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Brondizio, Eduardo S. |
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Indiana University |
| Primary Field
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Human Environmental Sciences |
| Secondary Field
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Anthropology |
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For over three decades, Brondizio's work has documented, examined, and responded to the social-environmental transformation and governance challenges of Amazônia and beyond. Brondizio has contributed to and led numerous initiatives advancing understanding of the human dimensions of and responses to global environmental and climate change. Brondizio's research connects the different scales of his work through an ethnographically-grounded complex systems perspective. His work has shed light on the processes linking development policies, markets, and climate change to household decision-making, collective action, and landscape change, as well as contributed new methodologies for linking place-based ethnographic research with regional- and global-level analysis. His work has brought attention to the socioeconomic and environmental inequities of rural and urban areas as well as the contributions, often marginalized, of rural smallholder and indigenous communities to food production, nature conservation, and sustainable development. All with the aim of defying simplistic interpretations and one-size-fits-all solutions to such issues. His work has contributed to explaining the underlying drivers and consequences of deforestation and reforestation, agroforestry intensification, rural-urban networks and urbanization, urban vulnerability to climate change, and the governance of interconnected urban, coastal, agricultural, conservation and indigenous areas. Among others, Brondizio co-chaired the highly influential Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), approved by 132 countries in 2019. |
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