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Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec is co-founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro (IIS Rio), has a BSc in Engineering of Environmental Protection, MSc degree in Environmental Protection (both from the University of Life Sciences, Poland) and PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Associate Professor at the Department of Production Engineering, Logistics and Applied Computer Science, Agricultural University Kraków and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. In recent years, she has focused on broader aspects of land management, participating or leading projects related to land-use change and decision-making. She seeks collaborative interdisciplinary research on various topics related to land management, sustainability, sustainability indicators, applied soil science and environmental decision-making. She is also a Deputy Coordinator of Professional Master in Sustainability Science at PUC-Rio, Coordinator of the Centre for Conservation and Sustainability Science (CSRio – PUC-Rio), Leader of the Research Group “Integrated Landscape Management”, Leader of the Interinstitutional Research Group on Ecosystem Services and Second Leader of the Research Group “Centre for conservation and sustainability science (CSRio)”.