Laila Sandroni

University of São Paulo | USP · Departamento de Ciências Florestais (LCF) (ESALQ)

Transdisciplinary projects are fundamental to a more effective and just conservation, but their application and coherent framing present challenges, since their nature is to bring together different epistemological backgrounds and world views. This paper identifies the possibilities offered by stakeholder mapping as a tool for generating common und...

O objetivo deste artigo é abordar teorias/metodologias que se auto reconhecem enquanto cartografias que versam sobre práticas relacionadas com temas de especial interesse para pesquisas em comunicação social, tais como processos de produção de representações sociais, subjetividades e visibilidades.Para tal, primeiramente, aborda-se desafios e quest...

Multiple proposals for transforming biodiversity conservation have been put forward, yet critical exploration of how transformative change is conceptualised in this context is lacking. Drawing on transformations to sustainability scholarship, we review recent proposals for transformative change in biodiversity conservation, considering the suggeste...

Resumo O presente artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre a articulação ciência e políticas públicas a partir de entrevistas com gestores de dois ministérios. A questão orientadora da pesquisa foi identificar o lugar atribuído ao conhecimento científico no processo de formulação de políticas e normas técnicas. Para tal foi necessário esclarecer as perc...

This article aims to present the analysis of a carefully chosen literature in social sciences on the subject of biodiversity conservation. The purpose was to recognize some of the methods and epistemological conceptions which underlie the arguments published in the main academic journals of Sociology, Anthropology and Political Sciences. The analys...

This article carries out a "state of the art" review of the scientific production in the ambit of social sciences, by focusing on works where the subject of biodiversity conservation takes centre stage. Having as a starting point a detailed literature review, we have identified some key concerns raised by authors in Brazilian journals in the areas...

This article explores the workings of science in relation with public policies, from the perspective of scholars engaged in consulting work with governmental organisms. Three questions guide this analysis: how do these scholars think and evaluate this relationship?, how do they perceive their place in this relationship? And, how does knowledge circ...

This article explores the workings of science in relation with public policies, from the perspective of scholars engaged in consulting work with governmental organisms. Three questions guide this analysis: how do these scholars think and evaluate this relationship?, how do they perceive their place in this relationship? And, how does knowledge circ...

This article intends to describe the insertion process of Brazilian social sciences in the environmental debate and, more specifically, in the discussion on biodiversity conservation. It aims to demonstrate the primacy of natural scientists in the initial construction of the field, outlining some explanations for the abstention of the social scient...