User:Heitor Matallo

Heitor Matallo Junior is a sociologist at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification who has been working on matters related to sustainable development and also with epistemological issues since 1994. He has worked in a pioneer research on the impacts of social behaviour on desertification processes in 1994 in a small city of Gilbues, Piaui, Brazil in cooperation with Valdemar Rodrigues, who discovered the area as one of the most affected by desertification in the world.

Career

Matallo studied physics at Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil in the years 1974 – 1976 In 1977 he started studying Social Sciences at Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo until 1981. From 1982 to 1984 he attended the Master Course in Epistemology at the Universidade de Campinas.

In 1984 he started his professional career as a researcher and professor at the Federal University of Piaui (1984 – 1992)and during that period he occupied different posts including the presidency of the research department of the university. His first publications started in this period (see bibliography).

In 1992 he moved to Brasilia and started working in the Ministry of Planning in the organization of national and regional activities for the preparation of the negotiation process of the Convention to Combat Desertification. In this capacity he organized the First National Conference and Latin American Seminar on Desertification in 1994, which played a key role in the negotiation process due to the elaboration of the Latin American and Caribbean Annex for the Convention.

He had occupied many different positions in the Brazilian Government such as the Coordinator of the Aridas Project in the Ministry of Planning (1994 – 1995), the Special Adviser of the Minister of Environment (1995 – 2000) and Director of the Brazilian National Programme to Combat Desertification in the same period.

In 2002 he joined the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification as Chief of the Regional Coordinating Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico. In February 2007 he moved to Bonn to work in the UNCCD HQs as Programme Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean and since 2008 he has been working as Programme Officer for Science, Technology and Knowledge Management.

In 2008 the Minister Marina Silva awarded him for his contribution to the development of public policies against desertification in Brazil.

bibliography

Padua, E. M. M & Matallo, H. (2008). Ciências Sociais, complexidade e meio ambiente: Interfaces e Desafios, Ed. Papirus, Campinas, Brasil.

Matallo, H. A problematica do conhecimento in Construindo o Saber: Tecnicas de Metodologia Cientifica, org by Maria Cecília Carvalho, ed. Papirus, 18a. edição 2004, Campinas, S.P.

Matallo, H. (2001) Indicadores de Desertificação: historia e perspectivas, Unesco, Brasília, Brasil.

Schenkel, C. & Matallo, H. (1999) Desertificação, Unesco, Brasília, Brazil.

Matallo,H. & Fonseca,G.G. (1993) – A Educação e o Desenvolvimento Auto-Sustentado – A Experiência de D. Inocêncio (PI), Vol. 14, UNICEF, Brasil.

Matallo,H. & Fonseca,G.G. (1993) – A Experiência do Parque Nacional de Capivara – S. Raimundo Nonato (PI), Vol. 15, UNICEF, Brasil.

Matallo, H. Sociedade e meio ambiente: o fenômeno da desertificação como um caso concreto de transdisciplinaridade in Matallo, H. & Padua, E. M. M. (2008). Ciências Sociais, complexidade e meio ambiente: Interfaces e Desafios, Ed. Papirus, Brasil.

Matallo, H. Região e meio ambiente nas ciências sociais: uma reflexão baseada na região nordeste do brasil in Matallo, H. & Padua, E. M. M. (2008). Ciências Sociais, complexidade e meio ambiente: Interfaces e Desafios, Ed. Papirus, Brasil.

Matallo, H. Algunas cuestiones relativas a la economía de la desertificación in Parada, S. Pobreza, desertificación y degradación de los recursos naturales, CEPAL, Santiago, Chile, 2006.

Matallo, H. How much is the cost of desertification? Annals of the International Conference of ICASALS, Lubbock, Texas, 2006.

Matallo, H. The inter-relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and desertification, in Network for Regional Governments for Sustainable Development, Report to the 11th UNFCCC COP, Montreal, 2005.

Matallo, H. (2004) Traditional Knowledge: a valuable Solution: the “Quezungal System” in UNCCD Newsletter, UNCCD.

Matallo, H. Políticas Ambientais, Restrições Fiscais E Desenvolvimento Sustentável in Revista Política Democratica, Brasília, Brasil, 2002.

Matallo, H. & Casas, F. & Migongo-Bake, E. Use of Live Fences of Nopal (Opuntia) and Associated Crops to Rehabilitate and Protect Sloping Land in Loja, Ecuador in Mountain Research and Development Journal: Vol. 22, No. 1, 2000.

Matallo,H. & Casas,F. Actions to combat desertification in the iv region-Chile, Nairobi, UNEP, 1999.

Matallo, H & Vasconcelos, R. Estimativa de Perdas Econômicas provocadas pelo processo de desertificação na Região do Semi-Arido do NE, in Schenkel & Matallo (1999). Desertificação, Brasília, Unesco, Brazil.

Matallo, H. (1999) A desertificação no Brasil e no mundo in Schenkel & Matallo. Desertificação (1999), Brasília, Unesco, Brazil.

Matallo, H. (1997) Quadro Ambiental das Regiões Metropolitanas Brasileiras: Recomendações para ação de governo, Brasília, IPEA, 1997.

Rodrigues, V., Matallo, H., Sales, M. C. L. Galvão, A. L. Gorgônio, A. - Avaliação do quadro da desertificação no Nordeste do Brasil: diagnóstico e perspectives in Maia Gomes, G., Souza, H.R. e Magalhães, A.R. (orgs) 1995. Desenvolvimento Sustentavel no Nordeste, IPEA, Brasília.

Matallo, H. (1992) Heisemberg, a sociologia e o princípio da incerteza, in Humanidades, no. 27, Brasília, Ed. Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil.

Matallo, H. (1989) Nota sobre Dialetica, in Carvalho, M.C.C. (org.) Paradigmas 	Filosóficos da Atualidade, ed.Papirus, Campinas, Brazil.

Matallo, H. Mito, Metafisica, Ciencia e Verdade in Construindo o Saber: Tecnicas de Metodologia Cientifica, org by Maria Cecília Carvalho, ed. Papirus, 1988, Campinas, S.P.

Matallo, H. A explicacao cientifica in Construindo o Saber: Tecnicas de Metodologia Cientifica, org by Maria Cecília Carvalho, ed. Papirus, 1988, Campinas, S.P.

Matallo, H. (1986). Introdução a Frantz Fanon: Psiquiatria, Politica e Descolonizacao, Caderno de Pesquisa, Serie Ciencias Sociais, no 1. UFPI, Teresina.