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INFRACURSIONS studies the infrastructures of incursion economies – a term we use to describe the hidden economic activities that invade remote frontiers and result in environmental degradation.


Our team aims to understand these hidden economies, investigate their drivers, and reveal their far-reaching environmental consequences.

Our goal is to provide a more nuanced picture of these economies from multiple perspectives, whether through remote sensing and modelling or through personal stories of those directly engaging in environmental damage.

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The Amazon rainforest faces unprecedented threats from deforestation. Illegal incursions — specifically illegal land grabbinglogging, and mining — play a major role in the Amazon’s destruction, fragmenting habitats and accelerating deforestation.

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The project will map both the human and environmental impacts of incursions and offer new tools to better grasp the often-overlooked phenomenon of small-scale extraction and its global consequences.

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The project has three specific components that comprise the core analytical framework of incursion infrastructures: 

Social
Technical
Legal

Three Project components

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Job Opportunities

The INFRACURSIONS project at the University of Bristol is hiring TWO Postdoctoral Research Associates to undertake research on resource extraction in South America…

New Podcast

New podcast from the Global Development Institute (GDI) at the University of Manchester on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Conservation…

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