Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Climate Change in Cities

Lira Luz Benites Lazaro is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Lira is visiting researcher at Durham Energy Institute and the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, UK. She holds a master’s and PhD in Latin America integration from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a second PhD in Earth system science at the National Institute for Space Research – INPE, Brazil. Lira develops research on the political and social dimensions of climate change, responses of social actors regarding climate change, corporate social responsibility, climate policy analysis, energy policy analysis, water-energy-food nexus security, and governance. Her areas of research include social sciences and interdisciplinary perspectives. Her most recent research projects examined the governance of water-energy-food nexus with a focus on biofuels.

Leandro Luiz Giatti is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He has international expertise in sustainability and health, health promotion, participatory research approaches, and urban water-energy-food nexus. His experience is characterized through interdisciplinary studies and with the main efforts dedicated to socioenvironmental vulnerable groups, also with studies in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Giatti is a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP and associate editor of the journal Ambiente & Sociedade (SCIELO – Brazil). During his academic research projects, he has advised theses and dissertations of graduate students and has also supervised postdoctoral partners.

Laura S. Valente de Macedo is a research fellow at the Global Cities Center of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo (IEA-USP). She is also a fellow at the Center for Studies on Infrastructure and EnvironmentalSolutions (CEISA) of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGVEAESP) in Brazil, where she also undertook postdoctoral research on urban green and blue infrastructure and the food-water-energy nexus. With an extensive career in environmental policies, she has held senior advisory or executive positions in both state and federal government departments since 1991. From 2002 to 2011, she was ICLEI’s regional director for Latin America, leading projects in a wide range of sustainability policies and management issues, such as climate change mitigation, green public procurement, and urban resilience. Ms. Macedo also lectured on sustainable consumption, cities, and climate change and collaborated as co-author and editor in numerous publications. She has a PhD and an MSc in environmental science from the University of São Paulo (USP), and an MSc in environmental change from the University of Oxford as a Chevening scholar. Before her career in the environmental field, she was a practicing architect in São Paulo.

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE) in Brazil and a Visiting Fudan Chair Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy. He has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research projects, particularly involving the developing world. He has over 20 years of experience in universities, businesses, think tanks, and governmental and international agencies in research, teaching, training, and academic management. His research and policy interests concentrate on themes around sustainable development, studying the patterns of governance, institution building, and policy implementation at different levels, and looking at how global and national institutions are interlinked to governance and action. He holds a PhD in planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.