Full professor, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH), Center of Environmental Studies and Research (NEPAM), University of Campinas (UNICAMP).
Research fields: public policies and environment, social theory and environment, interdisciplinarity, global environmental changes. I also participate in the Steering Committee of Environmental Studies and Research (NEPAM NEPAM-UNICAMP. Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Associate Member of the Faculty of Earth System Governance Project (IHDP). I was Visiting Professor Program in Top China Jiao Tong University in Sanghai, China (Summer Course, July-August 2009). It is ad hoc reviewer of Foundation to research the State of São Paulo (FAPESP),National Research Council (CNPq), Fulbright and the Earth System Governance. It is also ad hoc reviewer of the journals Environment and Society, History Science and Health, State and Society Multiciência; Brazilian journal of social sciences.During my career, received more than 30 major research funding agencies that sponsor research in Brazil (FAPESP, FINEP, CNPq and FAEPEX-UNICAMP), included for working in interdisciplinary researchs. From 2006 to 2007, was a member of the Multidisciplinary Committee of CAPES. I was president of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Environment and Society (ANPPAS) from 2004 to 2008. I held the following administrative positions: coordinator of NEPAM-UNICAMP, 2003 to 2005, was coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Environment and Society NEPAM-UNICAMP during 2004 to 2009, was coordinator of the Graduate IFCH-UNICAMP from 2000 to 2002 ; from 1998 to 2000 served as coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences-UNICAMP IFCH and was head of the sociology department from 1993 to 1995. Representative UNICAMP with the State Council on the Environment (CONSEMA) since 2010.
Selected Publications:
Books
1.FERREIRA, Leila C (Ed). Teoria Social e Interdisciplinaridade: a questão ambiental na América Latina. Ed. UNICAMP/FAPESP. 2011.
2. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. (Org.) . Diálogos em Ambiente e Sociedade no Brasil II. 1. ed. São Paulo: Annablume, 2008. v. 1. 279 p.
3. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. Idéias para uma Sociologia da Questão Ambiental . 1. ed. São Paulo: Annablume, 2006. v. 1. 130 p.
4.. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. Sociologia no Horizonte do Século XXI. 3. ed. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2006. v. 1. 140 p.
5. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. A Questão Ambiental. Sustentabilidade e Políticas no Brasil. 2. ed. São Paulo: Editora Boitempo, 2003. v. 1. 155 p.
6. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. (Org.) ; VIOLA, Eduardo (Org.). Incertezas de sustentabilidade na globalização. 2. ed. campinas: Editora da unicamp, 1996. v. 1. 331
Book Chapters
1. FERREIRA, Lucia da Costa ; FERREIRA, Leila. C. ; JOLY, C. “Uma dentre várias interdisciplinaridades: o doutorado em Ambiente e Sociedade da UNICAMP“. In: Costa, R. (org). Práticas socioambientais na Pós-Graduação Brasileira. São Paulo: 2010, p. 35-52.
2. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. “Cidade e Sustentabilidade: uma análise da perspectiva da sociologia ambiental“. In: Cortez, Ana T. C.; Ortigoza, Sílvia A. G. (org.). Consumo Sustentável conflitos entre necessidade e desperdício. 1 ed. Rio Claro: Fundação Editora da UNESP, 2007, v. 1, p. 109-131.
3. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. . “Idéias para uma sociologia da questão ambiental, teoria social, sociologia ambiental e interdisciplinaridade“. In: Porto, Maria S. G.; Dwyer, Tom. (org.). Sociologia em Transformação: pesquisa social do século XXI. 1 ed. Porto Alegre: Tomo Editorial, 2006, v. 2, p. 07-296.
4. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. . “Local Policies and Global Environmental Changes“. In: Tomasquin, M; Hogan, D. (org.). Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2001, v. 1, p. 101-120.
5. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. . “La búsqueda de alternativas de sustentabilidad en el poder local“. In: Ziccardi, A; Luján, S. R. (Org.). Ciudades Latinoamericanas. Modernización e Pobreza. Cidade do México: UNAM, 1999, v. 1, p. 113-134.
Journals
Ferreira, Leila at alli.Governing Climate Change in Brazilian Coastal Cities: Risks and Strategies.In: Journal of US-China Public Administration, ISSN 1548-6591, USA. 2011, Vol.8, No.1, pp51-65.
1. Martins, Rafael D'Almeida ; FERREIRA, L. C. . Climate Change Action at the City Level: Tales from Two Global Cities in Brazil. Management of Environmental Quality, 2011. ; ISSN/ISBN: 14777835.2010.
2. Ferreira, Leila e Seixas, S. Intelectuais e cientistas na América Latina: A importância dos temas Subjetividade, Qualidade de vida e Risco. In: POLIS. Revista Académica UNIVERSIDAD BOLIVARIANA, 27.INSS.07186568. 2010.
3. MARTINS, R.D.A. ; FERREIRA, L. C. . Oportunidades e Barreiras para Políticas Locais e Subnacionais de Enfrentamento às Mudanças Climáticas em Áreas Urbanas: Evidências de Diferentes Contextos. Ambiente e Sociedade (Campinas), 2010. ; ISSN/ISBN: 1414753X.
4.Martins, Rafael D'Almeida ; FERREIRA, L. C. . Enabling Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas: A Local Governance Approach. INTERthesis (Florianópolis), 2010. ; ISSN/ISBN: 18071384.
5. MARTINS, R. D. ; FERREIRA, LEILA. C. . “The research on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change in Latin America: Looking back, moving forward,”. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, v. 2, p. 264-280, 2010.
6. MARTINS, R. D. ; FERREIRA, LEILA. C. . “Assessing the Research on Human Dimensions of Global Environental Change in Latin America“. Teoria & Pesquisa, v. XVII, p. 31-52, 2009.
7. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. ; TAVOLARO, S. B. . “Environmental Concerns in contemprary Brazil; An insight into some theoretical and societal backgrounds (1970s - 1990s)”. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, v. 1, p. 1970-1990, 2008.
8. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. . “Environmental issues, interdisciplinarity, social theory and intellectual production in latin American“. Ambiente e Sociedade (Campinas), v. 9, p. 9/24, 2006.
9. FERREIRA, LEILA. C. ; FERREIRA, Lucia da Costa. “Águas Revoltas: Um Balanço Provisório da Sociologia Ambiental no Brasil”. BIB. Revista Brasileira de Informação Bibliográfica em Ciências Sociais, ANPOCS - São Paulo, v. 54, p. 83-100, 2002.
