Maria Claudia Lopez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3706232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Claudia Lopez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lopez |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Building trust for collaborative natural resource management through participatory modeling
A central requirement of collaborative natural resource management is establishing trust between the actors involved, both horizontally between resource users and vertically between users and regulators. Previous studies have demonstrated that participatory modeling—the act of building a shared representation of a system with resource users—can surface assumptions, facilitate communication, and promote social learning around the resource system, …
Challenges and opportunities for the governance of hydropower
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States
The transition to a more sustainable energy system must consider public perceptions of energy sources and the influences that shape them. This study compares support for renewable and non-renewable sources that make up the energy grid in Brazil and the United States (US), two nations with different energy mixes, political histories, and media systems. Through national surveys, we assess how different national energy configurations impact attitude…
Understanding female household heads’ barriers to profiting from coffee in Southern Rwanda
There’s More Negatives than Positives
Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking significant political and economic influence. There is relatively little research on how hydroelectric projects change local energy services. In this study, we investigate whether Jirau and Santo Antônio—two dams in the Brazilian Amazon—have impacted energy source…
Technology adoption and weed emergence dynamics
Ecological practices such as intercropping maize ( Zea mays ) with cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata L.) have been promoted to combat parasitic weeds like Striga ( Striga asiatica ). Intercropping has been promoted across Africa as a Striga control practice (SCP) and food security measure. Despite past efforts, millions of smallholder farmers (cultivating < 2 ha of maize) still struggle to implement SCPs. Social and ecological factors that prevent SCP i…
Impacts of hydropower development on locals’ livelihoods in the Global South
The construction of hydroelectric dams in the Global South and emerging economies is controversial; on one hand, advocates highlight the positive impacts at national and global scales, such as national development and independence from fossil fuels. On the other hand, opponents of dams stress the negative social-ecological impacts on the livelihoods of communities near construction sites, and the lack of local communities participation in the dec…
Changes in Social Capital Associated with the Construction of the Belo Monte Dam
Nations in the Global South have increasingly embraced large hydropower. Hydropower development typically involves the displacement and resettlement of entire communities and has a range of social and ecological impacts. Some communities become the operational center for the dam construction, as well as host new neighborhoods of resettlers. One of the less-studied impacts of dams is the potential loss of social capital both in resettled and host …
Pretend Participation
Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self-Rated Health in the Amazon
Nations in the global South have developed hydropower projects at a rapid pace in recent decades, most notably Brazil and China. These projects have long-documented impacts on social and ecological systems, yet the implications of hydropower for human well-being and health are not fully understood. In this paper, we examine eight Brazilian Amazon communities in the Madeira river basin, near the Jirau and Santo Antônio dams (sample size: 536 house…
Estado del arte sobre el acoso sexual callejero
El acoso sexual callejero es una forma de interacción que se da en lugares públicos y comprende exhibicionismo, persecuciones, acoso expresivo, físico y verbal de contenido sexual y no correspondido. Este estudio indaga las aproximaciones teóricas e iniciativas sociales sobre el acoso sexual callejero como un tipo de violencia de género en Latinoamérica. Para ello, se desarrolló una búsqueda en fuentes de información utilizando ciertos criterios,…
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic
Construction of large-scale hydroelectric dams has increased in recent decades in the Global South and emerging economies. Population resettlement is one of the most severe socioeconomic impacts caused by dam construction. Processes aiming to mitigate its impacts and restore livelihoods are often described as inadequate. The resettlement process’ ineffectiveness could be explained by persistent deficiency in citizen participation, which is also a…
Do government zoning policies improve buyer-farmer relationships? Evidence from Rwanda’s coffee sector
Types of urban agricultural stakeholders and their understandings of governance
Piso, Z., L. Goralnik, J. C. Libarkin, and M. C. Lopez. 2019. Types of urban agricultural stakeholders and their understandings of governance. Ecology and Society 24(2):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10650-240218
Gender-Differentiated Impacts of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam on Downstream Fishers in the Brazilian Amazon
Community-Driven Reconstruction in Colombia
Participatory mapping of environmental resources
Understanding the black box of communication in a common-pool resource field experiment
Exogenous degradation in the commons
Does government regulation complement existing community efforts to support cooperation? Evidence from field experiments in Colombia
