Leah Temper is a researcher in Environmental History and Ecological Economics at the UAB and a freelance environmental journalist and video artist. Her area of study is Ecological Conflicts and Social Metabolism and she has done fieldwork in Israel, Kenya, Ecuador and India, studying conflicts related to land use, mining and energy. She has a bachelor´s degree in Communications Science and Journalism from Concordia University, Montreal. She teaches Economic History at the UAB and is one of the coordinators of the EU-funded CEECEC project, which focuses on Ecological Economics by and for Civil Society Organizations.
