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Team Biography
Luciana Alves
Project and Research Coordinator, WRI Brasil
Luciana Alves is the Project and Research Coordinator for WRI Brasil’s Forest Program. She works with topics related to forest restoration strategies and models, monitoring, and governance structures.
Luciana has been working with forest landscape restoration since 2004 and has worked in various sectors such as government, private companies, and NGOs, mainly dedicated to monitoring restoration and, more recently, supporting the formulation of public policies, studies of priority areas, and definitions of models of restoration.
Luciana is a forestry engineer, graduated from the Federal University of Lavras, with a master’s degree in Ecology Applied to Conservation and Management of Natural Resources, with an emphasis on Ecological Restoration.
Related work
Research
Natural Infrastructure for Water in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte
Natural infrastructure offers many opportunities to improve water quality and create other benefits for metropolitan areas. Cities4Forests has developed a methodology to help cities identify investment opportunities for natural infrastructure that will benefit their utilities and residents. The study focuses on identifying the best uses of ecosystem services to avoid sedimentation and its impacts on…
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The State of the Art of Natural Water Infrastructure
Brazil’s cities are already feeling the impacts of climate change. Many of them have faced severe water crises in the past decade, and increased temperatures from climate change are making droughts more frequent and intense. In the face of these realities, natural infrastructure can play a crucial role in improving both water quality and quantity…
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