Integrated Environmental Assessment
The “Integrated Environmental Assessment” research line brings together disciplinary approaches to identify and evaluate environmental quality indicators and their consequences for living organisms and human health. It develops interdisciplinary assessment methods that integrate physical, chemical, biological and socioeconomic dimensions, helping to explain human–environment interactions and anticipate future scenarios. It advances scientific knowledge and the development of technologies aimed at improving environmental conditions and quality of life in response to societal needs.
By developing a shared methodology for integrated assessments, using techniques ranging from geoprocessing to the identification of chemical and biological indicators of air, water and soil quality, this research line and its network of partnerships contribute to scientific progress and to a new understanding of conditions in the Sinos River Basin.
Environmental Technologies and Intervention
Building on integrated assessments of environmental conditions and interdisciplinary studies, the “Environmental Technologies and Intervention” research line develops technologies for environmental intervention. Its aim is to prevent, control and remedy environmental impacts, addressing complex challenges while improving environmental quality, protecting living organisms and human health, and promoting sustainable development.
The line connects and generates concepts, develops technological innovations and applies them to societal needs. Its technologies and methods can be transferred to different aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and atmospheric conditions. They can support public-sector responses to environmental problems affecting communities and help the private sector strengthen its social responsibility.
Advanced Environmental Analysis and Modeling
Advanced analysis and modeling of urban and non-urban areas by integrating environmental and socioeconomic conditions, based on environmental assessment and intervention. The approach considers the causes and synergistic, additive and cumulative effects of environmental impacts across space and over time, whether arising from natural processes, human activities or both.
Research Projects
Integrated Environmental Assessment
Impact of the urbanization gradient on the phytochemical, toxicological and bioactive profiles of native Asteraceae species in Rio Grande do Sul: a One Health approach
Assessment of the Sinos River Basin (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) through wildlife monitoring
Assessment of exposure of newborns and pregnant women to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances using human biomonitoring strategies
Assessment of exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) through treated drinking water and human biomonitoring following climate disasters in Rio Grande do Sul
Toxicological risk assessment of urban population exposure to pyrethroid pesticides using wastewater-based epidemiology
Biomonitoring human exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances using alternative sampling strategies
Assessment of cytogenetic damage and oxidative stress in individuals exposed to environmental contaminants
Air quality and associated relative risk of mortality and social and economic losses among the population
Assessment of ecotoxicological effects and water quality in Lake Guaíba
Assessment of the Sinos River Basin (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) through wildlife monitoring
Advanced Environmental Analysis and Modeling
Environmental conservation areas affected by mass movements: mapping and restoration for disaster prevention, ecological monitoring and environmental education
Integrated Project | Laboratory of Vulnerabilities, Risks and Society
Education as a non-structural measure for disaster risk management: training stakeholders in at-risk areas and municipalities in the Sinos River Basin
Temporal analysis of urban occupation and modeling of future scenarios in the Sinos River Basin: impacts on environmental degradation and natural disasters
Urban transformations in the Sinos River Basin: environmental challenges and modeling of future scenarios
Environmental conservation areas affected by mass movements: mapping and restoration for disaster prevention, ecological monitoring and environmental education
Environmental Technologies and Intervention
Reconfigured colonialism: environmental damage, subordination to digital capitalism and social injustices in the expansion of data centers in Brazil and Latin America
New technologies and risk society: limits and responsibility for environmental risk
Circulando – Shared Circular Economy
Circular economy in Ibero-American industry: transforming waste into raw materials and value-added products – RECIRCULA
Application of pyrolysis for energy generation using waste from the furniture production chain
Performance assessment of electrodialysis in lithium-ion recovery
Monitoring and removal of antibiotics from wastewater through membrane separation
National Institute of Science and Technology in Nature-Based Solutions – INCT SbN
Sustainable adaptation to climate change through legal and economic instruments: a systemic perspective
CLIMASANO – Integrated Sanitation and Health Response to Climate Emergencies
Circulando – Shared Circular Economy
Reinterpreting ecopedagogy in light of Complex Thought Theory: analyzing educational and social practices in planetary citizenship
Circulando – Shared Circular Economy
Biopol: Development of Biodegradable Polymers
Reconfigured colonialism: environmental damage, subordination to digital capitalism and social injustices in the expansion of data centers in Brazil and Latin America
