Climate Change - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America III (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837670158)

Eleonora Rohland is a professor for entangled history in the Americas at Universit?t Bielefeld, Germany. She has been a principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Center ?Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World? and co-coordinator of the research group ?Coping with Environmental Crises? at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). Her current research focuses on environmental history and the Anthropocene.
Virginia Garc?a Acosta is a Mexican social anthropologist and historian. She has been a professor and researcher at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog?a Social (CIESAS) since 1973, where she held positions as general and academic director. Her areas of expertise are anthropology and history of risk and disasters in Mexico and Latin America. She is a full member of the Mexican Academy of History, the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National System of Researchers.
Anthony Goebel McDermott is a professor at the School of History and researcher at the Center for Historical Research of Central America (CIHAC) of Universidad de Costa Rica. There, he is part of the research team of the program ?Intersection between Environmental History and Social Studies of Science, Technology and Society? (STS). His research focuses on the history of science and economic history as well as on the environmental history of Costa Rica and Central America.
Javier Taks is a professor and researcher at Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay in the department of cultural and social anthropology and in the faculty of social sciences. His lines of research revolve around the study of society and environment relations (energy, climate change, water), transformations in rural dynamics, urban mobility, development theory, economic anthropology and political ecology.