A5045773643- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Environmental Sustainability and Education
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Geography and Environmental Studies
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Rural Development and Agriculture
University College London
2015-2025
Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas
2012-2025
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
2021-2025
Imperial College London
2021-2023
Royal Society
2021-2022
Conservation Biology Institute
2022
Smithsonian Institution
2022
National Zoological Park
2022
Wageningen University & Research
2022
UCL Australia
2015
Building bridges between environmental and political agendas is essential nowadays in face of the increasing human pressure on natural environments, including wetlands. Wetlands provide critical ecosystem services for humanity can generate a considerable direct or indirect income to local communities. To meet many sustainable development goals, we need move our trajectory from current destructive wiser wetland use. The article contain proposed agenda Pantanal aiming improvement public policy...
Abstract Anthropogenic factors have significantly influenced the frequency, duration, and intensity of meteorological drought in many regions globe, increased frequency wildfires is among most visible consequences human-induced climate change. Despite fire role determining biodiversity outcomes different ecosystems, can cause negative impacts on wildlife. We conducted ground surveys along line transects to estimate first-order impact 2020 vertebrates Pantanal wetland, Brazil. adopted...
Current theoretical models of the commons assert that common-pool resources can only be managed sustainably with clearly defined boundaries around both communities and they use. In these models, open access inevitably leads to a tragedy commons. However, in many open-access systems, use seems sustainable over long term (i.e., current resource does not threaten for future generations). Here, we outline conditions support property regimes. We conceptual framework complex adaptive systems...
Abstract The participation of communities living in high conservation value areas is increasingly valued science and practice, potentially producing multiple positive impacts on both biodiversity local people. Here, we discuss important steps for implementing a successful extreme citizen project, based four case studies from projects with Pantaneiro fishers Brazilian Pantanal wetland, Baka hunter‐gatherers Fang farmers lowland wet forest Cameroon, Maasai pastoralists Kenya, Ju|'hoansi...
Meeting the urgent need to protect and restore ecosystems requires effective decision-making through wisely considering a range of evidence. However, weighing assessing evidence make complex decisions is challenging, particularly when diverse types, subjects, sources, varies greatly in its quality relevance. To tackle these challenges, we present Balance Evidence Assessment Method (BEAM), an intuitive way weigh assess relating core assumptions underpinning planning implementation...
Citizen science is growing and increasingly realizing its potential in terms of benefiting society. However, there are significant barriers to engaging participants non-Western, non-educated, non-industrialised, non-rich non-democratic contexts. By reflecting on the experiences 15 citizen project coordinators, this paper contributes small but body knowledge attempting identify opportunities doing with marginalised Indigenous communities. Challenges affecting participation analysed projects...
The rise of community-based conservation (CBC) from the 1980s, heralded a paradigm shift in global and development agenda, increasing engagement conservationists towards cause needs Indigenous people. As result, many international agreements were implemented, such as Tribal Peoples Convention (1989) on Biological Diversity (1992). In Brazil, National Policy for Sustainable Development Traditional Communities (PNDSPCT) was introduced 2007, which came to recognise rights existing sustainable...
O Pantanal é um bioma dependente do fogo com regime natural de inundação, criando uma região características peculiares que moldaram seu meio ambiente, sua biodiversidade, seus habitantes e a maneira como eles vivem: intimamente ligada à dinâmica local. tem sido utilizado no ferramenta manejo paisagens há milhares anos pela população indígena e, medida em foi sendo ocupada por outros grupos, o conhecimento passado para os novos habitantes, fazendeiros. Essas práticas estão incorporadas nas...
Abstract In Brazil, biodiversity offsetting operates in an ad hoc manner while equivalence has mainly been overlooked by public policies. Despite being mandatory since 1965s Forest Code (Law 4.771), we fail to have a robust framework. The revision of the forest code 2012 ( i.e ., Native Vegetation Protection Law—NVPL—Law n° 12,651/2012), maintained obligation for landowners set aside biome‐specific percentage their native vegetation preservation. Known as Legal Reserves, these set‐asides are...
