Feb 2011 - Feb 2015

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Knowledge exchange between Europe and America on forest growth models and optimisation for adaptive forestry

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Portugal UTL-ISA

Sweden SLU

Finland UEF

Spain UPM

Chile DII PUC

Brasil ESALQ

USA PSU-SFR VT

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Participant 7:University of São Paulo (USP), Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture Brazil (ESALQ)

• Main Tasks: Staff exchange, research and networking
• Address: Av. Pádua Dias, 11 - Caixa Postal 09, CEP: 13418-900 - Piracicaba – SP. BRAZIL
• Website: www4.usp.br www.esalq.usp.br

General Information

The University of Sao Paulo (USP) is the largest institution dedicated to higher education and research in Brazil. A large part of the Brazilian masters and PhDs receive their training at USP. More than 5.5 thousand faculty members work together with a staff of more than 15.2 thousand people to educate at the undergraduate level 54 thousand students and 25.5 thousand graduate students. The ESALQ campus in the city of Piracicaba (160 km from the capital), one of the oldest, is renowned for its programs in agricultural, forestry and environmental sciences. In 1964, ESALQ started offering graduate degrees at master of Science level. PhD programs began in 1970. The undergraduate programs at ESALQ are directed to the formation of Bachelors of Science in Agriculture, Forestry, Economics, Biological Sciences, Environmental Management and Food Sciences. Since its foundation, the College has graduated 8,582 B.Sc. in Agriculture and 503 B.Sc. in Forestry. Today, ESALQ is one of the most important institutions in science, technology and teaching in Brazil.

Main research areas

The main research areas, coordinated by 230 professors and advisers, are: agricultural machinery, agricultural microbiology, agro-environmental physics, animal science and pastures, applied ecology, applied economics, crop science, entomology, food science and technology, forest resources, irrigation and drainage, plant genetics and breeding, plant pathology, plant physiology and biochemistry, soils and plant nutrition and statistics and agricultural experimentation. The forest resources graduate program has established as its main research areas: Forest ecology, hydrology and biodiversity; Forest establishment, management and harvest; Forest quantitative methods, economics and planning; Forest soils, nutrition and physiology; Management and recovery of natural ecosystems; and Technology and use of forest products.

Key Persons

Key persons in “forest quantitative methods, economics and planning” are: Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez (Coordinator, forest management-planning, harvest scheduling and optimisation models); Demóstenes Ferreira da Silva Filho (urban forestry, biomass and carbon sequestration models); Fernando Seixas (forest machinery and equipment, decision support systems); Hilton Thadeu Zarate do Couto (Industrial forest plantations, forest inventory and biometrics); João Luis Ferreira Batista (forest inventory and biometrics); Sílvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz (Hydrology modelling, remote sensing and GIS systems) and Jefferson Lordello Polizel (Image processing, videography, remote sensing and GIS systems).

International collaboration

Dr. Rodriguez has coordinated the elaboration of a proposal submitted by the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization to ITTO (U$ 1.049.184) and the Amazon Fund (U$ 4.763.213) to support all ACTO member Countries on the development of a national monitoring system to promote increasing governance in the Amazon Region. As main outputs, the project focuses on: (i) preparation of plans for the development of participatory Forest Cover National Monitoring Systems; (ii) implementation of the prepared National Plans; and (iii) strengthening of the existing platforms for regional dialogue and coordination on forest management, with focus on forest cover monitoring with the possibility to include other criteria for sustainable forest management.