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 * Infrastructure Development in the Brazilian Amazon: Understanding Social, Economic, Political, and Gender Dynamics, and Assessing Environmental Risk.**

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 Room 303, International Center


 * 10:00 to 12:00**


 * Introduction and Overview: Large Scale Infrastructure Development in the Brazilian Amazon**

//Introduction and Overview of Proposed Research Program.// Associate Professor, Department of Geography, MSU
 * Cynthia S. Simmons**

//Large-scale Infrastructure Development - Plans and Current Status.// Doctoral Student, Dept of Geography, MSU
 * Ritaumaria Pereira**


 * Session I. Dynamic Interaction of Gender, Politics, and Local Livelihoods**

//Damming the Amazon: Comparative Case Study of Rio Madeira and Belo Monte Dams// Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, MSU RWJ Health & Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
 * Sabrina McCormick**

//Gender Politics: Social Reproduction and Conservation of Biodiversity in Riverine Environments// Professor, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
 * Edila Arnaud Ferreira Moura**

//The Changing Livelihoods of Varzeiros along the Amazon River, Brazil// Associate Professor, Department of Geography, MSU
 * Antoinette WinklerPrins**

//Gender Politics among the Riverine Peoples of the Rio Madeira Watershed// Professor of Geography**,** Universidade Federal de Rondonia (UNIR)
 * Maria das Graças Nascimento Silva**


 * 1:30 to 3:00

Session II. Socio-economic Implications of Mega Project Development**

//Road and Dam Building: Potential Impacts on Agrarian Reform and Spontaneous Settlement// PhD candidate, Dept of Geography, MSU
 * Marcellus Caldas**

//Development Politics and the Socio-territorial Impact on Amazonia in the 21rst Century// Professor of Sociology, Director of the Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos (NAEA), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
 * Edna Maria Ramos de Castro**

//Economic Aspects of Fire Use in the Brazilian Amazon// Professor, Department of Economics, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
 * Larissa Steiner Chermont**

//Economic Dynamics of Public Investment Projects in the Amazon Region: Case Studies// Professor, Departamento de Economia, Administração e Sociologia / ESALQ / USP
 * Ricardo Shirota**

3:00 to 3:30 Coffee Break


 * 3:30 to 5:00**


 * //Session III. Potential Impact of Road Building and Dam Construction on the Environment//**

//Ecological consequences of altered river and floodplain hydrology// Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, MSU
 * Stephen Hamilton**

//Road Building in the Amazon Basin// Professor of Geography, Michigan State University
 * Robert Walker**

//Current major environmental issues in the State of Rondônia: A remote sensing and GIS perspective// Laboratorio de Sensoriamento Remoto, Secretaria de Estado do Desenvolvimento Ambiental (SEDAM)
 * Eraldo Matricardi**

//Quantifying the effects of land use changes on soil conditions using geophysics// Assistant Professor, Dept of Geological Science, MSU
 * Remke Van Dam**

This workshop was made possible with generous support from the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP), Center for the Advanced Study of International Development (CASID), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Women and International Development Program (WID), Department of Geography, and the College of Social Sciences.