Ph.D. Candidate in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology I am a member of the Humans and Environmental Change Lab (led by Dr. Don Nelson) – a research group focused on understanding human-environment interactions in contexts of social and environmental change. I am particularly interested in the topics of forest extractivism, small-scale agriculture, traditional knowledge, and landscape change. My dissertation research aims to understand the locally devised strategies by smallholder farmers to maintain control over the land in an agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Amazon. I seek to explore the relationships between social access, rights, and their effects on forest conservation and rural development outcomes. I strive to integrate theories and methodological approaches (ethnographic, historical, geospatial, and ethnobotanical) to answer interdisciplinary research questions. I am interested in possibilities of influencing guiding policies and advancing theories that are attentive to the pressing current social-ecological challenges of land access inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change. While my geographic research focus is the Brazilian Amazon, I have been privileged to collaborate with partners in research projects in Colombia, India, the US, and the UK. Research Research Interests: Land Use and Landscape History Traditional Ecological Knowledge Livelihoods and Household Economy Humans and Environmental Change Lab Selected Publications Selected Publications: Ubiali, B.; Alexiades, M. (2022). Forests, Fields, and Pastures: Unequal Access to Brazil Nuts and Livelihood Strategies in an Extractive Reserve, Brazilian Amazon. Land 11(7): 1-21. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/land11070967. Seigerman, C.; McKay, S; Basilio, R.; Biesel, S.; Hallemeier, J.; Mansur, A.; Piercy, C.; Rowan, S.; Ubiali, B.; Yeates, E.; Nelson, D. (2022). Operationalizing Equity for Integrated Water Resources Management. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 00: 1-18 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13086. Education Education: B.S., Forestry, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil MSc., Conservation and Rural Development, University of Kent, UK
