Leandra Regina Gonçalves

• Phd on International Relations
• Fellow at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

To address the global challenge of plastic waste, 175 UN Member States are negotiating a legally binding instrument, the Plastic Treaty, aimed at ending plastic pollution. This ambitious framework, targeting both terrestrial and marine sources, is being developed through Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meetings scheduled to conclude by 2025...

Apesar de relevante, a participação social na elaboração de leis, normas e programas para o território marítimo brasileiro ainda é incipiente, ocorrendo principalmente de forma pontual na escala local. Para ampliar o engajamento de diferentes atores de modo a consolidar práticas mais democráticas de governança, faz-se necessário criar e ampliar esp...

Ecosystem services (ES) embrace contributions of nature to human livelihood and well-being. Reef environments provide a range of ES with direct and indirect contributions to people. However, the health of reef environments is declining globally due to local and large-scale threats, affecting ES delivery in different ways. Mapping scientific knowled...

This chapter reviews participatory practice and its outcomes in the Brazilian coastal zone. A number of instruments and policies were generated in the immediate post-constitution era after 1988 to foster social participation in coastal management. New actors and initiatives, practices and networks have opened up additional pathways for social parti...

In recent years, the identification and economic valuation of ecosystem services have been identified as an important tool to recognize and translate nature’s contribution to people’s well-being. It is understood that assessing the economic value of ecosystem services contributes to better decision-making process regarding ecosystems, since it help...

The complexity of global changes and their effects on social-ecological systems motivate the development of more integrated and innovative management approaches to balance the society-nature relationship. With the challenge of meeting global demands and considering local impacts, Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) emerges as an assessment and action...

We used Brazil as a Global South case study to analyze the evolution of the coastal governance in a young and still unstable democracy. Based on twenty-five years of documentation related to a federal-level actor interaction hub named Coastal Management Integration Group (GIGERCO) we explored the opportunity context for the transformation of the Br...

In 2018, Brazil announced the designation of two new Large Scale Marine Protected Areas (LSMPAs), resulting in an increase in protection from 1.5% to 26.36% of the country’s maritime territory. We employ an agenda-setting theory to analyze the Brazilian LSMPAs as a causal case study, unpacking the factors that led to their creation, and providing i...

The complexity of human-environment interactions in coastal areas represent management challenges, especially in the beach environment, important for its ecosystem services and contribution to human well-being. To overcome these challenges, ecosystem-based management proposes a more holistic and integrated approach, with a great contribution from s...

governança oficial da biodiversidade e dos serviços ecossistêmicos no Brasil é bipolar: por um lado, instituições fortes e capazes; por outro, problemas infraestruturais, processos lentos, ineficiência nas ações e conflitos jurídicos e socioecológicos. O Brasil dispõe de uma variedade de instrumentos de política e de opções de governança socioambie...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar dois casos de conflitos ambientais, na região da Macrometrópole Paulista, relacionados ao desenvolvimento territorial quanto à instalação de grandes empreendimentos logísticos, verificando como eles se enquadram na lógica de planejamento e visão do Estado, assim como as reações da sociedade civil aos impactos que...

A novel blue planning discourse has been elevated through marine spatial planning (MSP) discussions in Brazil since 2011, following the evolution of international ocean governance policy innovation in the past decades. This paper investigates the early evolution stages of a socio-political arena around MSP in Brazil using as reference the IOC-UNESC...

In September 2018, following over a decade of informal discussions, the United Nations General Assembly launched an intergovernmental conference to address the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. This process is scheduled to take two years and is structured around four themes: marine genetic resources, are...

Biodiversity is a key component of a healthy planet with healthy people (well established). Though evidence regarding the importance of biodiversity for economic output, health and security has grown significantly in the last two decades, it is certain that existing measures to conserve and sustainably manage biodiversity are inadequate {Box 13.1,...

