Political Ecology Group (GEP)

The Political Ecology Group (GEP) focuses on the interactions between local communities and natural resources, with special emphasis on the impacts of public policies and the market from an historical perspective and at a multiple scales. The GEP research interests include environmental anthropology, political ecology, property theory, landscape analysis, the tensions between the rural and the urban, critical studies of development and globalization, political and economic anthropology, conservation policies, climate change, post-industrial spaces, commodity chain analysis, energy transitions, agroecology, and anthropology of mining. From a methodological perspective GEP's researchers combine quantitative and qualitative methods, with a focus on ethnography, supported by archival research, narrative, and mapping amongst many others and a pasionate emphasis on interdisciplinarity via multiple collaborations with international teams of geographers, biologists, or economists.