Fronika Wit
Originally from the Netherlands, Fronika de Wit, obtained her bachelor degree in human geography and master’s degree in international development studies at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. After finishing her master’s, she worked in the field of local sustainability governance for the Dutch municipality of Dordrcht. From 2011 to 2016, she lived in the Brazilian State of Acre, situated in the Amazon, where she worked on local and international socio-environmental projects. In 2016, Fronika started her PhD in Climate Change. Her research project, under the supervision of Professor João Ferrão, is on polycentric climate governance in the Amazon, with case studies in Ucayali-Peru and Acre-Brazil
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Thesis:
Polycentric Rural Climate Governance and the Amazon Tipping Point
Artigo em Revista
Carvalho, S.Oliveira, A.Pedersen, J. Manhice, H.Lisboa, F.Norguet, J.Wit, F.Santos, Filipe Duarte(2020)A changing Amazon rainforest: Historical trends and future projections under post-Paris climate scenariosGlobal and Planetary Change Vol. Available online 25 September 2020, 103328Online[Artigo em Revista]
Wit, F.Freitas,P. M. de(2019)Global climate adaptation governance in the Amazon through a polycentricity lensRevista Brasileira de Politica Internacional Vol. 62, 2Online[Artigo em Revista]
Capítulo de Livro
Wit, F.(2020)Urban Climate Governance in the Amazon. In : Smagacz-Poziemska M., Gómez M., Pereira P., Guarino L., Kurtenbach S., Villalón J. (Eds)Inequality and Uncertainty, pp.299-317Palgrave MacmillanOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Wit, F.(2020)Governança climática e a floresta amazônica: analisando o desenvolvimento sustentável na Amazônia brasileira sob o olhar da geógrafa Bertha Becker. In : Roque de Oliveira, F and Paiva, D. (eds)Saberes geográficos e Geografia institucional: Relações luso-brasileiras no século XX, pp.301-315Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de LisboaOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Wit, F.Mangnus, A.Nohra, C.(2020) Resilience in the Anthropocene. In : Pedro Santos, Ksenia Chmutina, Jason Von Meding, Emmanuel Raju (Eds)Understanding Disaster Risk: a multidimensional approachElsevier[Capítulo de Livro]
Mourato, J. M.Bussler, A.Wit, F.(2020)Interweaving Knowledge Systems Through Sustainability Governance. In : Leal Filho W., Azul A.M., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Wall T. (Eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development GoalsSpringerOnline[Capítulo de Livro]
Recensão
Wit, F.(2020)Book Review “Governing Complexity, Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019”Análise Social, 236, pp.678-681Online[Recensão]
Wit, F.(2019)Polycentricity: not a Panacea, but a Piece of the PuzzleRevista Portuguesa de Ciência Política Vol. 11, pp.127-130Online[Recensão]