Luciana Alves

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 Campinas (SP) and Region

Natural infrastructure can be a vital addition to water systems. They can make these systems more resilient, effective, and cost-effective to maintain. With the right data, decision-makers can develop informed strategies for how to integrate natural infrastructure into their water systems.  This report explores the costs and benefits of natural infrastructure in the Metropolitan Region…

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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…