Julio C Postigo
Biographic Data
| ID | 206322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julio C Postigo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julio C |
| FAMILY NAME | Postigo |
| SIGNATURE | POSTIGO J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0272-8348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fueling Fire-Adapted Communities Through a Rapid Wildfire Structure Risk Assessment
While wildfires can be beneficial and part of a natural process, there have been numerous instances around the world, particularly in recent years, where wildfires have had devastating consequences for society. Weather conditions have created extreme wildfire behavior, resulting in speeds and intensities that can overpower suppression resources. It is ever more critical that communities and agencies take actions to mitigate and prevent wildfire d…
Work Alienation in Emerging Countries
Neoliberal policies have disrupted work relationships across the world, intensifying their subordination to productivity and profit imperatives, turning them increasingly uncertain. Although companies have developed a rhetoric of concern for workers’ integration and sa2tisfaction, many workers experience the workplace as an alienating environment. Research on work alienation has been given limited scholarly attention in the management sciences. D…
Changing Mountain Pastoralism and Its Impacts in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region
Pastoralism in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region of Pakistan has undergone significant sociocultural, economic and ecological changes over the last three decades. The economic value of mountain pastoralism has been underestimated and ignored, leading to the loss of Indigenous ethnomedicinal knowledge and threatening food and livelihood security in the eastern Hindu Kush region. This study explores the changes and transformations in mountain pastora…
The impacts of United States politics on the Arctic wilderness in Alaska
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR or the Refuge) has been at the core of the conservation-development debate in the U.S. for over fifty years. The Refuge case epitomizes how policies shape territories governed by overlapping federal, congress, local, and Indigenous regimes. For instance, between 2017 and 2023, the Refuge was opened and closed to hydrocarbon development by two U.S. Presidents. ANWR is among the largest environmental refuge…
A Conceptual Model for Rehabilitation of Puna Grassland Social–Ecological Systems
The impacts of both climate change and socioeconomic processes are driving the degradation of mountains and the ecological services they provide worldwide. In the tropical Andes, compounding glacier retreat, altered hydrological and precipitation regimes (eg off-season alternation of extreme dry and wet periods), and expansion of mining and other land uses are modifying hydrological services. Although initiatives to restore ecosystems and their s…
Focus Issue
Anthropogenic and environmental pressures on mountains result in land degradation, as well as in the loss of species and critical ecological functions and services.Concomitantly, average temperatures continue to rise and fluctuations in the amount and spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation increase (eg Hock et al 2019), exacerbating these trends.Hence, the urgency of restoring mountain ecosystems and landscapes is indisputable.Action is nee…
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises
Climate change-related risks and adaptation potential in Central and South America during the 21st century
Climate-related risks in Central and South America have received increased attention and concern in science and policy, but an up-to-date comprehensive review and synthesis of risks and adaptation potential is currently missing. For this paper we evaluated over 200 peer-reviewed articles and grey literature documents published since 2012. We found that climate change in Central and South America during the 21st century may increase the risk to se…
The Sociocultural Construction of Soil Among Communities of the Bolivian Altiplano
The health of soil, a fundamental resource for life on Earth, is severely compromised by global environmental change. Evidence shows that the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and local communities influences sustainable land management, hence the importance of understanding Indigenous soil classification. Using a participatory approach, we conducted semistructured interviews, focus groups, and collective mapping of soils in 4 Aymara communities of…
The role of social institutions in indigenous Andean Pastoralists’ adaptation to climate-related water hazards
Though Andean indigenous communities have a lengthy history of capable responding to water threats, anthropogenic climate change and soaring water demand have changed preterit water challenges into serious hazards. Using an ethnographic approach, this study examines how a Peruvian indigenous pastoralist community perceived and responded to climate-change induced water threats with the goal of understanding the mechanisms that enable such response…
Focus Issue
Editorial
Mountain Pastoralism in the Eastern Hindu Kush
Pastoral social-ecological systems worldwide are threatened by environmental, climatic, and socioeconomic changes. The magnitude of these threats and their impacts is higher in mountain social-ecological systems. This study analyzes how mountain pastoralists in Lotkuh Valley (Chitral, Pakistan) use their rangelands in changing social, environmental, and climatic contexts. Data were collected from a survey, focus groups, and observations through m…
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems
Preparing for a diminished cryosphere
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation
There is emerging evidence of the important role of indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation. The necessity to consider different knowledge systems in climate change research has been established in the fifth assessment report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, gaps in author expertise and inconsistent assessment by the IPCC lead to a regionally heterogeneous and thematically generic coverage of the …
Bridging past and future to address water stress
Perception and Resilience of Andean Populations Facing Climate Change
The Andean Tropics are among the mountain systems most affected by climate change. The most conspicuous effect is glacier recession. However, little is known about how rural populations perceive climatic change impacts or about how social-ecological systems respond to the effects of change. Here, I examine perceptions of climatic change and their effects on social-ecological systems in the Peruvian Southern Andes. Data from interviews and focus g…
Cambio climático, movimientos sociales y políticas públicas
Change and Continuity in a Pastoralist Community in the High Peruvian Andes
Change and Continuity in a Pastoralist Community in the High Peruvian Andes
Perception and Resilience of Andean Populations Facing Climate Change
