Beatriz Milz

• Doctor of Environmental Science
• PostDoc Position at Federal University of ABC

In order to meet its progressive demands for water, energy, and food, the SPMM is highly dependent on the ecosystem services produced by the more peripheral areas of its territory. Yet, without having at its disposal an adequate governance structure to deal with wicked problems, aggravated, inter-alia, by increased climate variability, this chapter...

Animal trait data are scattered across several datasets, making it challenging to compile and compare trait information across different groups. For plants, the TRY database has been an unwavering success for those ecologists interested in addressing how plant traits influence a wide variety of processes and patterns, but the same is not true for m...

The Billings Reservoir is an important water body for public supply of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, Brazil, and water captation for public supply is located in the Rio Grande environmental compartment. This article evaluates the water quality of the environmental compartment Central Body I of the Billings Reservoir, which receives the reve...

Polycentric governance (PCG) and the management of common-pool resources (CPR) have been the main theoretical approaches elaborated by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and adopted in numerous research projects by the Indiana School in Bloomington, having gained major influence in the field of natural resources management. However, their findings concernin...

Os anos 2014-2015 são marcados, principalmente na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP) pela crise hídrica. Nesse contexto, o governo considera que a obra para interligar a represa Billings (Sistema Rio Grande) e Taiaçupeba (Alto Tietê) a mais importante ação emergencial para diminuir os impactos da crise hídrica na Região Metropolitana de São P...