coastal Development Programme which provides small grants to community based organisation for implementation of natural resource management and community service projects. She has a passion for working with rural communities and endeavours to encourage the utilisation of community’s own self help potential in addressing some of their immediate felt needs.
Address: Kenya Coastal Development Project (KCDP), C/o Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Cement Silos Road, English Point, P.O. Box 81651, 80100 Mombasa, Kenya. Email [email protected]
Felipe Barros
Bachelor in geography at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Felipe works in the spatial analysis area through GIS and Remote Sensing tools. Specialized in Environmental Analysis and Territorial Management at the National School of Statistical Science/Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Felipe is currently a Masters student in Biodiversity at Rio de Janeiro’s Botanic Garden conducting research in Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation and Spatial Modeling area.
George N Morara
Mr. George Morara is a Research Scientist at Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) in Mombasa, Kenya, working in the field of wetlands and fisheries management. His academic background is in BSc. Biological Sciences and MSc in Tropical Aquatic Ecology. He has interest in understanding the relationship between local communities and aquatic resources management strategies, including: fisheries assessment, co-management, governance, multi-stakeholder processes and support to sustainable rural livelihoods. He is currently working with coastal communities in implementing their demand driven projects funded by World Bank through the Kenya Coastal Development Project.
Address: Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Cement Silos Road, English Point, P.O. Box 81651, 80100 Mombasa, Kenya. Email [email protected]
Helena Nery Alves Pinto
Helena is an environmental analyst at International Institute for Sustainability in Brazil. She has a degree in Biology from São Paulo University and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Ecology and Conservation from the University of East Anglia (UK). Her interests are focused on economic incentives for tropical forest conservation and land use change. During her Masters, she investigated the impacts of a Payment for Ecosystem Services program on traditional communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Complementing her research, Helena has experience working as an environmental consultant. At the International Institute for Sustainability, Helena participates in research development, project implementation and collaborates in the development of Public Policies.
Address: International Institute for Sustainability
Estrada Dona Castorina, 124 - Horto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CEP: 22460-320
Tel: +5511 995626881
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Jamila Haider
Jamila Haider is a PhD candidate at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, where she studies sources of resilience in biocultural landscapes which are characterised by high agricultural and cultural diversity, as well as persistent poverty. She has an M. Phil in Geography from the University of Cambridge and previous degrees in Biology and Political Science from Canada. Jamila worked with the Aga Khan Foundation in Tajikistan and Afghanistan from 2009-2011, where she coordinated a cross border rural development programme. She is co-author of the book: With our hands: A celebration of food, and life, in the Afghan and Tajik Pamirs (2015), which documents traditional knowledge and tells the story of a rapidly changing cultural landscape. Her research interests are broadly related to resilience, political ecology and traps and transformation in social-ecological systems.
Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm University
Kräftriket 2B
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Tel: +46701917903
Email: [email protected]
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/21/contact/staff/11-6-2012-haider.html
Jerônimo Boelsums Barreto Sansevero
Dr. Jerônimo B.B Sansevero is a Professor at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and affiliated researcher at the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS). His research interests are focused on plant succession, restoration ecology, functional ecology, and ecosystem services. Currently, he is also interested in understand the influence of environmental, social and economic factors on large-scale restoration efforts in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
Address: Departamento de Ciências Ambientais, Instituto de Florestas, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, BR 465, Km 07, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil – Cep: 23890-000. E-mail: [email protected]
Jolanta Królczyk
Dr. Jolanta Beata Królczyk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering in Opole University of Technology. She is also associated with the industry, where she has held positions such as: Environmental Consultant, Project Manager, Product Engineer and Managing Director of a manufacturing company. The area of her scientific research concerns agricultural engineering (mixing of granular materials, agricultural use of biochar, sustainable development) and the construction and exploitation of machines (production optimization, quality management in industrial mixers). Within the framework of scientific cooperation Dr. Jolanta Beata Królczyk was a participant of internships in institutions such as: Fachhochschule Trier, University of Applied Science (Germany), International Institute for Sustainability w Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Utah State University (USA). In 2013 she participated in Top 500 Innovators Program in Haas School of Business in University of California, Berkeley (USA). Author and co-author over 80 scientific publications and implementation activities to the industry. Scientific membership in: TEAM Society – Technique, Education, Agriculture & Management, Polish Society of Agricultural Engineering, POLSITA (Polish Society for Information Technology in Agriculture) and TOP500 Association.
Address: Department of Biosystems Engineering
Faculty of Production Engineering and Logistics
76 Prószkowska Street, 45-758 Opole, Poland
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +48 77 449 8360
Kemel Kalif
Kemel is a coordinator of cattle ranching projects at the International Institute for sustainability. Agronomist (Federal Rural University of Amazon / UFRA), M.Sc. in Zoology (Emílio Goeldi Museum / MPEG), Ph.D in Sustainable Development in the Humid Tropics (Institute for Advanced Amazonian Studies UFPA) and Postdoc in Economics and Ecological Economics Environmental/Unicamp. Kemel has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, working with various environmental aspects of different types of land use in the Amazon.
