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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
Institute of

WF Forestry

Dr. Caroline Salomão


Caroline Salomão

Institute of Forestry

Leuschnerstraße 91
21031 Hamburg-Bergedorf
Telephone
+49 531 2570 2361
Email
caroline.salomao@thuenen.de

Scientist


Working Area

  • Forestry Worldwide

Regional Expertise

  • Brazil  
  • Colombia
  • Peru
  • Equador
  • Paraguay

Professional Expertise

  • Land use Land cover change
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Water resources management
  • Science, Technology and Environmental Politics
  • Geoinformatics (GIS) and Remote Sensing
  • Qualitative and Multi-method Research

Projects

Involved in

ongoing projects

completed projects

    Publications

    Below you find publications by Caroline de Souza Cruz Salomão, which are not registered in TI-LIT.

    • (2025) SALOMÃO, C.D.S.C., NASCIMENTO, N.D.O., SANTOS DE LIMA, L. Beyond energy production: Stakeholders’ perceptions of changes in agricultural systems and their drivers around Colombian hydropower dams. Agric. Water Manag. 319, 109766.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109766
    • (2024) SALOMÃO C., OLIVEIRA N., LIMA L. Beyond energy production: A local perception about the drivers of change in land-water systems for cash crops production surrounding Colombian water reservoirs. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-1199, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1199
    • (2024) SALOMÃO C., ALSLEBEN J., RUFIN P., HOSTERT P. Mapping hydropower expansion and cash crop dynamics in Colombia using Landsat time series. Geocarto Int. 39, 2322064 https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2024.2322064
    • (2023) SALOMÃO C., ALSLEBEN J., RUFIN P., HOSTERT P. Spatial patterns of land use & land cover changes surrounding Colombian water reservoirs. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-10381, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10381
    • (2023) JAKIMOW B., BAUMANN M., SALOMÃO C., BENDINI H., HOSTERT, P. Deforestation and agricultural fires in South-West Pará, Brazil, under political changes from 2014 to 2020. Journal of Land Use Science, 18(1), 176–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2023.2195420
    • (2022) MOUTINHO P., ALENCAR A., STABILE M., FELLOWS M., SALOMÃO C., SOUZA L., AZEVEDO-RAMOS C., LIVIA L., LUI G., GUYOT C., CASTRO I., BANDEIRA M. Destinação de Florestas Públicas: Um meio de combate à grilagem e ao desmatamento ilegal na Amazônia. Amazon 2030, 2022. Available at: https://amazonia2030.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/AMZ2030_30.pdf
    • (2022) SOUZA L., PINTO E., CASTRO I., SALOMÃO C., CARVALHO E., PINHO P. Agricultura familiar e Assentamentos Rurais da Amazônia. Amazon 2030, 2022. Available at: https://amazonia2030.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AMZ2030-38.pdf
    • (2022) STABILE MCC, GARCIA AS, SALOMÃO CSC, BUSH G, GUIMARÃES AL, MOUTINHO P Slowing Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Avoiding Legal Deforestation by Compensating Farmers and Ranchers Front. For. Glob. Change 4:635638. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.635638
    • (2022) SALOMÃO CSC., LIMA LS., RAJÃO RGL. Willingness of rural landowners to adopt voluntary and compulsory forest restoration practices in the middle Rio Doce region - MG. Ambiente e Sociedade. vs. 25, p. n-nx. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200085r3vu2022L1AO
    • (2021) SALOMÃO C., RODRIGUES F., CREPALDI MO., PEREIRA D., BALBINOT, RAFAELO. Tools for dissemination and improvement of Environmental Regularization Programs – PRA. SOBRE Conference 2021.
    • (2021) SALOMÃO CSC, STABILE M., SOUZA L., ALENCAR A., CASTRO I., GUYOT C., MOUTINHO, P. Amazonia in Flames - deforestation, fire and ranching on Public Lands: Technical note n° 8. Brasília, DF: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, 2021. Available at: Amazônia-em-Chamas-8-inglês.pdf (ipam.org.br).
    • (2020) SALOMÃO C., SOUZA-PAULA LG., TIMBÓ ELMIRO MA. Use of multicriteria analysis to define priority areas for reforestation in the Piranga River Basin, MG, Brazil. Suntentabilidade em debate. v. 11, n.2, p. 108-120. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v11n2.2020.30468
    • (2020) SÓNIA M. CARVALHO RIBEIRO, RAONI RAJÃO, FELIPE NUNES, DÉBORA ASSIS, JOSÉ AMBRÓSIO NETO, CAMILLA MARCOLINO, LETICIA LIMA, THOMAS RICKARD, CAROLINE SALOMÃO, BRITALDO SOARES FILHO. A spatially explicit index for mapping Forest Restoration Vocation (FRV) at the landscape scale: Application in the Rio Doce basin, Brazil, Science of The Total Environment. 744, 140647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140647
    • (2019) SALOMÃO CSC., RAJÃO RGL, O movimento político-agroecológico no Brasil: Uma perspectiva da ciência social. IX Evento Nacional da ANNPAS 2019.
    • (2019) SALOMÃO CSC., RAJÃO RGL., Panorama Institucional e Regulatório de PRAs e Regulamentações de SAFs para restauração ecológica de APPs e RLs em Minas Gerais. IX Evento Nacional da ANNPAS 2019.
    • (2019) SALOMÃO CSC., RODRIGUES PCH., ALVES SF., FERREIRA JML., MACHADO RPM, Sistemas Agroflorestais e Recursos Hídricos. Revista Agropecuária EPAMIG, p. 27 - 43, 29 abr. 2019

