Alberto Fonseca
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Fonseca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Fonseca |
| SIGNATURE | FONSECA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6661-5185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conservation outcomes across protected area strategies
Assessing land use and land cover dynamics in protected areas (PA) is fundamental to understanding how different conservation strategies influence outcomes across distinct territorial contexts. The present study provided one of the most comprehensive longitudinal assessments of the PAs under the Brazilian System of Nature Conservation Units, through geospatial statistical analysis of land use and cover variations between 1985 and 2022, drawing on…
Technical quality of flora baseline surveys in environmental impact assessment
Biodiversity surveys are essential in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), providing baseline information for impact prediction and decision-making. Brazilian legislation requires the identification of scientific, economic, rare, or endangered value, but does not specify methodologies. We evaluated the floristic survey conducted for the EIA of an iron ore mining project in the Serra de Ouro Preto, at the entrance of Ouro Preto, a UNESCO World H…
Audiências públicas remotas no licenciamento ambiental
A Covid-19 possibilitou a realização de audiências públicas remotas no licenciamento ambiental. Poucos estudos avaliaram as características e o impacto decisório dessa modalidade de participação. Este artigo analisou um grupo de audiências públicas remotas associadas a 8 projetos de licenciamento que tramitaram durante a Covid-19 em Minas Gerais, com ênfase no caso da Tamisa Mineração na Serra do Curral (MG). O estudo baseou-se em análises de con…
Ocorrências e causas de descumprimento legal e baixo desempenho ambiental após a obtenção de licença ambiental
Embora a concessão de licenças ambientais seja condicionada à implementação de programas de monitoramento, mitigação e compensação de impactos ambientais, existem diversas barreiras para a observância desses requisitos. Este estudo buscou compreender tais barreiras identificando e entendendo as ocorrências e causas de descumprimentos legais e baixo desempenho ambiental de empreendimentos licenciados no estado de Minas Gerais. O estudo baseou-se e…
Developing international guidance to make impact assessment follow-up happen – reflections on an interactive design process
To advance impact assessment (IA) practice worldwide the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) has long promoted and published a series of international best practice principles, including the recently revised best practice principles for IA follow-up. IA follow-up refers to any kind of undertaking that seeks to ‘understand the outcomes of projects or plans’ that have been subject to IA. To support the implementation of these pri…
Assessing and managing safety risks to downstream communities (in hindsight)
Simplification of environmental and other impact assessments – results from an international online survey
Results from an international online survey on simplification efforts in environmental assessment (EA) and other types of impact assessments (IAs) are presented. The survey, which was conducted between July and October 2022, captured responses from 45 participants who reported on developments in a total of 26 EA/IA systems. Whilst in about three quarters of these systems simplification efforts are either currently underway or planned, in particul…
Weak Participation and Ideological Exemption
Developers’ concerns over the costs and delays of environmental impact assessment (EIA) have increasingly been driving ‘simplification’ solutions and reforms. This letter critically reviews the evolution of EIA simplification in Brazil. More specifically, it (1) sets out to describe the main stages of EIA simplification in Brazil, and (2) calls for conceptually clear and evidence-based simplification reforms. I argue that the first simplification…
Reactive improvement of environmental policies
The State is not always able to proactively improve environmental policies. Eventually, policy improvements are a result of disasters that expose pre-existing problems. This situation is reflected in the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil), where, after the failures of the Fundão and B1 tailings dam, in Mariana and Brumadinho, several problems in dam safety and emergency policies were exposed. This study had a twofold objective: 1) to identify the mec…
The experience of the municipalities of Minas Gerais State (Brazil) that implemented local environmental licensing
The objective of this study was to explore the experience of the municipalities of the state of Minas Gerais that implemented local environmental licensing. For this purpose, representatives of the state administration were interviewed, and an electronic questionnaire was sent to analysts of 121 municipalities that took up environmental licensing, from which 39 responses were obtained. The key drivers of local environmental licensing were concern…
Viewpoint
Why are projects rarely rejected in environmental impact assessments? Narratives of justifiability in Brazilian and Canadian review reports
Projects that undergo environmental impact assessment (EIA) are rarely rejected. Online registries and anecdotal evidence suggest that authorities approve almost all proposed and assessed projects, though often with mitigation requirements. The objective of this study was: 1) to identify the rules or criteria that reviewers and authorities must observe when considering the acceptance or rejection of projects; and 2) to understand how rare cases o…
Álvaro Santana-Acuña. Ascent to Glory. How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and became a Global Classic
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky. Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture
To what extent are threatened plant species considered in impact assessment decision-making? Insights from southeastern Brazil
