Natasha Ribeiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natasha Ribeiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Ribeiro |
| SIGNATURE | RIBEIRO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eduardo Mondlane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5369-5905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ecosystem services in miombo woodlands
Over time, African communities had a close relationship with miombo woodlands, a socio-ecological system providing key ecosystem services (ES) supporting the livelihoods of more than 100 million people. Charcoal production and agriculture led to deforestation and forest degradation, contributing to the erosion of ES provided by miombo woodlands. While studies assessing ES across time and space have been published, assessments specifically targeti…
National-scale field delineation in Mozambique refines our understanding of cropland distribution, field size, and deforestation actors
The design of science-based policies to improve the sustainability of smallholder agriculture is challenged by a limited understanding of fundamental system properties, such as the spatial distribution of active cropland and field size. We integrate 1.5 m resolution satellite imagery, satellite embeddings, and deep learning to map individual fields in complex smallholder systems at policy-relevant scale. We identify 17 million fields across Mozam…
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands
Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use actors and activities in conservation assessments and planning is challenging. As a result, top-down conservation policy and planning are often criticized for a lack of contextual nuance widely acknowledged to be required for effective and just conservation action. To a…
Arquitetura residencial multifamiliar no período pós pandêmico
Durante a pandemia da COVID-19, a forma de interagir com o espaço construído mudou consideravelmente, principalmente com o ambiente residencial, devido as transformações sociais e novas necessidades. Esse trabalho visa compreender a influência desse fenômeno nos projetos arquitetônicos de edifícios residenciais multifamiliares. Para isso, realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica e entrevistas com 5 arquitetos que realizam projetos arquitetônicos de…
Regeneration and Restoration Status of Miombo Woodland Following Land Use Land Cover Changes at the Buffer Zone of Gile National Park, Central Mozambique
In the context of the current intensified disturbances of Miombo woodland, its regenerating capacity is fundamental to endure such disturbances. Miombo woodland in the buffer zone of Gile National Park (GNAP) is facing land cover change. This study aimed to assess regeneration structure, the status of restoration, and factors affecting the regeneration of Miombo woodland in the buffer zone of GNAP. In total, 12 transects, 48 plots, and 240 subplo…
Food and medicinal uses of Annona senegalensis Pers
The study illustrated the importance of differentiating between TK and AU. It documented the wide range of the uses of A. senegalensis, while highlighting its most common uses, and the need to better valorize and sustainably manage the species
Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps
d Savanna burning methodologies could generate carbon revenues for many protected areas in Africa d When combined with soil and woody carbon pools the potential is significantly greater d Potential carbon revenues from fire management could substantially reduce protected area funding gaps
The connection between forest degradation and urban energy demand in sub-Saharan Africa
Charcoal is a key energy source for urban households in sub-Saharan Africa and charcoal production is the main cause of forest degradation across the region. We used multitemporal high-resolution remote sensing optical imagery to quantify the extent and intensity of forest degradation associated with charcoal production and its impact on forest carbon stocks for the main supplying area of an African capital. This analysis documents the advance of…
Participation in illegal harvesting of natural resources and the perceived costs and benefits of living within a protected area
Prediction of forest parameters and carbon accounting under different fire regimes in Miombo woodlands, Niassa Special Reserve, Northern Mozambique
To prevent this disease, we have to stay at home, but if we stay at home, we die of hunger’ – Livelihoods, vulnerability and coping with Covid-19 in rural Mozambique
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing and travel restrictions have been introduced to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (hereinafter Covid). In many countries of the Global South, NPIs are affecting rural livelihoods, but in-depth empirical data on these impacts are limited. We traced the differentiated impacts of Covid NPIs throughout the start of the pandemic May to July 2020. We conducted qualitative weekl…
A Livelihood and Farming System approach for effective conservation policies in Protected Areas of Developing Countries
Monitoring forest degradation from charcoal production with historical Landsat imagery. A case study in southern Mozambique
We used historical Landsat imagery to monitor forest degradation from charcoal production in the main supplying region of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, during a ten-year period (2008–2018). We applied a change detection method that exploits temporal NDVI dynamics associated with charcoal production. This forest degradation temporal sequence exposes the magnitude and the spatial and temporal dynamics of charcoal production, which is the main for…
Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing
Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end
The charcoal industry is among the most important semiformal economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and a key cash income source for local households who produce it. This has intensified the debate as to the role of income from charcoal production in the alleviation of rural poverty. While in a number of cases charcoal production has been identified as a potential alleviator of monetary poverty, this paper takes as its departure point a lack of a…
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
The impact of charcoal production on forest degradation
Charcoal production for urban energy consumption is a main driver of forest degradation in sub Saharan Africa. Urban growth projections for the continent suggest that the relevance of this process will increase in the coming decades. Forest degradation associated to charcoal production is difficult to monitor and commonly overlooked and underrepresented in forest cover change and carbon emission estimates. We use a multitemporal dataset of very h…
Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing
To prevent this disease, we have to stay at home, but if we stay at home, we die of hunger’ – Livelihoods, vulnerability and coping with Covid-19 in rural Mozambique
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing and travel restrictions have been introduced to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (hereinafter Covid). In many countries of the Global South, NPIs are affecting rural livelihoods, but in-depth empirical data on these impacts are limited. We traced the differentiated impacts of Covid NPIs throughout the start of the pandemic May to July 2020. We conducted qualitative weekl…
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end
The charcoal industry is among the most important semiformal economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and a key cash income source for local households who produce it. This has intensified the debate as to the role of income from charcoal production in the alleviation of rural poverty. While in a number of cases charcoal production has been identified as a potential alleviator of monetary poverty, this paper takes as its departure point a lack of a…
