Wyoming Anticipating the Climate-Water Transitions (WyACT)
Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources
(307) 761-4965 | adefigue@uwyo.edu | Crane Hall, Rm 145
PhD Geography, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Participatory Scenario Planning, Water Availability, and Science Communication
Anderson R. de Figueiredo is a geographer and Postdoctoral Research Associate with WyACT. His previous work with traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in the socio-cryosphere in the Peruvian Andes informs his move into community-based research in the rural Rocky Mountain West. His work with Wyoming communities supports the integration of local knowledge and social dynamics with the best available natural resources sciences, such as hydrologic modeling. Guided by an ethos of knowledge co-production, De Figueiredo brings what he learns from community engagement to the transdisciplinary WyACT effort, collaborating with data from science communication studies, public surveys, applied anthropology, and socioeconomic data. In WyACT, he uses scenario planning processes as tools for engagement and collaborative understanding of how changes in water availability cascade effects through socio-environmental systems–shaped by complex interactions between biophysical and socioeconomic drivers of change–and what these changes mean for rural communities. Anderson is responsible for the research design of conducting pre-workshop interviews and focus groups, co-designing and coordinating logistics for scenario planning workshops in the Wyoming headwaters, and overseeing both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the research.
See Anderson Ribeiro de Figueiredo's Google Scholar page for more.
R. Witinok-Huber, C.N. Knapp, J. Lund, W. Eaton, B.E. Ewers, A.R. de Figueiredo, et al. 2025. “Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation.” Environmental Science & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104008
A.R. de Figueiredo, J.C. Simões, R.M. Menegat, S. Strauss, B.B. Rodrigues. 2019. “Perceptions of and adaptation to climate change in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru.” Sociedade & Natureza. https://doi.org/10.14393/SN-v31-2019-45623
Emmer et al. 2022. “Progress and challenges in glacial lake outburst flood research (2017–2021): a research community perspective.” Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3041-2022
