Denise Humphreys Bebbington
Research Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
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Denise Humphreys Bebbington is Research Associate Professor in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA. She is Faculty Convener of A new Earth conversation at Clark, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Natural Resource Extraction and Society at Clark University (Extractives@Clark) and is an affiliate faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her research has explored the political ecology of natural gas in Bolivia and the implications of the gas economy for both indigenous peoples and regional societies, the dynamics of socio environmental conflict and mobilization linked to natural resource extraction and large-scale infrastructure investments, and the relationship between gender, environment and development, specifically how women gain access to and control over natural resources. Prior to her academic research she served as Representative to Peru for the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), South American Regional Sub-Director for Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and Latin America Program Coordinator for the Global Greengrants Fund (GGF). She is co-author of Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas (OUP, 2018) and Evaluación y Alcance de la Industria Extractiva y la Infraestructura en Relación con la Deforestación: Amazonía (Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, 2019). Publications from her research have appeared in the Environmental Science and Policy, World Development, Iconos, Development and Change, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Ecuador Debate, Umbrales, and the Journal of Latin American Geography among others.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, 2010
- M.S. in Development Management, American University, 1986
- B.A. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 1981
Affiliated Department(s)
- Sustainability and Social Justice
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Emerging Hot Spot Analysis to indicate forest conservation priorities and efficacy on regional to continental scales: A review of forest change in Selva Maya 2000-2020
Published in Environmental Research Communications
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2022
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Tracking Trends of Deforestation Dynamics in Belize: The Role of Protected Areas, Agriculture, and Infrastructural Expansion in South Eastern Selva Maya
Published in Remote Sensing Letters
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2022
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Women in Solidarity with the Earth: A Multi-Disciplinary Theological Engagement with Gender, Mining and Toxic Contamination
Chapter: Toxic EnvironmentsPublished by Bloomsbury Books
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2022
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Amazon Assessment Report 2021
Chapter: Chapter 15Published by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network
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2021
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Amazon Assessment Report 2021
Chapter: Chapter 14Published by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network
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2021
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‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows
Published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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2021
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Published in World Development
January
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2021
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Vol. 140
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Re-Imagining the Gran Chaco
Chapter: Tense Territories: negotiating natural gas in Weenhayek societyPublished by University of Florida Press
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2021
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2020
Climate Focus
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Priorities for governing large-scale infrastructure in the tropics
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
December
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2020
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Vol. 117
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Issue #36
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采掘业治理—政治、历史、思想 Chinese language edition of 2018 of co-authored book Governing Extractive Industries
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2020
University of International Business and Economics Press
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Opinion: Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change and the Right to Live Well
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2019
Euronews
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La Minería en el Perú al 2030: Retos y Oportunidades
Chapter: Mujeres, Género y Minería en el PerúPublished by Universidad del Pacifico
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Awards & Grants
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Predictive modeling of the relationships among infrastructure, environmental governance and resource extraction in Latin American forests
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding from the National Sciene Foundation DBI - 1639145
Feb. 3, 2020 - Jan. 31, 2022
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Background research in support of NYDF Assessment Report 2020, Goals 3&4
Climate Focus
May. 29, 2020 - Aug. 3, 2020
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