Raoni Rajão
Brazilian researcher and professor
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Raoni Rajão's Degrees
- PhD Environmental Science Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Masters Environmental Science Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Bachelors Environmental Engineering Federal University of Minas Gerais
Why Is Raoni Rajão Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Raoni Guerra Lucas Rajão is a Brazilian environmental scientist and associate professor in environmental management and social studies of science & technology in the Department of Production Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the U.S. In March 31st 2023, Raoni Rajão was nominated Director of the Department of Policies to Deforestation and Burning Control of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, in Brazil, becoming responsible for the plans to control deforestation and the REDD+ agenda.
Raoni Rajão's Published Works
Published Works
- Cracking Brazil's Forest Code (2014) (827)
- The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness (2020) (195)
- The threat of political bargaining to climate mitigation in Brazil (2018) (188)
- Limits of Brazil’s Forest Code as a means to end illegal deforestation (2017) (131)
- Brazil’s Market for Trading Forest Certificates (2016) (110)
- Spatially explicit valuation of the Brazilian Amazon Forest’s Ecosystem Services (2018) (93)
- Conceptions of control and IT artefacts: an institutional account of the Amazon rainforest monitoring system (2009) (62)
- Competing institutional logics and sustainable development: the case of geographic information systems in Brazil's Amazon region (2011) (62)
- Who owns Brazilian lands? (2019) (59)
- INSTITUTIONAL SUBVERSION AND DEFORESTATION: LEARNING LESSONS FROM THE SYSTEM FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL LICENCING OF RURAL PROPERTIES IN MATO GROSSO (2012) (40)
- The parallel materialization of REDD+ implementation discourses in Brazil (2015) (38)
- On the Pragmatics of Inscription: Detecting Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2013) (35)
- Mapping the socio-ecology of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP) extraction in the Brazilian Amazon: The case of açaí (Euterpe precatoria Mart) in Acre (2019) (33)
- Co-operation or co-optation? NGOs' roles in Norway's international climate and forest initiative (2017) (32)
- Blame Games in the Amazon: Environmental Crises and the Emergence of a Transparency Regime in Brazil (2014) (30)
- Representations and discourses: the role of local accounts and remote sensing in the formulation of Amazonia's environmental policy (2013) (30)
- Amazon Fund 10 Years Later: Lessons from the World’s Largest REDD+ Program (2019) (28)
- Traditional conservation strategies still the best option (2018) (26)
- Enabling large-scale forest restoration in Minas Gerais state, Brazil (2017) (24)
- Clashing interpretations of REDD+ “results” in the Amazon Fund (2018) (22)
- Policies undermine Brazil's GHG goals. (2015) (19)
- Economic losses to sustainable timber production by fire in the Brazilian Amazon (2018) (18)
- Can multifunctional livelihoods including recreational ecosystem services (RES) and non timber forest products (NTFP) maintain biodiverse forests in the Brazilian Amazon? (2018) (17)
- The risk of fake controversies for Brazilian environmental policies (2022) (15)
- The Rights and Wrongs of Brazil's Forest Monitoring Systems (2017) (14)
- The materiality of data transparency and the (re)configuration of environmental activism in the Brazilian Amazon (2018) (14)
- Scientists as citizens and knowers in the detection of deforestation in the Amazon (2017) (14)
- Introduction: Voices from within and Outside the South—Defying STS Epistemologies, Boundaries, and Theories (2014) (14)
- Costs and effectiveness of public and private fire management programs in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado (2021) (13)
- Epidemiologically inspired approaches to land-use policy evaluation: The influence of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2018) (13)
- Between Purity and Hybridity (2014) (13)
- Between Indians and “cowboys”: the role of ICT in the management of contradictory self-images and the production of carbon credits in the Brazilian Amazon (2016) (11)
- Brazil’s sugarcane embitters the EU-Mercosur trade talks (2021) (11)
- Large-scale pasture restoration may not be the best option to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil (2019) (10)
- Adaptive Forest Governance in Northwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil: Pilot project outcomes across agrarian reform landscapes (2017) (10)
- REGULARIZATION OF LEGAL RESERVE DEBTS: PERCEPTIONS OF RURAL PRODUCERS IN THE STATE OF PARÁ AND MATO GROSSO IN BRAZIL (2017) (10)
- Boundary work in climate policy making in Brazil: Reflections from the frontlines of the science-policy interface (2016) (9)
- Results-based payment: Who should be paid, and for what? (2018) (9)