Decentralization of Environmental Licensing and Impact Assessment in Brazil
Environmental licensing and environmental impact assessment have been increasingly implemented by Brazilian municipalities, which have been historically plagued by problems of institutional capacity. The aim of this article was to critically synthetize the regulations and scientific empirical studies about the decentralized implementation of such tools in Brazilian municipalities, as well as to explore the perception of specialists about this phe…
Compensating deforestation with forest surplus
Testing an ex-ante framework for the evaluation of impact assessment laws
Methodological pluralism in environmental impact prediction and significance evaluation
Advanced introduction to environmental impact assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of those policy tools that are at the same time easy and difficult to explain. EIA’s main objectives and administrative processes can be easily grasped
Non-conformities to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards
Does size matter? An evaluation of length and proportion of information in environmental impact statements
Simulations of EIA screening across jurisdictions
Screening is one of the most critical stages in environmental impact assessment (EIA). However, there is no consensus about best approaches to screen development proposals, particularly in large territories with multiple jurisdictions. This study explored the challenges of harmonizing EIA screening criteria across jurisdictions, using Brazilian states as the empirical context. It set out to answer the following question: what would be the screeni…
Reforming EIA systems
The attractive concept of simplicity in environmental impact assessment
Methodological pluralism in environmental impact prediction and significance evaluation
The attractive concept of simplicity in environmental impact assessment
Testing an ex-ante framework for the evaluation of impact assessment laws
Viewpoint
Does size matter? An evaluation of length and proportion of information in environmental impact statements
To what extent are threatened plant species considered in impact assessment decision-making? Insights from southeastern Brazil
Challenges of space and place for corporate ‘citizens’ and healthy mining communities
Unstable shafts and shaky pillars
In Canada, and many resource-based economies, governments have been very effective in promoting and exploiting mineral development to accomplish various national objectives. Much less certain, and relatively overlooked by the research community, is whether or not governing institutions have the capacity to create and implement the complex and adaptive strategies identified as crucial for addressing the environmental challenges posed by mining. We…
Assessing and managing safety risks to downstream communities (in hindsight)
Non-conformities to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards
A descentralização do licenciamento ambiental na percepção de partes interessadas de 84 municípios brasileiros
O licenciamento ambiental está sendo cada vez mais descentralizado para o nível dos municípios brasileiros, especialmente após o incentivo da Lei Complementar 140/2011. Diversos estudos foram realizados sobre esse fenômeno, mas poucos compararam as experiências de municipalização no território nacional, especialmente sob diferentes óticas. Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa que procurou entender a percepção que diferentes partes …
Licenciamento ambiental simplificado na região sudeste Brasileira
O licenciamento ambiental, apesar da sua relevância como instrumento de política ambiental, é frequentemente criticado como moroso e burocrático. Em reação a tais críticas, diversos órgãos licenciadores têm promovido ações de simplificação no uso desse instrumento. Este artigo teve por objetivo analisar os conceitos e os modelos de licenciamento ambiental simplificado nos estados da região sudeste, de modo a entender suas implicações para o proce…
Um esquecido marco do saneamento no Brasil
Este artigo resgata, contextualiza e caracteriza o sistema de águas e esgotos de Ouro Preto, criado em fins da década de 1880 em reação a problemas sanitários e à necessidade de modernizar a antiga capital do estado brasileiro de Minas Gerais. Baseado em pesquisas documentais realizadas em arquivos públicos, revisões bibliográficas, entrevistas e inspeções de campo, o texto desfaz equívocos referentes à autoria e data de construção do sistema. A …
Um esquecido marco do saneamento no Brasil
Este artigo resgata, contextualiza e caracteriza o sistema de águas e esgotos de Ouro Preto, criado em fins da década de 1880 em reação a problemas sanitários e à necessidade de modernizar a antiga capital do estado brasileiro de Minas Gerais. Baseado em pesquisas documentais realizadas em arquivos públicos, revisões bibliográficas, entrevistas e inspeções de campo, o texto desfaz equívocos referentes à autoria e data de construção do sistema. A …
Challenges of space and place for corporate ‘citizens’ and healthy mining communities
Unstable shafts and shaky pillars
In Canada, and many resource-based economies, governments have been very effective in promoting and exploiting mineral development to accomplish various national objectives. Much less certain, and relatively overlooked by the research community, is whether or not governing institutions have the capacity to create and implement the complex and adaptive strategies identified as crucial for addressing the environmental challenges posed by mining. We…
Análise da participação popular nos Conselhos Municipais de Meio Ambiente do Médio Piracicaba (MG)
O processo de descentralização e democratização da gestão e da política ambiental pública enfrenta o desafio de garantir a participação da população. Um dos mecanismos de participação popular na condução das questões ambientais é o Conselho Municipal de Meio Ambiente. Apesar do recente crescimento quantitativo desses conselhos no Brasil, muitos autores questionam se esse órgão garante a participação efetiva da sociedade na política ambiental loca…