Environmental policy struggles with some conceptual and empirical challenges, so a good starting point for analysis is what constitutes ‘good’ policy design. Within the definition of ‘good’ policy design, ecosystem properties and problems, the performance of existing policies, practices and actors need to be considered common elements. Analysts and...

O presente trabalho objetiva analisar qual o conhecimento e percepção que visitantes do Parque Nacional Serra da Bocaina possuem em relação ao local, assim como identificar projetos de turismo em Unidades de Conservação na Mata Atlântica, quais seus atrativos e como diferentes atores participam.

Although Brazil has been an active voice in ICCAT in the past ten years, its leadership has been declining. This paper examines what might explain the variation of international influence Brazil has had in addressing the issues at ICCAT and argues that if Brazil wants to preserve its leadership, it must demonstrate commitment to its own waters whil...

During the international tuna fishery management crisis in 2009, an epistemic community emerged at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) that employed collective efforts to deal with shared problems and improved the effectiveness of agreements, in terms of the recovery of Eastern Blue Fin Tuna (EBFT) stocks. Th...

The objective of this paper is to analyze two cases of environmental conflicts in the region of Macrometropolis Paulista related to territorial development on the installation of large logistics enterprises, seeing how they fit into the logic of planning and vision of the state as well as the reactions of civil society to impacts that such projects...

Biodiversity and ecosystems are important elements for addressing national and global socioeconomic and environmental crises, since they provide new development opportunities, for example, as source of job and income creation, and reduction in poverty and socioeconomic inequity. Brazilian biological diversity is also expressed in its immense cultur...

The Anthropocene epoch brings new technology-related challenges for the sustainable management of biodiversity, including the access to marine genetic resources. Although separated in two multilateral agendas, Antarctica and the area beyond national jurisdiction are comparable cases, since the regulation of bioprospecting activities has been under...

Protected Areas (PAs) is considered a very efficient and robust in situ conservation tool, however it has some limitations especially in the marine environment. In order to address its shortcomings, the integration between the establishment and management of marine PAs and other sectorial and spatial planning policies in a broader planning view is...

This work presents the partnership experience between SOS Mata Atlantica Foundation and Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) in light of the Law13.019 of 2014 (the third sector regulatory mark), which establishes the legal framework to partnerships between public administration and civil society organizations. The present p...

The study of social movements and of third sector organizations are still present and strong in academic debate, especially because of the changing character of the very essence of this political sphere. With the increasing intensity of environmental problems in the contemporary world, on the other hand, organized groups are emerging seeking to “sa...

The role of epistemic communities and the path they follow to influence policies are the keys to answering the main question posed here: when and how did power listen to science? One of the greatest challenges for the promotion of contemporary global environmental governance is to ensure the effectiveness of institutions seeking to reduce or solve...

HIGHLIGHTS The Anthropocene compels unlocking of ocean-related network capabilities. Orchestration of local, regional, and global knowledge networks can augment transformative capacity. Transdisciplinary network diagnostics are promising social learning tools. Strategic advice for transformational research in ocean territories are provided. This p...

Early ‘Discovery mark’ data together with recent photo-identification, acoustic, genetic and satellite-radio tag data revealed linkages between humpback whales migrating from breeding grounds (C) off East Africa and the Area III feeding area, from Western Australian breeding grounds (D) and the Antarctic Area IV feeding area and the East Australian...

This is the Strategic Document for the Brazilian Future Ocean Panel - PainelMar, an initiative that aims to " Perform as a multi-sectorial collaborative platform of individuals and organizations on the interface of knowledge and decision-making processes, aiming at qualifying policies for the sustainable use and health of the oceans" -illuminating,...

Bryde's whales are among the lesser known balaenopterids found in Brazilian waters, as well as globally. At the beginning of this project, only occasional sightings of this species were identified off the coast of São Paulo State. In this paper, we present the results of our investigations into the occurrence and behaviour of Bryde's whales along t...

