Professor Dr. Danilo Urzedo

Biography

Danilo Urzedo is a Human Geographer and Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, specializing in the intersection of political ecology and science and technology studies. His research examines the political geographies of environmental knowledge, technologies, and markets. Danilo completed his PhD in Human Geography at the University of Sydney and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Cambridge and CSIRO. Before entering academia, he worked as a community forester in the Brazilian Amazon, collaborating with Indigenous and local communities to implement ecosystem restoration initiatives. His current research interests focus on the politics of environmental expertise, data, and markets, scrutinizing power relations and justice within socio-economic impacts of environmental finance and Indigenous community values in carbon and biodiversity markets. Moreover, he engages in practice-based research utilizing collaborative methods and partnerships with Indigenous organizations and landholders. Currently, he is contributing to the ARC Training Centre for Healing Country, focusing on collaborative research related to Indigenous restoration economies and the amplification of place-based co-benefits through participatory methods.

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