EUC Global Connection – Colombia
The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change brings together geographers, physical scientists, social scientists, humanities researchers and artists whose innovative research seeks to advance sustainability and social justice. Using field-based science, policy analysis, critical social theory, planning skills, geomatics, and cultural and arts-based approaches, our researchers drive action to address the world’s environmental and urban challenges.
EUC researchers are engaged in collaborative relationships, projects and partnerships with colleagues and institutions around the world. Here are the works we have been doing in Colombia.
EUC Main Researchers in Colombia
EUC Main Partner Institutions in Colombia
EUC Research in Colombia
Questions of urban planning, housing, cultural diversity, migration and environmental justice have motivated EUC research in Colombia in recent years.
Professors Luisa Sotomayor and Lina Brand Correa are currently collaborating with colleagues from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá on a SSHRC-funded project titled “Vertical Peripheries: Planning and citizenship in Colombia’s commodified periurban housing towers”. In the last decade, Colombia’s private construction of government-sponsored low-cost social housing has mass-produced apartment towers at the urban fringes of Colombian cities, transforming the country’s periurban landscapes. The Vertical Peripheries project brings perspectives from critical urban studies and ecological economics planning to examine the consequences and experiences of this form of urban development. The team partners with Professors Adriana Hurtado-Tarazona and Friederike Fleischer from the Universidad de Los Andes, as well as researchers at the National University of Colombia (Medellín campus) and Universidad del Atlántico in Barranquilla.
There are currently two international students from Colombia in EUC’s graduate programs. Federico Arevalo is pursuing his MA in Geography and Clara Gomez is a 2nd year PhD student in the Environmental Studies program. Both students attended Universidad de Los Andes and are also working on the Vertical Peripheries project with Professors Brand-Correa and Sotomayor. Clara is providing key support in project coordination, research and fieldtrips to Colombia, while Federico assists with mapping and GIS work in the project.
Professor Brand-Correa graduated from the National University of Colombia (Medellín campus) and maintains connections with her professors there. She has given guest lectures for economics students on topics related to ecological economics across multiple campuses, including those located in Bogota and Medellin. Professor Brand-Correa is also a member of the board of the International Society for Ecological Economics which maintains connections to various regional societies, including the Andean Society for Ecological Economics (where Colombian academic are active participants).
