About the Author
My name is Maximiliano Gobbo, and I am passionate about transforming complexity into simple and efficient solutions. I hold a PhD in Science, a Master's degree in Metrology and Quality, a specialization in Environmental Auditing and Expertise, and I am a Biologist. I have built a career that unites science, management, and innovation.
My professional journey began in 2016, after graduating. From that point, I pursued a path associated with Management and Environmental Expertise. In 2019, I began my journey in Quality and Metrology, dedicating myself to Integrated Management (Quality, Environment, Processes, and Risks). From that moment until now, I have dedicated myself to integrating my training and my work, seeking to unite Integrated Management with Environmental Sciences and Metrology.
In this endeavor, I have actively participated in the development of standards, guidelines, and tools aligned with the three fronts of Technical-Scientific-Industrial Research and Development. Additionally, I had the opportunity to develop tools for urban-rural-natural territorial planning, applying programming language (R software) and socio-ecological modeling of anthropomes as basic foundations.
This experience consolidated my analytical and systemic perspective on processes, risks, and continuous improvement. Today, I work as a Consultant in Integrated Management Systems (IMS), helping companies structure and improve their systems according to ISO 9001, 14001, 17025, and 31000 standards. My focus is on connecting strategy, sustainability, and innovation, creating creative and disruptive solutions in constantly transforming environments.
EcoMetrology
EcoMetrology was born from a dream. A dream of transforming territorial space to meet environmental, social, and ecosystem demands and the Sustainable Development Goals.
In mid-2010, about to begin my Biological Sciences degree, I encountered an emblematic concept that was still little known globally: anthropogenic biomes. The publication of the work "Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world," by Ellis and Ramankutty (2008), offered a new perspective on global biomes, subdividing them according to the population density associated with each land use and land cover within each biome.
At that time, my scientific immaturity and limited command of the English language restricted my understanding to what was presented. Over the years, with the increase in scientific production associated with this theme, university education, and learning other languages, I was able to broaden my understanding of what anthropomes are and see their applicability in the real world, both in safeguarding socio-ecological structures and in the preservation and conservation of nature and human and non-human populations. From this step in the ascent of knowledge, given that there is still a long way to go, I invite you to symposium (from the Latin, to drink from the same source) on what I consider the theoretical foundation for the construction of EcoMetrology.
Firstly, as part of this invitation, I will try to include the readers of this work in my reflection, always writing in the first-person plural, assuming the idea that the construction of complex thought is achieved through the integration of different individualities, personalities, and perceptions of temporalities, spatialities, and subjectivities (Morin, 1992).
The central objective of EcoMetrology is to combine the theoretical and practical bases of Metrology, Human Ecology, and Integrated Management, in order to provide a broad view of the urban-rural-natural environment so that companies in the first, second, and third sectors can find relevant information for their operations and disruptive solutions to improve their Strategic Management, all while considering the Sustainable Development Goals and the Brazilian constitutional premises of a safe environment for present and future generations.