Danilo Urzedo
I am an Environmental Geographer and an Early Research Career Postdoctoral Fellow at Australia's national science agency, CSIRO. My research draws on multiple perspectives of political ecology and critical Indigenous studies to investigate the interplay between ecosystem management practices and community participation in governance systems. I am particularly concerned with understanding how the intersections between Indigenous Knowledge and technological innovations can transform local engagements and political relations to tackle environmental crises.
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BIOGRAPHY
Following several years working as a community forester at the Instituto Socioambiental alongside Indigenous groups and smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon, I moved to Australia to undertake a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Sydney. My thesis focused on the multi-scalar governance of forest landscape restoration in the Amazon rainforest. After receiving my doctorate, I was awarded a Research Associate position in the ARC Centre for Mine Site Restoration at Curtin University to evaluate Indigenous environmental justice issues in mining restoration supply chains in Western Australia. Subsequently, I was a European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge working on the Smart Forests project to examine the social-political effects of digital technologies on the forest governance. Currently, I am working together with CSIRO’s Valuing Sustainability Future Science Platform to investigate how Indigenous worldviews and technological systems can pluralise the forms of monitoring and valuing biodiversity.
My experience co-developing grassroots actions for forest and land management with Indigenous and rural communities has led to significant local livelihood improvements and technical advancements. In the Amazon, I substantially contributed in establishing one of the largest community restoration networks in the world - The Xingu Seed Network. This community-led production system is recognised globally for engaging hundreds of seed collectors, particularly women and youth, to supply tonnes of diverse native seeds for landscape restoration throughout the Amazon agricultural frontier. I am also committed to co-design participatory approaches and collective strategies for policy recommendations, as the director-at-large of the International Network of Seed-based Restoration (Society for Ecological Restoration) and a broad member of Brazil's Forest Seed Committee.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political ecology; Environmental justice;
Indigenous knowledge systems; Forest governance
Political ecology; Environmental justice;
Indigenous knowledge systems; Forest governance
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