Fernando Schrupp Rivero is a PhD candidate who brings together architectural practice in cultural spaces, social impact, and climate change adaptation with economic expertise in public project evaluation. His PhD research explores Indigenous earthworks in the Bolivian Amazon, examining their connections to waterways, environmental disasters, and Vivir Bien practices. Through an Urban Political Ecology (UPE) theoretical framework, he is writing articles that address socio-environmental questions on participatory approaches to infrastructure development, embodied labor practices in earthworks, the environmental history of Amazonian waterways, and fluvial socio-geomorphological processes. As co-organizer of the UPE reading group, Fernando facilitates discussions of foundational texts in the field. Currently based in Berlin, he is also part of the editorial team of the new Journal of Territorial and Urban Studies with the Bolivian Urbanism Institute.