Mauro Figueiredo
maurofigueredode.figueiredo@uon.edu.au
LLM (Research & Thesis)
Mauro Figueiredo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Newcastle in Australia; Member of ELAW - Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide and the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. He is also co-author of the Brazilian Future Ocean Panel; former representative of NGOs from South of Brazil in the National Council of the Environment (CONAMA) and also represented the national civil society organizations in the Group for Coastal Management of the Inter-Ministerial Commission for Ocean Resources in Brazil; he has been working as a consultant for national and international NGOs; Mauro has experience teaching environmental law and for over twenty years has been dedicated to public interest environmental law.
Research Interests
Ecological Law; Oceans Coasts and Climate Change, Surfing Reserves, Nature-based Solutions
Research Overview
Law For Nature Based Solutions: Designing Eco-Legal Systems for Ecosystem Based Adaptation in Coastal Zones
The aim of this thesis is to develop guidelines for designing ecological legal systems that can work towards the implementation of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) in the coastal zone.
The coastal zone is often a crucial site for sustainable development while also being exposed to the risk of ecological emergencies.
The risk of ecological and human emergencies in the coastal zone is increasing under climate change.
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) has been identified as a potential strategy for achieving effective and ecologically sound adaptation to climate impacts. The novelty of this proposal is that the systems thinking will be used as a theoretical referential for supporting the idea of ecological law as an approach for designing legal systems that are able to support successful implementation of EbA initiatives in the coastal zone. Drawing togetherinsights from ecology, systems thinking and law, the thesis will develop theoretically informed guidelines to assess the capacity of existing coastal legal systems to implement EbA from the ecocentric perspective.
Research Outputs
Books
PORTANOVA, R. S.; LEITE, A. O.; FIGUEIREDO, M. F.
(Org.). Os 15 anos da Lei no 9.985, de 18 de julho de 2000: Anais do
II Congresso de Direito Ambiental das Áreas Protegidas. São Paulo: Ixtlan, 2015.
Chapter in Books
Javier García Sanabria et. al. - Comparative Study of Management Practices of
Ibero-American States Regarding the Conservation and Sustainable Use of
Biodiversity: Which Lessons for ABNJ?. 41 pp - in Toledo & Tassin
(Editors), Guide to the Navigation of Marine Biodiversity Beyond National
Jurisdiction.
FIGUEIREDO, M. F.
A Constituição Federal e a sustentabilidade do território Marinho Brasileiro.
In. LIMA, A. (org) 30 Anos da Constituição, Direitos Socioambientais: história, avanços e desafios. Mil Folhas IEB, 2018.
FIGUEIREDO, M. F.
Promotion and Management of Marine Fisheries in Brazil. In: Gerd Winter.
(Org.). Towards Sustainable Fisheries Law. Gland: IUCN Publications Services,
2009, v., p. 187-230.
Blog Posts
Ministério Público of Brazil: An Institution in Defense of Future Generations
ELAW Spotlight - 2013
https://elawspotlight.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/ministerio-publico-of-brazil-an-institution-in-defense-of-future-generations/
Conferences and Seminars
FIGUEIREDO, M. F. The Constitutional Protection of Protected Areas, the Recategorization of Nature Conservation Units and the Law Project No. 4,198 of 2012. In: Brazilian
Congress of Environmental Law -19 .: São Paulo, SP 2014. v. 2.
Teaching Experience
2019 to 2020 (three editions) Guest Lecturer in the postgraduate course (LAWS6038) ‘Law and Economics of Climate Change - University of Newcastle.
2006-2011 (four editions) Environmental Law in the Post-Graduation Course in Environmental Law and Management at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Florianópolis (FCSF) of the Complex of High Studies of Santa Catarina (CESUSC).
2003-2005 Lecturer Environmental Law – University of South Santa Catarina – Brazil
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.