Gustavo Garcia-Lopez
I am an environmental policy and politics scholar who studies human-environment interactions through the lens of institutional theory and political ecology. I am especially interested in commons and commoning initiatives and socio-environmental struggles in relation to the creation of more just and sustainable 'worlds in common'.
Since August 2015 I am an Assistant Professor in Environmental Planning at the Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras. Previous to this appointment, I was a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (post-doctoral fellow) in the European Network for Political Ecology (ENTITLE) project at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB).
I obtained my PhD. in Public Policy and Political Science at Indiana University-Bloomington, with concentrations in Environmental Policy and Political Theory & Methods (Institutional Analysis), in 2012. I also have a Masters in Environmental Policy (Cambridge University, 2005) and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Geography (University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras, 2004).
My previous research focused on the politics and governance of commons in community forestry in Mexico, where I sought to understand the role that federated organizations of communities and histories social mobilization had in supporting the environmental, political and economic aspects of community forestry, and how these organizations shaped public policies and relations between communities and the state. I have also carried out similar research in Puerto Rico, where I recently edited a volume where community organizations told their own stories of community-based resource management (Ambiente y Democracia, University of Puerto Rico Press, 2018). My current research expands on this work, analyzing the links between social movements and community pro-commons initiatives and deepening the study of the relational dimensions of processes of commoning through which people 'become commoners' and participate 'in-common'. Finally, in the context of the 'disaster' in post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico, I am engaging more in the topic of the links between enviroenvironmental colonialism --always in the background of my work as a colonial subject from Puerto Rico-- disaster capitalism and environmental injustice of 'unnatural' disasters.
I am a firm believer in action-research and in actively engaging with civil society in my academic work and apart from it. I am one of the founding co-editors of the political ecology blog ENTITLE (entitleblog.org) and a co-founding member of JunteGente (juntegente.org), a space of encounters of organizations struggling for alternatives to neoliberal disaster capitalism in post-Maria Puerto Rico.
Supervisors: Jose Molinelli Freytes, Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual, Camille Antinori, Leticia Merino, Michael McGinnis, Catherine Tucker, Elinor Ostrom, and Giorgos Kallis
Since August 2015 I am an Assistant Professor in Environmental Planning at the Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras. Previous to this appointment, I was a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (post-doctoral fellow) in the European Network for Political Ecology (ENTITLE) project at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB).
I obtained my PhD. in Public Policy and Political Science at Indiana University-Bloomington, with concentrations in Environmental Policy and Political Theory & Methods (Institutional Analysis), in 2012. I also have a Masters in Environmental Policy (Cambridge University, 2005) and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Geography (University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras, 2004).
My previous research focused on the politics and governance of commons in community forestry in Mexico, where I sought to understand the role that federated organizations of communities and histories social mobilization had in supporting the environmental, political and economic aspects of community forestry, and how these organizations shaped public policies and relations between communities and the state. I have also carried out similar research in Puerto Rico, where I recently edited a volume where community organizations told their own stories of community-based resource management (Ambiente y Democracia, University of Puerto Rico Press, 2018). My current research expands on this work, analyzing the links between social movements and community pro-commons initiatives and deepening the study of the relational dimensions of processes of commoning through which people 'become commoners' and participate 'in-common'. Finally, in the context of the 'disaster' in post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico, I am engaging more in the topic of the links between enviroenvironmental colonialism --always in the background of my work as a colonial subject from Puerto Rico-- disaster capitalism and environmental injustice of 'unnatural' disasters.
I am a firm believer in action-research and in actively engaging with civil society in my academic work and apart from it. I am one of the founding co-editors of the political ecology blog ENTITLE (entitleblog.org) and a co-founding member of JunteGente (juntegente.org), a space of encounters of organizations struggling for alternatives to neoliberal disaster capitalism in post-Maria Puerto Rico.
Supervisors: Jose Molinelli Freytes, Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual, Camille Antinori, Leticia Merino, Michael McGinnis, Catherine Tucker, Elinor Ostrom, and Giorgos Kallis
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organizations. While there are multiple books on political ecology, all of
them are oriented towards an academic audience, either as introductory
textbooks (Robbins, 2012) or as comprehensive or partial compilations
of state-of-the-art theory and research in the field.