Mariana Walter

Mariana Walter
Profesora ayudante Ramon y Cajal Co-coordinadora académica del programa de prácticas

Profesora ayudante Ramon y Cajal

Co-coordinadora académica del programa de prácticas

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

  • 2022Awarded with Ramon y Cajal Fellowship
  • 2022Awarded the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus - 6th Edition. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal. (not accepted)
  • 2020Co-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.
  • 2016Juan de la Cierva Post-doctoral Scholarship (not accepted)

Afiliaciones profesionales

  • Environmental Justice Atlas Board member (ejatlas.org)

Investigación

Líneas de investigación

  • Ecología política
  • Estudios de posdesarrollo
  • Economía Ecológica
  • Sostenibilidad
  • Justicia ambiental global

Clústers de investigación del IBEI

Publicaciones más destacadas

  • Kowszyk, Yanina; Walter, Mariana; Maher, Rajiv; Vanclay, Frank

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    2025.Social revolution and mining projects: The potential role of cultural power in transforming mining conflict.The Extractive Industries and Society,24, 101733EnlaceLogo open access
  • Walter, Mariana; Deniau, Yannick; Herrera Vargas, Viviana

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    2024.The Politics of ‘Green’ Extraction Frontiers: Mapping Metals and Mineral Mining Conflicts Related to the Energy Transition in the Americas.Critical Sociology,EnlaceLogo open access
  • Hanaček, Ksenija; Tran, Dalena; Landau Arielle; Sanz, Teresa; Thiri, May Aye; Navas, Grettel; Del Bene, Daniela; Liu Juan; Walter Mariana; Lopez, Aida; Roy, Brototi; Fanari, Eleonora; Martinez-Alier, Joan

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    2024.“We are protectors, not protestors”: global impacts of extractivism on human–nature bonds.Sustain Sci,EnlaceLogo open access
  • Scheidel, Arnim; Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro; Bara, Anju; Del Bene, Daniela; David-Chavez, Dominique; Fanari, Eleonora; Garba, Ibrahim; Hanaček, Ksenija; Liu, Juan; Martínez-Alier, Joan; Navas, Grettel; Reyes-García, Victoria; Roy, Brototi; Temper, Leah; Aye Thiri, May; Tran, Dalena; Walter, Mariana; Powys Whyte. Kyle

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    2023.Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights.Science Advances,9 (23), eade9557EnlaceLogo open access
  • Rodriguez, Iokiñe; Walter, Mariana; Temper, Leah

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    2023.Just transformations: grassroots struggles for alternative futures.Pluto press.EnlaceLogo open access
  • Conde, Marta; Walter, Mariana

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    2022.Knowledge Co-Production in Scientific and Activist Alliances: Unsettling Coloniality.Engaging Science, Technology, and Society,8(1):150–170EnlaceLogo open access
  • Conde, Marta; Walter, Mariana; Wagner, Lucrecia; Navas, Grettel

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    2022.Slow justice and other unexpected consequences of litigation in environmental conflicts.Global Environmental Change,83, 102762EnlaceLogo open access
  • Walter, Mariana; Wagner, Lucrecia

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    2021.Mining struggles in Argentina. The keys of a successful story of mobilization.Extractive industries and Society,8(4)EnlaceLogo open access
  • Temper, Leah; Avila, Sofia; Del Bene, Daniela; Gobby, Jennifer; Kosoy, Nicolas; Lebillion, Philippe; Martinez Alier, Joan; Perkins, Patricia; Roy, Brototi; Scheidel, Arnim; Walter, Mariana

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    2020.Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects.Environmental Research Letters,15, 123004EnlaceLogo open access
  • Temper, Leah; Walter, Mariana; Rodriguez, Iokiñe; Kothari, Ashish; Turhan, Ethemcan

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    2018.A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: resistances, movements and alternatives.Sustainability Science,13(3):747-764EnlaceLogo open access
  • Urkidi, Leire; Walter, Mariana

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    2017.Environmental Justice and Large-scale mining.In:

    Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty and Gordon Walker (Eds)

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    The Routledge Handbook on Environmental Justice.Routledge.Enlace
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