Rate My Professor Eduardo Brondizio

Brondizio developed a research program in environmental anthropology focused on Amazonian rural and urban populations, landscapes, and interactions with commodity markets, development policies, social movements, and climate change. His interests include land use and landscape history, institutions and collective action, household economy and demographics, livelihoods and poverty, local ecological knowledge, people-forest interactions, social-ecological systems, global environmental change, and sustainability sciences. He earned a Ph.D. with concentrations in Environmental Sciences and Anthropology from Indiana University in 1996, post-doctoral studies at the University of Arizona (1996-1997), a Certificate in Remote Sensing from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (1987-1988), and a degree in Agronomic Engineering from Universidade de Taubaté (1982-1987). Key publications are The Amazonian Caboclo and the Açaí Palm: Forest Farmers in the Global Market (2008; 2017 e-book), Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions (2013, co-edited with Emilio F. Moran), Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability and Diversity (2018, co-edited), and The Amazon Várzea: The Decade Past and the Decade Ahead (2010, co-edited). Honors include the 2025 Tyler Prize for the Environment, 2023 Volvo Environment Prize, 2010 Mary W. Klinger Book Award, election to the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academie d'Agriculture de France.