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Publications

Governance and conservation: Effectiveness in protected areas and indigenous and locally managed areas

  • Publication
  • 2023
Yin Zhang, Paige West, Lerato Thakholi et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources Volume 48, 2023.

Private sector perception of reducing deforestation in Brazil: Analysis of challenges from 2010 to 2019

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  • 2023
Patrícia Gallo, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Tatiane Micheletti, Alice Dantas Brites. Rev. Prod. Desenvolv., Rio de Janeiro, v.9: e637, Jan-Dez, 2023.

Indigenous knowledge in the Amazon’s bioeconomy: Unveiling bioepistemicide through the case of kambo

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  • 2023
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen and Michael Franz Schmidlehner. Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 154, 2023.

Listening to plants: Indigenous rituals and transitions

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  • 2022
Maria Fernanda Gebara. Amazonia Latitude. 2022.

Ecological justice in post-COVID-19 politics: The role of affective ecologies and amazonian indigenous ontologies

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  • 2022
Maria Fernanda Gebara. In “Environment, Climate and Social Justice”, eds. Madhanagopal, D., Beer, C.T., Nikku, B.R., Pelser, A.J. Springer, Singapure.

Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the anthropocene

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  • 2022
Joana Castro Pereira e Maria Fernanda Gebara. Review of International Studies, 2022, 1-20.

Pandemics, conservation, and human-nature relations

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  • 2021
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Peter H. May, Gunars Platais. Climate Change Ecology, 2021, 2.

The pluriversality of efforts to reduce deforestation in Brazil over the past decade: An analysis of policy actors’ perceptions

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  • 2020
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Patrícia Gallo, Alice Brites, Guilherme Lima, Tatiane Micheletti. Forests 2020, 11, 1061.

Thinking beyond human-nature dichotomy: on the cosmopolitics of the Amazon

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  • 2020
Maria Fernanda Gebara. In “Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks and Resistance”, eds. Antonio Ioris, Rafael Rossotto Ioris, Sergei Shubin. Lexington Books.

Climate mitigation or knowledge deprivation? Learning from indigenous socio-environmental funds

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  • 2020
Luiza Muccillo Bica de Barcellos e Maria Fernanda Gebara. Revista Produção E Desenvolvimento, 6.

O “ICMS Ecológico” – equidade social e eficácia ambiental das transferências fiscais no noroeste de Mato Grosso

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  • 2019
Peter May, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Guilherme Lima, Carolina Jordão, Pedro Nogueira and Maryanne Grieg-Gran. In: Leite, S. e Bruno, R. (Orgs.) O rural brasileiro na perspectiva do século XXI. Rio de Janeiro, Garamond, 2019, p. 297-318.

Understanding institutional bricolage: What drives behavior change towards sustainable land use in the Eastern Amazon?

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  • 2019
Maria Fernanda Gebara. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1), pp.637–659.

Deconstructing the policyscape for reducing deforestation in the eastern Amazon: Practical insights for a landscape approach

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  • 2019
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Erin Sills, Peter May, Tim Forsyth. Environmental Policy and Governance 2019; 1– 13.

What drives policy change for REDD+? A qualitative comparative analysis of the interplay between institutional and policy arena factors

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  • 2018
Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Maria Brockhaus, Jenniver Sehring, Monica Di Gregorio, Samuel Assembe-Mvondo, Andrea Babon, Melaku Bekele, Vanessa Benn, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Hermann W. Kambire, Felicien Kengoum, Cynthia Maharani, Mary Menton, Moira Moeliono, Robert Ochieng, Naya Sharma Paudel, Thuy Thu Pham, Guy Patrice Dkamela, Almeida Sitoe (2018). Climate Policy.

Tenure reforms in indigenous lands: decentralized forest management or illegalism?

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  • 2018
Maria Fernanda Gebara. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 32, 2018.

Forests and brazilian biodiversity

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  • 2018
Guilherme Lima, Maria Fernanda Gebara and Peter May . Economia do Meio Ambiente e da Energia, Fundamentos Teóricos e Aplicações. Eds. Santos T. and Santos L., Center for Integrated Studies on Environment and Climate Change – CentroClima/COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, LTC.

Framing REDD+ in the brazilian national media: How discourses evolved amid global negotiation uncertainties

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  • 2017
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Peter H. May, Rachel Carmenta, Bruno Calixto, Maria Brockhaus & Monica Di Gregorio. Climatic Change p.1-14 2017.

Let’s not miss the forest for the trees: A reply to Pinto et al

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  • 2017
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Arun Agrawal. Forests, 8(7), 230 2017.