- Determinants of Fire Impact in the Brazilian Biomes (2022) (9)
- Will farmers seek environmental regularization in the Amazon and how? Insights from the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) questionnaires. (2021) (9)
- Introduction (2014) (8)
- A spatially explicit index for mapping Forest Restoration Vocation (FRV) at the landscape scale: Application in the Rio Doce basin, Brazil. (2020) (8)
- Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil (2020) (8)
- Performing postcolonial identities at the United Nations’ climate negotiations (2018) (8)
- The politics of environmental market instruments: Coalition building and knowledge filtering in the regulation of forest certificates trading in Brazil (2020) (7)
- Competing institutional logics and sustainable development: the case of the Amazon rainforest monitoring systems (2011) (6)
- Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems (2022) (6)
- Bringing economic development for whom? An exploratory study of the impact of the Interoceanic Highway on the livelihood of smallholders in the Amazon (2019) (6)
- Envisioning Amazonia: Geospatial technology, legality and the (dis)enchantments of infrastructure (2020) (6)
- Can REDD+ still become a market? Ruptured dependencies and market logics for emission reductions in Brazil (2019) (5)
- Boundary Objects and Blinding: the Contradictory Role of GIS in the Protection of the Amazon Rainforest (2012) (4)
- Beyond Carbon: The Contributions of South American Tropical Humid and Subhumid Forests to Ecosystem Services (2022) (4)
- Trading deforestation - Why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient (2021) (3)
- Trading deforestation—why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient (2021) (3)
- Appropriations, conflicts and subversions: the social construction of the Brazilian Forest Code (2020) (3)
- Evaluation of the potential transmission of vis- ceral leishmaniasis in a canine shelter (2005) (3)
- From “Green Hell” to “Amazonia Legal”: Land use models and the re-imagination of the rainforest as a new development frontier (2020) (3)
- Latin American and Caribbean Forests in the 2020s: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities (2021) (2)
- Governing by models: Exploring the technopolitics of the (in)visilibities of land (2020) (2)
- Fighting to include local voices in environmental policy-making in Brazil (2013) (1)
- The limits of private certifications and the potential of state-led spatial data infrastructure in South America as to ensure deforestation-free exports to the EU (2020) (1)
- Results-Based Conservation Aid: Amazon Fund 10 Years Later, Lessons from the World's Largest REDD+ Program (2018) (1)
- Why “Tapuya?” (2018) (1)
- Supplementary Materials for Cracking Brazil's Forest Code (2014) (1)
- Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review (2022) (1)
- Inter-sectoral prioritization of climate technologies: insights from a Technology Needs Assessment for mitigation in Brazil (2022) (1)
- Informated asphalt: the impact of information technology on urban traffic management (2007) (0)
- Imagining the Bioeconomy across the North-South Divide (2017) (0)
- Contributors (1992) (0)
- 1 Results-Based Forest Conservation Funding : Amazon 2 Fund 10 Years Later , Lessons from the World ' s 3 Largest REDD + Program 4 (2019) (0)
- 2 Social Studies of Science Introduction : Rethinking science / policy interfaces in Brazil (2017) (0)
- Knowledge Work and GIS: Locating Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2012) (0)
- A social-ecological approach to identify and quantify biodiversity tipping points in South America's seasonal dry ecosystems (2019) (0)
- 1 Results-based conservation aid : Amazon Fund 10 2 years later , lessons from the world ' s largest REDD + 3 program 4 (2018) (0)
- Globalization, extractivism, and social exclusion: Threats and opportunities to Amazon governance in Brazil (2021) (0)
- Economic Losses by Fires to Sustainable Timber Production (2017) (0)
- Corrigendum to costs and effectiveness of public and private fire management programs in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado (2021) (0)
- Results-Based Forest Conservation Funding: Amazon Fund 10 Years Later, Lessons from the World's Largest REDD+ Program (2019) (0)
- The narratives we infrastructure by : abstract + powerpoint. (2010) (0)
- Sustainable by Accident: An Analysis of the Development of the Brazilian Electricity Sector (2020) (0)
- THE INVISIBLE BARRIER: CULTURAL ISSUES IN MANAGING GLOBALSOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (2009) (0)
- THE PREVALENCE OF ILLEGAL GOLD PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL (2021) (0)
- Disinformation permeates Castro's reply to Rajão et al. (2022) (2023) (0)
- Willingness to adopt voluntary and compulsory forest restoration practices by rural landowners in the central Rio Doce basin - MG (2022) (0)
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