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(Last updated: April, 2008)

It is a pleasure to welcome you to my website!
My general field of expertise and interest is on the human dimensions of global environmental change. I want to explore the complex linkages between drivers of development such as economic dynamics and institutional settings and stressors facing social groups and localities (e.g. climate change).

I am a sociologist by training and hold two Ph.D. degrees, one in Regional Development, from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico, the other in Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Policy from the University of Bonn, in Germany

I have performed research and published in the areas of:

Global, national and regional drivers of land and energy use in cities and , and their impacts on the carbon cycle
Linkages among global, national and regional drivers of environmental change and production strategies among farmers and industrial enterprises;
Urban-dwellers vulnerability to climate change in a context of multiple stresses
Implications of global change and urban-rural water linkages on local water management and usage;
Social perception and response to environmental change among farmers and enterprises
Sociology of science and two schools of environmental thought: neoclassical economics and ecolog