The Sustainable Development in Brazil’s Forests: Education and Exchange program responds to requests from several Brazilian institutions: the former and current governors of the state of Amazonas, the State University of Amazonas (UEA) and the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Bahia. In 2018, UESC and the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) established an interdisciplinary education and exchange program. In 2019, UEA and CU Boulder established collaborative opportunities around a new Rainforest Social Business School.

This education and exchange project focuses on conservation and sustainable development in Brazil’s forests. Governments, NGOs, universities, communities and businesses in Amazonas (in the Amazon forest biome) and southern Bahia (in the Atlantic Forest biome) are grappling with the challenge of how to conserve tropical forests while promoting sustainable pathways to low-emissions development. Their aim is to develop diversified forest-centric bio-economies that can achieve climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable livelihood objectives while avoiding the business-as-usual trends of deforestation, fires, biodiversity loss, poverty and inequality.

For Amazonas and Bahia to be successful, they need to a) train a cohort of skilled, motivated and experienced young professionals to work at the science-policy interface and b) develop international partnerships that support their objectives. This project addresses these needs by a) training graduate students from UEA, UESC and  CU Boulder; and b) creating opportunities for lasting partnerships between these students and their professors. To achieve these aims, we will offer an interdisciplinary field course on sustainable development in Brazil’s forests in May 2023.

• Course Development and Planning

  Additional Info

  The course will be planned by Dr. Peter Newton, Dr. Colleen Scanlan Lyons, and Dr. Bernard Amadei (CU Boulder), Dr. Jair Maia (UEA, Brazil), and Dr. Romari Martinez (UESC, Brazil).

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  Location

  on campus

  Dates

  Ongoing

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  Not Applicable

• Education Abroad class in Brazil

  Additional Info

  The course will take place during Maymester 2023.

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  Location

  outside colorado

  Dates

  5/15/2023 - 6/3/2023

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  Yes