Maurício Waldman (born 2 December 1955,

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) is a Brazilian academic and environmental activist.

Biography

Waldman was born in

on 2 December 1955, to a

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family originally from

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and

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. As an activist, he collaborated with

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and several

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, including ''Comitê de Apoio aos Povos da Floresta'' (Forest People Committee), the African Studies Centre of

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(USP), and ''Centro Ecumênico de Documentação e Informação – CEDI'' (Ecumenical Centre of Documentation and Information, in São Paulo and

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). He also participated in activist movements against dams,

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demonstrations, and especially against

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in São Paulo. From the 1980s to 1992, Waldman was an active member of the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT), working on political papers and as a party organizer. He founded the PT Jewish Committee (1988) and Ecological Commission (1989). He also became involved in the Executive branch of government as Chico Mendes Park's Coordinator in the east of São Paulo (1990) and Environmentalist Administrator in

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(1991–1992), a city in the

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, the industrial region next to São Paulo where PT began. However, anti-ecological measures taken by the city administration and members of the party created a serious conflict between Waldman and the mayor, and in 1992 he left the PT and returned to the university and to his professional life. Waldman received his Anthropology M.Sc. degree from USP in 1997. He became Director of the Children Homeless’ School of São Paulo in 1998, Director of the Fundação Estadual do Bem Estar do Menor' School in 1999, coordinator of São Paulo Recycling Service in 2000, and Editor of the Brazilian Geographers' Association (AGB) São Paulo Sector from 2002 to 2003. Waldman received his Ph.D. degree from the Geography Department of USP in 2006. His thesis, "''Water and Metropolis: Limits and Expectations of the Time''", is one of the most detailed academic works on Brazilian water resources and Water management in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. Subsequently, with the support of the

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(CNPq), Waldman conducted post-doctoral research from 2010 to 2011 at the Geography Department of the Geoscyenses Institute at the

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. This research, focused on

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in Brazil, led to several papers and lectures, and finally a book, ''Lixo: Cenários e Desafios'' ("Waste: Scenarios and Challenges"), launched in August 2010 at São Paulo International Book Fair. In September 2011, this book was selected as a finalist of the

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literary awards. Also in 2011, Waldman began his second Postdoctoral Research project, at USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages-Literature and Human Sciences (FFLCH-USP). The focus of this research was the

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n basin management policy, evaluating the role of

in Southern-Central Africa's hydro resources, in terms of International Relations. This Postdoctoral Research was linked to the FFLCH-USP Sociology Department and supported by São Paulo State's Foundation for Research Support. This work took place under the supervision of Professor Fernando Augusto Albuquerque Mourão, a Brazilian Africanist and expert in International Relations and

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. In December 2013 Waldman finished this research, and began a third Postdoctoral Research project, again supported by CNPq. The focus of this project was the incineration of municipal solid waste, recycling management policies, and the

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movement, and it concluded in December 2015. In 2016 Mauricio Waldman founded the Kotev publishing house in São Paulo, intending to launch e-books and e-texts on the Kobo platform. He has contributed articles to magazines ''Cultura Verde'', and ''Ambiente Urbano'', among others, and is a columnist for the ''O Imparcial, Think & Rethink Column''. He has also written a large number of papers, scientific and technical reports, e-books and e-papers, articles, and essays, and given lectures at a variety of conferences and universities. He has translated work by authors such as

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, Joan Martinez Allier and Diané Collinson. Waldman is currently a Senior Researcher at the Africa Research Institute, part of the Doctoral School for Safety and Security Sciences at

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in Hungary.

Books

''Água: Escassez e Coflitos no Império da Sede''
Coleção Água em Foco, Nº. 1. São Paulo (SP): Editora Kotev. 2019.
''Recursos Hídricos, Resíduos Sólidos e Matriz Energética: Notas Conceituais, Metodológicas e de Gestão Ambiental''
Chapter 5, pp. 1.282-1315. Chapter 53, pp. 1.59-70. In Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos e suas Interfaces com o Espaço Geográfico: Entre Conquistas e Desafios. Porto Alegre (RS): Universidade Federal do

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(UFRGS). 2016.
''Waters of Metropolitan Area of São Paulo: Technical, Conceptual And Environmental aspects''
Chapter 53, pp. 1.282-1315. In Sustainable Water Management in the Tropics and Subtropics – and Case Studies in Brazil. Brazil-Germany: Fundação da Universidade Federal do Pampa (Brazil) and Kassel Universität (Germany), 2012.
Para Onde Vamos?. In. ''Meio Ambiente e Missão - A Responsabilidade Ecológica das Igrejas''
São Bernardo do Campo: EDITEO – Editora da Faculdade de Teologia da Igreja Metodista, 2003.
Natureza e Sociedade como espaço de cidadania.
In. PINSKY, Jaime; PINSKY, Carla Bassanezi. (Orgs.) ''História da Cidadania''. São Paulo: Contexto, 2003.
A Eco-92 e a Necessidade de um novo Projeto
In ''Geografia, Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento em Questão''. Fortaleza: Associação dos Geógrafos Brasileiros. 1992. *''Ecologia e Lutas Sociais no Brasil'', (Ecology and Social struggles in Brazil). São Paulo: Contexto, 1992. (Coleção Caminhos da Geografia).
Oito Críticas Ecológicas à Conversão da Dívida.
In. SCHILLING, Paulo (Org.) ''Conversão da Dívida e Meio Ambiente''. São Paulo: Global/ CEDI, 1991.
Ecologia e Movimentos Sociais: breve fundamentação.
In. VIANNA, Aurélio (Org.). ''Hidrelétricas, Ecologia e Progresso''. Rio de Janeiro: CEDI, 1990.
''Política das Minorias: o caso dos judeus no Brasil''
V. 7. Porto Alegre: Mercado Aberto, 1988. (Série Tempo de Pensar).
''Doze Estudos em Geografia Crítica''
Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Pró-Memória MEC, D.A. nº 1.071/83, Título nº 28.659, October 4, 1983, São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro. *(with D.M. Schneider
''Guia Ecológico Doméstico''
São Paulo: Contexto, 2000.
''Brava Gente de Timor''
São Paulo: Xamã, 1997.

Teaching books

*Maurício Waldman ''et alli''

1ª ed. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação

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e Fundação Vale do Rio Doce, v. 9. 1395 pages. 2005.
''Geografia para o Ensino Fundamental''
São Paulo: Editora Didática Suplegraf, 1999.

References

External links

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''Água e Metrópole: Limites e Expectativas do Tempo'' (Water and Metropolis, Limits and Expectations of the Time) PHD: USP Catalographic Data and Download, Portuguese, with English Abstract
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Waldman International Relations USP Postdoctoral Research (2011–2013). Info FAPESP Catalographic Data, Portuguese, with English Abstract
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