Clare Beer

Clare Beer

Clare Beer is Assistant Professor of Urban & Environmental Studies at LMU. Her research and teaching draw from the fields of economic geography and political ecology, and broadly concern the governance and justice dimensions of environmental sustainability.

Her previous and ongoing research has examined the growing influence of transnational philanthropy on conservation and development policy in Chilean Patagonia. She is currently developing several new projects, including one that investigates the role of Chile’s public finance apparatus – specifically state subsidies for extractive industry – in the country’s accelerating biodiversity crisis. Another project investigates the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in greater Los Angeles, a novel example of green infrastructure addressing conflict and risk in the wildland-urban interface. Though not slated to open until 2026, it is already being framed as an important test case in (re)engineering socio-ecological resilience.