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BIOTA SYNTHESIS focus and problem statement

The goal of the Nucleus is to foster research focused on the synthesis of knowledge related to "nature-based solutions", allowing guiding public and private socio-environmental policies.

This proposal is organized into two main missions (foster sustainability in rural and urban areas), four thematic challenges (pollination, restoration, and forest-based economics, regulation of zoonotic diseases and prevention of chronic non-transmissible and mental diseases in cities), a major challenge (climate change) and a cross-cutting challenge (establishing effective public policies) (Figure 1).

We explicitly consider demands from the São Paulo state Secretaries of Infrastructure and Environment, Health and Agriculture, searching for the best solutions based on ecosystem services, andalways grounded on the best existing scientific evidence.

Following the principles of synthesis science, our approach is based on the analysis, modeling, and synthesis of data that predominately already exist, and on the work of teams composed of a diversity of actors, who act in a transdisciplinary, collaborative, inclusive, and transparent manner.