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Dr ANTONIO IORIS

Dr ANTONIO IORIS The University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences Dr ANTONIO IORIS Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 273703

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BEng (UFRGS), MSc (Oxon), PhD (Aberdeen)

Dr ANTONIO IORIS

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Telephone: +44 (0)1224 273703
Email: a.ioris@abdn.ac.uk
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Biography

  • BEng, Agriculture, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1992. 
  • MSc, Environmental Change and Management (Water Resources Development in the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil: Conflicts and Management Perspectives), Oxford University, 1999.
  • PhD, Geography (A Framework for Assessing Freshwater Sustainability at the River Basin Scale), Aberdeen University, 2005.
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, 2007.
  • Lecturer, Political Ecology of Water and Environmental Management, University of Aberdeen, since June 2007.

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Research Interests

My current research involves comparative studies on the implementation of new water management approaches (especially the EU Water Framework Directive and equivalent Latin American legislations). The main topics that I am interested include: water institutional reforms, environmental justice, public participation and stakeholder conflicts, environmental governance and sector regulation (in particular, hydropower, agriculture and public water supply). My theoretical influences are somewhat eclectic, ranging from environmental management to political ecology and critical realism.

Previous academic work was mainly focused on sustainability assessment, including the development of sustainability indicators through the combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods.

In the School of Geosciences, I am a member of the Human-Environment Interactions research group. I am also a research fellow at the Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES), a partnership between the University and The Macaulay Institute.

Main research projects currently involved:

  • Integrated farm to catchment governance (DEFRA funded and IGER organized, in partnership with N. Watson and R. Fish).
  • Water politics and regulatory reforms in Lima, Peru (Leverhulme Research Fellowship). 
  • The introduction of bulk water charges in the Douro River, Portugal (Royal Society of Edinburgh & Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland funded).
  • The perception of water value in peripheral neighbourhoods of the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (funded by the Brazilian Research Council - CNPq, in partnership with Henri Acselrad).
  • Sustainable management of water in the Pantanal, South American wetland (funded by The Leverhulme Trust). International research network. See more information about this international network at www.aces.ac.uk/PantanalInternationalNetwork.htm

 


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Selected Conference Papers

Ioris, A.A.R. (2009). Water Management Reforms in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area: When Socionatural Demands Clash with National and International Agendas. Glocal Imaginaries: Writing/Migration/Place. 9-12 September, Lancaster University, UK.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2009). Reformas Institucionais da Gestão de Uso dos Recursos Hídricos na Escócia: Objetivos e Disputas [Institutional Reforms of Water Resources Management in Scotland: Objectives and Disputes]. II Econtro Globalização, Políticas Territoriais, Meio Ambiente e Conflitos Sociais: Laboratório ETTERN/IPPUR/UFRJ. 29 March-01 April. Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008). Market-Based Water Policies and the Search for Environmental Justice and Sustainability. XIII World Water Congress, 1-4 September, Montpellier, France.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008). Sustainable management of water in the Pantanal. 8th International Wetlands Conference (INTECOL), 20-25 July, Cuiabá, Brazil.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008). The Limits of Water Management Reforms: A Comparative Study. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 15-19 April, Boston, USA.

McCulloch, C.S. and Ioris, A.A.R. (2007). Putting politics into IWRM. In: Proceedings of the “General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”. 15-20 April 2007, Vienna. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 02981, 2007.

Ioris, A.A.R., Irving , K., Johnston, W. and Zuleeg, F. (2006). Decision-Making Tools for Selecting Measures to Mitigate the Impacts of Dams and for Assessing New Hydropower Proposals. In: 4th CIWEM Annual Conference “Emerging Environmental Issues and Future Challenges”. 12-14 September 2006, Newcastle- upon-Tyne.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2006). A comparison between the Brazilian and the Scottish water policies. In: Public Policy in Water Supply and Sanitation: Theoretical Perspectives and a Review of Experiences from Brazil and Europe. Seminar organised by the Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies.

Boak, R. Carlyle, H. and Ioris, A.A.R. (2006). Achieving equitable water allocation in Scotland through Water Resources Management Strategies. In: 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, 2006, Ruhr-University Bochum. 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management.

Ioris, A.A.R., Hunter, C. and Walker, S. (2004). Assessing the Sustainability of Freshwater Systems, 30th Congress of the International Geographical Union, August 2004, Glasgow.


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Selected Publications

Ioris, A.A.R. (2009) Water Reforms in Brazil: Opportunities and Constraints. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 52(6), 813-832.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2009) The Limits of IWRM-Inspired Reforms in Brazil. Diversitates, 1(1), 1-17.

Ioris, A.A.R., Hunter, C. and Walker, S. (2008) The Development of Water Sustainability Indicators in Scotland and Brazil. Journal of Environmental Management, 88(4), 1190-1201.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008) A Flow of Problems. Scottish Left Review, 44, 22-23.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008) Águas que não Correm mais pro Mar [Waters that no Longer Flow to the Sea]. Interações, 9(1), 9-17.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008) Water Policy Making in Scotland: Political Demands and Economic Pressures. Local Economy, 23(4), 319-324.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008) Water Institutional Reforms in Scotland: Contested Objectives and Hidden Disputes. Water Alternatives, 1(2), 253-270.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008) Regional Development, Nature Production and the Techno-bureaucratic Shortcut: The Douro River Catchment in Portugal. European Environment, 18(5), 345-358.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2008) The Limits of Integrated Water Resources Management: A Case Study of Brazil’s Paraíba do Sul River Basin. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 4(2), 4-11.

Ioris, A.A.R. (2004) Virtual Water in an Empty Glass: The Geographical Complexities behind Water Scarcity. Water International. 29(1), 119-121.

Knox, J.W., Weatherhead, E.K and Ioris, A.A.R. (2007) Assessing Water Requirements for Irrigated Agriculture in Scotland. Water International, 32(1), 133-144.

Ioris A.A.R. (2007) Headwaters of Water Problems in Brazil: Commodification and Exclusion. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 18(1), 28-50.

Ioris, A.A.R., Hunter, C. and Walker, S. (2006) Framework of Indicators to Assess the Sustainability of Freshwater Systems. Physical Geography, 27(5), 396-410.

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