Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue

Cristina Inoue is a Professor of the Institute of International Relations, University of Brasília, Brazil and Associate-Professor at the Environmental Governance and Politics Chair Group at Radboud University. Her current research project relates global climate change and biodiversity governance and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon . Conceptually, the aim is to explore scale politics and global to local interactions in Earth System Governance architectures, and to envision how agency of local and non-state actors is constituted.

Besides, Cristina Inoue has also developed research and has published on issues related to the global biodiversity regime international, and the role of the conservation biology epistemic community, and also on Brazil and international cooperation for development. At the University of Brasília, she has taught courses on International Relations Theory, International Organizations, International Cooperation, Civil Society and World Politics, Global Governance and Global Environmental Politics. Moreover, she coordinates the Project “Be Aware” (Tome Consciência), which aims at promoting sustainable consumption attitudes and habits within the University community.