Americas

• BRAZIL

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
A research and training programme for PhD students and young researchers is under way involving ten or so members of ART-DEV (geographers, economists and political scientists) together with a team of economists from the Federal University of Rio (the CATP). This project is funded by the Cafep-Cofecub (2013-2015).

• US

University of California – Santa Barbara
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER): centre of research into coral reef ecosystems