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QES Climate Justice scholars Marcondes Coelho, Daniela Campolina, and Katia Carolino recently contributed to an open-access opinion article led by Lucas Ferrante of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)/National Institute for Research in the Amazon. The article was published in Die Erde - Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin and can be […]

QES Climate Justice Scholar, José Langa's research was featured in several Mozambican news outlets this month. The news articles highlight Langa's efforts to create a map of climate risks for the cities of Beira and Maputo. The articles, which are available in Portuguese, can be viewed by clicking on the following links: https://www.dw.com/pt-002/investigadores-mo%C3%A7ambicanos-est%C3%A3o-a-desenvolver-mapa-de-risco-clim%C3%A1tico/a-56586624 https://www.jornalnoticias.co.mz/index.php/tecnologias/100554-estudo-avalia-risco-climatico-que-maputo-e-beira-correm https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/cidades-mocambicanas-precisam-de-mapa-de-risco-climatico_n1297545 […]

We are delighted to share our new YouTube Channel! Please visit our channel regularly for videos of our various projects. Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, our scholars are working diligently to complete their respective projects while following local health protocols. We take this opportunity to thank and acknowledge their efforts and that of […]

The CoAdapta | Litoral Project team, headed by QES-AS Scholar, Dr. Allan Yu Iwama,  released a mini-documentary about the project and its approach. The principal goal of the CoAdapta | Litoral Project is to integrate local perception with the scientific knowledge of communities in coastal areas in risk and vulnerability situations to environmental change and […]

The 8th webinar of the "Cycle of Conversations" organized by the Citizen Science Laboratory of the University of Los Lagos, Chile, brought together several of our QES Climate Justice scholars and collaborators from LabC-Ulagos to discuss the topic of Open Science and Citizen Science to Promote Climate Justice. The speakers presented on their respective QES […]

Written by Katia Carolino The 25th APDR Social Innovation Workshop Towards Sustainability: Facing Contemporary Challenges for Regional Development, took place from September 28 to October 2, 2020, at CES - Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). The event aimed to promote reflection and knowledge sharing on social innovation practices linked to […]

A presentation by Leadership for the Ecozoic L4E’s Josh Sterlin Date: Wednesday, September 2nd Time: 12pm ET Location: Zoom https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/91652582161 Josh's work asks the question: what happens to a group of people, their culture, their senses, and even their ontological systems, when they consciously attempt to 'connect to nature'? By using the Wilderness Awareness School, […]

Marcondes Coelho recently co-authored a paper entitled Program Outcomes of Payments for Watershed Services in Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How to Evaluate to Improve Decision-Making and the Socio-Environmental Benefits on Water, a peer-reviewed open access journal on water science and technology. The paper can be accessed here. The following are links to other open access articles […]

A Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional e Sustentabilidade e o Webinar de Meio Ambiente e Agroecologia em tempos de Pademia apresentaram o debate "Racismo e Injustiça Ambiental em um contexto de Pandemia", no qual o estudante Marcondes Coelho do QES-AS fez uma apresentação sobre racismo e justiça ambiental. O debate foi realizado, de forma online, pelo […]

On June 3, 2020 QES-AS scholars, Allan Iwama, Francisco Araos, Aico Nogueira, Daniela Campolina, Katia Carolino, Marcondes Coelho, met virtually to identify synergies between their projects and to discuss opportunities to work collaboratively. The group aims to strengthen the QES Climate Justice network by organizing virtual panels, sharing materials, cataloging citizen science initiatives on a […]