
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

05 August 2022
Carlos Nobre elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society

21 September 2021
To solve Brazil’s energy and food crisis: store more water
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

01 June 2022
Exploiting the digital revolution: Open science

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.