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Climate Change Adaptation Strategies to Reduce Risks in Coastal Areas, São Paulo, Brazil, 2-5 June 2020
International Sociology Association, 14-18 July 2020
Listening to silences: Daniel Hogan, the rural world and nature
In this paper, the auhtors discuss the importance of Daniel Hogan’s (1942/2010) academic production and attitudes in understanding the relationship between population and environment in rural Brazil, especially with regard to great migrations, accelerated urbanization and their effects on the environment.
São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Climate Change: Scientific basis, adaptation, vulnerability and mitigation
The São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Climate Change: Scientific basis, adaptation, vulnerability and mitigation will take place at the University de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil. The School is organized by the INterdisciplinary CLimate INvestigation cEnter (INCLINE) and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), and sponsored by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Pró Reitoria de Pesquisa/University of São Paulo (PRP/USP), IAI and Santander.
Four decades of urban sprawl and population growth in Teresina, Brazil
The paper seeks to discuss trends of urban expansion and population growth with their social and environmental implications in the city of Teresina, the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Piauí over the last four decades (1974–2014).
Structure and agency in development-induced forced migration: the case of Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam
Using longitudinal, qualitative analysis of data from 67 semi-structured interviews conducted over the course of 2 years with 39 households displaced due to the dam of Belo Monte’s rural agricultural population whose homes and land were flooded, the author asks how structural factors such as compensation policies as well as social, financial, and human capital may either foster or constrain migration.
IMBER ClimEco5 summer school
Applications are now open for the IMBER ClimEco5 summer school - Towards more resilient oceans: Predicting and projecting future changes in the ocean and their impacts on human societies - that will be held in Natal, Brazil from 10-17 August 2016.
Call for short abstracts: 7th Conference of the Latin American Population Association (ALAP)
Projetos de desenvolvimento econômico e dinâmica demográfica: uma avaliação de impactos sobre o crescimento populacional de duas regiões mineradoras no Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil
For two of the poorest regions in Minas Gerais, a place of major mining projects - the Norte de Minas and the Médio Espinhaço - this study aims to: (a) a methodologic discussion of possible scenarios, given the implementation of mining projects - foreseen and in deployment; (b) thinking, from the main results, on the challenges in terms of creating new social needs (health, education, housing).
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