Grup d'Ecologia Politica (GEP)

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, development and globalization, political and economic anthropology, conservation policies, climate change, post-industrial spaces, commodity chain analysis, energy transitions, critical development studies, agroecology, anthropology of mining, and urban-rural interactions.
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.