Esteve Corbera

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Adjunct

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I am a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. My research focuses on the governance of land-use management options for climate mitigation across scales, including analyses of climate-policy and biodiversity conservation related instruments, such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and carbon offset projects, and more recently also of large-scale agriculture for biofuels production. Most of my fieldwork has been conducted in Mexico, and more recently in Tanzania and Argentina. My research has been published in over 50 peer-reviewed scientific outlets, including top-tier journals, such as Science, Nature Climate Change, and Global Environmental Change, and he has written 10 books and book chapters, and authored dozens of policy briefs, working papers and consultancy reports.
I am currently a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator in three international projects, a co-researcher in another and I have completed eight other projects. I co-lead the Laboratory for the Analysis of Socio-Ecological Systems on Globalised World (LASEG) at ICTA-UAB, and he has been a guest speaker in more than 30 international and Spanish events, as well as a reviewer for major research programs and journals.
I hold an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1999), a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management (Universitat de Barcelona, 2000), an MSc in Natural Resources and Development (University of East Anglia, 2001) and a PhD in Development Studies (University of East Anglia, 2005). Prior to joining ICTA, I worked at the University of Cambridge, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the University of East Anglia. I have been a member of the editorial boards of Global Environmental Change and the Journal of Peasant Studies, and was both a lead and a co-author in the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I can be contacted at esteve.corbera@uab.cat and followed at www.estevecorbera.com
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Participatory scenarios to explore local adaptation to global change in biosphere reserves: Experiences from Bolivia and Mexico

by Diana Calvo Boyero, Esteve Corbera, and Isabel Ruiz-mallén

Environmental Science & Policy, 2015

In an era of anthropogenic stress on ecological systems at multiple scales, involving rural peopl... more In an era of anthropogenic stress on ecological systems at multiple scales, involving rural people in planning for adaptation to social-ecological changes is crucial to strengthen local efforts in dealing with uncertainty. In protected areas, this enquiry is even more relevant since conservation regulations can impinge negatively on people's ability to adapt. In this paper we use participatory scenarios to explore the desired adaptation options of four rural communities located in two biosphere reserves in Bolivia and Mexico. We collaboratively design four plausible scenarios in each country that encompass distinct climatic, policy, and socio-economic horizons up to 2030. In Bolivia, the scenarios consider colonisation and infrastructure development as key drivers of social-ecological change, whereas in Mexico drivers include rainfall variability and conservation regulations. We discuss these scenarios at community level and highlight that winners and losers of such scenarios are significantly determined by people's ability to access land and natural resources. Communities' preferred policies and strategies for their future adaptation remain limited, thus revealing a context of restricted opportunities in both biosphere reserves. We conclude with policy recommendations to support local livelihoods in the studied protected areas and beyond.

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