Evandro Albiach Branco

• PhD
• Researcher at National Institute for Space Research

The Land System, as a terrestrial component of the Earth System, constitutes an eminently coupled environment-societies system. For operating in complex interface between social and natural fields, the land system science emerges as a platform for integration of different dimensions of environmental change. In this sense, the present paper aims to...

O presente livro foi elaborado no contexto da implementação, monitoramento e avaliação do Projeto Político Pedagógico da Zona Costeira e Marinha do Brasil (PPPZCM), buscando aprofundar a dimensão pedagógica do monitoramento e avaliação, para além do seu caráter gerencial. Fruto de uma caminhada coletiva, articulada e engajada que olhou para o passa...

With the world tackling energy shortages, geopolitical struggles over energy supply, and dramatic environmental changes, the importance of integrated energy is emerging as a key approach for the much-needed worldwide energy transition. Integrated energy connects the energy-related sectors of electricity, heat, cooling, and transport in a way that a...

Deforestation rates in the Amazon have markedly increased in the last few years, affecting non-protected and protected areas (PAs). Brazil is a hotspot of Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement (PADDD) events, with most events associated with infrastructure projects. Despite the threats dams impose on PAs, there is a knowledge ga...

In this essay we aim to organize theoretical and methodological arguments to qualify scientific collaboration processes for transitions to sustainability. The problematization of the essay starts with two points. The first, theoretical, was inferred from the readings and discussions from Alvesson; Sandberg (2011) and Susur; Karakaya (2021), which p...

The 2030 Agenda framework represents an opportunity for the co-development of local indicators and shares the same principles of cross-sectoral integration and universality as the water–energy–food nexus. This research aimed to develop a quantitative-collaborative methodology for constructing indicators and indexes for the sustainability of the Cer...

Essa publicação é fruto do “Processo de Formação, Monitoramento, Avaliação e Comunicação sobre o Ciclo de Políticas Públicas no Contexto do Ibama”, realizado junto às servidoras e aos servidores do Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama). O processo realizado no período de novembro/2020 a janeiro/2022 foi pr...

Climate change, which has been associated with emerging and even elevated risks on the safety and well-being of societies, has already proved to be a significant challenge in today’s world. Furthermore, a new set of IPCC climate projections reveals that rainfall and high-temperature extremes are expected to exceed the extreme conditions already exp...

Essa publicação é fruto do “Processo de Formação, Monitoramento, Avaliação e Comunicação sobre o Ciclo de Políticas Públicas no Contexto do Ibama”, realizado junto às servidoras e aos servidores do Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama). O processo realizado no período de novembro/2020 a janeiro/2022 foi pr...

Esta nota técnica elaborada por dois dos grupos de pesquisa da Divisão de Impactos, Adaptação e Vulnerabilidades (DIIAV) do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) - o Laboratório de Análise e Desenvolvimento de Indicadores para Sustentabilidade (LADIS) e o Laboratório de Modelagem e Estudos de Recursos Renováveis de Energia (LABREN) - vis...

Nitrogen pollution is one of Brazil's most threatening and challenging environmental problems, caused mainly by productive activities aimed at meeting the demand of food, energy, and housing by a fast-growing population. Sustainable nitrogen management involves optimizing the beneficial effects of reactive nitrogen (Nr) use and, at the same time, m...

Resumo: Este artigo apresenta uma análise sobre o processo formativo de um grupo de atores interessados na temática da Gestão dos Recursos Hídricos no estado de São Paulo, em especial, na Bacia do Paraíba do Sul. Tem como conceitos orientadores a pedagogia da práxis e a ciência cidadã. A metodologia é qualitativa e fundamenta-se em diferentes estra...

The Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus represents, above all, a perspective, a way of looking at the world, the problems, the solutions, providing a view of the three main resource systems of food, water and energy, not in isolation, but as a system, with many and diverse cross-links between the subsystems. So, analytically speaking, it is a unifying co...

Essa publicação é fruto do “Processo de Formação, Monitoramento, Avaliação e Comunicação sobre o Ciclo de Políticas Públicas no Contexto do Ibama”, realizado junto às servidoras e aos servidores do Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama). O processo realizado no período de novembro/2020 a janeiro/2022 foi pr...

Approaches based on adaptive management are an opportunity to improve the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) follow-up, considering the conceptual affinities between their structures. Some cases demonstrate an increase in adaptive capacity, based on experiential learning, despite a lack of governance arrangements able to guarantee the effective...

