Juan Manuel Crespo

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Juan Manuel Crespo is a doctoral candidate in development studies at the HEGOA Institute at the University of the Basque Country. He is dedicated to eco-social research and action, particularly on issues of "sumak kawsay" (a holistic concept of "good life" in local Indigenous cosmologies), political ecology, alternatives to development, and knowledge management from decolonial perspectives. 

In the Amazon he has extensive experience working in the territory for the monitoring of the Directorate for the Protection of Peoples in Voluntary Isolation in the Yasuní National Park. Currently, he is a consultant for the Amazon Sacred Watersheds Initiative and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kara Solar Foundation, dedicated to research and development of solar technology for Amazonian territories in Ecuador. He is a member of the Latin American Policy Innovation Network.

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