Liberal Arts and Sciences
Simmons Lab
Led by Cynthia S. Simmons · Geography
What we study
The Simmons Lab studies how social and environmental issues interact across scales, using field surveys and interviews. Their work focuses on place-based solutions for sustainability and conflict.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Surveys & interviews
- Reading, writing & theory
- Projects
- 5
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
DISES: Resilient Socio-Environmental Systems: Indigenous Territories in the Face of Change
A project studying Indigenous territories and their resilience to environmental and social changes.
International Trade Agreements, Globalization, Land Change, and Agricultural Food Networks
Research on how trade agreements affect land use and food systems.
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Tenure and Global Climate Change
Examining how climate change impacts land tenure and rural communities.
Collaborative Research: Contentious Land Change in the Eastern Amazon
Studies conflicts over land use and land change in the eastern Amazon, combining field surveys and interviews to understand how social and environmental forces interact.
Globalization: Socio-economic, Political, and Environmental Interdependence
Analyzing how globalization affects social and environmental systems.
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Recent papers, explained
- Gross Agricultural Emissions and Unequal Mitigation Pathways in the Brazilian Legal Amazon: Implications for Climate Justice and the Sustainable Development Goals
2026 · Sustainable Development
Studies agricultural emissions and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to assess climate justice.
- Stimulating reciprocity: How human–plant relations support Indigenous cultural revitalization and stewardship in the Ecuadorian Amazon
2025 · People and Nature
Shows how Indigenous groups in Ecuador use yoco to promote community well-being and cultural practices.
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- Biocultural Geographies: Stewardship, Indigenous Territories, and Conservation in Ecuador’s Amazon
2025 · Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Explores Indigenous stewardship and conservation in Ecuador’s Amazon through biocultural geographies.
- Forest Transition and Fuzzy Environments in Neoliberal Mexico
2023 · Land
Studies forest regrowth in Mexico, showing how land abandonment can restore ecosystems.
- Habitat Mapping and Spatiotemporal Overlap of the Amazon River Dolphin, Fishers, and Tourism in the Central Region of the Brazilian Amazon
2023 · Conservation
Examines human-dolphin interactions in the Brazilian Amazon, linking tourism and fishing to dolphin habitat overlap.
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How to reach out
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