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

Problemas importantes en la Agricultura Latinoamericana actual

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

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

Climate Change, Extractivism, Environmental Governance and Vulnerable Groups in Latin America (Part V)

Session Chair/ Organizer: Elena H. Álvarez, Ciencia AndinaUniversidad del Pacifico 

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 

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