Veronica Herrera
Biographic Data
| ID | 154103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Herrera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Herrera |
| SIGNATURE | HERRERA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6295-1640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Waste Warriors
Cities produce mountains of waste daily. Yet too often waste is poorly governed, and becomes a climate, public health, and environmental policy problem. This article investigates how effective civil society pressure can be in achieving sustainable waste policies in densely populated cities. The paper draws on over 50 interviews to illustrate how following legacies of authoritarian rule in the waste sector, activists in Argentina recast waste as a…
Plastic pollution hotspots
Plastic pollution is a growing environmental challenge, and Latin America is one of several Global South regions that have seen a rise in plastic waste imports. For 18 countries in the region, we combine a quantitative analysis of plastic scrap trade data (UN Comtrade) with an assessment of waste management capacity. Following China’s 2018 ban on plastic waste imports, Latin America saw increases in all types of plastic waste, and in particular, …
Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and cardiorespiratory mortality
Long-term exposure to the fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a risk factor for cardiorespiratory mortality. However, little is known about its distribution and health impact in large cities in low-middle-income countries where population exposure has increased during the last decades. This ecological study evaluated the association between PM2.5 concentration and adult cardiorespiratory mortality at the intraurban census sector (CS) level of Colo…
Slow Harms and Citizen Action
Slow-moving environmental harms are typically ignored or accepted parts of everyday life, particularly in low-resource settings in Global South cities. How do communities mobilize around habituated exposure to toxins and initiate policy change for a historically ignored policy problem? The book compares advocacy movements for river pollution remediation in the capital regions of Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. Citizen-led efforts helped create env…
Citizen-Led Environmental Governance
Wetlands provide ecosystem services such as flood protection, improved water quality, and wildlife habitat, but are under attack in urban land-use conflicts in the Global South. This article presents two cases of local wetlands governance conflicts in Colombia (Humedal la Conejera, Bogotá, Cundinamarca) and Argentina (Laguna de Rocha, Esteban Echeverría, Gran Buenos Aires) to illustrate divergent pathways toward improved environmental governance …
Intraurban Geographic and Socioeconomic Inequalities of Mortality in Four Cities in Colombia
Mortality inequalities have been described across Latin American countries, but less is known about inequalities within cities, where most populations live. We aimed to identify geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in mortality within the urban areas of four main cities in Colombia. We analyzed mortality due to non-violent causes of diseases in adults between 2015 and 2019 using census sectors as unit of analysis in Barranquilla, Bogotá, Cal…
Transparency for Text-Based Sources
Debates about transparency standards in social science research often lack specificity, mischaracterize the status quo, or stress the value of replication. These debates frequently talk past each other and provide limited practical guidance for qualitative and multi-methods research. Focusing on text-based sources, we provide a review of qualitative research that identifies deficiencies in transparency practices, and advances a five-point framewo…
Water for All
Water for All examines the Cochabamba water conflict of 2000, known as the “Water War,” which brought down water privatization and led to political regime change in Bolivia. Hines argues that the successful anti-privatization movement was rooted in a long history of collective grassroots labor that built water access when a sometimes predatory, absent, or negligent state failed to do so. These same social forces were well equipped to defend what …
Teatro de grupo en Xalapa
El artículo presenta las bases y el contexto de la investigación “Teatro de grupo en Xalapa”. En la circunstancia del cierre de actividades culturales por la pandemia de COVID-19, surgieron nuevas prioridades que exigieron a la investigación centrarse en los impactos que esta situación provocó en la actividad de los grupos de teatro independiente. Para visibilizar esta situación, en junio de 2020 se aplicó la encuesta diseñada para explorar el es…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
How Do Legal Strategies Advance Social Accountability? Evaluating Mechanisms in Colombia
While prior studies have suggested that legal strategies offer promising tools for social accountability, the existing literature has not yet identified the underlying mechanisms that link legal strategies to accountability improvements. In this theory-building paper, we argue that there are four mechanisms by which legal strategies can enhance accountability. First, the courts can help those affected by policy failures to overcome the collective…
Reconciling global aspirations and local realities
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is ambitious and inclusive, but how well are these global aspirations likely to result in implementable policy change for water and sanitation? This article assesses governance challenges at the local level associated with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which pledges to ensure sustainable water and sanitation for all. The majority of developing countries manage services at the subnational level, …