Beyond rewards and punishments in the brazilian Amazon: Practical implications of the REDD+ discourse

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  • 2017
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Arun Agrawal. Forests 8(3),66 2017.

The context of REDD+ in Brazil: Drivers, agents and institutions

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  • 2016
Peter H. May, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Luiza Muccillo de Barcellos, Maytê Benicio Rizek, Brent Millikan. CIFOR Occasional Paper no. 160. 112p. ed.3 2016.

REDD+, transformational change and the promise of performance-based payments: A qualitative comparative analysis

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  • 2016
Maria Brockhaus, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Jenniver Sehring, Monica Di Gregorio, Samuel Assembe-Mvondo, Andrea Babon, Melaku Bekele, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Dil Bahadur Khatri, Hermann Kambire, Felicien Kengoum, Demetrius Kweka, Mary Menton, Moira Moeliono, Naya Sharma Paudel, Thuy Thu Pham, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Almeida Sitoe, Sven Wunder, Mathurin Zida. Climate Policy 2016.

Policy progress with REDD+ and the promise of performance-based payments: A qualitative comparative analysis of 13 countries

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  • 2015
Maria Brockhaus, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Jenniver Sehring, Monica Di Gregorio, Samuel Assembe-Mvondo, Andrea Babon, Melaku Bekele, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Dil Bahadur Kahtri, Hermann Kambire, Felicien Kengoum, Demetrius Kweka, Mary Menton, Moira Moeliono, Naya Sharma Paudel, Thuy Thu Pham, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Almeida Sitoe, Sven Wunder, Mathurin Zida. CIFOR Working Paper no. 196. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia.

Taking stock of carbon rights in REDD+ candidate countries: Concept meets reality

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  • 2015
Lasse Loft, Ashwin Ravikumar, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Thu Thuy Pham, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Samuel Assembe, Jazmín Gonzales Tovar, Esther Mwangi, Krister Andersson. Forests 2015, 6(4), 1031-1060.

Coordination and cross-sectoral integration in REDD+: Experiences from seven countries

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  • 2015
Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Maria Brockhaus, Bryan Bushley, Andrea Babon, Maria F Gebara, Felicien Kengoum, Thuy Thu Pham, Salla Rantala, Moira Moeliono, Bimo Dwisatrio, Cynthia Maharani. Climate Policy, 14(2), 167–186.

Multi-level policy dialogues, processes, and actions: Challenges and opportunities for national REDD+ safeguards measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV)

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  • 2014
Pamela Jagger, Maria Brockhaus, Amy E. Duchelle, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Kathleen Lawlor, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, William D. Sunderlin Forests, v. 5, p. 2136-2162, 2014.

A policymix: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity with poverty reduction in the Amazon

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  • 2014
Peter H. May, Jorge Luis Vivan, João Andrade, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Pablo del Arco. International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth United Nations Development Programme, 2014.

The evolution of REDD+ social safeguards in Brazil, Indonesia and Tanzania

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  • 2014
Pamela Jagger, Maria Brockhaus, Amy E Duchelle, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Kathleen Lawlor, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, William D Sunderlin. 2014.

Acre’s state system of incentives for environmental services (SISA)

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  • 2014
Amy E Duchelle, Maron Greenleaf, Denyse Mello, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Tadeu Melo. In Sills, E. et al. (eds.) REDD+ on the ground. A case book of subnational initiatives across the globe. REDD+ on the ground. 1ed.: 2014, v. , p. 33-.

REDD+ policy networks in Brazil: Constraints and opportunities for successful policy making

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  • 2014
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Leandra Fatorelli, Peter May, Shaozeng Zhang. Ecology and Society, v. 19, p. 53, 2014.

Lessons from local environmental funds for REDD+ benefit sharing with indigenous people in Brazil

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  • 2014
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Luiza Muccillo, Peter May, Claudia Vitel, Lasse Loft, Angelo Santos. 2014.

Sustainable landscapes pilot program in Sao Felix do Xingu, Brazil

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  • 2014
Maria Fernanda Gebara. In Sills, E. et al. (eds.) REDD+ on the ground. A case book of subnational initiatives across the globe. 1ed.: 2014.

The effectiveness and fairness of the ICMS-E as a fiscal transfer for biodiversity conservation in Mato Grosso, Brazil

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  • 2013
May P. H., Maria Fernanda Gebara, G. Lima, C.Jordão, P. Nogueira, M. Grieg-Gran. 2013.

