OLIVIA DEL GIORGIO
Human Geographer and Land Use Scientist
ABOUT
PERFIL PERSONAL
I am a Human Geographer and Land Use scientist, with a background in Ecology.
My work examines the dynamics of land control, dispossession and displacement, and land-use change in regions experiencing the expansion of large-scale, commodity agriculture.
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Soy Geógrafa con formación y experiencia en Ecología. Mi disciplina de investigación dentro de la Geografía Humana es en Geografía del Ambiente y del uso sostenible de la tierra.
Mi trabajo examina la dinámica del control de la tierra, el despojo y el desplazamiento, y el cambio de uso de la tierra en regiones que experimentan la expansión de agricultura a gran escala.
CURRENT COLLABORATIONS
COLABORACIONES ACTUALES
LAND, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT LAB (LENDEV)
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
The land, environment and development group is led by Yann le Polain de Waroux, and housed at the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of Geography at McGill University. Our research examines the role of people’s livelihood and land use choices as a nexus between social and environmental, and global and local dynamics in rural areas of the Global South.
Some questions at the center of our inquiry are:
How do modern agricultural frontiers emerge and expand, and can a better understanding of the decision-making of farmers pushing these frontiers help us anticipate new ones?
What are the implications for land governance of growing flows of goods and capital between countries and regions?
What are the strategies developed by different groups of actors to cope with rapid change in frontier environments, and can we support them for greater sustainability?
GLOBAL LAND PROGRAMME (GLP)
SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL LAND SYSTEMS OF LATIN AMERICA (SELS) WORKING GROUP
The overall goal of the SELS working group is to generate a channel for discussion and collaboration on the understanding and defining of SELS for Latin America by contrasting and synthesizing experts’ territorial knowledge with available socio-ecological data. Our overarching aim is to contribute to the Land System Science community by generating a reference framework for analyzing patterns and processes in land science, management and planning under the umbrella of SELS in Latin America. Above all, we hope this Working Group can be a catalyst for generating new avenues and empowering the GLP community to work closely together, while expanding multidisciplinary work in the context of Socio-Ecological Land Systems.
https://glp.earth/how-we-work/working-groups/socio-ecological-land-systems-latin-america
INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA REGIONAL (IER)
UNT-CONICET- (UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN)
El IER tiene como principales objetivos:
Estudiar la ecología regional, de comunidades y de poblaciones en ambientes naturales, urbanos y agroecosistemas, con énfasis en el subtrópico Neotropical.
Divulgar al público general el conocimiento sobre la ecología y las interacciones entre naturaleza y sociedad.
Brindar asesoramiento para el manejo de ecosistemas y la solución de problemas ecológicos.
Propiciar interacciones con instituciones y personas de la región y el extranjero.
Promover el desarrollo sustentable y la conservación de la diversidad regional y los servicios ambientales de los ecosistemas naturales.
Grupo de trabajo: TRANSFORMACIÓN DE SISTEMAS SOCIOECOLÓGICOS EN FRONTERAS AGROPECUARIAS
Responsable: Prof. Ignacio Gasparri
CONSERVATION BIO-GEOGRAPHY LAB
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN
ReForCha - Continuous satellite-based indicators for mapping subtropical forest degradation and its environmental impacts
Using the Dry Chaco in Argentina as an example, the central objective of the ReForCha team is to develop advanced remote sensing methods and indicators to: (a) more reliably map forest degradation (e.g., via logging or forest grazing) and to separate it from forest conversion and natural disturbances (e.g., fire); (b) assess the biophysical effects of forest dynamics on soil degradation and salinization, and (c) evaluate whether the extent and severity of vegetation and soil degradation differ among actor groups and whether conservation policies are effective in mitigating degradation in dryland forests.
https://www.geographie.hu-berlin.de/en/professorships/biogeography
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CORDOBA, ARGENTINA
Ecosystem services, socio-ecological conflicts, and land-use change.
Collaboration with Daniel M. Cáceres, Senior Researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET), Associate Professor at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina), and member of Núcleo DiverSus, an interdisciplinary research network on diversity and sustainability at the Latin American scale.
NÚCLEO DIVERSUS
Resiliencia socio-ecológica ante el cambio ambiental global en territorios heterogéneos –construyendo una plataforma común para investigación y acción
Socio-ecological resilience in the face of global environmental change in heterogeneous landscapes – building a common platform for understanding and action
Project Lead: Prof. Sandra Díaz
MCGILL SUSTAINABILITY SYSTEMS INITIATIVE (MSSI)
LANDSCAPE SCHOLAR
The mission of the MSSI Landscapes team is to develop method and tools to assess landscape sustainability around the world that take issues of scale and teleconnections into account, and to do research that improves our ability to manage landscapes for a transition to a more sustainable local and global future.
The Landscapes Scholars (LS) cohort is creating a framework for identifying and analyzing the ecosystem services embodied in food commodity value chains and applying this framework to case studies in the USA, Central America and Tanzania.
https://www.mcgill.ca/mssi/research/research-themes/sustainable-landscapes-future
CONTACT
CONTACTO
Contact Olivia to discuss her published work, projects, and collaboration opportunities, or for any other inquiries.
Póngase en contacto con Olivia para discutir sobre sus publicaciones, proyectos y oportunidades de colaboración, o para cualquier otra consulta.
Burnside Hall, McGill University
805 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6