Jeffrey Bury


RESEARCH

Office Hours

Fall 2009

Tues, 2-3, Thurs, 2-3 and by appt.

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Contact

Room 428, Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Phone-831-459-3685
Fax-831-459-4015
Email-jbury <at> ucsc <dot>edu

 

 

My current research is centrally concerned with the transformation of natural and social environments in Latin America by the forces of globalization, neoliberalism and geopolitical change. My research has recently focused on extractive industries, development and social movements in Latin America. My research is also focused on the political economy of climate change and glacier recession in the Cordillera Blanca (Peru), conservation, ecotourism, and livelihood transformations in Peru, Chile and Costa Rica. My field research is linked closely to my interests in political ecology studies, environment and development in Latin America and field methods. For a more extensive review of my research interests, see my current research projects.

Selected Publications

Bebbington, Anthony and Jeffrey Bury. 2009. Institutional challenges for mining and sustainability in Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(41) pp. 17296-17301. Open Access

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Baraer, Michel, Jeffrey McKenzie, Bryan Mark, Jeffrey Bury and Sara Knox. Forthcoming. Characterizing contributions of glacier melt and ground water during the dry season in a poorly gauged catchment of the Cordillera Blanca (Peru). Advances in Geosciences.

Orlove, Ben, Jeffrey Bury and Charles Walker. Forthcoming.  Climate Change and Water in the Andes Symposium Report. Mountain Forum Bulletin.

Bury, Jeffrey.  Forthcoming.  Mining and Geography.  In, Warf, B. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Geography.  Sage Publications.

Bebbington, Anthony, Humphreys-Bebbington, D. and Jeffrey. Bury. (Forthcoming) Anatomies of struggle:  water, territory and extraction in the Andes,  in Rutgerd Boelens, Armando Guevara and David Getches (editors) Out of the Mainstream, London: Earthscan.

French, Adam and Jeffrey Bury.  2009. Livelihoods at Risk: Agricultural Viability and Converging Climatic and Economic Change in the Central Andes.  Mountain Forum Bulletin 9(1), pp. 7-9. PDF

Bebbington, A.,  Bury, Jeffrey, Humphreys-Bebbington, D., Lingan, J., Munoz, J.P. and Scurrah, M. 2008.  Mining and social movements: struggles over livelihood and rural territorial development in the Andes. World Development 36, (12): 2888–2905. PDF

Bury, Jeffrey, Adam French, Bryan Mark and Jeffrey McKenzie.  2008. Adapting to uncertain futures. A report on new glacier recession and livelihood vulnerability research in the Peruvian Andes.  Mountain Research and Development. 28 (3/4): 332-333. PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2008. Transnational Corporations and Livelihood transformations in the Peruvian Andes: An actor-oriented political ecology. Human Organization 67(3) pp. 307-321. PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2008. Ecotourism and conservation in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. Tourism Geographies 10(3): 312-333. PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2007. Mining and migration in the Peruvian Andes. Professional Geographer 58(3) pp 378-389. PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2006. New community-led conservation efforts in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. Mountain Research and Development 26 (2). PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2005. Mining mountains: neoliberalism, land tenure, livelihoods and the new Peruvian mining industry in Cajamarca. Environment and Planning A 2005, 37(2) pp. 221-239. PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2004. Livelihoods in transition: transnational gold mining operations and local change in Cajamarca, Peru. Geographic Journal, 170(1): pp. 78-91. PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2002. Peasant protests, livelihoods and mining in the Peruvian Andes. Journal of Latin American Geography 1(1): pp. 3-17, 2002. PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2001. Corporations and capitals: a framework for evaluating the impacts of transnational corporations in developing countries. Journal of Corporate Citizenship 1 (Spring), pp. 75-91, 2001. PDF

Publications in Spanish

Bury, Jeffrey. 2007. Neoliberalism, mining and rural change in Cajamarca. In A. Bebbington (ed.) Minería, movimientos sociales y respuestas campesinas. Una ecología política de transformaciones territoriales . Lima. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos: pp. 49-80. Spanish PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2007. Mining, migration and livelihood transformations in Cajamarca, Peru. In A. Bebbington (ed.) Minería, movimientos sociales y respuestas campesinas. Una ecología política de transformaciones territoriales . Lima. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos: 231-277. Spanish PDF

