Adriana Ballon
PhD student
Tennenbacherstr. 4
79085 Freiburg im Breisgau
Room 04021
Fon. 0761/203-8607
Fax 0761/203-3781
E-Mail adriana.ballon@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de; adriana_ballon@hotmail.com
Adriana Ballón is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Silviculture at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany). She holds a MA in Environment and Sustainable Development from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) and a BA in Law from the Catholic University San Pablo (Bolivia).
Her main research interest lie in the fields of Environmental Politics and Policy; Environmental Discourse Analysis; Politics, and Social and Environmental Conflicts of Extractive Activities in Andean Region; Sustainable Development and Vivir Bien (Good Living); Forest and Agricultural Policy.
Her PhD Project called “Putting environmental discourses into policies: The case study of Bolivia” (2013-ongoing), is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Benno Pokorny, Chair of Silviculture Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany), and Dr. Lorenzo Pellegrini, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands).
Previous to her PhD project, Adriana worked as a research assistant for a Project of the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) about the nationalization of extractive industries, particularly related to conflict and co-operation in Bolivia and Ecuador. She also worked as a research assistant at the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program (Bolivia).