Patricia Romero Lankao
Department of Politics and Culture, Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Villa Quietud, 04960, Mexico City
Tel: (525) 4837110; Fax: (525) 5949100
Education
1998
Ph.D. University of Bonn, Germany, Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Policy
1997
Ph.D. Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM-X), Regional Studies 1991 M. Sc. UNAM, Sociology
1986
B.S. UNAM, Sociology
Research Interests
Participation in several international committees designing a research agenda for the human dimensions of global change such as cities, water and industrial transformation (International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change, IHDP).
Since 2002 member of the Steering Scientific Committee of the Global Carbon Project sponsored by IHDP, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), and in charge of designing and implementing a research agenda.
Teaching in Neoliberalism and the Environment(grad. seminar, LA_S 595D with Diana Liverman), Environmental Economy and Policy (grad. seminar, Postgraduate Studies in Economy, UAM), History of Mexico (gen. ed. UAM-Xochimilco), Sociology of Science (gen. ed. UAM-Xochimilco), Classics of Social Theory (grad. seminar, UAM-Xochimilco), Rural development and the environment (grad. seminar, UAM-Xochimilco), urban development and the environment (grad. seminar, UAM-Xochimilco), Environmental Policy in Mexico (grad. seminar, UNAM).
Participation in the Work Group II Contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report in two tasks: Co-Lead Author of the 7th Chapter “Industry, Settlement and Society”, member of the tem in charge of the IPCC Working Group II and III on “the cross-cutting themes Adaptation-Mitigation and Sustainable Development”
Publications
Romero, P., “Impacto Socioambiental, en Xochimilco y Lerma, de las obras de abastecimiento de la ciudad de México”, (Social and environmental impact, in Xochimilco and Lerma, of Mexico City’s water supply systems), México, UAM- Xochimilco, 1993, (National Environmental Prize in 1992).
Romero, P., “Probleme der Realisierung umweltpolitischer Strategien in der mexikanischen Landwirtschaft” (Implementation problems of environmental policy strategies in Mexican Agriculture), Bonn Germany, Wehle Witterschlick, 1998.
Romero, P. “Obra hidráulica en la ciudad de México y su impacto socioambiental, 1880-1990”, (Water system in Mexico City, Social and Environmental Impact. 1880-1990). México, Instituto Mora, 1999.
Romero, Duffing, López, “Mexico: Who is Doing What in Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change?, IHDP-UAM, Germany/Mexico, bilingual document, 2001.
Romero, P. “Política Ambiental Mexicana. Distancia entre objetivos y logros” (Mexican Environmental Policy. Distance between goals and results), México, UAM-Xochimilco, 2001.
Romero, P., “Abordaje y simplificación neoclásica de lo ambiental” (Neo-classical analysis and simplification of environmental issues), in: Delgado, J.: et.al. (Coord.) La formación territorial de la ciudad de México, México, 1999, UAM-X/Plaza y Valdes.
Romero, P., “Visión Gubernamental del Cambio Ambiental, los Desastres y la Vulnerabilidad” (Governmental vision of environmental change, disasters and vulnerability), in: La Nación ante los Desastres. Retos y Oportunidades Hacia el Siglo XXI, México, SG, 1999, 119-128.
- Varady, R. Romero, P. y Hankins, K. “Whither Hazardous-materials Management in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region?”, in Both Sides of the Border. Transboundary Environmental Management Issues Facing Mexico and United States edited by Fernandez, L. y Carson, R.T. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
Romero, P. “Agua en el Alto Lerma. Experiencias y lecciones de uso y gestión” (Water in Lerma. Experiences and Lessons of Use and Management), in I Encuentro de Investigadores de la Cuenca Lerma Chapala Santiago, México, Colmich-U. of Guadalajara.
Romero Lankao, P. 2003. “Pathways of regional development and the carbon cycle” in Toward CO2 Stabilization: Issues, Strategies, and Consequences, edited by Field, C. andRaupach M. Island Press (in press).
Raupach, M. and 11 others 2003. “Atmospheric Stabilization in the Context of Carbon-climate-Human Interactions” in Toward CO2 Stabilization: Issues, Strategies, and Consequences, edited by Field, C. andRaupach M. Island Press (in press).
Romero, P., "Evaluación de impacto ambiental: instrumento de política pública", (Environmental Impact Assessment: a public policy instrument in Mexico), in: Revista Argumentos 21, 1994, 7-21.
Romero, P., “Sustainability and Public Management Reform: Two Challenges for
Mexican Environmental Policy”, in American Review of Public Administration, 2000.
- Varady, R. Romero, P. y Hankins, K. 2001, “Managing Hazardous Materials along the US-Mexico Border”, in Environment, Vol.43, No. 10, pp.22-36.
Wilder, M. and Romero Lankao, P. (2004), “Paradoxes of Decentralization: Water Reform in and its Social Implications in Mexico”, submitted to World Development.
Professional Service/Activities
- Scholarship, Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), first Ph.D., Regional Studies, 1992-1994
- National Environmental Prize (Premio Serfín del Medio Ambiente), 1992
- Member of the Mexican National System of Researchers: during 1994-1998 as Candidate; during 1998-2000 level I, and since 2001, level II
- Scholarship, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, second Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Policy at Bonn University, Germany, 1995-1998. Complementary scholarship, Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations, field survey in Mexico for 2nd Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Policy, 1996
- Fellow, 8th cohort of the Program Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD International), since 1999.
- Grant from AIACC to undertake, as Co-Pi, research proposal on “Integrated Assessment of Social Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change among Farmers in Mexico and Argentina” 2003.
- Research grant from START and NCAR to undertake the project “How Local Governments Manage Global Warming? Institutional Settings and Carbon in Mexico-City” (2003-2004)
- Research grant from IAI to organize two workshops aimed at undertaking the project Can Cities Reduce Global Warming? Urban development and the carbon cycle in Latin America” (2004-2005)
-Grant from the National Institute of Ecology to work on the project “Towards a Program to Foster Research on Climate Change in Mexico”, (2004)
- Nomination to write the chapter “Human Settlements, Energy and Industry” within the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report (2004-2007).
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