Scott is a post-doctoral associate in the Metals, Minerals, and the Environment Program in MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative. His research focuses on mining, climate change, socio-environmental conflict, and development, especially in the Andean region. He has a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. His dissertation examined the impacts of new community relations strategies and desalination operations on the conflict over water between mining companies and communities in Chile within the context of an unprecedented mega-drought on the region.