2014
Maria Constança Madureira Homem de Carvalho
Professor at Cândido Mendes University
Attended course: Planning and Managing Tourism in Protected Areas, Colorado State University
“The participation as a scholarship fellow in the Mobile Seminar on Planning and Managing Tourism in Protected Areas has allowed me to make significant advances in my professional life as a lawyer, university professor and researcher in the areas of Law and Tourism. The course helps me to increase this work’s outreach, also with an emphasis on the role of the nonprofit sector. My second book, which is underway, is based on the experiences acquired during the Seminar”.
Credit: Personal archive
Raoni Ferreira
Biologist and consultant
Attended course: Planning and Managing Tourism in Protected Areas, Colorado State University
“It was possible to draw parallels with the reality in Brazil and think about solutions for our internal challenges. The participation in the course triggered the start of a new project that, in partnership with UFMG, aims to create a Center for Protected Areas of the Espinhaço Biosphere Reserve (Observatório das Unidades de Conservação da Reserva da Biosfera do Espinhaço). I am carrying on with the projects I was previously developing, but now I am taking a closer look at the fact that we have to make our PAs more efficient in terms of meeting their goals – tourism, conservation, research, management and others”.
