Manuel Cesario

Prof. Manuel Cesario
Professor of Sustainable Development and Environmental Chang
OASCA - Advanced Observatory on Health and Environmental Change
Graduate Programme on Health Promotion
UNIFRAN
Av. Cel. Fco. Martions, 2235 - Centro
Cristais Paulista, SP 14.460-000
Brazil


Phone: + 55 16 81584458
Phone2: + 55 16 31331230
E-mail: manuel.cesario(at)uol.com.br
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
Member of The Scientific Steering Committee of ESSP's GEC&HH Project (Project on Global Environmental Change and Human Health promoted by the Earth System Science Partnership, which congregates IHDP, IGBP, DIVERSITAS and WCRP)

Member of The Scientific Steering Committee of IUFRO's ForHealth Task Force (Forests, Human Health and Wellbeing is a Task Force promoted by the International Union of Forest Research Organisations)

Fellow of The Linnean Society of London

Signatory of the ‘Physicians Statement on Global Climate Change & Human Health', addressed to the Heads of States present at the UNFCCC's COP 3 (Kyoto, Japan), signed by physicians from 25 countries, including 8 Nobel Laureates in Medicine, and published in The New York Times on the 1 st December 1997

Member of the Population-Environment Research Network

Former Member of the World Conservation Union's Experts' Commission on Protected Areas - IUCN's WCPA and of it's Mountain Protected Areas Network


Key Publications of Manuel Cesario (up to ten) :
Health, Environment and Development: a human ecological assessment (2004), João Pessoa and Rio Branco: Idéia and ADUFAC, 140pp.

Human Activities, Glacier Retreat and Health Impacts: the case of Tuyuksu, Kazakhstan. (In press: Advances in Global Change Research - Volume 22, 2005 - Glaciers and Society, Wengen Workshops on Global Change Research - Kluwer/Springer).

Infrastructure projects for South-western Amazonia and their potential health hazards (Submitted to the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, co-authored by R. R. Cesario).

Roads, dams, migration and diseases in the last frontier: the need for early warning systems for South-western Amazonia (Submitted to EcoHealth, co-authored by R. R. Cesario).

39 scientific publications, including: 1 book and 1 contribution to a book chapter, 14 articles published by peer reviewed journals, 19 in books of proceedings and abstracts of conferences, and 4 in the widespread distribution press - on top of 63 technical reports and projects.


Expertise of Manuel Cesario:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Scientific / Fundamental Research
	Research Interface / Management
Topic Ecosystems	Terrestrial Ecosystems
Topic Economy/ResourceUse	Land Cover / Land Use / Landscape
Topic Politics/Law	Conventions / Protections
Topic Society	Population Dynamics / Migration / Urbanisation
Topic Health	Infectious / Vector Borne Disease
	Pollution Effects / Water Quality
	Weather / Radiation / Climatic Effects
Time Frame	Recent / Today
	Future
Time Scale	Seasonal / Annual
	Decadal / Centennial
Methods	Integrated Assessment
	Collaboration with developing and transition countries ; Capacity Building
	Program Coordination / Management

Specialties of Manuel Cesario:
To deepener the knowledge on the complex relationships between infrastructure development projects, human migrations and lifestyle changes, land use-cover changes, climatic variability and climate change, and the changes in the epidemiology of endemic and emergent diseases of the human populations.

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Last update: 12/6/13
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