Gonzales Tovar, Jazmin
Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department:
Forest Ecosystems & Society
Office Location:
350 Richardson Hall
Phone Number:
Education
Ph.D. (Forest Resources and Conservation): University of Florida (U.S.)
M.Sc (Environmental Policy): Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
B.Sc (Environmental Sciences): Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Peru)
Research Areas
Social Science, Policy and Natural Resources
Research Interests
- Forest and land use governance
- Politics and equity and power relations
- Environmental justice and political ecology
- Indigenous autonomy
- Community forest management
- Forests rights and livelihoods
- Decolonizing research methodologies
External (non-CoF) Graduate Students
Paulo Francesco Díaz Sevillano
Paula Rosario López Vargas (committee member)
Elsa Adith Izaguirre Vilcarromero (committee member)
Juleisi Fernández Núñez (committee member)
Selected Publications:
- Sabo, A.; Perz, S; Schmink, M; Buschbacher, R; Chavez Michaelsen, A.; Jordão C.O.; Romero, C.; Almeyda Zambrano, A.M.; Arteaga, M.; Rosero-Peña, M.; Peralta, P.; Gonzales Tovar, J.; Ferreira da Fonseca, S.; Veluk Gutierriez, F.; Sanjinez Lara, L.C.; Luna-Celino, V.; Montero Alvarez, P.; Santiago, J.; Loiselle, B. 2022. Overcoming Power Asymmetries in Infrastructure Governance in the Amazon: strategies for engaging actors. World Development.
- Gonzales Tovar, J., Larson, A.M. & Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Barnes, G. 2021. Politics and power in territorial planning: insights from two 'Ecological-Economic Zoning' multi-stakeholder processes in the Brazilian Amazon. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods. International Forestry Review 23(S1).
- Gonzales Tovar, J., Sarmiento Barletti, J.P., Larson, A.M., Barnes, G., Tucker, C.M. 2021. Can multistakeholder forums empower indigenous and local communities and promote forest conservation? A comparative analysis of territorial planning in two Brazilian states with contrasting contexts. Conservation Science and Practice. 2021;3:e326.
- Larson, A.M., Libert Amico, A., Martius, C., Ravikumar, A., Tovar, J.G., Kowler, L.F., Myers, R., Rodriguez-Ward, D., Sanders, A., Trench, T., Yang, A.L., & Deschamps, P.R. 2018. Can multilevel governance transform business-as-usual trajectories driving deforestation? Lessons for REDD+ and beyond. CIFOR infobrief.
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