Integrative Conservation Conference Session Organized by Brazilian Natural Resource Governance Initiative

Dr. Gregory Thaler and Dr. Don Nelson organized the conference session, “Brazilian Natural Resource Governance: Towards an Integrative Approach,” for the 2020 Integrative Conservation Conference at the University of Georgia. Juliana Santiago (Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida) served as session discussant.

The session brought together scholars and practitioners from Brazilian and US institutions to discuss integrative approaches to Brazilian natural resource governance, emphasizing  transdisciplinary work that intersects research and practice. This session involved graduate students from:

• Amazonian Institute of Family Agricultures, Federal University of Pará, Brazil

• Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida (UF), USA

• Department of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil

• Integrative Conservation Program at University of Georgia (UGA), USA

BNRGI Conference and Workshop Participants

Back Row (left to right): Evandro Neves (Federal University of Pará), Bruno Ubiali (UGA), Gabriela de Azevedo Reis (Federal University of Ceará), Gregory Thaler (UGA); Front row (left to right): Oswaldo Medina-Ramírez (UF), Carolina Jordão (UF), Ana Luiza Violato Espada (UF), Juliana Santiago (UF)

The following papers were presented during the the session:

• Logging in protected areas in Amazonia: Communities that flourish can inform those that struggle

  Ana Luiza Violato Espada (UF), Natalie Cooper (UF), Fernanda Fonseca (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), Karen Kainer (UF), and Lucia Wadt (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)

• Brazil nuts or cattle? The relationship between forest resource access and livelihood strategies in an extractive reserve, Brazilian Amazon

  Bruno G. Ubiali  (UGA) and Miguel N. Alexiades (University of Kent)

• To participate or not to participate? Collaboration and social learning within a multi-organizational network working in the Brazilian Amazon

  Carolina de Olivera Jordão (UF), Robert Buschbacher  (UF), Heber Queiroz Alves  (Instituto Socioambiental), and Márcia Soares (Fundo Vale).

• Collaborative methodology for mapping the risks of a water system and identifying external influences

  Gabriela de Azevedo Reis (University of Ceará), Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho (University of Ceará), Donald R. Nelson (UGA), and Sandra Helena Silva de Aquina (University of Ceará)

• Environmental governance and participation in a Marine Extractive Reserve: A case study in Marajoara Amazon, Pará, Brazil

  Evandro Carlos Costa Neves (Federal University of Pará)

  • Published in GeoTextos Vol. 16 N. 1 (July 2020).

Juliana Santiago (UF) serves as session discussant

BNRGI Hosts Transdisciplinary Workshop on Integrative Conservation

BNRGI hosted a transdisciplinary workshop on February 6 to discuss and review participants’ contributions to the 2020 Integrative Conservation Conference at the University of Georgia. The workshop brought together over half a dozen graduate students from the University of Florida Tropical Conservation and Development Program, the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), the Amazonian Institute for Family Agricultures at the Federal University of Pará (Brazil), and the University of Georgia Department of Anthropology.

BNRGI students and faculty brainstorm with Dr. Valério Gomes

Across multiple campus events and meetings, UGA members of BNRGI got to learn with and from Dr. Valério Gomes, the Initiative’s key affiliate at the Federal University of Pará.

Public Events with Valério Gomes, BNRGI affiliate and SPIA Visiting Practitioner

Public events with Dr. Valério Gomes

Join UGA’s Brazil Natural Resource Governance Initiative for these public events with Dr. Valério Gomes, SPIA visiting practitioner.

Dr. Valério Gomes to visit UGA for multiple campus events

This week UGA will host Dr. Valério Gomes for multiple events on campus.

Dr. Gomes has decades of experience working with social movements, multilateral cooperation programs, international conservation organizations, and government agencies to promote sustainable livelihoods and forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. Dr. Gomes is currently a professor with the Amazonian Institute of Family Agricultures (INEAF) at the Federal University of Pará in Belém, Brazil, where he is a key partner of UGA's Brazil Natural Resource Governance Initiative.

In addition to visiting several Anthropology and International Affairs courses, Dr. Gomes will be meeting with graduate students for a coffee hour focused on environment and development across the research/practice divide.

Dr. Gomes will also offer comments at a screening of Tupinambá, a film addressing the struggle for indigenous land rights in Brazil.

Finally, Dr. Gomes will be be participating in a brainstorming meeting with BNRGI members.