B.Sc. in Biology (University of Barcelona) and PhD in Environmental Sciences (UAB), his research has focused, in a broad sense, on tropical rainforests conservation, cartography and participatory monitoring of extractive industry impacts, accountability of social and environmental liabilities of oil companies and oil frontier expansion. Martí has 5 years of experience working on environmental impacts of petroleum-related activities in the Peruvian Amazon, where he has led his own research projects. Because of the court case against Oxy in Peru (similar to the current court cases against Shell in Nigeria, and against Chevron Texaco in Ecuador), he has also become an expert on international environmental liability.
He has also worked on governance of environmental resources and services, ethno-ecology and biodiversity management involving indigenous people. He has studied the role of knowledge, practices and institutions of indigenous people in biodiversity conservation in the Bolivian Amazon (Amazon rainforest conservation and Indigenous territories: from conflict to collaboration). He has actively participated in a project in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia (Indonesia; The adaptive nature of culture). He is currently researching the effects of roads on indigenous people's well-being and use of natural resources in the TIPNIS National Parck in Bolivia (Construction ahead).
Selected publications:
Oil frontiers and indigenous resistance in the Peruvian Amazon