    Curriculum Vitae

    • 2009 - 2014: B.Sc. Degree in Environmental Engineering at FUMEC University (Brazil)
    • 2010 - 2015: B.Sc. Degree in Administration at Faculty of Economic Sciences at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG | Brazil)
    • 2016 - 2017: Coorditador at Scientia Vitae Consultancy (Consórcio Porto e Assunção and DEER/MG) and Brasil Soluções Consultancy (Prefeitura de Igarapés/MG | Brazil)
    • 2012 - 2016 und 2017 - 2018: Environmental Engineer (Technical lead) at Institute of Social Policy Management (GESOIS | Brazil)
    • 2018 - 2019: Researcher at Environmental Services Management Laboratory (LAGESA) - Department of Production Engineering/UFMG | Brazil
    • 2017 - 2019: M.Sc. in Analysis and Modeling of Environmental Systems at Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). Dissertation: Agroforestry systems as a strategy for ecological restoration in Rio Doce basin
    • 2019 - 2020: Researcher/Consultant at Center for Territorial Intelligence -CIT. Project: Technology Action Plans for the Energy System, Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Sectors (Ministry of Science Technology and Innovations | Brazil)
    • 2019 - 2020 und 2022 - 2023: Researcher and Consultant at Amazon Environmental Research Institute – IPAM (Brazil). Projects: CONSERV (Norwegian and Dutch embassy), NovaBov (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation-NORAD), Sustainable production chains in the State of Pará (Agence française de développement, AFD) and OCAA (Amazon Observatory on Trade and Environment) (Instituto Clima e Sociedade-ICS | Brazil)
    • 2020 - 2025: PhD researcher at IRI THESys/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Project: Water security for whom? – Social and material perspectives on inequality around multipurpose reservoirs in Colombia (Germany, Colombia and Brazil)
    • 2020 - 2024: PhD in sanitation, Environment and Water Resources at Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) with a sandwich period at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia). Thesis: Improving methods for assessing the impacts of hydropower dams: investigating changes in the use of and access to land and water resources around reservoirs in Colombia
    • 2024 - 2025: Scientific-Technical Consultant at Instituto de Manejo e Certificação Florestal e Agrícola (Imaflora). Projects: SERVIR Amazonia (USAID and NASA) and Tropical Forest Finance Fund - TFFF initiative (Brazilian Forest Service - SFB, Ministry of the Environment - MMA and Space Research Institute - INPE | Brazil)
    • since 7/2025: Research Associate at the Thünen Institute of Forestry
       
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