Environment

ENVIRONMENTAL SECTION PROGRAME

TUESDAY MAY 26

327 // ENV - LASA Section Roundtable - Tuesday, 07:00pm - 08:30pm, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche - Loft A

ENVIRONMENT SECTION ROUNDTABLE: Problemas Ambientales Emergentes en America Latina

Sponsor: Environment Session

Session organizer:  Elena H. Álvarez, Ciencia AndinaUniversidad del Pacifico 

Chair: Linda E. Etchart, Kingston University London 

Presenters:

Christine Hunefeldt, University of California, San Diego
Susanna B. Hecht, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, University of Helsinki
Julio C. Postigo, Indiana University
Maria Alessandra P. Woolson, University of Vermont
Hilda Alburqueque, Individual
Daniel Duhart Smithson, Núcleo de Investigación y Docencia en Ambiente y Sociedad (NIDAS), Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano
Lourdes Valdiviezo Chiroque
Vladimir R. Gil Ramón, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)
Lilian Nathals Solis, Individual
Ivan Ojeda-Pereira, Instituto de Sociología UC - CIGIDEN - LUT University
Aprajita Kashyap, Jawaharlal Nehru University

____

WEDNESDAY MAY 27

Session Type: LASA Intersection Panel - 5/27/2026 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche - Loft G

ENVIRONMENT INTERSECTIONAL PANEL: Problemas importantes en la Agricultura Latinoamericana actual
 
Sponsor: Environment & Food, Agriculture, and Rural Studies 

Organizers: Elena H. Álvarez, Ciencia Andina-Universidad del Pacifico

Chair: Hilda Alburqueque, Individual

Discussant: Cristóbal Kay, International Institute of Social Studies

Presenters:

How Traditional Agricultural Systems Organize Environmental Restoration: A Brazilian Case Study: Thais Tartalha Lombardi, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)

Understanding Illicit Agriculture in Peru: Elena H. Álvarez, Ciencia Andina-Universidad del Pacifico; Jackeline R. Velazco, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Water and the Coffee Frontier: Rethinking Agrarian Expansion in Colombia, 1970–1997: Andrés F. Palacio, University Externado de Colombia; Kimberly Montañez, Lund University; Montserrat López Jerez, University of St Andrews

Degrowth in global spaces: Extractivism and practices of socio-ecological transformation in the geography of Chile’s global fruit trade: Karl Kraehmer, Università di Torino

____

Session Type: LASA Section Panel - 5/27/2026 01:45 PM - 03:15 PM, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche - Loft D

ENVIRONMENT SECTION PANEL: Climate Change, Extractivism, Environmental Governance and Vulnerable Groups in Latin America (Part V)
 
Sponsor: Environment Session

Organizers and Chair: Elena H. Álvarez, Ciencia Andina-Universidad del Pacifico

Discussant: Julio C. Postigo, Indiana University

Presenters:

América Latina y el Caribe ante el calentamiento global: Carlos Monge, DESCO

Stove-piping Climate Policy in Latin America: Disaster Relief as an Obstacle to Proactive Adaptation Planning in UN Nationally Determined Contributions: Todd A. Eisenstadt, American University

Green Hydrogen in South America -The Cases of Chile and Uruguay a case of green extractivism?: Grace Livingstone, University of Cambridge

Making tropical Angus: climate change, gene editing, and the narrowing of multi-species futures in Brazil: Jean Segata, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Vulnerabilidad y adaptación climática, de la teoría a las políticas públicas en el Brasil: Estela María S. Neves, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

____

THURSDAY MAY 28

1014 // MTG – Env. Section Meeting – Thursday, 07:00pm - 08:30pm, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche - Loft D

ENVIRONMENT SECTION BUSINESS MEETING
 
Contact Persons:

Elena H. Álvarez, Ciencia Andina-Universidad del Pacifico;
César L. Gamboa, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales / Universidad de Salamanca 

____

FRIDAY MAY 29

1124 // SEC - LASA Section Panel - Friday, 10:15am - 11:45am, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche - Loft D

ENVIRONMENT SECTION PANEL: Indigenous Struggles and Resistance: Strategies for Protecting Territories, Livelihoods, and the Environment in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and the Guiana Shield (Part VI) 
 
Sponsor: Environment Session

Organizers: Elena H. Álvarez, Ciencia Andina-Universidad del Pacifico; Linda E. Etchart, Kingston University London

Chair: Christine Hunefeldt, University of California, San Diego

Discussant: César L. Gamboa, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales / Universidad de Salamanca 

Presenters:

Rapa Nui, Chile, and Catamarca, Argentina: when engaging legal tools to support activism lead to a community’s self-determination: Maria Alessandra P. Woolson, University of Vermont

Los efectos de las sanciones en el manejo de los bosques comunitarios, en la Amazonia peruana: Amalia Cuba Salerno, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Indigenous forms of resistance and struggles to defend their community territories, environment, and “ways-ofbeing” in Colombia’s Caldas coffee zone: Consuelo Guayara Sánchez, University of Iowa .

Indigenous communities in the Amazon and Guiana Shield: choices for survival in a criminal age: Linda E. Etchart, Kingston University London

La justicia ambiental como revolución silenciosa en territorios indígenas de América Latina: Melissa Mercedes Idrovo Hurel, Universidad Estatal de Milagro (UNEMI), Docente de Medio Ambiente y Calidad de Vida