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands
Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use actors and activities in conservation assessments and planning is challenging. As a result, top-down conservation policy and planning are often criticized for a lack of contextual nuance widely acknowledged to be required for effective and just conservation action. To a…
A Livelihood and Farming System approach for effective conservation policies in Protected Areas of Developing Countries
Food and medicinal uses of Annona senegalensis Pers
The study illustrated the importance of differentiating between TK and AU. It documented the wide range of the uses of A. senegalensis, while highlighting its most common uses, and the need to better valorize and sustainably manage the species
The impact of charcoal production on forest degradation
Charcoal production for urban energy consumption is a main driver of forest degradation in sub Saharan Africa. Urban growth projections for the continent suggest that the relevance of this process will increase in the coming decades. Forest degradation associated to charcoal production is difficult to monitor and commonly overlooked and underrepresented in forest cover change and carbon emission estimates. We use a multitemporal dataset of very h…
Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end
The charcoal industry is among the most important semiformal economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and a key cash income source for local households who produce it. This has intensified the debate as to the role of income from charcoal production in the alleviation of rural poverty. While in a number of cases charcoal production has been identified as a potential alleviator of monetary poverty, this paper takes as its departure point a lack of a…
Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique
Charcoal is an important source of energy and income for millions of people in Africa. Its production often drives forest degradation and deforestation which have impacts on the local people that remain poorly understood. We present a novel methodology for analysing the contribution of woodland ecosystem services (ES) to rural well-being and poverty alleviation, which takes into account access mechanisms to ES, trade-offs between ES, and human re…
Monitoring forest degradation from charcoal production with historical Landsat imagery. A case study in southern Mozambique
We used historical Landsat imagery to monitor forest degradation from charcoal production in the main supplying region of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, during a ten-year period (2008–2018). We applied a change detection method that exploits temporal NDVI dynamics associated with charcoal production. This forest degradation temporal sequence exposes the magnitude and the spatial and temporal dynamics of charcoal production, which is the main for…
Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing
A Livelihood and Farming System approach for effective conservation policies in Protected Areas of Developing Countries
Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps
d Savanna burning methodologies could generate carbon revenues for many protected areas in Africa d When combined with soil and woody carbon pools the potential is significantly greater d Potential carbon revenues from fire management could substantially reduce protected area funding gaps
The connection between forest degradation and urban energy demand in sub-Saharan Africa
Charcoal is a key energy source for urban households in sub-Saharan Africa and charcoal production is the main cause of forest degradation across the region. We used multitemporal high-resolution remote sensing optical imagery to quantify the extent and intensity of forest degradation associated with charcoal production and its impact on forest carbon stocks for the main supplying area of an African capital. This analysis documents the advance of…
Participation in illegal harvesting of natural resources and the perceived costs and benefits of living within a protected area
Prediction of forest parameters and carbon accounting under different fire regimes in Miombo woodlands, Niassa Special Reserve, Northern Mozambique
To prevent this disease, we have to stay at home, but if we stay at home, we die of hunger’ – Livelihoods, vulnerability and coping with Covid-19 in rural Mozambique
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing and travel restrictions have been introduced to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (hereinafter Covid). In many countries of the Global South, NPIs are affecting rural livelihoods, but in-depth empirical data on these impacts are limited. We traced the differentiated impacts of Covid NPIs throughout the start of the pandemic May to July 2020. We conducted qualitative weekl…
Regeneration and Restoration Status of Miombo Woodland Following Land Use Land Cover Changes at the Buffer Zone of Gile National Park, Central Mozambique
In the context of the current intensified disturbances of Miombo woodland, its regenerating capacity is fundamental to endure such disturbances. Miombo woodland in the buffer zone of Gile National Park (GNAP) is facing land cover change. This study aimed to assess regeneration structure, the status of restoration, and factors affecting the regeneration of Miombo woodland in the buffer zone of GNAP. In total, 12 transects, 48 plots, and 240 subplo…
Food and medicinal uses of Annona senegalensis Pers
The study illustrated the importance of differentiating between TK and AU. It documented the wide range of the uses of A. senegalensis, while highlighting its most common uses, and the need to better valorize and sustainably manage the species
Arquitetura residencial multifamiliar no período pós pandêmico
Durante a pandemia da COVID-19, a forma de interagir com o espaço construído mudou consideravelmente, principalmente com o ambiente residencial, devido as transformações sociais e novas necessidades. Esse trabalho visa compreender a influência desse fenômeno nos projetos arquitetônicos de edifícios residenciais multifamiliares. Para isso, realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica e entrevistas com 5 arquitetos que realizam projetos arquitetônicos de…
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands
Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use actors and activities in conservation assessments and planning is challenging. As a result, top-down conservation policy and planning are often criticized for a lack of contextual nuance widely acknowledged to be required for effective and just conservation action. To a…
Ecosystem services in miombo woodlands
Over time, African communities had a close relationship with miombo woodlands, a socio-ecological system providing key ecosystem services (ES) supporting the livelihoods of more than 100 million people. Charcoal production and agriculture led to deforestation and forest degradation, contributing to the erosion of ES provided by miombo woodlands. While studies assessing ES across time and space have been published, assessments specifically targeti…
National-scale field delineation in Mozambique refines our understanding of cropland distribution, field size, and deforestation actors
The design of science-based policies to improve the sustainability of smallholder agriculture is challenged by a limited understanding of fundamental system properties, such as the spatial distribution of active cropland and field size. We integrate 1.5 m resolution satellite imagery, satellite embeddings, and deep learning to map individual fields in complex smallholder systems at policy-relevant scale. We identify 17 million fields across Mozam…
Geography (13 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Woodland (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Agroforestry (6 works) · Business (6 works)