Santiago Parra

Who am I?

I’m an Ecologist with a longstanding motivation to comprehend the relationship between local communities and nature (e.g. their bio-physical environment). I’m interested in community ecology, biocultural conservation, ethnoecology, and community-based management of natural resources. My research involves interdisciplinary approaches by employing methods coming from social and natural sciences.

I became interested in social-ecological interactions when I was a student of Environmental Biology at the University of Chile. My undergraduate dissertation was about the effect of drastic landscape changes on the edible plant knowledge of rural dwellers in the south of Chile. Then, I came to France to continue my learning and further my ecological knowledge at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, where I did my master’s degree in Conservation Ecology. Currently, I’m doing my PhD at Aix-Marseille Université on links between ecosystem functioning, pastoralism and local governance of highland pastoral commons in North-Eastern Andalusia (Spain).

Contact: santiago.pbulacio@gmail.com