Gabriel Carrero

Biologist (UFSC), Master in Ecology (INPA) and PhD in Geography from the University of Florida. He has been working with Idesam since 2004. He has led many initiatives and projects that combine conservation, community development and sustainable rural production. Topics researched include forest monitoring, land use change, sustainable practices and, more recently, frontier heterogeneity, development processes and land appropriation in the Amazon basin. It draws on knowledge from the disciplines of Ecology, Geography, Environmental Sciences, Forestry and Agronomy.