Environmental Policy, Social Movements, and Science for the Brazilian Amazon

Swift Hall
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

University of Chicago
November 5-6, 2009

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Panel 3 — Science and Technology as a Basis for a New Development Model for the Amazon

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• Amazonian sustainable agriculture: from fiction to reality, a contribution to a new development model for the Amazon.
  Tatiana Sá, Engenheira Agônoma, Diretora-Executiva da Embrapa, Brasília
• The Amazon: A complex and dynamic region.
  Adalberto Luis Val, Diretor do INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM.
• Local Science: agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge in the Amazon.
  Mauro Barbosa de Almeida, Professor of Anthropology, UNICAMP.
• Science and Technology and the current proposals for the development of the Amazon.
  Bertha Becker, Geógrafa, Professora Emérita da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
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• Respondent: Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Antropóloga, Professora da Universidade de Chicago.

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Organized by the Center for Latin American Studies with the generous support of the Tinker Visiting Professor program, a US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant, and a grant from the Brazil Office of the Ford Foundation. Additional support is made possible by a grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation to the Program on the Global Environment, and from the Center for International Studies.