Biodiversity Conservation

We work with the objective of contributing to the biodiversity conservation in environmental, social and economic aspects.

Climate change

We support decision makers in the climate agenda focused on ecosystem conservation and restoration projects and biodiversity.

Ecosystem restoration

The approaches developed by IIS aim to assist the planning and implementation of vegetation recovery projects, exploring synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and costs, under a variety of scenarios.

Sustainable development

We seek to promote the transition to sustainability, contributing to the balance between socioeconomic development, biodiversity conservation and rational use of natural resources.

Sustainable Land Use

We promote the transition from the traditional agricultural practices to a more sustainable land management, helping to mitigate climate change and guaranteeing the future of the next generations.

Economic Analysis

We seek to strengthen and defend the basic principles of balance between the economy and the environment, favoring research, planning and management in public and private fields, linked to the relationship between ecological, social and economic systems, in order to improve social well-being.

Policies

We assist in the formulation of policies aimed at sustainability, as well as the implementation of practical actions, working in partnership with public sector bodies and other organizations.

Spatial intelligence

Through landscape modeling and monitoring, we identify the patterns and trends of social and ecological systems, supporting decision makers through quantitative statistics and mapped scenarios.

About IIS > Internal collaborator

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Fabio Scarano

Collaborating Researcher

Fabio Scarano is a Forest Engineer from Universidade Federal de Brasília (UNB), Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and member of the Linnean Society of London.
Professor of ecology at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) since 1993 and professor at the Professional Master in Sustainability Science, at the Department of Geography and Envioronment at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), in partnership with the Centre of Conservation and Sustainability Sciente of Rio (CSRio). He also acted in the UN panels on climate (IPCC; 2011-2014) and biodiversity (IPBES; 2014-2017). Worked in companies in the Brazilian forest sector (1986-1988), as well at CAPES-MEC (2005-2011) as Research Director of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (2007-2009), Senior Vice President for the Americas of the NGO Conservation International (2009-2015) and Executive Director of the Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development (2015-2018).
Fabio has authored over 100 scientific publications on biodiversity, climate change and sustainability, and awarded the Jabuti Prize for the books Brazilian Biomes: Portraits of a Plural Country (2012) and Atlantic Forest: A History of the Future (2014). His current topics of interest include adaptation to climate change, the science-political interface in the socio-environmental arena, and the history and relationships between concepts and theories about nature, the biosphere, sustainability and Gaia.

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