Abstract The Pantanal, the largest worldwide continuous wetland, is considered a global hotspot of ecosystem services. Based on process‐based modeling, we assessed plausible scenarios land use for Brazilian Pantanal wetland and its surrounding highlands by year 2050. simulations indicate likely trajectories land‐use change corresponding consequences services looking specifically at soil loss, sediment yield, water quality, carbon storage. “Economy based sustainable principles” scenario, in...
The Sapelli smartphone application aims to support any community engage in citizen science activities address local concerns and needs. However, was designed developed not as a piece of technology without context, but the technical part socio-technical approach establish participatory process. This paper provides methodological framework for implementing using field. Specifically, we present role within an “Extreme Citizen Science” (ECS) methodology that is based on design. enables Sapelli’s...
Historically, small-scale inland fisheries have been overlooked. Management practices based on industrial fishing, rarely take into account vital factors such as complex socio-environmental relations. This paper aims to help address this gap, contributing a better understanding of fisheries. It uses the Pantanal wetland Brazil case study, in which policymakers established restrictive fishing rules claims that local overfishing had caused numbers recreational tourists decline. Through...
Biodiversity is in precipitous decline globally across both terrestrial and marine environments. Therefore, conservation actions are needed everywhere on Earth, including the biodiversity rich landscapes seascapes where people live work that cover much of planet. Integrative landscape seascape approaches to fill this niche. Making evidence-informed decisions within these populated working requires an in-depth nuanced understanding human dimensions through application social sciences. Yet,...
Abstract Cattle ranching in the ~140,000 km 2 Brazilian Pantanal is considered one of most important cases sustainable use natural resources global south. The region has had a successful history balancing environmental protection with production >3.8 million cattle. However, change, infrastructure projects, and deforestation, threaten Pantanal. Here, using Ostrom's design principles as framework, we interviewed 49 local stakeholders conducted review secondary information aiming to...
Abstract The leading response to environmental challenges has been the creation of protected areas, yet they constantly are jeopardized by problems staffing, sustainable finance and local development. Documentation alternative strategies that could enhance success area management is still at a nascent stage. To evaluate such we built an on-line questionnaire be answered all Federal areas in Brazil. Just 12.8% confirmed explained sought. Partnerships seemed underpin most cited. We believe low...
Evaluate the impact of stress on sugar cane cutters and prevalence physical psychological symptoms before after harvest.We studied 114 sugarcane 109 urban workers in pre-harvest 102 81 post-harvest period city Mendonça, SP, Southeastern Brazil, 2009. Data analysis was based frequency percentage assessed stress, using Lipp-ISSL test (Symptoms Stress for Adults). The data were analyzed descriptive statistics. Fisher Test used to compare variable between pre- within cutter worker groups. P...
Abstract Conservation science practitioners seek to preempt irreversible impacts on species, ecosystems, and social–ecological systems, requiring efficient timely action even when data understanding are unavailable, incomplete, dated, or biased. These challenges exacerbated by the scientific community's capacity consistently distinguish between reliable unreliable evidence, including recognition of questionable research practices (QRPs, “questionable practices”), which may threaten...
Maximilian's snake-necked turtle, Hydromedusa maximiliani, is an endemic and vulnerable long-lived freshwater turtle from eastern Atlantic mountainous rainforest regions of Brazil. Three scenarios (real population, optimistic pessimistic population) based on the species' life-history data carrying capacity estimates collected throughout 13 yrs were generated with VORTEX subjected to sensitivity tests verify influence demographic (mortality rate inbreeding depression) environmental (fire...
Abstract Systematic conservation planning ( SCP ) is a promising tool underpinned by the idea that multistakeholders’ needs should be considered in any action. However, there almost no research verifying whether those proposed solutions indeed capture local people's needs. In this article, exercise was developed Pantanal wetland, Brazil, to propose possible new negotiated solution for environmental protection areas and fisheries zone. To test validity of ‐delivered solutions, physical maps...
Twenty-one years ago, Gottgens and colleagues (2001) warned in this journal of the tragic consequences a planned waterway one world's largest most diverse wetlands: Pantanal. The authors explored waterway's potential damages, discussed how accumulation small, wrong decisions may lead Pantanal to collapse. referred it as tyranny small (Odum 1982), when apparently trivial can profound geographic, ecological, social that are difficult estimate on large scale. Incredibly, colleagues' alert is...