Jeffrey Bury
Jeffrey Bury
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Mining, Livelihoods and Development in Peru |
Over the course of the past 15 years, Peru has become a leading producer of gold for the global economy. In the early 1990's the country was transformed by neoliberal economic and political restructuring. Since then, the country has become an important destination for most of the world's large transnational mining corporations. My research has been directed towards understanding how and the ways in which this new mining “boom” is transforming Andean livelihoods and environments. In the past 10 years I have engaged in a variety of research projects evaluating the linkages between mining operations and local change in the region. This includes extensive research focusing on the impacts of transnational gold mining operations in the Cajamarca region on livelihoods and local development. I am also serving as a visiting ESRC/SSRC Fellow at the University of Manchester to help develop new publications and research activities in conjunction with Professor Anthony Bebbington's ESRC Research Fellowship entitled Conflicts over the countryside: civil society and the political ecology of rural development in the Andes. Relevant Publications Bury, Jeffrey. 2007. Mining and migration in the Peruvian Andes. Professional Geographer 58(3) pp 378-389. 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. 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., 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.
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Ecotourism, Mining and Conservation in the Cordillera Huayhuash |
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The Andean mountains, as they are the longest mountain chain in the world, are often divided into corridors, or "cordilleras". In Central Peru, one of the more remote Cordillera's is the Huayhuash (pronounced why-wash). In the past ten years the Cordillera Huayhuash has become increasingly integrated into currents of change in Peru as tourists, mining companies and conservation organizations have increasingly begun to transform the region. My current research in the area is directed towards evaluating the impacts of new mining operations, ecotourism and conservation efforts on local communities. Relevant Publications Bury, Jeffrey. Forthcoming. Ecotourism and conservation in the Cordillera Huayhuash , Peru . Tourism Geographies. Bury, Jeffrey. 2006. New community-led conservation efforts in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. Mountain Research and Development 26 (2). PDF
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Glacier Recession in the Tropical Andes |
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Tropical mountains have been experiencing dramatic shifts in glacier and ice coverage for the past several decades. These shifts, largely due to global climate change, have led to the rapid recession of glaciers throughout the Peruvian Andes. Communities and households are very dependent upon glacial-fed water resources for consumption, livestock and sanitation. My research efforts over the course of past several years have been directed towards evaluating the impacts of glacier recession in the Cordillera Blanca (The Central Peruvian Andes) on household livelihoods and communities throughout the region. Human populations in the region are experiencing increasing vulnerability to these global climate-change induced shifts. In conjunction with colleagues from the Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State University and McGill University, we have been examining the rate and scale of glacier recession in the region, the effects of glacier recession on hydrological resources and the impacts of increasing hydrological variability on household vulnerability and livelihoods and adaptive management strategies. This project also is concerned with training students to engage in high elevation field research, global change studies and geographic information systems and remote sensing work. In 2008-2009 we are beginning the third stage of this project with funding support from the Geography and Regional Sciences collaborative grant (BCS-0752211). We are in the process of generating several publications related to the project and will be working intensively in several different watersheds during the summer of 2008 and 2009. Publications: UCSC Currents article outlining our research (May 26, 2008).
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