Tomás Ibarra

Agricultural engineer, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. MSc in Conservation and Wildlife Management, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. MSc in Environmental Anthropology, Centre for Biocultural Diversity, School of Anthropology, University of Kent, UK. Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada. Tomás has conducted research exploring the links between ecological and social-ecological systems in mountains, forests, agroforests and agricultural lands in Chile, Mexico and Canada. He is an assistant professor at the Centre for Local Development, Education and Interculturality (CEDEL), Campus Villarrica and at the School of Agriculture and Forest Sciences of the P. Universidad Católica.