José Augusto Pádua

José Augusto Pádua is a professor of Brazilian environmental history at the Institute of History / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he coordinates the History and Nature Laboratory. He is president of the Latin American and Caribbean Society for Environmental History (SOLCHA) and was president of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Environment and Society (ANPPAS) between 2010 and 2015. He was part of the creation team and is a member of the scientific board of the Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro).  He was a senior visiting fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford (2004 and 2007/2008) and is a fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich (since 2014).  As a specialist in environmental history and politics, he has given lectures and courses, as well as participated in fieldworks, in more than forty-five countries. His current research topics include the historical analysis of the Anthropocene and the comparative history of the Amazon and Atlantic forests in Brazil. He has published several books and articles, including Land Use: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I (2024).