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Facing not-so-natural disasters

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Climate Change

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Gabriela Litre , PhD. in Sustainable Development, Researcher, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil

Gabriela Litre is a full researcher at the Center for Sustainable Development - University of Brasilia (CDS-UnB) and the Observatory of Social and Environmental Dynamics – INCT Odisseia, Brazil. A member of the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change (Rede Clima), she is a guest professor at the University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne-Nouvelle, IHEAL (2021), and a visiting scientist at the University of Montpellier (MAK’IT/ CIRAD/ INCT 2021). Gabriela holds a PhD (2010) in Sustainable Development (CDS-UnB), and in Geography (IHEAL, Université Paris 3). She holds an M.Sc. in Globalization and Latin American Development - University of London (2004).  

 

Patrícia Mesquita, PhD. in Sustainable Development, Researcher, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil

Patrícia Mesquita is a full collaborator/post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Sustainable Development (CDS) at the University of Brasilia (UnB), at the INCT Odisseia project and at the Climate Change and Regional Development sub-network, within the scope of the Brazilian Network for Research on Global Climate Change (Rede CLIMA). She holds a PhD in Sustainable Development (CDS-UnB, Brazil), MSc. in Geography (University of Victoria - Canada ), BSc. In Biology (UFRN, Brazil). Patrícia was a researcher at the Water and Climate Impact Research Center at the University of Victoria (Canada), at the Université Laval (Canada) and a visiting researcher for the Science without Borders sandwich doctoral program at the University of British Columbia (Canada) at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and Faculty of Land and Food Systems (FLS).

Marcel Bursztyn, Doctor in Socio-economic Development and in Economics, Full Professor, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil

Marcel Bursztyn is a full professor at the University of Brasilia, in the Center for Sustainable Development (CDS - UnB). He has experience in social-economy, with emphasis on Sustainable Development, working on the following themes: regional development, public policies, sustainability, Amazon, Northeast Brazil, environmental management, climate change vulnerability and adaptation, social exclusion, interdisciplinarity, and ethics in research. Author of 133 articles published in scientific periodicals, 55 book chapters and 19 books. He has supervised 23 M.Sc thesis and 35 PhD dissertations.

 

Carlos Hiroo Saito, PhD in Geography, Full Professor, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil

Carlos Hiroo Saito, PhD, is a biologist working in interdisciplinary research involving environmental education, spatial analysis and water security. He works with conceptual modeling for science literacy in a systemic approach, and how the understanding of social and environmental processes can strengthen social participation. He is a research fellow of CNPq (Productivity in research), and executive coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT-Observatory of Socio-Environmental Dynamics). He is full professor at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, linked to the Department of Ecology/Institute of Biological Sciences and to the Center for Sustainable Development. He is also a researcher associated to UMR Espace-DEV research groups, Montpellier, France, and he is part of the research group which was recognized as a CES/Centre d’Expertise Scientifique "Paysage" (Center of Scientific Expertise in Landscape), in France. He was the chair of Global Water Partnership-south America (2018-2019).

References

THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE. Summary for Policymakers. In: MASSON-DELMOTTE, V. et al. (Ed.). Climate Change 2021: the physical science basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Cambridge University Press. In Press, 2021.

TELLMAN, B. et al. Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods. Nature, v. 596, p. 80–86, 2021. Available in: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03695-w. Acessed: 5 Aug 2021.

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Litre , G., Mesquita, P., Bursztyn, M., & Saito, C. H. . (2021). Facing not-so-natural disasters. Sustainability in Debate, 12(2), 6–12. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v12n2.2021.39361

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2021): Sustainability in Debate / Sustentabilidade em Debate

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