GHG mitigation in Brazil’s land use sector – An introduction to the current national policy landscape

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  • 2013
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Alice Thuault. GHG. 2013.

Who should benefit from REDD+? Rationales and realities

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  • 2013
Cecilia Luttrell, Lasse Loft, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Demetrius Kweka, Maria Brockhaus, Arild Angelsen, William D. Sunderlin. Ecology and Society, v. 18, p. art52, 2013.

Importance of local participation in achieving equity in benefit-sharing mechanisms for REDD+: a case study from the Juma sustainable development reserve

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  • 2013
Maria Fernanda Gebara. The International Journal of the Commons, v. 7, p. 301, 2013.

Linking forest tenure reform, environmental compliance, and incentives: Lessons from REDD+ initiatives in the brazilian Amazon

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  • 2013
Amy E. Duchelle, Marina Cromberg, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Raissa Guerra, Tadeu Melo, Anne Larson, Peter Cronkleton, Jan Börner, Erin Sills, Sven Wunder, Simone Bauch, Peter May, Galia Selaya, William D. Sunderlin. World Development, v. 45, p. 80, 2013.

REDD+: ministry of environment technical report about financing, benefits and co-benefits

  • Publication
  • 2012
Maria Fernanda Gebara (Ed./Org.). 1 ed. Ministério do Meio Ambiente. Brasília: MMA, 2012. 23 p. (e-book).

REDD+ initiatives in Brazil: How global climate accords are reflected on the ground?

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  • 2012
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Peter H. May, Romulo S. R. Sampaio, Alice Thuault. In: Jukka Similä and Eeva Primmer. (Org.). Legal analysis of the relationship between WTO law, European state aid and nature conservation law, and economic instruments for biodiversity protection. 1ed.: 2012, p. 25-41.

Empowering children and youth to deal with climate change: An exchange case between the states of Amazonas and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  • 2012
Bruno Maia, Luisa Santiago, Maria Fernanda Gebara. 2012.

A multi-scale analysis of REDD+ safeguards: Experiences from national REDD+ policy dialogues and pilot projects

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  • 2012
Pamela Jagger, Kathleen Lawlor, Maria Brockhaus, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Denis Jean Sonwa, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo. In: Arild Angelsen, Maria Brockaus, William D. Sunderlin and Louis Verchot. (Org.). Analyzing REDD+: Challenges and Choices. 1ed.: 2012, p. 301-316.

Expanding the role of forests and forestry practices in a post-2012 agreement

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  • 2012
Romulo Sampaio and Maria Fernanda Gebara. In: Mehling M.; Upston-Hooper K.; Merrill, A. (Org.). Improving the Clean Development Mechanism: Options and Challenges Post-2012. 1ed.Berlin: Lexxion, 2011, p. 125-138.

Assessment of the role of economic and regulatory instruments in the conservation policymix for the brazilian Amazon a coarse grain analysis

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  • 2012
Peter H. May, João Andrade, Jorge L. Vivan, Karen Kaechele, Maria Fernanda Gebara, Ricardo Abad. 1. ed. , 2012. v. 1. 88p.

Who should benefit and why? Discourses on REDD+ benefit sharing. Analyzing REDD+: Challenges and choices

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  • 2012
Cecilia Luttrell, Lasse Loft, Maria Fernanda Gebara e Demetrius Kweka. 1ed.: 2012, p. 129-152.

REDD+ institutions: A preliminary analysis

  • Publication
  • 2011
Maria Fernanda Gebara. F. In: Romulo Sampaio e Carina de Oliveira. (Org.). A Economia Verde no Contexto do Desenvolvimento Sustentável. 2011.

REDD+ politics in the media: A case study from Brazil

  • Publication
  • 2011
Peter H. May, Bruno Calixto, Maria Fernanda Gebara. 2011.

The context of REDD+ in Brazil: Drivers, agents and institutions

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  • 2011
Peter H. May, Brent Millikan, Maria Fernanda Gebara. Ed. 2, 2011. 69p.

Grounding the REDD+ debate: Preliminary evidence from pilot initiatives in the brazilian Amazon

  • Publication
  • 2010
Amy Duchelle, Jan Börner, Sven Wunder, Edson Araújo, João Tezza, Renato Farias, Angelica Toniolo, Maria Fernanda Gebara. 2010.

Mecanismo de desenvolvimento limpo: Ferramentas presentes no mercado internacional e o desenvolvimento sustentável

  • Publication
  • 2005
Maria Fernanda Gebara. 2005.

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