Speaker: Carlos Nobre, Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo; Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute Discussant: Vinicius Furuie, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center on the Environment Moderated by: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Co-Chair Brazil...
Speakers: Felipe Milanez, Associate Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; Bret Gustafson, Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis; Isabelle Foster, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Paraguay; Douglas Southgate, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University; Patricia Vieira, Professor, Department of Spanish and...
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Speakers: Natalie Unterstell. Especialista em política socioambiental. Diretora, Talanoa Think Tank; Louis Bacon Environmental Leadership Fellow no Centro para Liderança Pública, Universidade Harvard (2016); Fabiano Maisonnave. Jornalista. Correspondente para Amazônia, Folha de São Paulo; Fellow, Fundação Nieman para Jornalismo,...
Speaker: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Government Department, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues will discuss the current state of...
Harvard University Center for the Environment, MCZ 440
Speakers: Tasso Azevedo, General Coordinator, SEEG Network and MapBiomas; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University Beto Veríssimo, Co-founder, Imazon; Director, Amazon Center for Entrepreneurship; Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab, Princeton University Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator, Director, C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderator: Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental...
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Climate change is one of the most important long-term threats for the future of our societies. Solutions are complex, depending not only on engineering and policy, but also on imagination and public will towards alternative forms of inhabiting the planet. Latin America, home to the largest rainforest areas in the world, is both at risk of environmental catastrophe and a key region in which models for thriving bioeconomies based on rainforests can evolve. This symposium will bring together experts and leaders from the US and Latin America to discuss the past, present and future of...
Speaker: Eduardo Viola, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia; Senior Researcher of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government...
DRCLAS Regional Office Sala de Conferencias Norbert Lechner, Primer Piso Av. Dag Hammarskjold 3269, Vitacura, Chile
This panel discussion is part of the Peer Learning Exchange for Large Landscape Conservation, organized by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the International Land Conservation Network during 2018-2019, and hosted by...
Mary Plotkin, Co-Founder & President, The Amazon Conservation Team Brian Hettler, GIS & New Technologies Manager, The Amazon Conservation Team
Richard Evans Schultes—ethnobotanist, taxonomist, writer, photographer, and Harvard professor—is regarded as one of the most important plant explorers of the twentieth century. In 1941, Schultes traveled to the Amazon rainforest on a mission to study how Indigenous peoples used plants for medicinal, ritual, and practical purposes. A new interactive online map, produced by the Amazon...
El David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University en Santiago fue anfitrión del encuentro coordinado por la Asociación de Generadoras de Chile con el motivo de crear una conversación junto al grupo de estudiantes de posgrado y académicos del Kennedy School of Government (HKS) de Universidad de Harvard, encabezados por Rand Wentworth, profesor de HKS y ex director de la Land Trust Alliance, de visita en Chile para estudiar temas de conservación en el país.
Speaker: Scot T. Martin, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
Professor Martin leads a research group at Harvard University that addresses scientific problems engineering challenges and technical breakthroughs in the atmospheric sciences especially as related to the roles of particulate matter in air quality climate and atmospheric...
Speaker: Eduardo Viola, Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia; Senior Researcher of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development
