Research Project Title & Description

Health Care Delivery in the Brazilian Amazon and its Impact on Smallholders Welfare, Labor Decisions and Conservation of Natural Resources. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/elima/

Teaching Activities

Natural Resources Economics, Fall 2005, Teaching Assistant

Scientific Activities

• Lima et al. In press. Search for Sustainability: Forest Policy, Smallholders, and the Transamazon highway. Environment.
• Nepstad, D., C. Azevedo-Ramos, E. Lima, D. McGrath, C. Pereira, and F. Merry. 2004. Managing the Amazon timber industry. Conservation Biology 18(2):575-577;
• Lima, E. et al. 2003. Family Forests: A strategic alliance between smallholders and the logging industry. Belém, IPAM, 140 pages (In Portuguese).
• Frank Merry, Gregory Amacher, Benno Pokorny, Eirivelthon Lima, Imme Scholz, Daniel Nepstad and Johan Zweede. 2003. Some doubts about concessions in Brazil: Should Brazil shelve its proposed system of forest concessions? Tropical Forest Update. Volume 13, No 3. ITTO. Yokohama, Japan.
• Duncan Macqueen, Maryanne Grieg-Gran, Eirivelthon Lima, James MacGregor, Frank Merry, V Prochnick, Neil Scotland, Roberto Smeraldi and Carlos Young. 2003. Growing Timber Exports: The Brazilian tropical timber industry and international markets. International Institute for Environment and Development, London. 250 pages.
• Nepstad, D.; Veríssimo, A.; Alencar, A.; Nobre, C.; Lima, E.; Lefebvre, P.; Schlesinger, P.; Potter, C.; Cochrane, M.A.; Brooks, V. 1999. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. Nature 398: 505-508.
• Sobral, L.; Veríssimo, A.; Lima, E.; Azevedo, T. & Smeraldi, R. 2002. Acertando o Alvo 2: Consumo de Madeira Amazônica e Certificação Florestal no Estado de São Paulo. Belém: Imazon. 72 p;

Awards

• Fulbright Fellowship, 2004-present
• Education for Nature (WWF), 2000-2002
• Tropical Resource Institute - Yale University, 2001-2002
• Compton Foundation, 2001-2002

Service Activities

• Affiliated Researcher at Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia.