C Radel
Biographic Data
| ID | 15236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Radel |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Radel |
| SIGNATURE | RADEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8663-8432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The unexpected role of conditionality in shaping relational values: Evidence from a Bolivian incentive-based conservation program
As global change accelerates, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs have become increasingly important tools for addressing the interconnected challenges of land degradation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and climate change. PES programs provide incentives to individuals or communities, conditional on people adopting sustainable natural resource management practices to support or increase ecosystem service provisioning. Although con…
Emotions and gendered experiences of livelihood migration: Memos from Nicaragua and Guatemala
With increasingly difficult conditions for smallholder agricultural production, labor migration is an essential component of livelihoods for many rural families in the Global South. This migration is gendered and is often normalized as part of households' livelihood portfolios. Yet it also can reproduce livelihood precarity and help maintain underlying structural inequalities. The role of labor migration as a livelihood strategy therefore require…
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala
In the Shadow of the Green Revolution: Constrained Spatial Imaginaries and Smallholder Farming in Guatemala’s Pacific Lowlands
Much smallholder farming currently exists side by side with large-scale, industrial agriculture, as an outcome of the Green Revolution unfolding in uneven and dualistic terms. In Guatemala’s Pacific lowlands, state incentives fuel expansion of industrial export agriculture. Large-scale sugarcane production has come to surround rural farming communities, where small-scale farmers grow maize and sesame with little state support. Drawing on a survey…
Remittances and land change: A systematic review
Frankly, My Dear, I Don’t Want a Dam” in the US or in Iran: Environmental Movements and Shared Strategies in Differing Political Economies
In this comparative study, we explore why environmental movements against two neoliberal water transfer projects emerged and how they work in different political economies—a hegemonic capitalist democracy (Colorado, US) and a centralized authoritarian capitalist system (Iran). We apply Polanyi’s and Gramsci’s political–economic theories, using interviews and document analysis to examine and compare movement framing and mobilization and resistance…
The Border-Development-Climate Change Nexus: Precarious Campesinos at the Selva Maya Mexico–Guatemala Border
Borderlands can be places of socio-economic tensions, development challenges, and ecological risks, now exacerbated by climate change. We investigate the border-development-climate change nexus using research from Calakmul, Mexico and Petén, Guatemala, to detail the lived experiences and vulnerabilities of campesinos in the Selva Maya cross-border region. Our mixed methods approach combines historical analysis and ethnographic interviews with 70 …
It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
Migration as a feature of land system transitions
Migration matters: How migration is critical to contemporary human-environment geography
Human migration plays a critical role in numerous contemporary environmental concerns including global climate change and environmental justice. This review characterizes the ways migration is critical to contemporary human-environment geography. We delineate four themes from the literature based on (a) how migration affects the environment; (b) how the environment and/or environmental events affect migration; (c) how migration produces uneven en…
Subsistence migration: Smallholder food security and the maintenance of agriculture through mobility in Nicaragua
Research on Central American migration has revealed the importance of journeys to the global North for rural sending communities. The outcomes of south-south journeys to nearby countries are less explored, although they are commonplace. We examine Nicaraguan rural residents' migration to other Central American countries, especially El Salvador, to understand this migration's impacts on agricultural systems and food security. Based on mixed-method…
The (in)visible health risks of climate change
This paper scrutinizes the assertion that knowledge gaps concerning health risks from climate change are unjust, and must be addressed, because they hinder evidence-led interventions to protect vulnerable populations. First, we construct a taxonomy of six inter-related forms of invisibility (social marginalization, forced invisibility by migrants, spatial marginalization, neglected diseases, mental health, uneven climatic monitoring and forecasti…
Los nudos del ejido: Disputas y relaciones intraejidales en Calakmul, Campeche
Las formas de acceso a los recursos naturales del ejido, la distribución de los apoyos gubernamentales y el derecho sobre la tenencia de la tierra son problemas en el ejido mexicano que están asociados a políticas neoliberales. El artículo explora las diferentes formas de tensión y conflicto entre ejidatarios y pobladores de tres ejidos del municipio de Calakmul, Campeche. Se abordan diferentes interpretaciones y factores que caracterizan el prob…
