Monica Amador & Naomi Millner The 23th and 24th of march 2022 saw the international seminar Making Worlds: Nature, Technologies, and Futures, take place in Bogota-Colombia. This seminar, organised by Naomi Millner and Monica Amador, in collaboration with the Universidad EAN, the Universidad Nacional, The Universidad del Rosario and the BioResilience project (funded by NERC-AHRC), brought […]
Monica Amador-Jimenez & Naomi Millner The positive impact of BioResilience on the forest communities of the High Andes of Colombia in Monquentiva and in the Tropical Andean Forest in Quinchas between 2019-2022. IMPACT IN MONQUENTIVA Socialization of results of the socio-cultural component. July 2021. Picture with the Communal Leaders of the Village of Monquentiva. […]
By: Julieth Serrano and Monica Amador At the top of the mountains gathered more than 60 attendees including undergraduate and postgraduate students, senior researchers, and representatives from NERC and ColombiaBio. During this public engagement event we used short films, storytelling and interactive games to highlight the importance of high altitude ecosystems in the Andes […]
Mónica Amador-Jiménez & Julieth Serrano BioResilience scientists are committed to contributing to the conservation of Colombian Andean ecosystems through inclusive environmental governance and rigorous interdisciplinary science. Mónica Amador-Jiménez and Julieth Serrano represented the BioResilience project during a session at Comision V of the Colombian Senate -the most important commission at the Colombian Senate discussing […]
Mónica Amador Research Associate, University of Bristol In this blog, we are going to talk about how the inhabitants of the high Andean forests in the eastern mountain range of Colombia have experienced and faced the Covid-19 health crisis. Regarding this experience, we will reflect on the notion of commoning, a discussion that has gained […]
Camilo Altamar Giraldo, Master Student Universidad de Manizales and Mónica Amador, University of Bristol (Translation and comments: Juan Riaño and Naomi Millner) Environmental governance is a central element of socio-ecological resilience, so its study is essential to understand the dynamics that are used in the territories, especially in those ecosystems where the biophysical component is […]
by Mónica Amador-Jiménez On October 10th 2019 the BioResilience Project organized a roundtable on Women, Politics and Environment in the municipality of Puerto Boyacá. For the first time during the campaign period ahead of the departmental and local elections, the candidates standing for Mayor, the Municipal Council and the Departmental Assembly, as well as the leaders of […]