Jazmín Gonzales Tovar, Research collaborator

Jazmín’s work focuses on forests and environmental governance, environmental justice and equity, land use and resource rights, and politics and power relations. As a postdoc at University of Florida (UF), she led a study on infrastructure governance in four Amazonian countries (Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru). In her doctoral dissertation at UF, in partnership with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), she analyzed the equity and power dynamics in territorial planning multi-stakeholder forums in two Brazilian states. She previously worked at CIFOR on a team conducting research on multilevel governance related to land use and REDD+ in Peru, Indonesia, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Mexico. During her MSc. program at Wageningen University, she analyzed the informational governance of environmental conflicts related to oil and gas industries in Peru and Nigeria and carried out research on water policies in Uzbekistan. She has worked for a variety of institutions in her home country of Peru, participating in the analysis and development of policies and tools related to REDD+, climate change, protected areas, and other themes. She joined OSU in 2021 to work on growing teaching and research capacity in Peru.