GSI Brazilian Amazon Project - Winter 2015

Description

Virginia Tech's Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability's Brazilian Amazon Program is focused on exploring the complexities of sustainable development challenges and strategies when a booming economy rests on natural resource use and extraction. The 2013 Global Sustainability Initiative (GSI) Brazilian Amazon Project explored public-private partnerships and strategies being developed in the Northern Amazon Basin to expand commodity production, namely soy, while simultaneously reducing illegal deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. The team worked for several days in the Amazon Basin and concluded their work in Rio de Janeiro. The next GSI Brazil Project is scheduled for January 2015.

GSI Projects offer graduate students and professionals first-hand experience examining some of the most pressing environmental sustainability challenges facing our planet in the coming decades, and some of the innovative solutions and strategies being developed to address them. The projects are offered as 10-week project for graduate or continuing education credits through Virginia Tech, combining online and study abroad work.