Miranda Chase

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Miranda Chase received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2022. She is an environmental governance scholar specializing in the Amazon region. Her research occurs at the intersection of political science, economics, sustainability, climate change, Latin American and environmental studies. For more than ten years, she has been working in the Brazilian Amazon with Indigenous and traditional communities. Chase investigates how social movements influence policymakers. In her research, she asks questions such as “who controls natural resources?”, “how does the control of natural resources explain today’s world?”, and “how the possibilities for a different world rely on how we manage natural resources?”