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.

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Lara Monteiro

Research Assistant

Lara is a biologist graduated in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, with masters in Ecology and Evolution from the Universidade Federal de Goiás. Lara undertook one year of her undergraduate course at the University of East Anglia (UK) and worked on the effects of climate change on British butterfly populations. During her master, she focused her research on the effects of climate change on threatened plants distribution within the Cerrado biome and on the development of prioritization scenarios for conserving these species. Lara also carried out a short research at the University of York (UK), where she analysed the extinction risk of threatened Brazilian plants from climate change. Lara has experience in GIS analyses, environmental niche modelling and spatial prioritization using a systematic planning approach.

At the International Institute for Sustainability, Lara is a Research Assistant and works mainly in the development of scientific research focused on the spatial prioritization of restoration on a large scale, besides collaborating in the other projects being carried out in the Institute.

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