The Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (CMER): a pocket of hope in facing increasing threats in the Brazilian Amazon by Dr. Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Organized by Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Center for Global Studies, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies and College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences
- Location
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright Street
- Date
- Jan 27, 2025 3:00 pm
- Speaker
- Dr. Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Acre (UFAC)
- Contact
- CLACS
- clacs@illinois.edu
- Views
- 85
- Originating Calendar
- Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Dr. Ribeiro is an Associate Professor and Vice-Coordinator of the Master's Program in Forest Science at UFAC. She holds a Ph.D. in Forest Management and specializes in forest conservation, climate change education, and community empowerment, especially supporting extractivist communities in Brazilian Amazon. Her work focuses on capacity building for sustainable resource use and knowledge and dissemination about climate change. She develops long-term systematic monitoring of forests and assessments of carbon stock in natural and planted forests.
Part III of the series on Women Environmental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon
Organized by Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Center for Global Studies, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies and College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences