Vahinala RAHARINIRINA is ecological economist. Her thesis, defended in 2009, is based on the economic and ecological distributional issues, related to the economic use of biodiversity in Madagascar. From February 2009 to September 2010, she worked at REEDS, as a post-doctoral researcher and was involved in two projects: “Wealth and Insecurities: Assessment and prediction of environmental services in Ile-de-France”, funded by the Ile-de-France Region and “Monetary and participatory evaluation of illegal gold mining in Guyana", funded by WWF. Since july 2012, she is involved in the European project EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade). As an EJOLT collaborator, she has conducted an inventory of the environmental injustices in Madagascar and begun to map the environmental conflicts cases on the Malagasy territory. Since may 2013, she is research ingeneer at REEDS and works on environmental knowledge mediation, in eco-innovation and environmental justice fields.