Maria Ines Paes Ferreira

@portal1.iff.edu.br

Doutorado em Modelagem e Tecnologia para Meio Ambiente Aplicadas em Recursos Hídricos
Instituto Federal Fluminense

Maria Ines Paes Ferreira


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Environmental Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology
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Scopus Publications

  • SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS APPLIED TO WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE LOWER COURSE OF THE PARAÍBA DO SUL RIVER WATERSHED, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
    Thaís Nacif de Souza Riscado, Nayara Félix Barreto, Maria Inês Paes Ferreira, Daniela Bogado Bastos de Oliveira, Luís Felipe Umbelino
    Revista De Gestao Social E Ambiental, 2024
    Objective: This paper presents an indicator system called "thrivability appraisal", developed based on the systemic view of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This system combines seven dimensions of sustainability with principles of integrated and participatory water management. Theoretical Framework: The deprivation of resources, functions, and ecosystem services, which play a crucial role in the well-being and sustainability of communities, represents a challenge for development as established by the Millennium Summit. The publication of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda defined seventeen SDG, with the aim of promoting prosperity for all human populations. In the face of this challenge, water stands out as an essential chemical component for life, as well as for the health, well-being, and economic prosperity of populations. SDG 6 specifically addresses this issue, recognizing it as fundamental not only to achieve sustainability at the local, regional, and global levels but also to promote prosperity. Method: The thrivability appraisal methodology is based on an indicator system composed by 49 parameters chosen according to Ostrom’s seven sustainability principles. Secondary data from technical and academic documents were analyzed, complemented by primary data obtained through the environmental perception of representatives from the Watershed Committee of the IXth Hidrographic State Region (RH-IX). Results and Discussion: Water resources management sustainability evaluation in RH-IX revealed the existence of considerable challenges, as well as the need to strengthen participatory governance. Research Implications: The research showed that thrivability appraisal can be an important tool to suport decision-making definitions of the Committee.
  • Sustainable Water Management and the 2030 Agenda: Comparing Rain Forest Watersheds in Canada and Brazil by Applying an Innovative Sustainability Indicator System
    Maria Inês Paes Ferreira, Graham Sakaki, Pamela Shaw, Thaís Nacif de Souza Riscado, Luis Felipe Umbelino
    Sustainability Switzerland, 2023
    Watershed management varies greatly across the world. Local conditions are generally dictated by how watershed management is regulated at national, regional, and local scales. Both multisectoral and community-based participatory involvement in watershed management can positively impact the quality and effectiveness of outcomes. This localization can also be vital to the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In recent years, the term “sustainability” has become overused, has limited quantifiable meaning, and can create “fuzzy” targets. We suggest that an outcome that focuses on “thrivability” is more appropriate; this refers to the ability to not only sustain positive conditions for future generations but to create conditions that allow for all living things (present and future) to have the ability and opportunity to thrive. A thrivability approach aligns with the 2030 Agenda’s ultimate goal: prosperity for all beings on earth. This study uses a thrivability lens to compare two study sites. Primary and secondary data were collected for both the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN), Canada, and Hydrographic Region VIII (HR-VIII), Brazil, and have been input and analyzed through our Thrivability Appraisal to determine each region’s watershed thrivability score. The Thrivability Appraisal uses seven sustainability principles as the overarching framework. These are then related to four individual subcomponents of watershed health and three common interest tests based on primary environmental perception and secondary technical data as inputs. Assuming the centricity of water for prosperity, the final scoring is a culmination of the 49 total indicators. A comparison is then drawn to the regions’ capacity to achieve the eight targets for UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. The outcome illustrates each region’s water management strengths and weaknesses, allowing for lessons to be learned and transferred to other multijurisdictional watersheds.
  • Why is the Biotic ligand model so scarcely applied in Brazil? A review
    Nikolas Gomes Silveira de Souza, Laura Isabel Weber, Victor Barbosa Saraiva, Maria Inês Paes Ferreira, Vicente de Paulo Santos de Oliveira, et al.
    Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, 2023
  • The Private Sector as a Partner for SDG 6-Related Issues in Megacities: Opportunities and Challenges in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Maria Inês Paes Ferreira, Vicente de Paulo Santos de Oliveira, Graham Sakaki, Pamela Shaw
    Sustainability Switzerland, 2022
    This article reviews recent studies that address water sustainable management opportunities and challenges in megacities around the world, with an emphasis on the case of Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region, one of the two megacities in Brazil. With reference to recent debates on water, megacities, and the climate crisis, as well as UN Water and Global Report Initiative documents, we focused on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation for All. The new Brazilian sanitation legal framework regulates public–private partnerships. In this context, the manuscript discusses the main question concerning water, sanitation, and hygiene that arises in the Brazilian case study: is universality possible in profit-oriented models? Through the current technical and academic literature consulted, the paper compares initiatives involving multiple stakeholder governance models that depend on private resources to implement universal access to drinking water, sanitation, and water-related extreme event controls, pointing out alternatives that can help to achieve the targets of SDG. Validation by key informants supports the synthesis of the reviewed documents, and the findings illustrate that concerted public efforts together with market mechanisms can help to overcome challenges and surpass the profit-oriented logics of private companies to achieve access to healthy and safe water, adequate sanitation, and improved hygiene, especially for vulnerable populations. This finding has transferability to other megacities in emerging countries that are facing public–private partnership debates on the provision of clean water and sanitation for all.
  • On the opposite way to the objectives of sustainable development goals: Assessment of water poverty in the estuary region of the macaé river, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Édson Guimarães, Maria Inês Ferreira
    Saude E Sociedade, 2020
    Resumo O rápido crescimento populacional impulsionado pela indústria do petróleo no município de Macaé/RJ, a fiscalização ineficiente e a especulação imobiliária motivaram ocupações ilegais de espaços territoriais especialmente protegidos, como os manguezais estuarinos do Rio Macaé. Objetiva-se comparar as condições de vulnerabilidade socioeconômica e ambiental que caracterizam essas ocupações à luz dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) 1 e 6 da Agenda 2030 da Organização das Nações Unidas: erradicação da pobreza; e acesso à água potável e ao saneamento, respectivamente. Dada a necessidade de construção de indicadores, para acompanhar o cumprimento das metas associadas aos ODS, propõe-se a aplicação do Índice de Pobreza Hídrica, adaptado às comunidades Ilha Colônia Leocádia e Ilha da Caieira, visando comparar o estado socioambiental dessas ocupações em termos de aderência a condições promotoras de sustentabilidade para a região. Um questionário semiestruturado foi aplicado aos moradores das localidades e os resultados permitiram estimar o IPH, confirmando a situação de grave pobreza hídrica e de vulnerabilidade socioeconômica dos moradores da Ilha Colônia Leocádia em relação aos da Ilha da Caieira. Isto indica uma realidade que caminha na contramão da Agenda 2030 e necessita de políticas públicas promotoras do bem-estar dos estuarinos, focadas no acesso à água, na proteção dos recursos hídricos e nas soluções baseadas na natureza.
  • Collaborative governance and watershed management in biosphere reserves in Brazil and Canada
    Maria Inês Paes Ferreira, Pamela Shaw, Graham Kenneth Sakaki, Taylor Alexander, Jade Golzio Barqueta Donnini, et al.
    Revista Ambiente E Agua, 2018
    Water management within vulnerable ecosystems managed by multiple jurisdictions can be very complex. This study compares regulatory environments and deconstructs the approaches used for watershed governance and environmental management inside two UNESCO’s Biosphere Reserves to identify possible transferability between the two management entities. Three methodological approaches were applied: participatory observation, in-depth interviews of key informants, and document research. We concluded that while there are differences between the regulatory frameworks and localized practices, at a foundational level the goals and desired outcomes relating to environmental protection are not dependent on location, but mainly on the integration and the establishment of common objectives among the diverse social actors involved in the management and from the interaction between different organisms of social control. Additionally, there are elements in the application of regulations and practices in both locales that could be transferred to other jurisdictions interested in addressing watershed protection in vulnerable ecosystems governed by multiple jurisdictions.
