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Myanna Lahsen IGBP Regional Office Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais -INPE Avenida dos Astronautas, 1758 - Jd. Granja São José dos Campos, SP, 12227-010 Tel: (5512) 3945 7108 Fax: (5512) 3945 7101 myanna@igbp.inpe.br

Myanna Lahsen obtained her primary education in Denmark and France, and her secondary education in the US, completing a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Rice University in 1998. Myanna's primary affiliation is with the University of Colorado’s Center for Science and Technology Policy Research where she is a Research Scientist while residing in Brazil to carry out a 3-year National Science Foundation grant focused on the (geo)politics associated with the Large-Scale Biosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA). The LBA is an international environmental science experiment examining the Amazon region’s role in global environmental change, and vice versa.

Most Recent Publications

• Experiences of modernity in the greenhouse: A cultural analysis of a physicist "trio" supporting the backlash against global warming

• Anthropology and the Trouble of Risk Society

• Earth System Governance: Research in Aid of Global Environmental Sustainability

• Trust Through Participation? Problems of Knowledge in Climate Decision Making

• Challenges of connecting international science and local level sustainability efforts: the case of the Large-Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia

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