María Luz Cruz-Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 10880266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Luz Cruz-Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Luz |
| FAMILY NAME | Cruz-Torres |
| SIGNATURE | CRUZ-TORRES M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Commentary
Figuring Our Environments and Living with Critters in the Anthropocene
Figuring Our Environments and Living with Critters in the Anthropocene Ron Broglio (bio) and María L. Cruz-Torres (bio) As any good park ranger will tell you, wildlife management is really about managing the humans. The weight of human dwelling is felt across the globe with no environment or biotope immune from our heft. Indeed, we have terraformed the earth—sometimes intentionally, as with dams and agroindustrial farms, and other times as an unf…
Unruly Women and Invisible Workers
During the 1980s, a group of women from rural communities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa organized a grassroots social movement in order to gain legal access to the sale of shrimp. The movement reached its peak in 1984, with the formation of a shrimp traders union and the establishment of a shrimp marketplace in the tourist city of Mazatlán. Despite the long trajectory of the movement and the success of the shrimp market, these women and their w…
Local-Level Responses to Environmental Degradation in Northwestern Mexico
Environmental degradation in Mexico has had many forms and levels of intensity. An analysis of the sources of environmental degradation in coastal northwestern Mexico reveals that current neoliberal policies, which continue to support the production of agricultural and fishing commodities for export, are partially responsible for this degradation. A focus on two rural communities in coastal southern Sinaloa demonstrates that households, and parti…
Local-Level Responses to Environmental Degradation in Northwestern Mexico
Environmental degradation in Mexico has had many forms and levels of intensity. An analysis of the sources of environmental degradation in coastal northwestern Mexico reveals that current neoliberal policies, which continue to support the production of agricultural and fishing commodities for export, are partially responsible for this degradation. A focus on two rural communities in coastal southern Sinaloa demonstrates that households, and parti…
Unruly Women and Invisible Workers
During the 1980s, a group of women from rural communities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa organized a grassroots social movement in order to gain legal access to the sale of shrimp. The movement reached its peak in 1984, with the formation of a shrimp traders union and the establishment of a shrimp marketplace in the tourist city of Mazatlán. Despite the long trajectory of the movement and the success of the shrimp market, these women and their w…
Local-Level Responses to Environmental Degradation in Northwestern Mexico
Environmental degradation in Mexico has had many forms and levels of intensity. An analysis of the sources of environmental degradation in coastal northwestern Mexico reveals that current neoliberal policies, which continue to support the production of agricultural and fishing commodities for export, are partially responsible for this degradation. A focus on two rural communities in coastal southern Sinaloa demonstrates that households, and parti…
Unruly Women and Invisible Workers
During the 1980s, a group of women from rural communities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa organized a grassroots social movement in order to gain legal access to the sale of shrimp. The movement reached its peak in 1984, with the formation of a shrimp traders union and the establishment of a shrimp marketplace in the tourist city of Mazatlán. Despite the long trajectory of the movement and the success of the shrimp market, these women and their w…
Commentary
Figuring Our Environments and Living with Critters in the Anthropocene
Figuring Our Environments and Living with Critters in the Anthropocene Ron Broglio (bio) and María L. Cruz-Torres (bio) As any good park ranger will tell you, wildlife management is really about managing the humans. The weight of human dwelling is felt across the globe with no environment or biotope immune from our heft. Indeed, we have terraformed the earth—sometimes intentionally, as with dams and agroindustrial farms, and other times as an unf…
Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Fishery (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Poverty (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agriculture (1 work) · Anthropocene (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)