G-ENV · Former PhD student
Thesis: The Amazon frontier today: socio-environmental forest-conservation projects versus pastoral deforestation dynamics — a strategic analysis of collective action in Terra do Meio (Pará, Brazil), 2000–2006
Defended on 27 March 2008
Current position
Environmental Investigation Agency (US)
Doctoral research
Strategic analysis of the confrontation between forest-conservation initiatives and pastoral deforestation dynamics in Terra do Meio, Pará, Brazil.
Supervision
Co-supervision by Laurent Mermet and Hervé Théry
Summary
The thesis analyses collective action around forest conservation and cattle-driven deforestation in the Terra do Meio region. It focuses on the strategies, alliances and conflicts that shaped socio-environmental action between 2000 and 2006.