Nathália
Nascimento
PhD in Earth System Science
National Institute for Space Research
Avenida dos Astronautas, 1000
São José dos Campos - SP
Brazil
12227-010
geographer, Ph.D. in Earth System Sciences from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE-Brazil) and has a background in land use dynamics, especially in the Amazon region. During her doctorate, she worked with modeling land use decisions in agricultural frontier zones in the Brazilian Amazon. She is currently involved in research projects distributed in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on understanding the correlation between policies and land use dynamics in the countries of this region and on projects focused on the study of ecosystem services (beyond carbon) provided by forests of South America.
Themes
Land governance, Land change trade-offs for ecosystem services and biodiversity , Land management systems, Land use and conflict