UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Research Fellow

DAAD Doctoral Scholarship Holder. Research Title: “Foreignization of Agricultural Land in Cotacachi, Ecuador”.

Research interest

International Retirement Migration, Land Markets, Rural development, Agriculture, GIS.

Publications

Crespo, M., Follmann, A., Butsch, C., & Dannenberg, P. (2022). International Retirement Migration: mapping the spatio-temporal growth of foreign-owned properties in Cotacachi, Ecuador. Journal of Maps, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2039310

Magazines

Crespo, M., 2019. Extranjerización de la tierra en el Ecuador, in Matices Zeitschrift zu Lateinamerika, Spanien und Portugal, Heft 99.

Poster Presentations

Crespo, M., 2021. International Retirement Migration: Property Prices and Impacts on Indigenous Communities in Cotacachi, Ecuador. GSGS Conference, Geoscience Graduate School University of Cologne, Digital Conference, 05.03. 2021.

Crespo, M., 2020. Foreignization of agricultural land in Cotacachi Ecuador. II National Congress of Geography of Ecuador. Cuenca. Digital conference, 12.11.2020.

Crespo, M., 2020. International Retirement Migration in the Ecuadorian Andes. Kolloquium UMWIG – Umwelt Wirtschaftsgeographie. Digital conference, 20.11.2020.

Crespo, M., 2021. International Retirement Migration: Mapping the spatio-temporal growth of foreign-owned properties in Cotacachi, Ecuador. Kolloquium UMWIG – Umwelt Wirtschaftsgeographie. Digital conference, 03.12.2021.

Academic Career

Bachelor thesis

Proposal for a commercial zoning for the city of Quito: Application of Geomarketing. Case study: Avon commercial zones in Quito. Ecuador (2011)
 

Master thesis

Foreignization of agricultural land in the Cotacachi Municipality. Case study: “El Batán Community”. Ecuador (December 2014)

Awards/scholarships:

• PhD-Fellowship, DAAD. Research Grants - Doctoral Programmes in Germany, (October 2019 - 2022)
• Scholarship at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-ECUADOR), within the Rural Territorial Development Program, Ecuador (2012 – 2014)
• Fellowship at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE – ECUADOR), in the Module of Geographic Information Systems. (2003 – 2004)