The Case for Public Policy Expertise in Political Science
The politics of public policy is a vibrant research area increasingly at the forefront of intellectual innovations in the discipline. We argue that political scientists are best positioned to undertake research on the politics of public policy when they possess expertise in particular policy areas. Policy expertise positions scholars to conduct theoretically innovative work and to ensure that empirical research reflects the reality they aim to an…
Estrategias y determinantes para recuperar participantes tras 12 años
Este artículo describe los resultados de un protocolo de recuperación de participantes (PRP) en la cohorte CHICAMOCHA, tras 12 años desde el último seguimiento, e identificar factores asociados al re-contacto. En un estudio de cohorte prospectiva de 1.644 participantes en Bucaramanga, Colombia (edad media 36 años; desviación estándar = 8.5 años; 63% hombres), se implementó el PRP que incluyó 4 estrategias secuenciales: (1) contacto telefónico; (2…
Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (Concord-3)
BACKGROUND: In 2015, the second cycle of the CONCORD programme established global surveillance of cancer survival as a metric of the effectiveness of health systems and to inform global policy on cancer control. CONCORD-3 updates the worldwide surveillance of cancer survival to 2014. METHODS: CONCORD-3 includes individual records for 37·5 million patients diagnosed with cancer during the 15-year period 2000-14. Data were provided by 322 populatio…
Short-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Respiratory and Circulatory Morbidity in Colombia 2011–2014
Few studies have been conducted on the effect of air pollution on morbidity in Latin America. This study analyzed the effects of air pollution on respiratory and circulatory morbidity in four major cities in Colombia. An ecological time-series analysis was conducted with pollution data from air quality monitoring networks and information on emergency department visits between 2011 and 2014. Daily 24-h averages were calculated for NO2, PM 10 , PM …
An assessment of public health surveillance of Zika virus infection and potentially associated outcomes in Latin America
Current surveillance systems have a low probability of detecting outbreaks of ZIKV infection, severe microcephaly, and GBS, and could result in significant increases in health care burden, due to the detection of large numbers of false positive cases. In view of these limitations, Latin American countries should consider alternative options for surveillance
Sociodemographic factors related to handgrip strength in children and adolescents in a middle income country
OBJECTIVE: To determine sociodemographic factors associated with handgrip (HG) strength in a representative sample of children and adolescents from a middle income country. METHODS: We evaluated youth between the ages of 8 and 17 from a representative sample of individuals from the Department of Santander, Colombia. Anthropometric measures, HG strength, and self-reported physical activity were assessed, and parents/guardians completed sociodemogr…
From Participatory Promises to Partisan Capture
Can Developing Countries Both Decentralize and Depoliticize Urban Water Services? Evaluating the Legacy of the 1990s Reform Wave
Over the past three decades, decentralization and reforms designed to insulate service providers from interference by elected officials (“insulating reforms”), such as corporatization and privatization, swept through the urban water and sanitation sector in developing countries. We argue that their rationales were contradictory; decentralization was intended to increase citizen participation and influence, whereas corporatization and privatizatio…
Does Commercialization Undermine the Benefits of Decentralization for Local Services Provision? Evidence from Mexico’s Urban Water and Sanitation Sector
When Decentralization Matters
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Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adult Dating, Cohabitating, and Married Drinking Partnerships
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined intimate partner violence (IPV) and drinking partnerships in 741 young adults in male-female dating, cohabitating, and married relationships. Cluster analyses revealed four similar kinds of drinking partnerships: (a) congruent light and infrequent, (b) discrepant male heavy and frequent, (c) discrepant female heavy and infrequent, and (d) congruent moderate/…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Reconciling global aspirations and local realities
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is ambitious and inclusive, but how well are these global aspirations likely to result in implementable policy change for water and sanitation? This article assesses governance challenges at the local level associated with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which pledges to ensure sustainable water and sanitation for all. The majority of developing countries manage services at the subnational level, …
Can Developing Countries Both Decentralize and Depoliticize Urban Water Services? Evaluating the Legacy of the 1990s Reform Wave
Over the past three decades, decentralization and reforms designed to insulate service providers from interference by elected officials (“insulating reforms”), such as corporatization and privatization, swept through the urban water and sanitation sector in developing countries. We argue that their rationales were contradictory; decentralization was intended to increase citizen participation and influence, whereas corporatization and privatizatio…
From Participatory Promises to Partisan Capture
Does Commercialization Undermine the Benefits of Decentralization for Local Services Provision? Evidence from Mexico’s Urban Water and Sanitation Sector
Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adult Dating, Cohabitating, and Married Drinking Partnerships
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined intimate partner violence (IPV) and drinking partnerships in 741 young adults in male-female dating, cohabitating, and married relationships. Cluster analyses revealed four similar kinds of drinking partnerships: (a) congruent light and infrequent, (b) discrepant male heavy and frequent, (c) discrepant female heavy and infrequent, and (d) congruent moderate/…
Transparency for Text-Based Sources
Debates about transparency standards in social science research often lack specificity, mischaracterize the status quo, or stress the value of replication. These debates frequently talk past each other and provide limited practical guidance for qualitative and multi-methods research. Focusing on text-based sources, we provide a review of qualitative research that identifies deficiencies in transparency practices, and advances a five-point framewo…
The Case for Public Policy Expertise in Political Science
The politics of public policy is a vibrant research area increasingly at the forefront of intellectual innovations in the discipline. We argue that political scientists are best positioned to undertake research on the politics of public policy when they possess expertise in particular policy areas. Policy expertise positions scholars to conduct theoretically innovative work and to ensure that empirical research reflects the reality they aim to an…
When Decentralization Matters
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adult Dating, Cohabitating, and Married Drinking Partnerships
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined intimate partner violence (IPV) and drinking partnerships in 741 young adults in male-female dating, cohabitating, and married relationships. Cluster analyses revealed four similar kinds of drinking partnerships: (a) congruent light and infrequent, (b) discrepant male heavy and frequent, (c) discrepant female heavy and infrequent, and (d) congruent moderate/…
When Decentralization Matters
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Does Commercialization Undermine the Benefits of Decentralization for Local Services Provision? Evidence from Mexico’s Urban Water and Sanitation Sector
Can Developing Countries Both Decentralize and Depoliticize Urban Water Services? Evaluating the Legacy of the 1990s Reform Wave
Over the past three decades, decentralization and reforms designed to insulate service providers from interference by elected officials (“insulating reforms”), such as corporatization and privatization, swept through the urban water and sanitation sector in developing countries. We argue that their rationales were contradictory; decentralization was intended to increase citizen participation and influence, whereas corporatization and privatizatio…
Sociodemographic factors related to handgrip strength in children and adolescents in a middle income country
OBJECTIVE: To determine sociodemographic factors associated with handgrip (HG) strength in a representative sample of children and adolescents from a middle income country. METHODS: We evaluated youth between the ages of 8 and 17 from a representative sample of individuals from the Department of Santander, Colombia. Anthropometric measures, HG strength, and self-reported physical activity were assessed, and parents/guardians completed sociodemogr…
From Participatory Promises to Partisan Capture
Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (Concord-3)
BACKGROUND: In 2015, the second cycle of the CONCORD programme established global surveillance of cancer survival as a metric of the effectiveness of health systems and to inform global policy on cancer control. CONCORD-3 updates the worldwide surveillance of cancer survival to 2014. METHODS: CONCORD-3 includes individual records for 37·5 million patients diagnosed with cancer during the 15-year period 2000-14. Data were provided by 322 populatio…
Short-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Respiratory and Circulatory Morbidity in Colombia 2011–2014
Few studies have been conducted on the effect of air pollution on morbidity in Latin America. This study analyzed the effects of air pollution on respiratory and circulatory morbidity in four major cities in Colombia. An ecological time-series analysis was conducted with pollution data from air quality monitoring networks and information on emergency department visits between 2011 and 2014. Daily 24-h averages were calculated for NO2, PM 10 , PM …
An assessment of public health surveillance of Zika virus infection and potentially associated outcomes in Latin America
Current surveillance systems have a low probability of detecting outbreaks of ZIKV infection, severe microcephaly, and GBS, and could result in significant increases in health care burden, due to the detection of large numbers of false positive cases. In view of these limitations, Latin American countries should consider alternative options for surveillance
Reconciling global aspirations and local realities
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is ambitious and inclusive, but how well are these global aspirations likely to result in implementable policy change for water and sanitation? This article assesses governance challenges at the local level associated with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which pledges to ensure sustainable water and sanitation for all. The majority of developing countries manage services at the subnational level, …
The Case for Public Policy Expertise in Political Science
