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Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (Brasil). Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Nacionais (CEMADEN) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I am a biologist, with a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from Oxford University (2006-2011) and a Postdoc from the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford (2011-2014). Currently, I am a researcher at the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN) in Brazil. I am a Professor at the Post-grad programme on Remote Sensing at INPE (Brazil) and a Collaborator Professor of the MSc course in Ecology and Natural Resources Management at the Federal University of Acre (Brazil). I am a member of the Tropical Ecosystems and Environmental Science Group (TREES) at INPE and am also part of the RAINFOR network. For more info, visit my website: https://www.liana-anderson.org/ (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Climate change, partly already observed in some regions of the Amazon, causes the prolongation of the dry season and the increase in the frequency of extreme droughts. These changes combined with landscape fragmentation and forest degradation, resulting from logging and the expansion of the agricultural frontier, are the main causes of uncontrolled fires that become fires. In the state of…
Voices of Recovery is a multi-country, interdisciplinary partnership that focuses on understanding and supporting the recovery needs of socially, politically and physically marginalised communities in Latin America. We will work in places that are highly vulnerable to compounded recovery challenges in the shadow of the pandemic - not solely because of disease impacts, but because its wide…
Forest degradation results mainly from burning in neighbouring deforested areas from which fires escape control to become forest fires. These events are intensified by the combined effect of logging and climate change, jeopardizing the conservation of the Amazon rainforest and its ecosystem services. Logging, both in authorized management plans and through illegal activities, increases th…
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