Welcome to my personal web page. I am an environmental social scientist and a post-doctoral researcher on a joint appointment between the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

In my current work I study the effects of supply chain interventions for the reduction of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (certification schemes and zero-deforestation commitments); the role of deforestation on hydrologic systems in Rondônia, Brazil; and the political economy of environmental regulation in Brazil (foreign economic constraints causing shifts in policy).

In my PhD thesis, submitted to the Department of International Development at LSE in September 2014, I studied indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon and the relation between deforestation and welfare. I developed a new approach to survey data collection that allowed me to generate spatially explicit representative household data for cattle ranchers in the Amazon at a lower cost and higher speed than usual.

I hold a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching from LSE and I am a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy. Previously, I have taught at the Methodology Institute, Department of International Relations, and Department of Geography, LSE. I have also worked in Brazil on climate change economics and served as a co-author to the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change.

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Work in progress

“The land sparing effect in Brazil, 1996-2012: increasing productivity of cattle ranching can save Amazon forests”.

Publications

2016. The changing climate of climate change economics (Ecological Economics, 121: 12-19).

With Marcelo Stabile, GIS without GPS: new opportunities in technology and survey design to link people and place (Population and Environment, 37 (4): 391-410).

2015. With Diana Weinhold and Eustáquio Reis, Boom-bust patterns in the Brazilian Amazon (Global Environmental Change, 35: 391-399).

2014. The conservation versus production trade-off: does livestock intensification increase deforestation? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon (FEEM Working Paper; Presented at LSE (Jul.14); Envecon, London (Mar.15); AERE, San Diego (Jun.15); FEA USP-RP (Oct. 15).

2012. With Diana Weinhold and Eustáquio Reis, Sustainability in the tropics: does a boom in deforestation lead to a bust in development? (LSE Grantham Institute Working Paper; Presented at CERDI, France (Oct.12); IPEA, Brazil (Jan.13); Embrapa, Brazil (Jan.13).

2011. With Daniel Caixeta, Cattle intensification in Amazonia (BNDES Working Paper, in Portuguese)

2009. With José Eli da Veiga, Ethics of climate change: historical responsibility, present capacity and sustainability (presented at “Climate change – global risks, challenges and decisions” congress, Copenhagen, and Brazilian Meeting of Ecological Economics, Cuiabá)