Biografía
Luis E Sánchez is Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he has been teaching environmental impact assessment since 1990. Trained as a mining engineer and a geographer, he obtained his PhD in Economics of Natural Resources from Mines Paris Tech in 1989. He joined Escola Politécnica, an engineering school at the University of São Paulo, as Lecturer in 1990, became Associate Professor in 1998 and Full Professor in 2005. He publishes extensively on environmental planning and management, authored the textbook Environmental Impact Assessment: Concepts and Methods (in Portuguese), firstly published in 2006 and currently in its third edition, and three guidebooks on good environmental practices: Good Practices Guide for Rehabilitation of Quarries and Limestone Mines (2012, in Portuguese), Guide for Mine Closure Planning (2013, in Portuguese, English and Spanish), Guidebook of Good Environmental Practices for Limestone Quarrying in Karst Areas (2016, Portuguese and English). He was Invited Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Montreal, Canada (1996-97), Invited Researcher at the School of Environment and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia (2009 and 2018) and Visiting Academic at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia (2020). He has been an active member of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) since 1992, having acted as Director (1998-2001) and President (2012-13), and seated in several committees. He offered short courses at IAIA Conferences, at conferences of the Brazilian Association for Impact Assessment, and government organizations, and consulted with different public, private, and financial organizations.
Speaking at
Mitigation hierarchy and biodiversity offsets: Foundations for contributing to nature positive goals
Oct 11 2025 (14:30 - 15:30)
Room: Learning Zone Pavilion: Tools for Nature