Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast-Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). Yvonne’s research interests are power asymmetries in access to natural resources. In her current research project she investigates climate change and governance in marine protected areas in the Dutch Caribbean and Indonesia. She is also involved in the DFG-funded project „Ecological and socio-economic functions of low land rainforest transformation systems in Sumatra, Indonesia“, where land and forests were the resources at focus, also in the context of governance and governability. Yvonne is also interested in feminist political ecologies.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Dutch Caribbean, Indonesia

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PhD candidate in the artec Sustainability Research Center in University of Bremen, Germany. Currently working within the Humboldt Tipping Project (WP7). She is interested in the political ecology of coastal activities (fisheries along the value chain) within extractive landscapes. She works on coastal-marine resource governance, and its consequences on gendered power dynamics happening in socioecological conflicts, with a focus on everyday resistance and socioenvironmental justice. Throughout the last years, her work has been based on small-scale fisheries communities in coastal Ecuador and Peru, and slowly been developing in the direction of her home-region, Galicia, Spain.

Country/Region of interest/research focus:coastal Peru, coastal Ecuador, Galicia (Spain)

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