Considering the challenge of increasing the representativeness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), an emerging issue is how to maintain adequate funding for those areas. Despite the difficulties in obtaining data on this subject in Brazil, there is evidence that the governmental budget is still far from the ideal for the full implementation of a comp...

The role of epistemic communities in the global governance of the oceans This paper seeks to identify and describe who are the epistemic community acting on the international cooperation promoted under Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) and discuss their influence at international policies. Epistemic community is defined here as...

The collective construction of a law of the sea in Brazil This paper aims to describe the process of participatory development of a law of the sea as a tool aimed at promoting greater governance for the Brazilian marine and coastal zones through the involvement of experts from various sectors of the society and based on scientific information. It...

By acknowledging and engaging with alternative forms of governance that are recently emerging (see [1]), this brief note reports on one of such processes in Brazil, namely the Ombudsperson of the Sea [2] event (Portuguese: Ouvidoria do Mar). We provide an overview and update of the on-going process of setting and implementing a Programmatic Agenda...

A governança global dos oceanos é articulada e regida pela Convenção das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito do Mar (UNCLOS) - principal arcabouço político e jurídico para a regulamentação dos mares no âmbito das negociações internacionais. Através da análise do resultado das últimas reuniões e tendo como perspectiva os interesses divergentes dos Estados...

Unlabelled: More so than at any previous time, there is a heightened awareness of the amount of plastic in the environment, it's spread to even remote localities and the multiple influences of this on organisms. In the austral summer of 2007/08 Greenpeace and British Antarctic Survey ships (MV Esperanza and RRS James Clark Ross respectively) condu...

No obstante su amplia distribución a nivel mundial, la ballena-de-Bryde (Balaenoptera edeni, ANDERSON 1879) es una especie aun poco conocida, considerada como Data Defficient en la Lista Roja de IUCN pero sin embargo cazada por algunos países de otras regiones. Debido a su presencia relativamente frecuente en la costa Sudeste, especialmente a lo la...

Photo-identification of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and comparison between regional fluke catalogues is revealing a matrix of low-level migratory interchange between Eastern Australia (E1 breeding grounds) and the Oceania (E2) breeding grounds, within and between Oceania breeding grounds (E2, E3, F1 and F2) and linkages between Antarct...

Documented strandings of Balaenoptera edeni on the Brazilian coast are still rare, especially in the Northeast region, and these records represent important sources of information in respect of whale biology and ecology. On September 30th, 1981, a Bryde’s whale entered Todos os Santos bay and got stranded alive approximately 9 miles up the Paraguaç...

[Portuguese] A baleia-de-Bryde é uma espécie relativamente pouco conhecida e que ocorre com freqüência considerável na costa sudeste do Brasil. Até o momento, a maioria dos registros de sua ocorrência no Brasil provém de relatos ocasionais e plataformas de oportunidade em regiões costeiras. Este estudo visa descrever a ocorrência e a distribuição d...

[Portuguese] A baleia-de-Bryde (Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1879) é uma espécie pouco conhecida e que ocorre com freqüência considerável na costa sudeste do Brasil. Este estudo teve como objetivo estudar a ocorrência, comportamento e a sazonalidade da espécie no Parque Estadual Marinho da Laje de Santos. Através de embarques a bordo de lanchas dos...

A APA Serra do Japi localizada entre três importantes centros urbano-industriais do estado - São Paulo, Jundiaí e Campinas está sujeita a intensa degradação ambiental. Estudos que identifiquem as principais ameaças ocorridas na APA, se fazem necessários e urgentes para o estabelecimento de programas de monitoramento eficientes para a preservação da...

Este trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar a toxicidade diferencial de agroquímicos a populações de ácaros das espécies Neoseiulus californicus (McGregor) e Tetranychus urticae Koch coletadas de cultivos comerciais de morangueiro (Fragaria sp.) em Atibaia, SP. No teste de toxicidade aguda, fêmeas adultas de N. californicus foram tratadas através de pu...