Mariana Walter

Profesora ayudante Ramon y Cajal
Co-coordinadora académica del programa de prácticas
Datos de contacto
Biografía
Mariana Walter is an environmental social sciences researcher and teacher working in the fields of political ecology, environmental sociology and ecological economics. Mariana has a Phd from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA- Autonomous University of Barcelona). Mariana´s research addresses environmental governance, social metabolism, environmental mobilization, environmental justice, resource extraction conflicts and the role of social movements in socio-environmental transformations. She has conducted research stays in Spain (UPF), UK (School of International Development-UEA, Manchester U.), Argentina (Gino Germani- UBA), the Netherlands (International Institute of Social Studies ISS- Erasmus University) and Ecuador (Flacso, U. Andina).
Formación académica
- (2014) PhD, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Premios
- 2022. Awarded with Ramon y Cajal Fellowship
- 2022. Awarded the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus - 6th Edition. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal. (not accepted)
- 2020. Co-Winner of the 2020 Sustainability Science Best Paper Awards. Menton, M., Larrea, C., Latorre, S., Martinez-Alier, J., Peck, M., Temper, L., Walter, M. (2020) Environmental Justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions. Sustainability Science 15, 1621–1636.
- 2016. Juan de la Cierva Post-doctoral Scholarship (not accepted)
Afiliaciones profesionales
- Environmental Justice Atlas Board member (ejatlas.org)
Asignaturas
Investigación
Líneas de investigación
- Ecología política
- Estudios de posdesarrollo
- Economía Ecológica
- Sostenibilidad
- Justicia ambiental global
Clústers de investigación del IBEI
Publicaciones más destacadas
- 2025.Social revolution and mining projects: The potential role of cultural power in transforming mining conflict.The Extractive Industries and Society,24, 101733Enlace
- 2024.The Politics of ‘Green’ Extraction Frontiers: Mapping Metals and Mineral Mining Conflicts Related to the Energy Transition in the Americas.Critical Sociology,Enlace
- 2024.“We are protectors, not protestors”: global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds.Sustain Sci,Enlace
- 2023.Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights.Science Advances,9 (23), eade9557Enlace
- 2022.Knowledge Co-Production in Scientific and Activist Alliances: Unsettling Coloniality.Engaging Science, Technology, and Society,8(1):150–170Enlace
- 2022.Slow justice and other unexpected consequences of litigation in environmental conflicts.Global Environmental Change,83, 102762Enlace
- 2021.Mining struggles in Argentina. The keys of a successful story of mobilization.Extractive industries and Society,8(4)Enlace
- 2020.Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects.Environmental Research Letters,15, 123004Enlace
- 2018.A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: resistances, movements and alternatives.Sustainability Science,13(3):747-764Enlace
- 2017.Environmental Justice and Large-scale mining.In:
Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty and Gordon Walker (Eds)
.The Routledge Handbook on Environmental Justice.Routledge.Enlace