In this essay, the authors reflect on their experiences researching the impacts of port expansion in the Indian Ocean on mangroves and the communities surrounding them with the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Inês M. Raimundo
Inês M. Raimundo is an associate professor of human geography at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. She leads research on migration, food security, and environmental and climate refugees. Further, she researches mangrove depletion within the process of gentrification of cities. Raimundo, in partnership with two other former PhD students of Yale, led the Mangroves and Tangled Futures: Collaborative Study of Agrarian Change Energy Extraction and Coastal Ecologies in Mozambique and Western India, a project funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) under the coordination of the Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean.