Profile
Lena Prouchet
PhD candidate
lp538@exeter.ac.uk
Environment and Sustainability Institute Desk 122, Room 1.15
Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK
Overview
Léna joined the Business School in March 2020 to work on her multidisciplinary project combining perspectives from entrepreneurship and development studies.
Her PhD focuses on multi-stakeholder partnerships for local development and forest preservation. More specifically, her research seeks to understand the process of creation and development of productive projects, as well as their economic and social impact on indigenous groups.
This project is a collaboration with Cool Earth, an NGO that works alongside local communities to tackle climate change through forest protection. Léna focuses on the partnership Cool Earth has established in Peru with the Awajun community around the growing and marketing of cacao.
Léna uses her research to engage with policy-makers and inform decision-making. With the support of Sense about Science, she published a policy brief on "Adopting a pioneering approach that supports indigenous communities and addresses the climate and biodiversity crises".
Qualifications
- M.Sc. "Food Policy" (City, University of London)
- Master's Degree "International Relations & Economics" (Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence)
- BA "Political Sciences" (Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, ITESO - Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara)
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Research
Research projects
Current research title: "Exploring contrasting visions and practices of entrepreneurship for development: the case of productive projects among Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon"
Publications
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