Paulo De Tarso De Lara Pires

Paulo de Tarso, Ph.D., director of the Environmental Law Clinic at the Federal University of Paraná and past DWFI visiting professor, is DWFI's newest Global Fellow.

Tarso’s teaching and research interests are environmental law, water-use law, water tenure, and natural resources law. Prior to joining Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) in 2003, he worked as an expert in biodiversity monitoring and natural resources conservation in the Water and Earth Agency of Paraná State. He is the Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at UFPR, which examines the environmental, regulatory, and economic implications of water conservation in Paraná State and elsewhere. He is also Consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank for the Probabilistic study of the impact of droughts on the growth and yield of crops in Brazil, teamed with the Drought Information System for southern South America (SISSA), to support policy and plans to increase drought resilience. For the next year, his main goal will be to develop research about water tenure in Brazil.