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Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec
Co-founder and president
Co-founder and President of the International Institute of Sustainability of Rio de Janeiro (IIS), Agnieszka holds a BSc in Environmental Protection Engineering, an MSc in Environmental Protection (from the University of Life Sciences, Poland) and a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia, UK. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Coordinator of the Professional Master's Degree in Sustainability Science, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Opole University of Technology and Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.
Participates in and leads projects related to land use change and decision making. Performing interdisciplinary collaborative research on various topics related to land management, sustainability, sustainability indicators, applied soil science and environmental decision making. She is also Coordinator of the research nucleus at PUC - Center for Conservation Science and Sustainability (CSRio - PUC-Rio), Leader of the Research Group "Integrated Landscape Management", and Leader of the Research Group "Center for Conservation Science and Sustainability" (CSRio).
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Final TEEB project presentation for the Secretariat for the Environment of the State of São Paulo
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Agnieszka Latawiec talks to UOL TV about the study that she coordinated about the lack of labor and the adoption of good agricultural practices in the Amazon
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Agnieszka Latawiec talks to Terraviva TV about the study that coordinated about lack of labor and adoption of good agricultural practices in the Amazon
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Agência O Globo website has disseminated the study coordinated by Agnieszka Latawiec, where the lack of labour is pointed as the main problem for adoption of good agricultural practices in the Amazon
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The Estadão website has disseminated the study coordinated by Agnieszka Latawiec where the lack of labour is pointed as the main problem for adoption of good agricultural practices in the Amazon
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Discussion forum with Bernardo Strassburg and Agnieszka Latawiec, from IIS, at the Global Landscape Forum held in Paris – 2015 (from the 36th minute)
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Centre for Conservation and Sustainability Science is inaugurated
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