Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Planning, and School of the Environment
Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., Room 5055, Toronto ON M5S 3B3
416-978-3373
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Department of Geography and Planning
Fields of Study
- Ecology & Biodiversity
- Forests & Conservation
- Social & Environmental Justice
Areas of Interest
- Environment and development
- Indigenous and peasant livelihoods and resource use in Latin America
- Vulnerability and resilience
- Rural poverty
- Forest and biodiversity conservation
- Social networks
- Neotropical forests; mainly Amazonia and Mexico
Education
PhD McGill University
MA McGill University
Licenciatura (Honors Equivalent), Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico)
Awards
- 2019 Best Paper Award American Geographical Society
Publications
- Tropical forest environments provide insurance against COVID-19 ( : 2023)
- Livelihoods and poverty in small-scale fisheries in western Amazonia ( : 2023)
- Lifeways and currents of change in the Peruvian Amazon: A 1000 km boat journey down the Ucayali River ( : 2022)
- Integrated multi-scalar analysis of vulnerability to environmental hazards: Assessing extreme flooding in western Amazonia ( : 2022)
- What drives clearing of old-growth forest over secondary forests in tropical shifting cultivation systems? Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon ( : 2021)
- Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia ( : 2021)
- What is a bad flood? Local perspectives of extreme floods in the Peruvian Amazon ( : 2020)