The Andean Tropics are among the mountain systems most affected by climate change. The most conspicuous effect is glacier recession. However, little is known about how rural populations perceive climatic change impacts or about how social-ecological systems respond to the effects of change. Here, I examine perceptions of climatic change and their effects on social-ecological systems in the Peruvian Southern Andes. Data from interviews and focus g…
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises
Change and Continuity in a Pastoralist Community in the High Peruvian Andes
Cambio climático, movimientos sociales y políticas públicas
Perception and Resilience of Andean Populations Facing Climate Change
The Andean Tropics are among the mountain systems most affected by climate change. The most conspicuous effect is glacier recession. However, little is known about how rural populations perceive climatic change impacts or about how social-ecological systems respond to the effects of change. Here, I examine perceptions of climatic change and their effects on social-ecological systems in the Peruvian Southern Andes. Data from interviews and focus g…
Bridging past and future to address water stress
Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation
There is emerging evidence of the important role of indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation. The necessity to consider different knowledge systems in climate change research has been established in the fifth assessment report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, gaps in author expertise and inconsistent assessment by the IPCC lead to a regionally heterogeneous and thematically generic coverage of the …
The role of social institutions in indigenous Andean Pastoralists’ adaptation to climate-related water hazards
Though Andean indigenous communities have a lengthy history of capable responding to water threats, anthropogenic climate change and soaring water demand have changed preterit water challenges into serious hazards. Using an ethnographic approach, this study examines how a Peruvian indigenous pastoralist community perceived and responded to climate-change induced water threats with the goal of understanding the mechanisms that enable such response…
Focus Issue
Editorial
Mountain Pastoralism in the Eastern Hindu Kush
Pastoral social-ecological systems worldwide are threatened by environmental, climatic, and socioeconomic changes. The magnitude of these threats and their impacts is higher in mountain social-ecological systems. This study analyzes how mountain pastoralists in Lotkuh Valley (Chitral, Pakistan) use their rangelands in changing social, environmental, and climatic contexts. Data were collected from a survey, focus groups, and observations through m…
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems
Preparing for a diminished cryosphere
Climate change-related risks and adaptation potential in Central and South America during the 21st century
Climate-related risks in Central and South America have received increased attention and concern in science and policy, but an up-to-date comprehensive review and synthesis of risks and adaptation potential is currently missing. For this paper we evaluated over 200 peer-reviewed articles and grey literature documents published since 2012. We found that climate change in Central and South America during the 21st century may increase the risk to se…
The Sociocultural Construction of Soil Among Communities of the Bolivian Altiplano
The health of soil, a fundamental resource for life on Earth, is severely compromised by global environmental change. Evidence shows that the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and local communities influences sustainable land management, hence the importance of understanding Indigenous soil classification. Using a participatory approach, we conducted semistructured interviews, focus groups, and collective mapping of soils in 4 Aymara communities of…
A Conceptual Model for Rehabilitation of Puna Grassland Social–Ecological Systems
The impacts of both climate change and socioeconomic processes are driving the degradation of mountains and the ecological services they provide worldwide. In the tropical Andes, compounding glacier retreat, altered hydrological and precipitation regimes (eg off-season alternation of extreme dry and wet periods), and expansion of mining and other land uses are modifying hydrological services. Although initiatives to restore ecosystems and their s…
Focus Issue
Anthropogenic and environmental pressures on mountains result in land degradation, as well as in the loss of species and critical ecological functions and services.Concomitantly, average temperatures continue to rise and fluctuations in the amount and spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation increase (eg Hock et al 2019), exacerbating these trends.Hence, the urgency of restoring mountain ecosystems and landscapes is indisputable.Action is nee…
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises
The impacts of United States politics on the Arctic wilderness in Alaska
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR or the Refuge) has been at the core of the conservation-development debate in the U.S. for over fifty years. The Refuge case epitomizes how policies shape territories governed by overlapping federal, congress, local, and Indigenous regimes. For instance, between 2017 and 2023, the Refuge was opened and closed to hydrocarbon development by two U.S. Presidents. ANWR is among the largest environmental refuge…
Changing Mountain Pastoralism and Its Impacts in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region
Pastoralism in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region of Pakistan has undergone significant sociocultural, economic and ecological changes over the last three decades. The economic value of mountain pastoralism has been underestimated and ignored, leading to the loss of Indigenous ethnomedicinal knowledge and threatening food and livelihood security in the eastern Hindu Kush region. This study explores the changes and transformations in mountain pastora…
Fueling Fire-Adapted Communities Through a Rapid Wildfire Structure Risk Assessment
While wildfires can be beneficial and part of a natural process, there have been numerous instances around the world, particularly in recent years, where wildfires have had devastating consequences for society. Weather conditions have created extreme wildfire behavior, resulting in speeds and intensities that can overpower suppression resources. It is ever more critical that communities and agencies take actions to mitigate and prevent wildfire d…
Work Alienation in Emerging Countries
Neoliberal policies have disrupted work relationships across the world, intensifying their subordination to productivity and profit imperatives, turning them increasingly uncertain. Although companies have developed a rhetoric of concern for workers’ integration and sa2tisfaction, many workers experience the workplace as an alienating environment. Research on work alienation has been given limited scholarly attention in the management sciences. D…
Geography (15 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Environmental resource management (12 works) · Environmental Science (10 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (6 works) · Livestock (6 works)