Autor: Minerva Arce Ibarra

Dr. Arce Ibarra has been a Researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in Mexico since 1996. Initially trained as a fisheries biologist, her current research interests have expanded to include the commons and community-based conservation, small-scale fisheries, valuation of the environment (including ecological economics) and transdisciplinary approaches to the viability and sustainability of small-scale production systems. Dr. Ibarra holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary studies from Dalhousie University. She was a member of the FAO-WECAFC spiny lobster Working Group and part of the Steering Committee for the United Nations Development Program COMPACT (Maya communities-Sian Ka’an). She is currently involved with the Community Conservation Research Network and Too Big To Ignore: Global Partnerships for Small Scale Fisheries.  Dr. Parra Vázquez has been a Researcher at ECOSUR since 1982. Trained as an agricultural engineer, he holds a Master’s degree in agricultural sciences and a Ph.D. in Economics. His main research interest is in interwoven problems of conservation and development in peasant communities, and addressing these problems from the perspective of participatory action research. His research approach encompasses several aspects of analysis, notably the family, community, territorial, and regional scales. He is a member of ECOSUR’s Research Group for coffee-growing areas in Mexico.  Dr. Bello Baltazar has been a Researcher/Scientist at ECOSUR, Mexico since 1997. Trained as an agronomist, he also holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. Currently, his research interests include: socio-environmental processes of conservation, local territory and territorialities, family and community-based ecotourism, and transdisciplinary approaches addressing the viability and sustainability of small-scale production systems. From 2009 to 2012, he led a transdisciplinary project and a collaboration network on socio-environmental innovation in southern Mexico.  Dr. Araujo’s background is in Ecology (Master’s degree from the University of Campinas, 2007) and she holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Society (2014). She chiefly works as a researcher in the field of management and conservation of natural commons, and as a facilitator of participatory and social processes related to community-based conservation and local development initiatives.  She currently holds a research position in the project Unlocking Economic Opportunities to Scale Forest and Landscape Restoration in Brazil, and is a member of Commons Conservation and Management Research.