In this paper we describe a field experiment conducted among mollusk harvesters in a community on the Pacific Coast of Colombia.The experiment is based on a standard linear public good and consists of two stages.In the first stage we compare the ability of monetary and nonmonetary sanctions among community members to increase contributions to the public good.In the second stage we add a government regulation with either a high or low sanction for…
Rules Compliance and Age
We report the results of common-pool resource economic experiments conducted with indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon. The experiments recreate two contexts: a limited open access with no institutions regulating the fisheries and a nonmonetary external regulation that limits individual extraction when a fisher is found to be overextracting. We find that variables that did not explain behavior under limited open access do so under the r…
Voting for environmental donations
Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities
Fleischman, F. D., K. Boenning, G. A. Garcia-Lopez, S. Mincey, M. Schmitt-Harsh, K. Daedlow, M. Lopez, X. Basurto, B. Fischer, and E. Ostrom. 2010. Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in southern Indiana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03512-150409
Impacts of hydropower development on locals’ livelihoods in the Global South
The construction of hydroelectric dams in the Global South and emerging economies is controversial; on one hand, advocates highlight the positive impacts at national and global scales, such as national development and independence from fossil fuels. On the other hand, opponents of dams stress the negative social-ecological impacts on the livelihoods of communities near construction sites, and the lack of local communities participation in the dec…
Do government zoning policies improve buyer-farmer relationships? Evidence from Rwanda’s coffee sector
Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities
Fleischman, F. D., K. Boenning, G. A. Garcia-Lopez, S. Mincey, M. Schmitt-Harsh, K. Daedlow, M. Lopez, X. Basurto, B. Fischer, and E. Ostrom. 2010. Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in southern Indiana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03512-150409
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic
Construction of large-scale hydroelectric dams has increased in recent decades in the Global South and emerging economies. Population resettlement is one of the most severe socioeconomic impacts caused by dam construction. Processes aiming to mitigate its impacts and restore livelihoods are often described as inadequate. The resettlement process’ ineffectiveness could be explained by persistent deficiency in citizen participation, which is also a…
Understanding the black box of communication in a common-pool resource field experiment
Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self-Rated Health in the Amazon
Nations in the global South have developed hydropower projects at a rapid pace in recent decades, most notably Brazil and China. These projects have long-documented impacts on social and ecological systems, yet the implications of hydropower for human well-being and health are not fully understood. In this paper, we examine eight Brazilian Amazon communities in the Madeira river basin, near the Jirau and Santo Antônio dams (sample size: 536 house…
Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking significant political and economic influence. There is relatively little research on how hydroelectric projects change local energy services. In this study, we investigate whether Jirau and Santo Antônio—two dams in the Brazilian Amazon—have impacted energy source…
Types of urban agricultural stakeholders and their understandings of governance
Piso, Z., L. Goralnik, J. C. Libarkin, and M. C. Lopez. 2019. Types of urban agricultural stakeholders and their understandings of governance. Ecology and Society 24(2):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10650-240218
Pretend Participation
Rules Compliance and Age
We report the results of common-pool resource economic experiments conducted with indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon. The experiments recreate two contexts: a limited open access with no institutions regulating the fisheries and a nonmonetary external regulation that limits individual extraction when a fisher is found to be overextracting. We find that variables that did not explain behavior under limited open access do so under the r…
Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities
Fleischman, F. D., K. Boenning, G. A. Garcia-Lopez, S. Mincey, M. Schmitt-Harsh, K. Daedlow, M. Lopez, X. Basurto, B. Fischer, and E. Ostrom. 2010. Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in southern Indiana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03512-150409
Voting for environmental donations
Does government regulation complement existing community efforts to support cooperation? Evidence from field experiments in Colombia
In this paper we describe a field experiment conducted among mollusk harvesters in a community on the Pacific Coast of Colombia.The experiment is based on a standard linear public good and consists of two stages.In the first stage we compare the ability of monetary and nonmonetary sanctions among community members to increase contributions to the public good.In the second stage we add a government regulation with either a high or low sanction for…
Rules Compliance and Age
