Category: LULI

Garrett Publishes on the Positive Impact of Amazon Protections for Brazilian Farmers

Rachael Garrett, Associate Director of the GDP Center’s Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, published an Op-Ed in the Conversation this week, entitled, “Strict Amazon protections made Brazilian farmers more productive, new research shows.”  This Op-Ed, complements her latest journal article published […]

Klinger Interviewed by CNBC on China’s Supply of Neodymium

Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative at the GDP Center, was interviewed for a recent article on China’s supply of neodymium — a rare metal used in technology such as headphones, cellphones and cars. Klinger was quoted in an October […]

LULI Hosts La Batea Book Discussion at the GDP Center

The Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative hosted a book discussion at the Global Development Policy Center on Thursday, October 18 with the authors of La Batea. La Batea is the fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry. Their book documents the struggles of gold mining communities […]

LULI Associate Director receives NSF grant for research on the politics of urban and suburban wildlife management

Anne Short Gianotti, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the GDP Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, has been awarded $375,000 for the project “Deer in the Suburbs: A Comparative Study of the Mobilization and Mutation of Wildlife Management Strategies.” Along with collaborator John […]

Klinger Edits Issue of Journal of Latin American Geography

Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Geography entitled “New Geographies of China-Latin America Relations.“ The collection includes eleven articles that presents the latest findings from ethnographic and transnational research, with contributions from throughout the Americas. Klinger […]

Klinger and Students Conduct Fieldwork in Brazilian Amazon

Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, conducted fieldwork in Yanomami Territory in the Brazilian Amazon with Pardee School MA candidate Avery Hall and BU Earth and Environment student Natalia Tanko. Student participation was made possible by generous donors, according to Klinger, who plans to provide […]