Toward a Political Ecology of Migration: Land, Labor Migration, and Climate Change in Northwestern Nicaragua
Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America
In this synthesis paper, the authors of this Special Section contribute towards a collective research and policy agenda on rural and indigenous women's forest and land rights in Latin America. Based on the key lessons from the empirical evidence, we map out a way forward for the research agenda and suggest a few key institutional and policy priorities for rural Latin America
Comparison of Direct Transfers for Human Capital Development and Environmental Conservation
The gender dynamics of conditional cash transfers and smallholder farming in Calakmul, Mexico
The Legacy of Mexico's Agrarian Counter-Reforms: Reinforcing Social Hierarchies in Calakmul, Campeche
In this paper, we examine how Mexico's 1992 counter-reforms reinforced social hierarchies between two 'classes' of residents within three ejidos in an agricultural frontier in Campeche. We carried out qualitative research with 94 ejidatarios, 92 pobladores and 13 government officials. Our research shows that the reforms cemented the second-class status of pobladores, as their access to land, natural resources such as firewood and governmental sub…
Smallholders’ adaptations to droughts and climatic variability in southeastern Mexico
This study explores the temporal and spatial variability and change in rainfall across southeastern Mexico and the mechanisms by which smallholder farmers adapt to this variability, especially droughts. Members of 150 households in 10 communities were interviewed to investigate adaptation strategies among swidden maize smallholders, linked to their perceptions of climate changes. Precipitation data from seven weather stations were analyzed for th…
Land system science and the social–environmental system: The case of Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (Sypr) project
Justice and Immigrant Latino Recreation Geography in Cache Valley, Utah
Latinos are the largest U.S. non-mainstreamed ethnic group, and social and environmental justice considerations dictate recreation professionals and researchers meet their recreation needs. This study reconceptualizes this diverse group’s recreation patterns, looking at where immigrant Latino individuals in Cache Valley, Utah do recreate rather than where they do not. Through qualitative interviews and interactive mapping, thirty participants dis…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Extending a Geographic Lens towards Climate Justice
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 2: Climate Action
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice issues posed by climate change and the human responses to its present and forecasted effects. In two parts (here and in a previous article), we review and synthesize the recent literature by asking what climate justice concerns have been identified within three related realms: (i) the characterization of climate change itself and the assignment of responsib…
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 1: Climate Change Characterization and Impacts
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice issues posed by climate change and the human responses to its present and forecasted effects. This literature is partially shaped by debates from environmental justice scholarship, but also has roots in various subfields of geography. In two parts (here and in a subsequent article), we review and synthesize the recent literature by asking what climate justi…
Persistence of Swidden Cultivation in the Face of Globalization: A Case Study from Communities in Calakmul, Mexico
International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and an Incipient Forest Transition
Toward a Political Ecology of Migration: Land, Labor Migration, and Climate Change in Northwestern Nicaragua
Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind
Based on research conducted in a migrant-sending community in south-eastern Mexico, we find that male out-migration has forced women to take on labour tasks that are associated with new spatial and mobility patterns. While these patterns have potential for increased empowerment for women, they also call the women’s morality into question, resulting in a policing of the women’s behaviour, and a simultaneous restriction of their mobility, by themse…
Gendered livelihoods and the politics of socio-environmental identity: Women's participation in conservation projects in Calakmul, Mexico
A livelihoods approach positions individuals, situated within households, as active agents within processes occurring at various scales. Environmental conservation efforts represent one such process with direct implications for local sustainable livelihoods and the gendered nature of livelihood strategies. In this article, I examine collective processes of socio-environmental identity construction as gendered sustainable livelihood strategies, ar…
Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Relations: The Feminization of Agriculture in the Ejidal Sector of Calakmul, Mexico
