Pedro Fidelman

Education

• Ph.D., Environmental Science (2007)
  University of Wollongong, Australia

  Thesis Title: “Collaborative Natural Resource Management in a Changing Institutional Landscape: Rhetoric and Practice of Catchment Management in New South Wales, Australia”.
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• M.Sc., Physical Geography (2000)
  University of S�o?Paulo, Brazil

  Thesis Title in English: “Environmental Diagnosis as a Tool for Integrated Coastal Management: Case Study of the Santana River Mangroves, Ilhéus, Bahia (Brazil)”.
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• B.Sc. (Hons.), Oceanography (1995)
  Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil

  Undergraduate (Hons.) Thesis Title in English: “Production and Loss of Scirpus maritimus Biomass in the Pólvora Island Ecomuseum (Southern Brazil)”.
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Additional Training

(Selected non-degree courses)

• Training Workshop on Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Water, Trade and Environment, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (2006).
  
  
• Integrated Management of Water Resources, IAI/UM Summer Institute, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and RSMAS - University of Miami, USA (2001).
  
  

 

 

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Areas of Interest

• Environmental Policy and Management
• Institutional Analysis
• Collaborative Approaches
• Decentralisation
• Catchment/Watershed Management
• Coastal Zone Management
• Climate Change

 

Professional Association

• International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)

 

 

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Professional Experience

(Selected)

• Research Fellow, ITA Institute of Technology, Brazil (2008-present).
  
  
• Research Fellow, Watermark Project, Brazil (2007-2008).
  
  
• Post-doc Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Brasilia, Brazil (2007-2008).
  
  
• Seminar Coordinator, Oceans and Coastal Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia (2003).
  
  
• Research Assistant (casual), Department of Environmental Science, University of Wollongong, Australia (August-October 2002).
  
  

• Research fellow/collaborator, Laboratory of Mangrove Bioecology (BIOMA), University of S�o?Paulo, Brazil (1998-2001).
  
  
• Research Assistant, Laboratory of Coastal Plant Communities, University of Rio Grande, Brazil (1994-1995).
  
  
• Research Assistant, Laboratory of System Ecology, University of Rio Grande, Brazil (1992-1994).

 

Professional Service

• Reviewer for:

  - International Journal of the Commons, IASC (2008)
  - Natural Resources Forum, UN and Blackwell Publishing (2003)
  - Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier (2003)
  
  

• Consultant (ad hoc) for the Brazilian Lawyers Organization (OAB) (2002).
  
  
• Member of the Expert Witness Team that conducted (as part of a Court Lawsuit) an “Economic Valuation of the Impact of Oil Spill in Santos Estuary, São Paulo, Brazil” (1999).
  
  

 

 

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Recent Publications, Conference Proceedings and Presentations

FIDELMAN, P.I.J. 2008. Challenges to Decentralization of Watershed Management: The Case of New South Wales, Australia. In: Menon, S.V. & Pillai P.A. (eds), Watershed Management: Concepts and Experiences. ICFAI University Press, India, pp. 170-184.
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FIDELMAN, P.I.J. 2006. Watershed Management in New South Wales, Australia: A Case of Constrained Decentralization? 11th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), Bali, Indonesia.
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FIDELMAN, P.I.J., MORRISON, J. & WEST, R. 2005. Development of Watershed Management in New South Wales, Australia: A Coastal Perspective. Coastal Zone 05, New Orleans, USA.
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FIDELMAN, P.I.J. 2005. Watershed Management in New South Wales, Australia: Is It Moving from Governance to Government? Presentation at the Panel “Improving Ecosystem Governance: Theory and Practice”, Coastal Zone 05, New Orleans, USA.

FIDELMAN, P.I.J., MORRISON, R. J.; WEST, R. 2004. Catchment Management Planning in Coastal Areas: Some Preliminary Insights from New South Wales, Australia. Proceedings of the Coastal Zone Asia Pacific Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 221-226.
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FIDELMAN, P.I.J., MORRISON, R. J.; WEST, R. 2004. Coastal Issues in Regional Natural Resource Management Plans: The Case of the New South Wales Catchment Blueprints. Coast to Coast 04 Conference, Hobart, Australia.
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Languages

• English (fluent), Portuguese (native), Spanish (conversant).

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