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"The Icy Edge of Climate Change and Environmental Justice in the Peruvian Andes"

Andean Glaciers
March 7, 2014
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Byrd Polar Research Center Scott Hall 1090 Carmack Road Columbus, Ohio 43210

Dr. Jeffrey Bury is currently an Associate Professor, Curriculum Chair in the Department of Environmental Studies in the University of California-Santa Cruz.  His current research is centrally concerned with the transformation of natural and social environments in Latin America by the forces of globalization, neoliberalism and geopolitical change.

Dr. Bury conducts research in several areas, first, focused on extractive industries, development and social movements in Latin America. Additionally, he studies the political economy of climate change and glacier recession in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru), conservation, ecotourism, and livelihood transformations in Peru, Chile and Costa Rica. His field research is linked closely to my interests in political ecology studies, environment and development in Latin America and field methods.

His talk will focus on climate justice in the Peruvian Andes.  The rapidly receding glaciers of the Central Andes pose significant challenges for the future of hydrologic governance and emerging human vulnerabilities across the region. Contentious debates have recently emerged about the relative influence of accelerating climate change and the recent rescaling of Peruvian hydro-social relations on resource conflicts across the region. This lecture will explore new approaches to assess the complex natural and social dynamics of change in Peru’s Callejon de Huaylas will critically interrogate overly simplistic and deterministic narratives that suggest looming water shortages will inevitably provoke conflictual struggles over access to these diminishing resources, and will explore the ways in which Peru’s new hydraulic paradox might inform broader environmental justice debates.   

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This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Geography, the School of Environment and Natural Resources, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and the Byrd Polar Research Center.

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