We examine the nature of the 'feminization of agriculture' in the semi-subsistence, peasant production sector of southeastern Mexico, as associated with male labour out-migration. Presenting findings from empirical work with smallholder producers, we discuss the impact of men's migration to the United States on women's participation in agriculture and gendered relations of agricultural production. In 2007, we conducted a survey of 155 semi-subsis…
It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
The (in)visible health risks of climate change
This paper scrutinizes the assertion that knowledge gaps concerning health risks from climate change are unjust, and must be addressed, because they hinder evidence-led interventions to protect vulnerable populations. First, we construct a taxonomy of six inter-related forms of invisibility (social marginalization, forced invisibility by migrants, spatial marginalization, neglected diseases, mental health, uneven climatic monitoring and forecasti…
Persistence of Swidden Cultivation in the Face of Globalization: A Case Study from Communities in Calakmul, Mexico
Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: Case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA
Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America
In this synthesis paper, the authors of this Special Section contribute towards a collective research and policy agenda on rural and indigenous women's forest and land rights in Latin America. Based on the key lessons from the empirical evidence, we map out a way forward for the research agenda and suggest a few key institutional and policy priorities for rural Latin America
Migration as a feature of land system transitions
Subsistence migration: Smallholder food security and the maintenance of agriculture through mobility in Nicaragua
Research on Central American migration has revealed the importance of journeys to the global North for rural sending communities. The outcomes of south-south journeys to nearby countries are less explored, although they are commonplace. We examine Nicaraguan rural residents' migration to other Central American countries, especially El Salvador, to understand this migration's impacts on agricultural systems and food security. Based on mixed-method…
Comparison of Direct Transfers for Human Capital Development and Environmental Conservation
Migration matters: How migration is critical to contemporary human-environment geography
Human migration plays a critical role in numerous contemporary environmental concerns including global climate change and environmental justice. This review characterizes the ways migration is critical to contemporary human-environment geography. We delineate four themes from the literature based on (a) how migration affects the environment; (b) how the environment and/or environmental events affect migration; (c) how migration produces uneven en…
The gender dynamics of conditional cash transfers and smallholder farming in Calakmul, Mexico
Justice and Immigrant Latino Recreation Geography in Cache Valley, Utah
Latinos are the largest U.S. non-mainstreamed ethnic group, and social and environmental justice considerations dictate recreation professionals and researchers meet their recreation needs. This study reconceptualizes this diverse group’s recreation patterns, looking at where immigrant Latino individuals in Cache Valley, Utah do recreate rather than where they do not. Through qualitative interviews and interactive mapping, thirty participants dis…
Land system science and the social–environmental system: The case of Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (Sypr) project
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 1: Climate Change Characterization and Impacts
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice issues posed by climate change and the human responses to its present and forecasted effects. This literature is partially shaped by debates from environmental justice scholarship, but also has roots in various subfields of geography. In two parts (here and in a subsequent article), we review and synthesize the recent literature by asking what climate justi…
Outcomes of Conservation Alliances with Women's Community-Based Organizations in Southern Mexico
Through alliances with local community-based organizations, including groups of women, conservationists have used integrated conservation and development projects as a strategy to integrate conservation and poverty alleviation goals; yet an antiessentialist critique of ecofeminism suggests little grounds for alliances between women and conservationists. This study questions that premise through a presentation of analysis results from interviews w…
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 2: Climate Action
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice issues posed by climate change and the human responses to its present and forecasted effects. In two parts (here and in a previous article), we review and synthesize the recent literature by asking what climate justice concerns have been identified within three related realms: (i) the characterization of climate change itself and the assignment of responsib…
Emotions and gendered experiences of livelihood migration: Memos from Nicaragua and Guatemala
