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BIOGRAPHY
Teresa Kramarz is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. She is the Co-Director of the Environmental Governance Lab, the Co-Chair of the United Nations Development Programme’s External Advisory Group for Energy Governance as well as the co-convener of the Accountability in Global Environmental Governance Task Force of the Earth System Governance network. Her work focuses on the governance of extractive industries in the context of green energy transition, environmental accountability, and partnerships led by international organizations. She has been working on environmental policy and governance for almost 30 years, first as an international civil servant at the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme and then as a scholar.
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Teresa Kramarz is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. She is the Co-Director of the Environmental Governance Lab, the Co-Chair of the United Nations Development Programme’s External Advisory Group for Energy Governance as well as the co-convener of the Accountability in Global Environmental Governance Task Force of the Earth System Governance network. Her work focuses on the governance of extractive industries in the context of green energy transition, environmental accountability, and partnerships led by international organizations. She has been working on environmental policy and governance for almost 30 years, first as an international civil servant at the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme and then as a scholar.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Teresa brings to the Extractivism.de project her extensive knowledge about chief environmental challenges today and the tools to address them, with a particular focus on the extractivist sector in Latin America, growing populism, governance and environmental action.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Johnson, C.A., Kramarz, T., McBurney, M., and Oscco, Y. M.. “Accumulation through Destabilization: Manufacturing Indigenous Consent for Industrial Mining in Latin America”, The Journal of Peasant Studies, (2023): 1–19. VIEW PUBLICATION
Agrawal, A., Banfield, J., Cho, S., Kramarz, T. and Zhao, E. “Community Vulnerability to Extractive Industry Disasters”. In: Brears, R.C. (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022). VIEW PUBLICATION
Kramarz, T. “Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects”, Environmental Politics, 31, 1, (2022): 89–109. VIEW PUBLICATION
Kramarz, T., Kingsbury, D. T. Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador: The People’s Oil?, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021). VIEW PUBLICATION
Kramarz, T. and Kingsbury, D. V. “Climate Action and Populism of the Left in Ecuador”, Environmental Politics, 31, 5, (2022): 841–60. VIEW PUBLICATION