Vladimir R. Gil Ramón
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Vladimir Gil Ramón holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University where he also obtained a Master’s degree in Economic and Ecological Anthropology; and has pursued coursework at the Master’s program in Environmental Sciences, as a Fulbright scholar. He holds a Litentiate in Anthropology and a B.A. in Social Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). He is currently a faculty in the Environmental Development Master’s Program and Department of Social Sciences at PUCP.
He has served as scientific coordinator of the Consortium for the Study of Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Peru (UNALM, PA and CGCAP) and has led the inter-institutional collaboration for the Climate Change Vulnerability Study in the Natural Protected Area of Nor Yauyos Cochas (UNALM and Columbia University). He has taught at the graduate school of the Universidad del Pacífico, and the Universidad Científica del Sur, and PUCP’s Academic Department of Graduate Program in Business (CENTRUM); and has been a researcher at the Research Center of the Universidad del Pacífico and GRADE; and a visiting researcher at the Central European University and the Freie Universität Berlin, as well as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Columbia Program in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. He has also been Associate Research Scientist at the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University, and researcher of the Fulbright Nexus program; as well as researcher of the TrAndes program of the Freie Universität Berlin – PUCP.
His fields of specialization are conflicts and socio-environmental problems, including the effects of extractive industries; sociology of development; anthropology of pollution and socio-environmental health; and studies on vulnerability, impact, and adaptation to climate change. Among his most recent publications are Fighting for Andean Resources: Extractive Industries, Cultural Politics, and Environmental Struggles in Peru (University of Arizona Press), Aterrizaje Minero: Cultura, conflictos, negociaciones y lecciones desde la minería en Perú (IEP), Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values and Governance (Cambridge University Press), and Human Ecology of the Andes (Oxford University Press). He has published in academic journals such as the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Climate and Development, Anthropological Quarterly, Visual Anthropology, and Climate & Development, and directed docummentary films on socioenvironmental issues.