  • Thrivability appraisals: A tool for supporting decision-making processes in integrated environmental management
    Maria Inês Paes Ferreira, Pamela Shaw, Graham Sakaki, Taylor Alexander, Luis Felipe Umbelino
    International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice, 2017
  • Acute toxicity bioassay with the amphipod, grandidierella bonnieroides S. after exposure to sediments from an urban estuary (macaé River Estuary, RJ, Brazil)
    Mauricio Mussi Molisani, Rafael Nogueira Costa, Priscila Cunha, Carlos Eduardo de Rezende, Maria Inês Paes Ferreira, et al.
    Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2013
  • Characterization of EPDM/atactic polypropylene blends
    Naira M. da Silva, Maria I.P. Ferreira, Maria Inês B. Tavares
    Polymer Testing, 1995
  • Controlled degradation reactions in EPDM bulk modification with maleic anhydride
    Fernanda M. B. Coutinho, Maria In�s P. Ferreira
    Polymer Bulletin, 1994
  • Characterization of EPDM rubber modified with maleic anhydride (MAH) by diffuse reflectance FTIR (DRIFT)
    F.M.B. Coutinho, M.I.P. Ferreira
    Polymer Testing, 1994
  • Optimization of reaction conditions of bulk functionalization of EPDM rubbers with maleic anhydride
    Fernanda M.B. Coutinho, Maria Ines P. Ferreira
    European Polymer Journal, 1994

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Caracterização pluviométrica na porção sul da Região Hidrográfica IX do estado do Rio de Janeiro
    GR de Almeida Santana, MIP Ferreira, EF de Sousa, RAHW Braga
    Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego 19 (2), 138-149 , 2025
    2025
  • Gestão participativa e democracia local: análise da governança das águas na Região Hidrográfica do Baixo Paraíba do Sul e Itabapoana–RJ
    DPC Viana, DBB de Oliveira, MIP Ferreira
    Terceiro Milênio: Revista Crítica de Sociologia e Política 26 (01), 77-113 , 2025
    2025
  • P162 Lumbar plexus block as an alternative to inguinal-approach regional anesthesia in a patient with local infection
    AR Rocha, B Xavier, S Maia, R Fernandes, M Ferreira, I Alves, M Sá, ...
    Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine 50 (Suppl 1), A254-A254 , 2025
    2025
  • Impact of 12 weeks of concurrent training in breast cancer survivors: Improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness, strength and body composition.
    A Maia, R Madeira, H Neiva, C Fonseca, A Antunes, L Anjos, M Ferreira, ...
    German Journal of Sports Medicine/Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin 76 (3) , 2025
    2025
  • Changes in handgrip strength in breast cancer survivors in a 12-week exercise program.
    A Maia, A Antunes, R Madeira, D Esteves, C Fonseca, L Anjos, M Ferreira, ...
