Ademar Ribeiro Romeiro ademar@eco.unicamp.br Professor in Economics and Ecological Economics at Institute of Economics – State University of Campinas – Brazil. President of Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics (ECO ECO). Relationship with MIMES: Phone: (19) 37885716 |
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Dr. Romeiro received his PhD in Economics from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1986). He also has a Masters degree in Economics from the State University of Campinas (1977) and a BA n Economics from the same institution. His is president of the Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics (ECO ECO). As a post-doctorate, Dr. Romeiro researched at Stanford University (1994).
Ademar’s career interest and expertise includes Economics, emphasizing on Natural Resources and Agrarian Economics, acting as a researcher in Environment, Technical Advances, Agriculture and Environment, Sustainable Agriculture, Ecological Economics and Ecological-economic Valuation of Environmental Impacts.
Dr. Romeiro’s has coordinated a research group in Brazil, which has focused on valuation of human modified areas impacts on the water quality at Purus River Watershed, Amazon region. It is a relatively pristine region to be transformed by the approaching agricultural frontier. It is sparsely populated, with a few towns. The harvest of forest products plays an important role in the local economy, but cattle raise is looming as an attractive activity. The Purus River is the most fishing river of the Amazon region. Ademar’s group is interested in applying one specific model from the Multi-scale Integrated Modeling of Earth’s Systems (MIMES) to the Purus Watershed in the Amazon region, Brazil, measuring the environmental services provide by the Purus Watershed. He expects that the integrated model will allow them to understand the ecosystem services provided by the watershed to local population, regional economy and the global environment.
Dr. Romeiro is also largely involved with the modeling of land use/cover changes at MogiGuacu river watershed in cooperation with the Gund Institute. Besides its natural diversity, the watershed presents also an important socioeconomic aspect, in terms of agricultural systems and farmers’ typology. In terms of economy and technology it is the most advanced agricultural region in the country. The sub-model in construction within the MIMES framework has been calibrated and it’s expected to be a tool that can be used to make scenarios about the erosion control, an ecosystem service provided by the forest cover. The purpose of this work in both sites is to understand and valuate the ecosystem services to be degraded by the land use and land cover dynamics. MIMES can model the ecosystem functions and interactions and obtain its ecosystem services.