Bebbington, A., Bury, J., Bebbington, D.H., Lingan, J., Munoz, J.P. and Scurrah, M. 2007. Moviemenientos sociales, lazos transnacionales y desarollo territorial rural en zonas de influencia mineria: Cajamarca-Peru y Cotacachi-Ecuador. In A. Bebbington (ed.) Minería, movimientos sociales y respuestas campesinas. Una ecología política de transformaciones territoriales. Lima. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos: 163-230. Spanish PDF

Bebbington, A., Humphreys Bebbington, D., Bury, J., Lingan, J., Muñoz, J.P. and Scurrah, M. 2007. Los movimientos sociales frente a la minería:disputando el desarrollo territorial andino in J. Bengoa (ed.) Movimientos sociales y Desarrollo territorial ruralen América Latina . Santiago. Editorial Catalonia. Spanish PDF

Bury, Jeffrey. 2003. Frameworks and Methodologies for Evaluating Socially Responsible Business: A Case Study of Minera Yanacocha. In, F. Portocarrero and C. Sanborn, eds. De la Caridad a la Solidaridad: Filantropía y Voluntariado en el Perú. University of the Pacific: Center for Investigation, Lima, Peru, pp. 385-423. Spanish PDF

 

Teaching  

Current Courses 2009-2010

FALL 2009-ENVS 100L-Ecology and Society

WINTER-ENVS 143-Sustainable Development: Economy, Policy, and Environment-Environment and Development in Latin America

Recent Courses

Winter 2007- ENVS 280-Advanced Topics in Environmental Studies-Syllabus

Fall 2006 and Winter 2007- ENVS 291-Political Ecology Working Group

Internships

I supervise a variety of internships for undergraduate students to foster participatory learning, critical analysis and positive social change. I particularly encourage students to work as interns in Latin America and around the Santa Cruz area. Students who are interested in working with me as an advisor should review our intern program guidelines through the Department. For general questions related to our undergraduate program, how to find an advisor and how be an environmental studies major please see the undergraduate studies information page.

Graduate Lab

My graduate lab explores a variety of issues and is held every quarter. Working closely with graduate students is the goal of my labs and we explore contemporary research issues, debate current theoretical and methodological trends and coordinate successful progress through the Environmental Studies graduate program. Current and future graduate students interested in working in the graduate lab are engaged in research all over the planet and our common interests range beyond the scope of my individual research interests. If you are interested in pursing a graduate degree in our program please see my letter to prospective graduate students.

 

 
Service  

University Service

I work closely with the Department of Environmental Studies faculty in both my teaching and research efforts as well as in shared governance efforts. I am affiliated with the The Center for Tropical Ecology, Agriculture, and Development (CenTREAD ), the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies and the STEPS Insitute for Innovation in Environmental Research (Science, Technology, Engineering, Policy, and Society). I am also affiliated with College Eight as a faculty fellow.

Public Service

I work closely with students and members of the Santa Cruz community as both an intern advisor, scholar and member of the community. I am actively involved with local organizations and institutions in the Andes as well.. I have worked as a Fulbright Fellow to Peru and a visiting scholar at the University of the Pacific in Lima, Peru and the National University of Cajamarca. In addition, I work closely with civil society organizations (Grufides, Ecovida) in the Peruvian Andes concerned with the impacts of mining on local communities, particularly in the Cajamarca region of Peru. Finally, I also work closely with organizations (Centro Desarrollo Huayhuash) in the Central Andean mountains, the Cordillera Huayhaush and Blanca, concerned with conservation efforts, community empowerment and GIS and Remote Sensing applications to high mountain environments.

My research interests have also been highlighted in the media and press and I have served as a key interviewee or background source for a variety of pieces. Recent stories include National Geographic News and the Frontline/New York Time Gold Series , which was also covered by National Public Radio . Finally, a piece in the New York Times highlights my long-term interests in the American West and the Colorado Plateau. Link to .doc file.