Ana Paula López Minchán
FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN)
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Ana Paula López Minchán is part of the International Doctoral Programme on Business and Human Rights at FAU and joined the Chair of International Business, Society and Sustainability in November 2025. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Environment and an MSc in Water Resources Management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Her doctoral project, “Governing Mineral Supply Chains: Human Rights and the Role of Mining Companies in Latin America,” examines, through a historical perspective, how formal and informal arrangements interact to shape the governance of mineral supply chains in Peru. She is particularly interested in how due diligence mechanisms take shape on the ground and what they imply for the mining ecosystem, including both large-scale and artisanal and small-scale mining.
She ultimately aims to bring local community perspectives into policy debates on fostering dignified life in mining territories while reducing socio-environmental injustices.
Scientific journals
- Damonte, G., Godfrid, J., López, A., & Alata, E. (2024). The Surge for Local Innovative Institutions for Transformation: Community-Based Monitoring in the Andes. Global Sustainability, 7, e34. DOI: 10.1017/sus.2024.26
- Damonte, G., Ulloa, A., Quiroga Manrique, C., & López Minchán, A. P. (2022). La apuesta por la infraestructura: Inversión pública y la reproducción de la escasez hídrica en contextos de gran minería en Perú y Colombia. Estudios atacameños, 68, e4208. DOI: 10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2022-0002
- Godfrid, J., Damonte, G., & López, A. (2021). Innovaciones institucionales en contextos mineros: la experiencia de monitoreos comunitarios del agua en Argentina y Perú. Revista De Ciencia Política, 41(3), 539–562. DOI: 10.4067/s0718-090×2021005000121
- Damonte, G., Godfrid, J., & López, A. (2021). Mining and urbanization: Ways of generating water insecurity in Andean territories. The Extractive Industries and Society, 8(3). DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100954
- Ulloa, A.; J. Godfrid, G. Damonte, C. Quiroga & A. López. (2021). Monitoreos hídricos comunitarios: conocimientos locales como defensa territorial y ambiental en Argentina, Perú y Colombia. Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, (69), 77-97. DOI: 10.17141/iconos.69.2021.4489
Book & book chapters
- López, A., Damonte, G., & Godfrid, J. (2024). Impactos y desafíos del monitoreo comunitario ambiental en contextos de industria minera en el Perú y Chile. En M. Glave, S. Higueras, L. López Garnier, & M. Bravo (Eds.), Transiciones, movilización ciudadana y cambios institucionales: Lecciones desde territorios con minería a gran escala en Perú, Colombia y Chile (pp. 187–234). GRADE . https://grade.org.pe/wp-content/uploads/GRADELibroTransiciones.pdf
- Arredondo, C., López, A., Tello, D., & Lazo, R. (2024). Trabajo forzoso sexual y doméstico en mujeres indígenas experiencias en dos cadenas de explotación humana en Loreto. Capital Humano y Social Alternativo. http://isbn.bnp.gob.pe/catalogo.php?mode=detalle&nt=148992
- Damonte, G., Godfrid, J., & López, A. (2023). Mining, infrastructure, and mobility in the Andes. In Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South (pp. 42-62). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003313236