    German Journal of Sports Medicine/Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin 76 (3) , 2025
    2025
  • Sustainability indicators applied to water resources management: a systematic review
    T Nacif, C Torres, MIP Ferreira, DBB de Oliveira, SV Silva
    2025
  • Conservação da natureza integrada à agroecologia: o caso da Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Águas Claras, no Norte do estado do Rio de Janeiro
    MIP Ferreira, BM Santos, VM de Oliveira Pinto, LQ Barbosa, RC Lachini
    Cadernos de Agroecologia 19 (1) , 2024
    2024
  • SOLUÇÕES BASEADAS NA NATUREZA APLICADAS à CONSERVAÇÃO E à GESTÃO INTEGRADA DAS ÁGUAS–UM ESTUDO PROSPECTIVO à LUZ DA AGENDA 2030 DA ONU
    NNC GOMES, L SOUZA, CAF CASTRO, D COSTA, MIP FERREIRA
    PRINCIPIA-DIVULGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA E TECNOLÓGICA DO IFPB Учредители: Instituto … , 2024
    2024
  • Indicadores de sustentabilidade aplicados à gestão de recursos hídricos: uma revisão sistemática
    T Nacif, MIP Ferreira, DBB de Oliveira, SV Silva
    Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego 17 (2), 31-46 , 2023
    2023
  • Relatório de Estágio Curricular–Toyota Caetano Portugal, SA (Vila Nova de Gaia)
    M Ferreira
    2023
  • Sustainable water managment and the 2030 agenda: Comparing rain forest watersheds in Canada and Brazil by applying an innovative sustainability indicator system
    MI Paes Ferreira, G Sakaki, P Shaw, TNS Riscado, LF Umbelino
    MDPI , 2023
    2023
  • Sustainable Water Management and the 2030 Agenda: Comparing Rain Forest Watersheds in Canada and Brazil by Applying an Innovative Sustainability Indicator System
    MIP Ferreira, G Sakaki, P Shaw, TNS Riscado, LF Umbelino
    Sustainability 15 (20), 14898 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 5
  • Soil management in the Atlantic Forest’s rural properties:: the Águas Claras Reserve case
    VM de Oliveira Pinto, MIP Ferreira, MAC Moreira, LPQ Junior, ...
    Revista Agrogeoambiental, e20231769-e20231769 , 2023
    2023
  • Testing a new tool to distinguish the stage of evolution of red-giant stars
    P Fanha, M Cunha, D Bossini, M Ferreira, M Deal
    PLATO Stellar Science Conference 2023, 33 , 2023
    2023
  • Paths for Sustainable Development in the Region of Low Paraíba do Sul River
    NF Barreto, TNS Riscado, MIP Ferreira
    Grupo de Pesquisa Virtuhab/UFSC , 2023
    2023
  • Sustainable development indicators and private reserves of natural heritage: overcoming challenges to meet the 2030 agenda
    VMO Pinto, MIP Ferreira, R Silva Neto
    Grupo de Pesquisa VirtuHab/UFSC , 2023
    2023
  • RESUMO DE DISSERTAÇÃO: ESTUDO DE MEDIDAS MITIGADORAS NO TRECHO RETILINIZADO DO RIO MACAÉ PARA REDUÇÃO DOS EFEITOS DE CHEIAS URBANAS
    CRVD Justina, JL Junior, MIP Ferreira
    UFSC-Federal University of Santa Catarina , 2023
    2023
  • Condições de vida e saúde de pessoas vivendo com HIV em um município da região serrana do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
    MI Ferreira
    2023
  • Small Separations in Red-Giant Stars: Quest for Late-Evolution Signatures Using Asteroseismology
    MIMFS Ferreira
    PQDT-Global , 2023
    2023
  • Manejo do solo em propriedades rurais na Mata Atlântica: o caso da Reserva Águas Claras
    VM de Oliveira Pinto, MIP Ferreira, MAC Moreira, LPQ Junior, ...
    Revista Agrogeoambiental 15, e20231769 , 2023
    2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • New nanotechnologies for the treatment and repair of skin burns infections
    EB Souto, AF Ribeiro, MI Ferreira, MC Teixeira, AAM Shimojo, JL Soriano, ...
