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Brazil
The Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) is the National Member Organization (NMO) representing Brazilian membership of IIASA.
Main areas of collaborations:
Balancing the needs of agriculture and the environment in Brazil
Supporting Brazil’s changing energy landscape
Improving air quality and tackling climate change
Projecting demographic change in Brazil
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News
27 March 2023
Co-producing fair transformative pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals
Horizon Europe project RAINFOREST kick-off meeting
05 August 2022
Carlos Nobre elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society
Brazilian climatologist and former IIASA Council Member for Brazil, Carlos Nobre, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society. He is the first Brazilian scientist to join the world’s oldest scientific society since the 1800s.
21 September 2021
To solve Brazil’s energy and food crisis: store more water
Storing greater amounts of water in Brazil’s reservoirs could increase precipitation and river flow, alleviating the water and energy supply crisis in Brazil.
Focus
06 December 2022
Challenges and opportunities for a South American waterway system
Julian Hunt writes about the challenges and opportunities that the development of a South American Waterway System could bring to the region.
07 November 2022
A fair climate
Policy Brief #35, October 2022. Sharing mitigation fairly between countries doesn’t have to be expensive.
01 June 2022
Exploiting the digital revolution: Open science
IIASA is dedicated to making science accessible to everyone. Open science helps to amplify the positive scientific and societal impacts of research while also increasing the visibility of the institute and its researchers.
Publications
Soares, C. (2022). Cohort fertility differentials from rural/urban migration at the onset of fertility transition in Brazil. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
Oliveira, B.M., Boumans, R., Fath, B. , & Harari, J. (2022). Socio-ecological systems modelling of coastal urban area under a changing climate – Case study for Ubatuba, Brazil. Ecological Modelling 468 e109953. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.109953.
Chico, D., Pahlow, M., Willaarts, B. , Sinisgalli, P., & Garrido, A. (2022). An Integrated Approach to Assess the Water Efficiency of Introducing Best Management Practices: An Application to Sugarcane Mechanisation in Brazil. Water 14 (7) e1072. 10.3390/w14071072.
Hunt, J. , Nascimento, A., Schwengber ten Caten, C., Caputo Tomé, F.M., Schneider, P.S., Ribeiro Thomazoni, A.L., José de Castro, N., Brandão, R., Vasconcelos de Freitas, M.A., Colombo Martini, J.S., Ramos, D.S., & Senne, R. (2022). Energy crisis in Brazil: Impact of hydropower reservoir level on the river flow. Energy 239 e121927. 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121927.
Kuschnig, N., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Krisztin, T. , & Giljum, S. (2021). Spatial spillover effects from agriculture drive deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Scientific Reports 11 (1) 10.1038/s41598-021-00861-y.
Catolico, A.C.C., Maestrini, M., Strauch, J.C.M., Giusti, F., & Hunt, J. (2021). Socioeconomic impacts of large hydroelectric power plants in Brazil: A synthetic control assessment of Estreito hydropower plant. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 151 e111508. 10.1016/j.rser.2021.111508.