I am a political ecologist building knowledge on the environmental and wellbeing outcomes of climate change and biodiversity conservation policies and producing scientific findings that inform global policies for sustainable land use.
I employ multiple quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate 1) the social-ecological and behavioral effects of policies aimed at conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, such as payments for ecosystem services, the UN Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) framework, and biodiversity offsets; 2) the vulnerability and resilience of farming communities to global change, and their capacity to adapt; and 3) the politics of knowledge production in environmental science and policy.
My research in these fields draws on data from multiple levels, from multi-actor views gathered ethnographically to secondary information collected for quantitative assessments.
I work at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where I lead the Laboratory for the Analysis of Socio-Ecological Systems in a Globalised World. Please stay tuned for job opportunities by registering to this newsletter, and get in touch if you want more information about the research included in this blog.