Carolina Jordão

Associate Research Scientist,

GF Global Institute of Sustainability & Innovation - Wutich

900 Cady Mall Room 306 Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
Mail code: 2402

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Carolina is an Integrated Conservation and Development researcher and facilitator from Brazil. She has been working with environmental governance, rural development, and leadership building for the past 13 years, especially in the Amazon Rainforest. She uses qualitative research methods, environmental education and communication tools, and facilitation skills in collaborative efforts to engage stakeholders and build local capacity to deal with complex socio-ecological problems. She is currently leading community engagement and participatory ethnographic research with water-insecure communities in Arizona and is the Director of the Arizona Water for All (AW4A) Network, which is part of the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative (AWII) of ASU's Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

Education

PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology

University of Florida, UF, USA.

Advisor: Robert Buschbacher.

Concentration/ Certificate: Tropical Conservation and Development; Environmental Education and Communication.

Dissertation: Saving the rainforest? Experiences of being and acting as NGOs in the Amazon.

Specialization in Collaborative management of socio-ecological family production systems in the Amazon.

State University of Mato Grosso, UNEMAT, Brazil. In Partnership with University of Florida, UF, USA.

Advisor: Wendy-Lin Bartels.

Master´s in Environmental Engineering Sciences.

University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil.

Advisor: Evandro Mateus Moretto.

Thesis: Environmental vulnerability analysis of the spatial planning of sugarcane cultivation in the State of São Paulo.

Bachelor’s in Environmental Management.

University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil.

Advisor: Evandro Mateus Moretto.

Senior thesis: Environmental zoning as an instrument to support planning and environmental licensing of hydroelectric dams.

Advisor: Lucy Gomes Sant' Anna

Research project: Environmental education for preservation of the Paraiba do Sul River, between Jacarei and Pindamonhangaba municipalities.

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F0rMeJwAAAAJ&hl=en&citsig=AE3b8UAJT2m…

Research Interests

environmental governance

stakeholder engagement

qualitative methods

participatory and transdisciplinary research

social and environmental movements

social learning

Research Group

Arizona Water for All

Publications

Main Articles in Scientific Journals

SABO, Alexandra.; Artega, M.; Michaelson, A. C.; Jordão, C. O.; Fonseca Junior, S. F.; Luna-Celino, V.; Alvarez, P. M.; Perz, S. The Wisdom of Hindsight: A Comparative Analysis of Timelines of Environmental Governance of Infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon. Ecology and Society. 27(1):28, 2022.
JORDÃO, C. O.; Moretto, E. M. Economic ecological zoning for the siting of new hydropower plants in the Amazon Biome, Mato Grosso State. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, v. 17, No. 2, 285-292, 2018.
JORDÃO, C. O.; Moretto, E. M. The environmental vulnerability and the territorial planning of the sugarcane cultivation. Ambiente & Sociedade (Online), v. 18, p. 75-92, 2015.
MONTAÑO. M.; Carvalho A. F.; Gomes C. S.; Polaz C. N. M. P.; Jordão C. O.; Souza M. P. Quality review of environmental impact statements applied to small hydropower plants]. Holos Environ. 14:1–14, 2014.
MORETTO, E. M.; Gomes, C. S.; Roquetti, D. R.; Jordão, C. O. History, trends and prospects in the spatial planning of Brazilian hydropower plants: the former and current Amazon border. Ambiente & Sociedade (Online), v. 15, p. 141-164, 2012.