    International journal of molecular sciences 21 (2), 393 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 159
  • The role of magnetic nanoparticles in cancer nanotheranostics
    M Ferreira, J Sousa, A Pais, C Vitorino
    Materials 13 (2), 266 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 97
  • Energetics, biomechanics, and performance in masters' swimmers: a systematic review
    MI Ferreira, TM Barbosa, MJ Costa, HP Neiva, DA Marinho
    The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research 30 (7), 2069-2081 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 51
  • Effect of gender, energetics, and biomechanics on swimming masters performance
    MI Ferreira, TM Barbosa, HP Neiva, CC Marta, MJ Costa, DA Marinho
    The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research 29 (7), 1948-1955 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 34
  • Optimization of reaction conditions of bulk functionalization of EPDM rubbers with maleic anhydride
    FMB Coutinho, MIP Ferreira
    European polymer journal 30 (8), 911-918 , 1994
    1994
    Citations: 29
  • 2-Recursos hídricos: água no mundo, no Brasil e no Estado do Rio de Janeiro
    MIP Ferreira, JAF da Silva, MR de Carvalhaes Pinheiro
    Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego 2 (2), 29-36 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 21
  • Na contramão dos objetivos do desenvolvimento sustentável: avaliação da pobreza hídrica na região estuarina do Rio Macaé, Macaé/RJ
    É Guimarães, MI Ferreira
    Saúde e Sociedade 29, e190070 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 14
  • Characterization of EPDM rubber modified with maleic anhydride (MAH) by diffuse reflectance FTIR (DRIFT)
    FMB Coutinho, MIP Ferreira
    Polymer testing 13 (1), 25-34 , 1994
    1994
    Citations: 13
  • Energetic and biomechanical contributions for longitudinal performance in master swimmers
    DA Marinho, MI Ferreira, TM Barbosa, J Vilaça-Alves, MJ Costa, R Ferraz, ...
    Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology 5 (2), 37 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 12
  • Soluções Baseadas na Natureza aplicadas à conservação e à gestão integrada das águas–um estudo prospectivo à luz da Agenda 2030 da ONU
    NCG Néto, LN de Souza, CAF Castro, D de Andrade Costa, MIP Ferreira
    Revista Principia-Divulgação Científica e Tecnológica do IFPB, 30-43 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 11
  • Thrivability appraisals: A tool for supporting decision-making processes in integrated environmental management
    MIP Ferreira, P Shaw, G Sakaki, A Taylor, LF Umbelino
    The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice 13 (3), 19 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 10
  • Effects of swim training on energetic and performance in women masters’ swimmers
    MI Ferreira, TMCS Barbosa, MJO Costa, HP Neiva, JV Alves, D Marinho
    2016
    Citations: 10
  • Des-re-territorialização e áreas protegidas na Amazônia: reflexões a partir do caso da Estação Ecológica da Terra do Meio-Pa-Brasil
    MIP Ferreira, DS Mello
    GeoGraphos: Revista digital sobre Geopolítica, Geografía y Ciencias Sociales … , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 10
  • Avaliação da contaminação de efluentes domésticos em poços sobre área de restinga
    MR Cordeiro, S de Melo Rodrigues, PRN de Souza, MIP Ferreira
    Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego 5 (1), 89-102 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 10
  • Characterization of EPDM/atactic polypropylene blends
    NM da Silva, MIP Ferreira, MIB Tavares
    Polymer testing 14 (4), 329-341 , 1995
    1995
    Citations: 10
  • Água como fio condutor dos ODS: avaliando o bem-estar com um sistema holístico de indicadores de sustentabilidade aplicados à gestão de recursos hídricos
    MIP Ferreira
    Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (Enap) , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 9
  • Contratos Locais de Segurança: dicotomia entre mais sociedade civil ou mais polícia
    M Ferreira
    Pedrouços: Instituto de Estudos Superiores Militares , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 9
  • Geoprocessamento aplicado à gestão dos recursos hídricos na bacia hidrográfica do Rio Macaé-RJ
    MRC Pinheiro, BR Werneck, AF Oliveira, F Moté, MS Marçal, JAF Silva, ...
    Anais do Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto 14, 4247-4254 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 9
  • Nature based solutions as a promising alternative for river restoration and flood reduction
    CRV Della Justina, JL Junior, MIP Ferreira, PPGW Rodrigues
    Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego 13 (2), 198-212 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 8
  • Aplicação do Índice de Qualidade da Água (IQA) para caracterização do baixo curso do Rio São João
    FA dos Reis Veríssimo, MIP Ferreira
    Boletim do observatório ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego 7 (2), 181-197 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 8