Fires impose restrictions on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals about health and terrestrial life, as they contribute to air pollution and environmental degradation. This study analyzes the distribution of fire pixels in areas of the Cerrado and Caatinga, and the influence of Strictly Protected Area (SPAs) on this distribution. Areas within...

There are important methodological gaps in analyzing the cumulative impacts of a set of projects, considering the complexities and interactions between impacts. This is the case of hydroelectric power plants, which affect ecosystem functions significantly, in special, when in cascade. Thus, the present study proposes a methodological approach to an...

This study aims to read the Paraíba do Sul Watershed – State of São Paulo territory by its water and sanitation access and water quality numbers. For this, it uses the criteria of “luminosities” defined by Santos and Silveira (2005) and data on the sanitary depletion of SNIS and IBGE and explains them in the light of the demographic and sanitary co...

Participatory approaches to scenario development, based on "visions of the future", have been gaining momentum and being widely used in the environmental field, in the context of transition to sustainability. In this context, scenarios are developed through the discussion of trajectories (which consider actions and obstacles) that link the visualiz...

A pesquisa de percepção ambiental dos moradores da bacia hidrográfica do rio Paraíba do Sul – trecho paulista - foi conduzida pelos pesquisadores populares e alunos do curso “Cenários da Bacia Hidrográfica do Paraíba do Sul a partir da Educação Ambiental”, parte do Projeto “Recursos hídricos na bacia do Paraíba do Sul: integrando aspectos naturais...

Environmental sanitation is one of the main causing factors of water use conflicts at the Rio Grande Basin, Brazil. The precariousness of sanitation conditions in the area degrades water resources and affects the health and quality of life of the local population, as well as regional economic development. In this context, this study aims to assess...

Environmental changes bring challenges to the governance of water resources in the Paulista Macrometropolis. In this context, adaptive governance and the articulation of actors in networks are strategies for coping with this type of situation. This article analyzes water governance in the Paraíba Valley in light of the challenges posed by the 2013-...

Participatory approach of Scenarios construction supports the Project “Water resources on Paraíba do Sul river basin: integrated natural and anthropic aspects”, coordinated by Centro de Ciência do Sistema Terrestre (CCTS) of Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Participatory and normative approaches to Scenarios construction, from the...

Monitorar e resistir com práticas pedagógicas A Educação Ambiental (EA) que anima o Sistema MonitoraEA tem suas raízes fincadas na indignação e na esperança, na inquietude e na paz, na criticidade e na criatividade, na ação e na reflexão que nos movimenta pelas utopias de um mundo justo, livre, solidário, sustentável, com igualdade e respeito às di...

Although hydropower companies and governments have promoted monetary-based Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms alone as a vector of local development for flooded municipalities, it is not possible to identify this evidence in the scientific literature. The present work investigates the quantitative influence of Financial Compensation on Human Development In...

O presente artigo tem por objetivo revelar a importância do monitoramento e da avaliação das políticas públicas de educação ambiental, bem como apresentar um processo participativo de construção de indicadores que dialogam diretamente com o Tratado de Educação Ambiental para Sociedades Sustentáveis e Responsabilidade Global. As políticas públicas d...

A partir do estabelecimento do Estatuto da Metrópole a gestão dos territórios metropolitanos ganhou mais um nível de gestão legalmente previsto, a saber as Regiões Metropolitanas. Por se tratar de uma perspectiva de gestão que envolve diversas escalas e dimensões complexas do território, a utilização de métricas para a qualidade de vida pode ser co...

Este artigo apresenta o processo participativo de estruturação do monitoramento e avaliação de projetos e políticas públicas de educação ambiental (EA) no Brasil. O processo vem sendo desenvolvido pela ANPPEA – Articulação Nacional de Políticas Públicas de Educação Ambiental com o objetivo geral de contribuir para o fortalecimento das políticas de...

Recognized as one of the world's most vital natural and cultural resources, the Amazon faces a wide variety of threats from natural resource and infrastructure development. Within this context, rigorous scientific study of the region's complex social-ecological system is critical to inform and direct decision-making toward more sustainable environm...

The historical disregard of the environmental issue in the theoretical conception and the economic growth models reveals a clear ideological positioning: the resistance to accept the environment as a limiting factor or as a strategic element from the point of view of nations or regions wealth. Beyond the frequently debated questions, that associate...

This paper tried to establish a connection between the concepts that are basic for the governance concept in water management, assembling new concepts through adaptive water management. The water governance is based on participation, decentralization and integration, and all of these concepts are disposed on Brazilian’s National Water Resources Pol...