Márcio Rangel
Marcio is a specialist in sustainable development and cattle ranching. He holds a degree in Agronomic Engineering from Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz - University of São Paulo, with experience in sustainable rural development. Masters from the Graduate Program in Sustainable Development Practices in the UFRRJ that integrates international network of professional Master’s degrees in sustainability (Global Master’s in Development Practice), coordinated by the Earth Institute at Columbia University (USA). Marcio has been working as a consultant on environmental projects, with an emphasis on sustainable rural development, preparation and implementation of projects aimed at supporting public policies and the development of family farming, with actions aimed at rural training, technology transfer, strengthening and expansion of production chains entrepreneurial vision. Including experiences related to wildlife conservation, watershed management and land development projects. It is worth highlighting the opportunity of working together with institutions and companies which: Embrapa, IICA - Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Banco do Brazi, FBB - the Bank of Brazil Foundation, WWF Brazil, EMATER, SENAR, SEBRAE, Equalize Socioenvironmental, Foundation pro-TAMAR, among others.
Marina Islas-Espinoza
Dr. Islas-Espinoza concluded her PhD in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, and has a bachelor’s degree in agronomy from the University of Chapingo, Mexico. Marina worked on sustainable development at the National Population Council in Mexico from 1996-2002. Currently Marina works at the Inter-American Center for Water Resources, as researcher in Biotechnology and Wastewater Treatment. She is based at the Faculty of Engineering, Mexico State University, where she teaches Bioenergy. Her home has evolved into a sustainability project which includes her two shiba inu dogs.
Email: [email protected]
Mário Luís Garbin
Dr. Mário Luís Garbin is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade Vila Velha – UVV. He completed his PhD in Ecology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He is interested in plant community ecology and numerical analysis, especially in the role of subordinate plant species in community assembly through positive interactions, and in the well-studied, but far from resolved, vegetation-soil relationships in space.
Address: Universidade Vila Velha – UVV – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ecossistemas, Rua Comissário José Dantas de Melo, s/n, Boa Vista, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil – Cep: 29102-770. E-mail: [email protected]
Martin Herold
Dr. Martin Herold received a Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2004. He has a Diploma in geography from the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and from the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany, in 2000, After his PhS, he coordinated the ESA GOFC GOLD Land Cover Project Office at the Friedrich Schiller University. He has long-term experience in satellite-based monitoring of deforestation and forest degradation, global land cover mapping and assessments, spatial analysis and modeling of land use change, international coordination and standardization, and accuracy assessment procedures and uncertainty management for remote sensing data products. In Nov. 2009, Dr Herold was appointed as Professor in Geo-Information with emphasis on Remote Sensing at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). His active research projects are in the area of improved calibration, validation derivation of land monitoring products (ground-based LIDAR, time-series analysis), improved remote sensing approaches for forest monitoring, and advanced approaches for measuring forest biophysical variables on different scales. He is an experts on REDD MRV and in this context has provided work for UNFCCC secretariat, FAO, Worldbank, CIFOR and several national governments including Norway, Germany, New Zealand, Guyana, Ethiopia and Fiji.
Prof. Dr. Martin Herold
Center of Geo-Information
Department of Environmental Science
Wageningen University
Droevendaalsesteeg 3
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)317 481276
Melckzedeck K Osore
Dr. Melckzedeck K. OSORE is Senior Research Scientist at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) with responsibility for researching on Kenya’s coastal and marine ecology, secondary productivity, biodiversity and plankton taxonomy. Additionally, Managing the World Bank funded Kenya Coastal Development Project (KCDP) hosted by KMFRI. Responsibilities include implementing the communication strategy networking of KCDP, capacity development and administration of development funds for the coastal community. Experience in coordinating coastal and marine research programmes and grants in the western Indian Ocean region.
Address: Dr. Melckzedeck K. OSORE, Kenya Coastal Development Project (KCDP), C/o Kenya Marine & Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Cement Silos Road, English Point. PO Box 81651, Mombasa 80100, Kenya; Email: [email protected]
Rachael Garrett
Dr. Garrett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University whose research examines rural livelihoods and the sustainability of global food chains at multiple spatial and temporal scales. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist with expertise in economics, geography, development studies and land system science. Dr. Garrett works primarily on applied research in the developing world, involves local communities in the design of an innovative research agenda, and focuses on understanding the unique social and political contexts that influence farmers’ capacity to change their own trajectories. She is heavily engaged with the agricultural research and extension agencies in the countries where she works and reads, writes, and speaks Portuguese. Dr. Garrett’s work is funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of State, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Prior to her position at Boston University, Dr. Garrett was a Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, National Science Foundation Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability Fellow, and Fulbright Foundation NEXUS Regional Scholar. She completed her PhD at Stanford University in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. Address: 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Email: [email protected].
Rafael Feltran Barbieri
Rafael has bachelor’s degree in Biology and Economics and has over 10 years of experience in spatial and econometric modeling applied to Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. Among his recently concluded activities is a Ph.D. in Economics from USP, consultancy for FAO-Rome and MBA classes at PECE-POLI/USP.
Toby Gardner
Toby has over 10 years’ experience in science and science-policy issues in human-modified landscapes across the tropics, with a strong emphasis on the management and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in multiple-use agriculture-forestry landscapes, and the challenges of balancing environmental concerns and rural development priorities. Toby is currently a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institue. Prior to this he was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge for five years, and helped found and coordinate the Sustainable Amazon Network. He is an affiliated researcher at the Goeldi Museum in Belém (Pará) and the International Institute for Sustainability (Rio de Janeiro). He has previously led research projects in Belize, Tanzania, and in Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, including a reference book on the monitoring and management of biodiversity in forest ecosystems (Earthscan, 2010). In 2012 he was awarded the biannual British Ecological Society’s Founders’ Prize for significant contributions to the science of ecology.