Vanessa Lucena Empinotti

Vanessa L. Empinotti is Assistant Professor in Rural Policy and Planning in the Spatial Planning Program at Federal University of ABC - UFABC - in Brazil. An agronomist by training, she completed her Ph.D in Geography at Colorado University in Boulder. Her research employs Critical Political Ecology to analyze institutional arrangements, environmental governance, and power relations. She has been studying water insecurity in marginalized settings; hydrosocial territories and spatial planning, and the production of nature as result of the financialization and mercantilization processes. In the last years she published in national and international journals and books chapters and participated in research projects such as BIOdiversity and ecosystem protection driven by Environmental JUSTice (BIO-JUST) 2023 2026 (Biodiversa +/CNPq), Unsustainable Planetary Financialization: Economics specialization, capital markets and environmental degradation in the prodution of space in France and Brazil (FinPlanet) 2025 2028 (ANR/FAPESP) and the research network Household Water Insecurity experiences - HWIsE (National Science Foundation). She is also a member of the Grupo de Trabalho Ecología(s) Política(s) desde el Sur/Abya Yala - CLACSO. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)