Keynote speakers
Susana Hecht UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, USA• Dr Susanna Hecht is one of the founders of the approach known as political ecology. She is professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Luskin School of Public affairs at UCLA, and The Graduate Institute in Geneva. Dr hecht is a specialist of the transformations, and history of the American tropics, especially Amazonia. Her books have won numerous awards, including for her classic Fate of the Forest: Developers, destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon
Joan Martinez-Alier Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Ecological economist and great pioneer of Latin American Political Ecology. Author of "The Environmentalism of the Poor» and creator of the project A Global Environmental Justice Movement- The EJAtlas (http://www.envjustice.org/). Balzan Prize 2020.
Gabriela Merlinsky Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET, Argentina Gabriela Merlinsky is a sociologist, Doctor of Geography from the University of Paris 8 and Doctor of Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She is a researcher at CONICET, based at the Gino Germani Research Institute. She is a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. She has published several books and numerous articles on social sciences, environment and political ecology.
Diana Ojeda Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Diana Ojeda holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University and is an associate professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies (Cider) at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. She works on issues of feminist political ecology and is currently researching the unhealthy landscapes of plantation expansion in Colombia.
Erik Swyngedouw The University of Manchester, UK Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at Manchester University. His research interests include urban political-ecology, hydro-social conflict, urban governance, democracy and political power, and environmental politics. His was previously professor of geography at Oxford University and held the Vincent Wright Visiting Professorship at Science Po, Paris, 2014. He also holds Honorary Doctorates from Roskilde University and the University of Malmö.
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