Author: Daniel Longhi Guimarães

  • Executive Underreach in the Response to COVID-19

    Executive Underreach in the Response to COVID-19

    Here we are, over one year later: trapped inside as news of daily deaths keeps breaching the barricade around our isolated lives. How did it come to this? As we mourn COVID-19’s first anniversary, the history of this pandemic continues to be written, and most believe it is a tale…

  • Brazil’s Environmental Downturn: A Tale of Many Cattle

    Brazil’s Environmental Downturn: A Tale of Many Cattle

    On September 28, Brazil’s National Environment Council (CONAMA), led by the Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, abolished Resolutions 302 and 303/2002. It established mangrove fields as Areas of Permanent Protection (APP). CONAMA will likely make a similar decision regarding the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland area located in southwest Brazil.…