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We are proud of our council member Susanna Hecht, who has organized the first ever presidential panel on the Amazon. Congratulations!
“Is There an Amazon Future?” engages some of the Amazon's top researchers and modelers to discuss the implications of current Amazonian development dynamics on the resilience, justice and "Future History" of Amazonia. Integrating science, social science and commitment for Amazonia, this panel highlights some of the most distinguished researchers who integrate a range of social, natural and simulation sciences on large scale and long term Amazon questions. DISCUSSANT AND ORGANIZER Susanna Hecht: Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies at UCLA, and Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and the Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr Hecht, considered one of the founders of the approach known as political ecology has examined Amazonian political economies and their environmental and social impacts. Her work emphasizes historical approaches and local knowledge systems in the search for alternatives. PANELISTS Phillip Fearnside: An Ecologist and Researcher at INPA (The National Institute for Amazonian Research, in Manaus) who has been a relentless field researcher and analyst of the environmental impact of development programs since he began pioneering research on the TransAmazon; His work focuses on the impacts of infrastructure, climate change and regional development policy. Britaldo Soares Filho: Dr Soares is Professor at UFMG and developed and headed up its remote sensing laboratory. His work has explored and modeled climate change, mining, conservation sciences and simulations of policy impacts on deforestation and the dynamics of supply chains . Eduardo Brondizio: Distinguished Professor, Dept of Anthropology University of Indiana is an Anthropologist who engages the intersections of anthropology and environment with a focus on land use change climate Change, institutions, biodiversity, migration and urban dynamics; Cynthia Simmons: Professor, University of Florida is a Geographer who examines the issues of land conflict and contentious change in the land use dynamics of Amazonia. Social movements, the lack of them and DIY agrarian reform, in light of the current large scale geopolitical and infrastructure issues are central themes in her work. Gustavo Oliveira: Assistant Professor, University of California has worked on the dynamics of Chinese investment and the Soy sector, as well as changing processes in agroindustry and flex crops, the new geopolitics of finance and its restructuring and influences in the dynamics of state and corporate politics in agroindustrial sectors. Comments are closed.
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