The Political Geographies of Water Distribution in Ecuador

Emily Conrad is a human-environment geographer, human rights and environmental defender, and co-director of the Ecuadorian nonprofit organization, Proyecto Dulcepamba (the Dulcepamba Project in English). Emily is from Washington D.C. but comes to us from Bolívar Province Ecuador where she has lived for the past 8 years.  

Her graduate research at the University of Arizona’s Department of Geography, Development & Environment focuses on human environmental rights, nature’s rights, and the political ecologies of environmental governance and management with a regional focus in Latin America. Her current research looks at how the Ecuadorian water rights system in practice affects indigenous and campesino farmers in the face of natural resource extraction development pressures.

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