Author Biography
Emmanuel K. Urey is a PhD student at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on rural livelihoods, and health, culture, sustainable development, environmental issues, the management of common property, land tenure and dispute resolutions, impacts of large-scale concessions on rural people as well as environmental and social justice issues. He is a co-winner of the 2014 Wisconsin Without Borders Global Scholarship Award. He recently published an article on mongabay.com on the environmental causes of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
