Ricardo Abramovay is a senior professor at the Institute of Energy and Environment at the University of São Paulo. He made his academic career at the Department of Economics at USP, where he became a full professor in 2001. He was a visiting researcher at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His most recent book is Amazonia. Por uma economia do conhecimento da natureza (Ed. Elefante)