Turra is a professor at the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (IOUSP) and coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Ocean Sustainability, based at the Oceanographic Institute and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo. Turra is a biologist with a master's and PhD in Ecology from the State University of Campinas. He was awarded the Kirby Laing Fellowship at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, United Kingdom, and the Merit Medal of Tamandaré from the Brazilian Navy. His work exercises the interdisciplinary and integrated research, focusing on themes such as marine biodiversity, governance, integrated management, marine conservation and environmental impact, climate change and marine pollution (marine litter). Turra seeks to promote the integration between science and society, considering both formal and non-formal education as well as the capacity building of teachers and the production of teaching support materials. Turra?s work also seeks to establish a dialogue with the private sector for technological development and innovation applied to the ocean. Turra has been working in national (e.g. MMA, MCTI, SECIRM, SIMA/SP) and international (e.g. GESAMP, UNESCO, UNEP, UNEA, IAI) forums and organizations with multi and transdisciplinary approaches aimed at integrating science and decision-making. In addition to coordinating and participating in different research projects and networks (e.g. Rede Clima, ReBentos), he organized important scientific events such as the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Oceanography (Santos, Brasil/2011), 2nd International Ocean Research Conference (Barcelona, Spain/2014), Third International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans (Santos, Brazil/2015) and VII International Sandy Beach Symposium (Ilhabela, Brazil/2015). In addition to being a member of the Research Group on Environment and Society at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo, Prof. Turra is also active in the Coalition Science and Environment and in the Network of Specialists in Nature Conservation. He is associate editor of Ocean and Coastal Research (Brazilian Journal of Oceanography) and Ambiente e Sociedade and editor of the Brazilian Marine Biodiversity series (Springer Nature). Turra also works in scientific dissemination in vehicles such as Scientific American Brasil, Ciência Hoje, Ciência Hoje das Crianças and Jornal da USP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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| Brasil arroja al mar 3.440.000 toneladas anuales de residuos plásticos |
| Brazil dumps 3.44 million tons of plastic waste into the sea every year |
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Sandy beaches provide key goods and ecosystem services for human populations around the world. Unfortunately, virtually all sandy beaches are threatened nowadays due to impacts of tourism, urbanization and climate change, which can compromise ecosystem functioning. To successfully protect sandy beach ecosystems in the long term, conservation strategies should be based on sound and integra…
In a context strongly marked due to climate changes and uncertainty, and with strong tendencies of alterations in the dynamics of the hydric regime, it is pressing to advance in the knowledge and innovation associated to the adoption of flexible measures of adaptive management of water and the implementation of practices of socio-environmental governance in an integrated and interdependen…
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For decades, marine and coastal ecosystems have been impacted by pollution produced by anthropogenic activities, mainly related to agriculture, industry and urbanization. Most of the substances released on natural systems represent critical threats due to their persistence, toxicity, bioaccumulation and trophic transfer capacity. For this reason, efforts to evaluate and map pollutants lev…
The widespread neglect with the environment and with the waste disposal has made marine pollution a global issue. The world's population perception about our intricate relationship of interdependence with other living organisms and with nature is still too shallow. Even with some relative progress regulating the use of disposable plastic products, we are still far from an effective soluti…
Reducing solid waste pollution in the marine environment is a major challenge nowadays and it is also one of the goals proposed by the Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG). The growing visibility of this topic at national and global levels demands an investigation of the advances and scientific research potential on marine litter, to guide the technical-scientific development in this fie…
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Microplastic pollution poses severe threats to the marine environment and, for this reason, global efforts have been undertaken to develop monitoring schemes to assess trends in microplastics distribution in sediments, water column and biota. However, determining appropriate monitoring strategies is complex due to the high variability of microplastics abundance in small spatial and tempor…
Ecosystem-Based management (EBM) is a pertinent tool to manage coastal zones in the Climate Change (CC) context: it considers the diagnosis of socio-ecological vulnerabilities in order to early respond to them. Among the challenges for its implementation, the lack of a systemic vision and the divergence of opinions among decision makers are intensified in the management of complex enviro…
The Social-Ecological System framework has been applied to environmental management and been shown to provide information which is crucial to understand and discuss the resilience of such systems. Characterizing and managing coastal environments, like sandy beaches, as sociology-ecological systems may result in management practices that can overcome the many obstacles to its sustainabilit…
Marine human uses have extended to areas out of reach a few years ago, such as the seabed. These uses, usually governed and managed sectorally, are affecting sensitive ecosystems like seamounts and hydrothermal vents. In light of this, new strategies, such as the integrative Ecosystem Approach (EA), have been emerging in face of complex conservation scenarios. The International Seabed Aut…
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