Friday, April 17, 2014
9:00-9:30 Welcome
Sonia Feigenbaum, Associate Provost for Global Engagement, Brown University
James N. Green, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Director of the Brazil Initiative
Leah K. VanWey, Associate Professor of Sociology and Environment & Society, Senior Deputy Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Luiz Martinelli, Professor Titular da Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Campus de Piracicaba
9:30-11:00 Research Panel: Mapping and Monitoring the Landscape
Chair: Marcia Macedo, Woods Hole Research Center
Paulo Moutinho – Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia
“Reaching Zero Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: What is Missing?”
Holly Gibbs – University of Wisconsin
"Mapping and Monitoring Rancher and Slaughterhouse Response to the Zero-Deforestation Cattle Agreements"
Raoni Rajão – Federal University of Minas Gerais,
“Looking but Not Seeing? The ‘Potentiality’ and ‘Actuality’ of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) in the Brazilian Amazon”
Paulo Barreto – IMAZON
“How Can One Develop the Rural Economy without Deforesting the Amazon?”
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Research Panel: Regional Climate Change and Agriculture, Part I
Chair: Stephen Porder, Brown University
Avery Cohn – Tufts University
“Climate Risk in Brazilian Agriculture”
Michael Coe – Woods Hole Research Center
“Hydro-Climatological Consequences of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon Agricultural Frontier”
Marcos Costa – Federal University of Viçosa
“Effects of Tropical Deforestation on Climate and Agriculture in Brazil”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Research Panel: Regional Climate Change and Agriculture, Part II
Chair: John Mustard, Brown University
Jung-Eun Lee – Brown University
“Will Forests Grow Back after Deforestation?”
Katia Fernandes – International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
“Importance of Decadal Variability for Climate Change Assessments in the Amazon”
Peter Goldsmith – University of Illinois
“"Tropical Grain Production Efficiency and Environmental Implications"
Marcos Buckeridge – University of São Paulo
“Sugarcane as a Bioenergy Source: History, Performance, Policies and Perspectives of Second-Generation Bioethanol in Brazil”
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 Discussion Panel: Territorial Planning under Climate Change
Chair: Leah K. VanWey, Brown University
Britaldo Soares-Filho – Federal University of Minas Gerais
Luiz Martinelli – University of São Paulo
Susanna Hecht – University of California, Los Angeles
Reynaldo Victoria – FAPESP
Saturday, April 18, 2014
9:00-9:45 “The Evolution of Environmental Policy from Lula to Dilma”
Kathryn Hochstetler – University of Waterloo
9:45-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:00 Research Panel: Environmental Institutions and Incentives
Chair: Avery Cohn, Tufts University
Salo Coslovsky – New York University
“How Enforcement Becomes Compliance: Regulating Cattle-ranching in the Amazon”
Alex Pfaff – Duke University
"Why We Should Integrate Forest Conservation With Development”
Virgilio Viana – Fundação Sustentavél Amazonas
"Holes in South-South Cooperation on the Promotion of Low Carbon and Sustainable Development"
Lisa Rausch – University of Wisconsin
“Successes and Challenges of Brazil’s Soy Moratorium”
12:00-1:00 Lunch, Watson Institute Library, 3rd floor
1:00-3:00 Discussion Panel: Leader or Spoiler: Where next for Brazil's Climate Policy?
Chair: J. Timmons Roberts, Brown University
Eduardo Viola – University of Brasília
Natalie Unterstell – Office of the President
Carlos Rittl – Brazil’s Climate Observatory
Kathryn Hochstetler – University of Waterloo
3:00 Conference Closing