The politics of public policy is a vibrant research area increasingly at the forefront of intellectual innovations in the discipline. We argue that political scientists are best positioned to undertake research on the politics of public policy when they possess expertise in particular policy areas. Policy expertise positions scholars to conduct theoretically innovative work and to ensure that empirical research reflects the reality they aim to an…
Estrategias y determinantes para recuperar participantes tras 12 años
Este artículo describe los resultados de un protocolo de recuperación de participantes (PRP) en la cohorte CHICAMOCHA, tras 12 años desde el último seguimiento, e identificar factores asociados al re-contacto. En un estudio de cohorte prospectiva de 1.644 participantes en Bucaramanga, Colombia (edad media 36 años; desviación estándar = 8.5 años; 63% hombres), se implementó el PRP que incluyó 4 estrategias secuenciales: (1) contacto telefónico; (2…
How Do Legal Strategies Advance Social Accountability? Evaluating Mechanisms in Colombia
While prior studies have suggested that legal strategies offer promising tools for social accountability, the existing literature has not yet identified the underlying mechanisms that link legal strategies to accountability improvements. In this theory-building paper, we argue that there are four mechanisms by which legal strategies can enhance accountability. First, the courts can help those affected by policy failures to overcome the collective…
Teatro de grupo en Xalapa
El artículo presenta las bases y el contexto de la investigación “Teatro de grupo en Xalapa”. En la circunstancia del cierre de actividades culturales por la pandemia de COVID-19, surgieron nuevas prioridades que exigieron a la investigación centrarse en los impactos que esta situación provocó en la actividad de los grupos de teatro independiente. Para visibilizar esta situación, en junio de 2020 se aplicó la encuesta diseñada para explorar el es…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Intraurban Geographic and Socioeconomic Inequalities of Mortality in Four Cities in Colombia
Mortality inequalities have been described across Latin American countries, but less is known about inequalities within cities, where most populations live. We aimed to identify geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in mortality within the urban areas of four main cities in Colombia. We analyzed mortality due to non-violent causes of diseases in adults between 2015 and 2019 using census sectors as unit of analysis in Barranquilla, Bogotá, Cal…
Transparency for Text-Based Sources
Debates about transparency standards in social science research often lack specificity, mischaracterize the status quo, or stress the value of replication. These debates frequently talk past each other and provide limited practical guidance for qualitative and multi-methods research. Focusing on text-based sources, we provide a review of qualitative research that identifies deficiencies in transparency practices, and advances a five-point framewo…
Water for All
Water for All examines the Cochabamba water conflict of 2000, known as the “Water War,” which brought down water privatization and led to political regime change in Bolivia. Hines argues that the successful anti-privatization movement was rooted in a long history of collective grassroots labor that built water access when a sometimes predatory, absent, or negligent state failed to do so. These same social forces were well equipped to defend what …
Slow Harms and Citizen Action
Slow-moving environmental harms are typically ignored or accepted parts of everyday life, particularly in low-resource settings in Global South cities. How do communities mobilize around habituated exposure to toxins and initiate policy change for a historically ignored policy problem? The book compares advocacy movements for river pollution remediation in the capital regions of Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. Citizen-led efforts helped create env…
Citizen-Led Environmental Governance
Wetlands provide ecosystem services such as flood protection, improved water quality, and wildlife habitat, but are under attack in urban land-use conflicts in the Global South. This article presents two cases of local wetlands governance conflicts in Colombia (Humedal la Conejera, Bogotá, Cundinamarca) and Argentina (Laguna de Rocha, Esteban Echeverría, Gran Buenos Aires) to illustrate divergent pathways toward improved environmental governance …
Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and cardiorespiratory mortality
Long-term exposure to the fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a risk factor for cardiorespiratory mortality. However, little is known about its distribution and health impact in large cities in low-middle-income countries where population exposure has increased during the last decades. This ecological study evaluated the association between PM2.5 concentration and adult cardiorespiratory mortality at the intraurban census sector (CS) level of Colo…
Waste Warriors
Cities produce mountains of waste daily. Yet too often waste is poorly governed, and becomes a climate, public health, and environmental policy problem. This article investigates how effective civil society pressure can be in achieving sustainable waste policies in densely populated cities. The paper draws on over 50 interviews to illustrate how following legacies of authoritarian rule in the waste sector, activists in Argentina recast waste as a…
Plastic pollution hotspots
Plastic pollution is a growing environmental challenge, and Latin America is one of several Global South regions that have seen a rise in plastic waste imports. For 18 countries in the region, we combine a quantitative analysis of plastic scrap trade data (UN Comtrade) with an assessment of waste management capacity. Following China’s 2018 ban on plastic waste imports, Latin America saw increases in all types of plastic waste, and in particular, …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 works)