MSU-BRAZIL Research Team
Brazilian Partners:
Edna Maria Ramos de Castro
Coordenadora do Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos - NAEA
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Politics of Development, Socio-territorial Changes, and Scalar Relationships (Global-Local)
edna_naea@ufpa.br
Larissa Steiner Chermont
Professor, Department of Economics
Centro Sócio-Econômico
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Public Policies; Land Use; Environmental Economics
larissa@ufpa.br
Edila Arnaud Ferreira Moura
Professor , Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Nucleo de Altos
Estudos Amazonicos ( NAEA), and Associate Researcher, Instituto de
Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá.
Development Sociology
edilamoura@hotmail.com
Ricardo Shirota
Professor Doutor
Instituição: Departamento de Economia, Administração e Sociologia / ESALQ / USP
Economia dos Recursos Naturais e Ambientais
rshirota@esalq.usp.br
Eraldo Matricardi
Laboratorio de Sensoriamento Remoto
Secretaria de Estado do Desenvolvimento Ambiental (SEDAM)
Remote Sensing, Land Use Zoning, Land Use-Land Cover Change
matricar@msu.edu
Maria das Graças Nascimento Silva
Professor of Geography
Universidade Federal De Rondonia (UNIR)
Gender, Health and Sustainable Development, Ribeirinha Community
mgsnsilva@unir.br
MSU Participants:
Cynthia S. Simmons
Associate Professor
Department of Geography, MSU
Social & Environmental Impact of Development, Agrarian Reform
simmo108@msu.edu
Sabrina McCormick
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, MSU
RWJ Health & Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Anti-dam movement in Brazil, environmental policy, displacement
mccor124@msu.edu
Robert Walker
Professor of Geography
Michigan State University
Nature-Society Studies
rwalker@msu.edu
Antoinette WinklerPrins
Associate Professor
Department of Geography, MSU
Nature Society Geography, Political and Historical ecology
antoinet@msu.edu
Stephen Hamilton
Associate Professor
Department of Zoology, MSU
Biogeochemistry, Ecosystems, Aquatics
hamilton@kbs.msu.edu
Remke Van Dam
Assistant Professor
Dept of Geological Science, MSU
Applied Geophysics
rvd@msu.edu
Nathan Moore
Research Associate
Department of Geography
Climate Change, the Water Cycle, Physical Geography, Land Surface Interactions, Regional Climate Modeling
moorena@msu.edu
Marcellus Caldas
Doctoral Candidate,
Dept of Geography, MSU
Agrarian Reform, Land Use and Land Cover Change
caldasma@msu.edu
Ritaumaria Pereira
GRA MPDA Project
Dept of Geography, MSU
Environment and Development in the Amazon, Ranching
pereir14@msu.edu
Other Instituions
Eugenio Arima
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies Program
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Institute for Man and the Environment in the Amazon (IMAZON)
Land use and land cover change modeling
arima@hws.edu