Who are we
Kaiko Ambiental is a cooperative project of advice and support that was born with the purpose of addressing socio-environmental conflicts in an interdisciplinary way. We work on comprehensive proposals taking into account the different actors and interests involved, through a contextualized and interdisciplinary analysis that combines anthropology, economics and environmental law.
We promote locally sustainable actions. Our team aims to establish a constructive dialogue between the different local social actors, public administrations, environmental organizations and specialized professionals to deal more effectively, fairly and democratically with the main current socio-environmental problems.
Our project is inspired by the values and practices of cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy. Our proposal was created with the aim of transforming the world around us from an interdisciplinary perspective, paying attention to local contexts and their social, economic, cultural and ecological particularities.
Our team
Pilar Rodríguez Suarez
Environmental lawyer
Lawyer in practice since 2006 in criminal law and human rights, trained and specialized in areas such as international protection, penitentiary, foreigners and gender.
Since 2006, trained in Anthropology and specialized in the legal field in the Master of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Barcelona (2017), with which she continues to collaborate within the Legal Anthropology Research Group of the UB.
Since 2017, trainer and legal advisor of the Area for the Equality of Treatment and Non-Discrimination of LGBTI Persons of the Generalitat de Catalunya, against hate crimes and discrimination, and in the drafting and drafting of the Law Trans of Catalonia.
And since 2020, specialized in Environmental Law at the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona with a Master’s Degree in Environmental Law (2022).
Currently, he is part of the legal team of Ecologistes en Acció Catalunya leading the legal action in criminal cases for corporate responsibility in environmental crimes.
Lluís Ferrer and Pleguezuelos
Environmental anthropologist
He holds a BA in Economics (2010) and a BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2013) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a Master’s in Anthropology and Ethnography at the University of Barcelona (2016). He is currently a PhD student in Anthropology at McGill University (Canada). He has developed his field work in rural areas, mainly in mountain areas (Catalan and French Pyrenees).
His doctoral research deals with environmental conservation policies, in particular the reintroduction of the brown bear, and the transformation of pastoral practices, the forms of livelihood of the livestock sector and the management of mountain pastures in the Pyrenees of l ‘Arieja (France). His Final Master’s Thesis investigated the transformations of the livestock sector, land ownership systems and communal management of resources in the mountains of the Vall de Boí (Alta Ribagorça) throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Currently, it is part of the research projects “Rural Resistances: socio-ecological crisis, developmental paths and alternative futures in the Pyrenees (RERURP)” led by the University of Barcelona and the University of Girona, and “Antropología de la conservación. Una aproximación comparativa a las genealogías y el Desarrollo de los parques naturales en España (GOBERPARK)”, coordinated by the University of Barcelona, the Pablo de Olavide University and the University of Valencia. He is the author of several articles in scientific journals and has participated in several international conferences on Environmental Anthropology.