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Environment and Development

Faculty and students at the University of Arizona are conducting curring-edge research on environment and development issues in Latin America. Graduate seminars centered on the following themes are regularly offered:

  • Environmentally-focused social movements
  • Political Ecology
  • Neoliberalism
  • Environment and Society

Faculty projects range from a major study of rural cooperatives in Colombia, Brazil, and Paraguay to an analysis of environmental social movements in Panama and Brazil, from interpreting the landscapes of garbage and marginalization in Mexico to studies focused on neoliberal reforms and small producers in Mexico, Honduras, and Costa Rica.