With increasingly difficult conditions for smallholder agricultural production, labor migration is an essential component of livelihoods for many rural families in the Global South. This migration is gendered and is often normalized as part of households' livelihood portfolios. Yet it also can reproduce livelihood precarity and help maintain underlying structural inequalities. The role of labor migration as a livelihood strategy therefore require…
Los nudos del ejido: Disputas y relaciones intraejidales en Calakmul, Campeche
Las formas de acceso a los recursos naturales del ejido, la distribución de los apoyos gubernamentales y el derecho sobre la tenencia de la tierra son problemas en el ejido mexicano que están asociados a políticas neoliberales. El artículo explora las diferentes formas de tensión y conflicto entre ejidatarios y pobladores de tres ejidos del municipio de Calakmul, Campeche. Se abordan diferentes interpretaciones y factores que caracterizan el prob…
Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala
The Legacy of Mexico's Agrarian Counter-Reforms: Reinforcing Social Hierarchies in Calakmul, Campeche
In this paper, we examine how Mexico's 1992 counter-reforms reinforced social hierarchies between two 'classes' of residents within three ejidos in an agricultural frontier in Campeche. We carried out qualitative research with 94 ejidatarios, 92 pobladores and 13 government officials. Our research shows that the reforms cemented the second-class status of pobladores, as their access to land, natural resources such as firewood and governmental sub…
Smallholders’ adaptations to droughts and climatic variability in southeastern Mexico
This study explores the temporal and spatial variability and change in rainfall across southeastern Mexico and the mechanisms by which smallholder farmers adapt to this variability, especially droughts. Members of 150 households in 10 communities were interviewed to investigate adaptation strategies among swidden maize smallholders, linked to their perceptions of climate changes. Precipitation data from seven weather stations were analyzed for th…
International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and an Incipient Forest Transition
Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: Case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA
Becoming Farmers: Opening Spaces for Women's Resource Control in Calakmul, Mexico
Despite empirical findings on women's varied and often extensive participation in smallholder agriculture in Latin America, their participation continues to be largely invisible. In this article, I argue that the intransigency of farming women's invisibility reflects, in part, a discursive construction of farmers as men. Through a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods, including interviews with one hundred women in Calakmul, Mexico, I d…
Outcomes of Conservation Alliances with Women's Community-Based Organizations in Southern Mexico
Through alliances with local community-based organizations, including groups of women, conservationists have used integrated conservation and development projects as a strategy to integrate conservation and poverty alleviation goals; yet an antiessentialist critique of ecofeminism suggests little grounds for alliances between women and conservationists. This study questions that premise through a presentation of analysis results from interviews w…
Latin American Research Review: Volume 46, Number 2, 2011
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Gendered livelihoods and the politics of socio-environmental identity: Women's participation in conservation projects in Calakmul, Mexico
A livelihoods approach positions individuals, situated within households, as active agents within processes occurring at various scales. Environmental conservation efforts represent one such process with direct implications for local sustainable livelihoods and the gendered nature of livelihood strategies. In this article, I examine collective processes of socio-environmental identity construction as gendered sustainable livelihood strategies, ar…
Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind
Based on research conducted in a migrant-sending community in south-eastern Mexico, we find that male out-migration has forced women to take on labour tasks that are associated with new spatial and mobility patterns. While these patterns have potential for increased empowerment for women, they also call the women’s morality into question, resulting in a policing of the women’s behaviour, and a simultaneous restriction of their mobility, by themse…
Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Relations: The Feminization of Agriculture in the Ejidal Sector of Calakmul, Mexico
We examine the nature of the 'feminization of agriculture' in the semi-subsistence, peasant production sector of southeastern Mexico, as associated with male labour out-migration. Presenting findings from empirical work with smallholder producers, we discuss the impact of men's migration to the United States on women's participation in agriculture and gendered relations of agricultural production. In 2007, we conducted a survey of 155 semi-subsis…
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 2: Climate Action
