Georgia O Carvalho
Biographic Data
| ID | 1361222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgia O Carvalho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgia |
| FAMILY NAME | O Carvalho |
| SIGNATURE | CARVALHO G O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Woodwell Climate Research Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection
Frontier Expansion in the Amazon
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAna Cristina BarrosGeorgia O. Carvalho is a postdoctoral fellow and policy research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Her work focuses on the Amazon, environmental policy, climate change, and grassroots development. She has authored several articles on these topics. Daniel Nepstad is a senior scientist at WHRC and visiting scientist at the Institute de Pesquis…
Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests
Sustainable development
The past few years have not been particularly auspicious in environmental terms; there is increasing evidence of a fairly widespread environmental crisis, increasing the pressure to rethink many of the concepts related to environment and development. Among the important concepts that need to be revisited and further explored is ‘sustainable development’. This paper examines the roots of the sustainable development concept and argues that within t…
Metallurgical Development in the Caraja ́s Area
This article contends that although the environmental policy formation process in Brazil has been opened to new actors since the democratic transition, social sectors with clientelistic ties to the state still tend to dominate some policy arenas. To illustrate this argument, the article examines the evolution of policy formation in the case of metallurgical development in the Grande Carajás area in eastern Amazonia (Brazil) from an advocacy coali…
The politics of indigenous land rights Brazil
Brazilian indigenous rights policy has been exclusionary. As a result indigenous people and their supporters have mobilised and politicised indigenous issues. Politicisation led to inclusion of indigenous rights in the 1988 Constitution. Nevertheless, evidence suggests that this process led to a retrenchment of interests opposed to indigenous rights. This analysis compares the asymmetric access to the policy-formation process granted to political…
Sustainable development
The past few years have not been particularly auspicious in environmental terms; there is increasing evidence of a fairly widespread environmental crisis, increasing the pressure to rethink many of the concepts related to environment and development. Among the important concepts that need to be revisited and further explored is ‘sustainable development’. This paper examines the roots of the sustainable development concept and argues that within t…
Frontier Expansion in the Amazon
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAna Cristina BarrosGeorgia O. Carvalho is a postdoctoral fellow and policy research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Her work focuses on the Amazon, environmental policy, climate change, and grassroots development. She has authored several articles on these topics. Daniel Nepstad is a senior scientist at WHRC and visiting scientist at the Institute de Pesquis…
Metallurgical Development in the Caraja ́s Area
This article contends that although the environmental policy formation process in Brazil has been opened to new actors since the democratic transition, social sectors with clientelistic ties to the state still tend to dominate some policy arenas. To illustrate this argument, the article examines the evolution of policy formation in the case of metallurgical development in the Grande Carajás area in eastern Amazonia (Brazil) from an advocacy coali…
The politics of indigenous land rights Brazil
Brazilian indigenous rights policy has been exclusionary. As a result indigenous people and their supporters have mobilised and politicised indigenous issues. Politicisation led to inclusion of indigenous rights in the 1988 Constitution. Nevertheless, evidence suggests that this process led to a retrenchment of interests opposed to indigenous rights. This analysis compares the asymmetric access to the policy-formation process granted to political…
The politics of indigenous land rights Brazil
Brazilian indigenous rights policy has been exclusionary. As a result indigenous people and their supporters have mobilised and politicised indigenous issues. Politicisation led to inclusion of indigenous rights in the 1988 Constitution. Nevertheless, evidence suggests that this process led to a retrenchment of interests opposed to indigenous rights. This analysis compares the asymmetric access to the policy-formation process granted to political…
Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests
Sustainable development
The past few years have not been particularly auspicious in environmental terms; there is increasing evidence of a fairly widespread environmental crisis, increasing the pressure to rethink many of the concepts related to environment and development. Among the important concepts that need to be revisited and further explored is ‘sustainable development’. This paper examines the roots of the sustainable development concept and argues that within t…
Metallurgical Development in the Caraja ́s Area
This article contends that although the environmental policy formation process in Brazil has been opened to new actors since the democratic transition, social sectors with clientelistic ties to the state still tend to dominate some policy arenas. To illustrate this argument, the article examines the evolution of policy formation in the case of metallurgical development in the Grande Carajás area in eastern Amazonia (Brazil) from an advocacy coali…
Frontier Expansion in the Amazon
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAna Cristina BarrosGeorgia O. Carvalho is a postdoctoral fellow and policy research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Her work focuses on the Amazon, environmental policy, climate change, and grassroots development. She has authored several articles on these topics. Daniel Nepstad is a senior scientist at WHRC and visiting scientist at the Institute de Pesquis…
An Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection
Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Amazon rainforest (3 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Agroforestry (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works) · Deforestation (computer science) (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)