Flavia Braga Vieira is co-author of From the Valleys to Global Forums: Learning for Action in Rural Movements in Brazil

Flavia Braga Vieira is a Sociologist, with a PhD on Urban and Regional Planning (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Currently a researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning and Research at the same University, Dr. Vieira is the executive coordinator of the graduate course Energy and Society in Contemporary Capitalism and develops several projects of research and extension.

Her professional experience covers the areas of research and advice on development projects and socio-environmental conflicts both at the national and international scales. In the advisory work, there is an emphasis on helping civil society organizations to deal with agents of the state, private sector, and international actors and forums. She is the author of articles and technical production on the following themes: dams, globalization, social movements, culture and sociology. Her PhD thesis will be published in 2010 under the title From the united workers to the globalization of hope: a study of internationalisms and Via Campesina.

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