We report the results of common-pool resource economic experiments conducted with indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon. The experiments recreate two contexts: a limited open access with no institutions regulating the fisheries and a nonmonetary external regulation that limits individual extraction when a fisher is found to be overextracting. We find that variables that did not explain behavior under limited open access do so under the r…
Exogenous degradation in the commons
Understanding the black box of communication in a common-pool resource field experiment
Community-Driven Reconstruction in Colombia
Participatory mapping of environmental resources
Gender-Differentiated Impacts of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam on Downstream Fishers in the Brazilian Amazon
Types of urban agricultural stakeholders and their understandings of governance
Piso, Z., L. Goralnik, J. C. Libarkin, and M. C. Lopez. 2019. Types of urban agricultural stakeholders and their understandings of governance. Ecology and Society 24(2):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10650-240218
Estado del arte sobre el acoso sexual callejero
El acoso sexual callejero es una forma de interacción que se da en lugares públicos y comprende exhibicionismo, persecuciones, acoso expresivo, físico y verbal de contenido sexual y no correspondido. Este estudio indaga las aproximaciones teóricas e iniciativas sociales sobre el acoso sexual callejero como un tipo de violencia de género en Latinoamérica. Para ello, se desarrolló una búsqueda en fuentes de información utilizando ciertos criterios,…
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic
Construction of large-scale hydroelectric dams has increased in recent decades in the Global South and emerging economies. Population resettlement is one of the most severe socioeconomic impacts caused by dam construction. Processes aiming to mitigate its impacts and restore livelihoods are often described as inadequate. The resettlement process’ ineffectiveness could be explained by persistent deficiency in citizen participation, which is also a…
Do government zoning policies improve buyer-farmer relationships? Evidence from Rwanda’s coffee sector
Changes in Social Capital Associated with the Construction of the Belo Monte Dam
Nations in the Global South have increasingly embraced large hydropower. Hydropower development typically involves the displacement and resettlement of entire communities and has a range of social and ecological impacts. Some communities become the operational center for the dam construction, as well as host new neighborhoods of resettlers. One of the less-studied impacts of dams is the potential loss of social capital both in resettled and host …
Pretend Participation
Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self-Rated Health in the Amazon
Nations in the global South have developed hydropower projects at a rapid pace in recent decades, most notably Brazil and China. These projects have long-documented impacts on social and ecological systems, yet the implications of hydropower for human well-being and health are not fully understood. In this paper, we examine eight Brazilian Amazon communities in the Madeira river basin, near the Jirau and Santo Antônio dams (sample size: 536 house…
Impacts of hydropower development on locals’ livelihoods in the Global South
The construction of hydroelectric dams in the Global South and emerging economies is controversial; on one hand, advocates highlight the positive impacts at national and global scales, such as national development and independence from fossil fuels. On the other hand, opponents of dams stress the negative social-ecological impacts on the livelihoods of communities near construction sites, and the lack of local communities participation in the dec…
Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking significant political and economic influence. There is relatively little research on how hydroelectric projects change local energy services. In this study, we investigate whether Jirau and Santo Antônio—two dams in the Brazilian Amazon—have impacted energy source…
Technology adoption and weed emergence dynamics
Ecological practices such as intercropping maize ( Zea mays ) with cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata L.) have been promoted to combat parasitic weeds like Striga ( Striga asiatica ). Intercropping has been promoted across Africa as a Striga control practice (SCP) and food security measure. Despite past efforts, millions of smallholder farmers (cultivating < 2 ha of maize) still struggle to implement SCPs. Social and ecological factors that prevent SCP i…
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States
The transition to a more sustainable energy system must consider public perceptions of energy sources and the influences that shape them. This study compares support for renewable and non-renewable sources that make up the energy grid in Brazil and the United States (US), two nations with different energy mixes, political histories, and media systems. Through national surveys, we assess how different national energy configurations impact attitude…
Understanding female household heads’ barriers to profiting from coffee in Southern Rwanda
There’s More Negatives than Positives
Building trust for collaborative natural resource management through participatory modeling
A central requirement of collaborative natural resource management is establishing trust between the actors involved, both horizontally between resource users and vertically between users and regulators. Previous studies have demonstrated that participatory modeling—the act of building a shared representation of a system with resource users—can surface assumptions, facilitate communication, and promote social learning around the resource system, …
Challenges and opportunities for the governance of hydropower
Economics (13 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (6 works)