Licenciamento ambiental simplificado na região sudeste Brasileira
O licenciamento ambiental, apesar da sua relevância como instrumento de política ambiental, é frequentemente criticado como moroso e burocrático. Em reação a tais críticas, diversos órgãos licenciadores têm promovido ações de simplificação no uso desse instrumento. Este artigo teve por objetivo analisar os conceitos e os modelos de licenciamento ambiental simplificado nos estados da região sudeste, de modo a entender suas implicações para o proce…
Simulations of EIA screening across jurisdictions
Screening is one of the most critical stages in environmental impact assessment (EIA). However, there is no consensus about best approaches to screen development proposals, particularly in large territories with multiple jurisdictions. This study explored the challenges of harmonizing EIA screening criteria across jurisdictions, using Brazilian states as the empirical context. It set out to answer the following question: what would be the screeni…
Reforming EIA systems
The attractive concept of simplicity in environmental impact assessment
A descentralização do licenciamento ambiental na percepção de partes interessadas de 84 municípios brasileiros
O licenciamento ambiental está sendo cada vez mais descentralizado para o nível dos municípios brasileiros, especialmente após o incentivo da Lei Complementar 140/2011. Diversos estudos foram realizados sobre esse fenômeno, mas poucos compararam as experiências de municipalização no território nacional, especialmente sob diferentes óticas. Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa que procurou entender a percepção que diferentes partes …
A importância do conhecimento científico para o aprimoramento do Licenciamento e da Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental no Brasil
Non-conformities to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards
Does size matter? An evaluation of length and proportion of information in environmental impact statements
Advanced introduction to environmental impact assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of those policy tools that are at the same time easy and difficult to explain. EIA’s main objectives and administrative processes can be easily grasped
Decentralization of Environmental Licensing and Impact Assessment in Brazil
Environmental licensing and environmental impact assessment have been increasingly implemented by Brazilian municipalities, which have been historically plagued by problems of institutional capacity. The aim of this article was to critically synthetize the regulations and scientific empirical studies about the decentralized implementation of such tools in Brazilian municipalities, as well as to explore the perception of specialists about this phe…
Compensating deforestation with forest surplus
Testing an ex-ante framework for the evaluation of impact assessment laws
Methodological pluralism in environmental impact prediction and significance evaluation
Why are projects rarely rejected in environmental impact assessments? Narratives of justifiability in Brazilian and Canadian review reports
Projects that undergo environmental impact assessment (EIA) are rarely rejected. Online registries and anecdotal evidence suggest that authorities approve almost all proposed and assessed projects, though often with mitigation requirements. The objective of this study was: 1) to identify the rules or criteria that reviewers and authorities must observe when considering the acceptance or rejection of projects; and 2) to understand how rare cases o…
Álvaro Santana-Acuña. Ascent to Glory. How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and became a Global Classic
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky. Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture
To what extent are threatened plant species considered in impact assessment decision-making? Insights from southeastern Brazil
Reactive improvement of environmental policies
The State is not always able to proactively improve environmental policies. Eventually, policy improvements are a result of disasters that expose pre-existing problems. This situation is reflected in the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil), where, after the failures of the Fundão and B1 tailings dam, in Mariana and Brumadinho, several problems in dam safety and emergency policies were exposed. This study had a twofold objective: 1) to identify the mec…
The experience of the municipalities of Minas Gerais State (Brazil) that implemented local environmental licensing
The objective of this study was to explore the experience of the municipalities of the state of Minas Gerais that implemented local environmental licensing. For this purpose, representatives of the state administration were interviewed, and an electronic questionnaire was sent to analysts of 121 municipalities that took up environmental licensing, from which 39 responses were obtained. The key drivers of local environmental licensing were concern…
Viewpoint
Simplification of environmental and other impact assessments – results from an international online survey
Results from an international online survey on simplification efforts in environmental assessment (EA) and other types of impact assessments (IAs) are presented. The survey, which was conducted between July and October 2022, captured responses from 45 participants who reported on developments in a total of 26 EA/IA systems. Whilst in about three quarters of these systems simplification efforts are either currently underway or planned, in particul…
Political science (24 works) · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (20 works) · Business (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Environmental planning (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Mining and Resource Management (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Environmental impact assessment (10 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works)