EXCHANGE TEACHERS



Teacher: Dr. Ana Paula Aguiar
Location: The Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) – Stockholm University – Sweden
Start: 2017

Summary: Researcher working on scenarios and models in the World in 2050 project (TWI2050) addressing the following themes: Land-change modeling, Participatory and multiscale scenarios, Interactions between scales, Paths to a sustainable future, Agent-based modeling, Estimates of GHG emissions, SDGs. She joined SRC in mid-2017 to work on the TWI2050 (The World in 2050) project, a global research initiative in support of the successful implementation of the UN Agenda 2030. The TWI2050 aims to address the full spectrum of transformational challenges related to achieving 17 SDGs in an integrated manner. The project provides a framework for the scientific community to explore a portfolio of measures needed to achieve all ODS together using quantitative and qualitative back-casting scenario approaches. In the context of the TWI2050, the teacher acts as the SRC liaison between project workgroups, connecting project modeling, narrative, governance, and destination space components to discuss ways to achieve the SDGs. Her specific research focuses on methods for linking qualitative and quantitative back-casting approaches at different scales and bringing local / regional perspectives to global scenarios. Since her doctorate, her research has focused on the use of models and scenarios as tools to understand various land change processes (deforestation, agricultural expansion / intensification, desertification). In line with her work on TWI2050, she pioneered back-casting to discuss paths to a sustainable future in the Brazilian Amazon on multiple scales. She has supervised several doctoral and masters students working on various aspects of land use and covering issues, from local to regional scale, including secondary growth vegetation, institutional arrangements and land use decisions, landscape restoration and optimization, participatory setting. and agent based modeling. She is currently a lead author of the IPBES First Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and has contributed to the IPCC as a scenario and emissions expert at meetings / workshops. She is a member of the AIMES (Earth System Analysis, Integration and Modeling) project.

Teacher: Dr. Myanna Lahsen
Associate Professor
Location: Environmental Policy Group (ENP), School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University – Netherlands
Start: 2017

Abstract: The teacher studies sociocultural and political dynamics and policy dimensions related to global environmental change, environmental sustainability and development, with central attention to the way knowledge is produced, framed and implemented. His initial research sought to understand the socio-cultural and political dimensions that structure the divisions between US scientists and their allies around the issue of human-induced climate change. Topics of interest: Global environmental change and sustainability: knowledge policies in science and society; specialization policy; science-political interface; environmental and scientific assessments; research needs to support transformations toward sustainability; governance geoengineering; environmental policy policy; development; anthropology / sociology of science; cultural policy; North and south relations; participatory decision making (equity, democracy, scenario building); sustainable food systems and diets (meat consumption); media and environment (climate change coverage in the Brazilian media); Social network analysis; green transformations; venture society. Since her doctoral work among environmental scientists, she has pursued a strongly interdisciplinary path while enjoying postdoctoral positions at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and Harvard University’s JF Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard, she was also a professor of environmental science and public policy before moving to Brazil, where she studied geopolitics of climate science and became a Senior Associate Researcher at the Center for Earth System Science at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He has served in review and advisory panels at the US National Science Foundation and as a United Nations advisor on the interface of science policy and global sustainability issues. She has also participated in the environmental science organization internationally, serving as a Social Science Officer at the 2007-2009 International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, as a member of the Young Scientist panel on the Visioning process, resulting in the creation of the Future Earth research program ( www.futureearth.org) and as organizer of Future Earth’s Early Scientists Conference on Integrated Science in Vigoni, Italy, 2014 (http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/top-news/young- scientists-met-to-debate-future-green-economy). In this role, she was tasked with selecting scientific content and guests to stimulate new research ideas and new networks of collaboration among early-stage selected scientists from around the world to collaborate on topics related to ecosystem health, human welfare. and green economy. Continuing to explore the dynamics of climate change policy in the United States and Brazil, his current research has several strands. One line examines the impacts of soy and meat production in Brazil and how Brazilian media cover these impacts in the context of climate change. Other research explores sociological patterns reflected in climate policy-related activities and preferences among actors and stakeholders in the Brazilian multisectoral sector, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, including analysis of policy networks. A third line of his research aims to direct scientific policy in such a way that it is better able to respond to the sustainability challenges of the 21st century. Courses taught as associate professor at Wageningen University:

– ENP-35806 – Quality and Environmental Governance. Coordinator and speaker of the large Masters course. Highly interdisciplinary, integrating environmental sociology, ecotoxicology and public administration, among other areas of knowledge.

– ENP-60312 – International Environmental Policy Consulting. Direct 16 selected students who work as a group and in sub-teams to provide scientific policy briefs to the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development on cross-cutting and integrated issues on the Sustainable Development Goals, as inputs to inform substantive preparations for the United Nations. . 2018 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). Focus on the SDGs and issues related to “Transformations for Sustainable and Resilient Societies”, including artificial intelligence technologies.

– SDC-32806 46 – Sociology in Development: Towards a Critical Perspective. Ongoing lecturer focused on “wasted lives” (Zygmunt Bauman) on the impacts of development and globalization processes around the world.

– Principles of Environmental Sciences – Supervision of a student group focused on the role of mass communications in meat policies and policies.