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice issues posed by climate change and the human responses to its present and forecasted effects. In two parts (here and in a previous article), we review and synthesize the recent literature by asking what climate justice concerns have been identified within three related realms: (i) the characterization of climate change itself and the assignment of responsib…
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 1: Climate Change Characterization and Impacts
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice issues posed by climate change and the human responses to its present and forecasted effects. This literature is partially shaped by debates from environmental justice scholarship, but also has roots in various subfields of geography. In two parts (here and in a subsequent article), we review and synthesize the recent literature by asking what climate justi…
Persistence of Swidden Cultivation in the Face of Globalization: A Case Study from Communities in Calakmul, Mexico
Justice and Immigrant Latino Recreation Geography in Cache Valley, Utah
Latinos are the largest U.S. non-mainstreamed ethnic group, and social and environmental justice considerations dictate recreation professionals and researchers meet their recreation needs. This study reconceptualizes this diverse group’s recreation patterns, looking at where immigrant Latino individuals in Cache Valley, Utah do recreate rather than where they do not. Through qualitative interviews and interactive mapping, thirty participants dis…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Extending a Geographic Lens towards Climate Justice
Smallholders’ adaptations to droughts and climatic variability in southeastern Mexico
This study explores the temporal and spatial variability and change in rainfall across southeastern Mexico and the mechanisms by which smallholder farmers adapt to this variability, especially droughts. Members of 150 households in 10 communities were interviewed to investigate adaptation strategies among swidden maize smallholders, linked to their perceptions of climate changes. Precipitation data from seven weather stations were analyzed for th…
Land system science and the social–environmental system: The case of Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (Sypr) project
The gender dynamics of conditional cash transfers and smallholder farming in Calakmul, Mexico
The Legacy of Mexico's Agrarian Counter-Reforms: Reinforcing Social Hierarchies in Calakmul, Campeche
In this paper, we examine how Mexico's 1992 counter-reforms reinforced social hierarchies between two 'classes' of residents within three ejidos in an agricultural frontier in Campeche. We carried out qualitative research with 94 ejidatarios, 92 pobladores and 13 government officials. Our research shows that the reforms cemented the second-class status of pobladores, as their access to land, natural resources such as firewood and governmental sub…
Toward a Political Ecology of Migration: Land, Labor Migration, and Climate Change in Northwestern Nicaragua
Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America
In this synthesis paper, the authors of this Special Section contribute towards a collective research and policy agenda on rural and indigenous women's forest and land rights in Latin America. Based on the key lessons from the empirical evidence, we map out a way forward for the research agenda and suggest a few key institutional and policy priorities for rural Latin America
Comparison of Direct Transfers for Human Capital Development and Environmental Conservation
Los nudos del ejido: Disputas y relaciones intraejidales en Calakmul, Campeche
Las formas de acceso a los recursos naturales del ejido, la distribución de los apoyos gubernamentales y el derecho sobre la tenencia de la tierra son problemas en el ejido mexicano que están asociados a políticas neoliberales. El artículo explora las diferentes formas de tensión y conflicto entre ejidatarios y pobladores de tres ejidos del municipio de Calakmul, Campeche. Se abordan diferentes interpretaciones y factores que caracterizan el prob…
It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
Migration as a feature of land system transitions
Migration matters: How migration is critical to contemporary human-environment geography
Human migration plays a critical role in numerous contemporary environmental concerns including global climate change and environmental justice. This review characterizes the ways migration is critical to contemporary human-environment geography. We delineate four themes from the literature based on (a) how migration affects the environment; (b) how the environment and/or environmental events affect migration; (c) how migration produces uneven en…
Subsistence migration: Smallholder food security and the maintenance of agriculture through mobility in Nicaragua
Research on Central American migration has revealed the importance of journeys to the global North for rural sending communities. The outcomes of south-south journeys to nearby countries are less explored, although they are commonplace. We examine Nicaraguan rural residents' migration to other Central American countries, especially El Salvador, to understand this migration's impacts on agricultural systems and food security. Based on mixed-method…
Geography (25 works) · Political science (19 works) · Agriculture (17 works) · Economics (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works)