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Title: Dr. Job Title: Cesagen Research Fellow Tel: 44 (0)1524 510837 Fax: 44 (0)1524 510856 Email: o.forero@lancaster.ac.uk Building: FASS Building, Lancaster University Room Number: D9
Oscar A. Forero has a BA in International Business (UJTL, Colombia), a BS in Anthropology (National University, Colombia), an MSc in Ecosystems Analysis and Governance (Warwick, England) and a PhD ‘A political ecology of Northwest Amazonia’ from Imperial College-London. He has worked with governmental and NGOs in Latin-American (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Chile) advising policy development in the areas of natural resources management and, in implementation of peasant and indigenous peoples’ rights. He has also developed collaborative projects and lectured in Asia (IWMI, Sri Lanka; City University, Hong Kong) and has worked for several academic institutions in the UK (Imperial College, King’s College-London, University of Sheffield).
Oscar is a senior researcher of the ESRC’s Centre for economic and social aspects of Genomics -Cesagen, at Lancaster University. He is also currently working as Consultant for the centre for Development Policy and Research at SOAS, University of London. His latest investigations relate to techno-scientific developments aiming at addressing global food insecurities. His research brings together two sub-themes and issues of concern (a)How do new digital technologies and GIS transform the research and development practices, particularly in relation to management of natural resources; (b) beyond economic policy (deterrents and incentives) how can modes of consumption be intervened thus the food systems become compatible with the sustainability agenda, particularly achieving biodiversity conservation targets and the curtail of green house gasses to the limits required to stabilise the global climate.
Political Ecology: The interfaces between Environmental Management, Human Ecology and Environmental Policy making.
I have researched into the history of ethnosciences as the basis for developing actor-oriented, interpretative approaches. By attempting to construct the history of livelihood strategies (in Northwest Amazonia, Yucatan Peninsula, Ukrainian imigrants in Bradford-UK and to a less extent of the Mapuche-Pehuenche of Chile) I have been forced to compare the development of `communities' during different periods of time. Diachronical analysis looked at developmental conditions through time periods defined by the structural (political - economical) and environmental changes. Long-term comparability has been enabled through the combination methods from ethnohistory (including the analysis of archives, audiovisual material, plastic arts and literature), ethnography (including participatory actions research during fieldwork and ICT monitoring throughout the projects´ life), and comparative political and ecological analysis.
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