Eduardo is a Deputy Professor of Sociology and Associate Member of Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and of the Environment and Society Research Group at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo (IEA-USP), Brazil. As a sociologist, he researches sustainability challenges with a focus on the social dynamics, drivers, and conflicts that shape the plausibility of climate futures and social-ecological transformations. He is (co)author of the books Non-State Actors and Sustainable Development in Brazil: The Diffusion of the 2030 Agenda and Financializations of Development Global Games and Local Experiments, and co-editor and co-author of the Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook, which introduces a novel methodology for assessing the social plausibility of climate futures. Central to his research and teaching is the question of how societies respond to the global ecological crisis, especially climate change, and the social factors that enable or constrain social-ecological transformations. Empirically, he is particularly interested in questions related to social inequalities, climate justice and global consumption patterns and trends. Additionally, he examines how societies can sustainably adapt to climate change and how diverse epistemologies and knowledge systems can be systematically integrated into climate research and policy.
