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Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec
Executive Director
Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec is co-founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro (IIS), has a BSc in Engineering of Environmental Protection, MSc degree in Environmental Protection (both from the University of Life Sciences, Poland) and PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Professor at the Professional Master in Sustainability Science from the same department, Associate Professor at the Department of Production Engineering, Logistics and Applied Computer Science, Agricultural University Kraków and Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. In recent years, she has focused on broader aspects of land management, participating or leading projects related to land-use change and decision-making. She seeks collaborative interdisciplinary research on various topics related to land management, sustainability, sustainability indicators, applied soil science and environmental decision-making. She is also a Deputy Coordinator of Professional Master in Sustainability Science at PUC-Rio, Coordinator of the Centre for Conservation and Sustainability Science (CSRio – PUC-Rio), Leader of the Research Group “Integrated Landscape Management”, Leader of the Interinstitutional Research Group on Ecosystem Services and Second Leader of the Research Group “Centre for conservation and sustainability science (CSRio)”.
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Winners of the contest “SUSTAINABILITY: What does it mean to you?”
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Guidelines for Forest Landscapes Restoration in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Amazon
Summary for public policies: prioritizing areas for forest recovery in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
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Earth Optimist Brazil 2021
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CSRio Seminar: Are new frameworks needed? Discussion in the scope of environmental projects
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Ecological Economics: Costs and Carbon Benefits of Mangrove Conservation and Restoration: A Global Analysis
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