Mariana Coria López
Biographic Data
| ID | 75222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariana Coria López |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariana Coria |
| FAMILY NAME | López |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9417-1534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| 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, …
Participatory convergence
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
Towards energy justice and energy sovereignty
Participatory processes that emphasize energy justice and energy sovereignty are essential to provide electricity for those in need in just and sustainable ways. For isolated, off-grid communities, access to electricity remains a significant challenge, especially in the Global South. Participation is critical to ensuring the viability and sustainability of off-grid energy systems in remote areas, as communities need to be self-reliant in managing…
Multidimensional and multitemporal energy injustices
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…
An alternative approach to create and deploy discrete choice experiments
Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are widely used in behavioral sciences to examine how humans value attributes of a technology, how those values drive decisions, and how they make trade-offs. The method has increasingly been used to inform technologies and interventions for addressing critical issues (e.g. disease and hunger). Different formats and symbols are used to deliver DCEs and represent attributes, respectively (e.g. questionnaire prese…
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 …
Decentralizing the Governance of Inland Fisheries in the Pacific Region of Colombia
In 1993, Colombia launched a decentralization process granting Black communities collective property rights over territories they had inhabited for centuries. Decentralization was intended to promote inclusive governance, enhance environmental governance in Black communities’ territories, and reduce poverty. This paper presents a qualitative case study of decentralized inland fisheries governance in the country’s largest Community Council. Our re…
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,…
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil
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
Determinants of adoption of sustainable production practices among smallholder coffee producers in Nicaragua
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
Experimental evidence on payments for forest commons conservation
Community-Driven Reconstruction in Colombia
Participatory mapping of environmental resources
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil
Experimental evidence on payments for forest commons conservation
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
Multidimensional and multitemporal energy injustices
Pretend Participation
Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon
The paper contributes to the social-ecological systems literature by adapting and using Elinor Ostrom’s Social-Ecological System (SES) framework in the context of a coastal ecosystem. We modified the SES framework in the case of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM), an estuarine lagoon in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The ecological importance of CGSM and its species is undeniable. This paper aims to understand why collective action for a …
Medicina, cultura y alimentación
El estudio de la alimentación nos propone un campo fecundo para el análisis de la dimensión ideológica y simbólica de la vertiente sociocultural que supone el hecho alimentario. Entre las múltiples dimensiones que abarca el fenómeno de la alimentación se encuentra su inserción en el pensamiento médico que plantea el vínculo indisoluble entre alimentación, medicina y cultura. Esta relación tripartita nos conduce a la reflexión de la relatividad hi…
An alternative approach to create and deploy discrete choice experiments
Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are widely used in behavioral sciences to examine how humans value attributes of a technology, how those values drive decisions, and how they make trade-offs. The method has increasingly been used to inform technologies and interventions for addressing critical issues (e.g. disease and hunger). Different formats and symbols are used to deliver DCEs and represent attributes, respectively (e.g. questionnaire prese…
The legacy of Elinor Ostrom and its relevance to issues of forest conservation
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…
Medicina, cultura y alimentación
El estudio de la alimentación nos propone un campo fecundo para el análisis de la dimensión ideológica y simbólica de la vertiente sociocultural que supone el hecho alimentario. Entre las múltiples dimensiones que abarca el fenómeno de la alimentación se encuentra su inserción en el pensamiento médico que plantea el vínculo indisoluble entre alimentación, medicina y cultura. Esta relación tripartita nos conduce a la reflexión de la relatividad hi…
Exogenous degradation in the commons
The legacy of Elinor Ostrom and its relevance to issues of forest conservation
Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon
The paper contributes to the social-ecological systems literature by adapting and using Elinor Ostrom’s Social-Ecological System (SES) framework in the context of a coastal ecosystem. We modified the SES framework in the case of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM), an estuarine lagoon in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The ecological importance of CGSM and its species is undeniable. This paper aims to understand why collective action for a …
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
Experimental evidence on payments for forest commons conservation
Determinants of adoption of sustainable production practices among smallholder coffee producers in Nicaragua
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,…
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil
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 …
Decentralizing the Governance of Inland Fisheries in the Pacific Region of Colombia
In 1993, Colombia launched a decentralization process granting Black communities collective property rights over territories they had inhabited for centuries. Decentralization was intended to promote inclusive governance, enhance environmental governance in Black communities’ territories, and reduce poverty. This paper presents a qualitative case study of decentralized inland fisheries governance in the country’s largest Community Council. Our re…
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…
An alternative approach to create and deploy discrete choice experiments
Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are widely used in behavioral sciences to examine how humans value attributes of a technology, how those values drive decisions, and how they make trade-offs. The method has increasingly been used to inform technologies and interventions for addressing critical issues (e.g. disease and hunger). Different formats and symbols are used to deliver DCEs and represent attributes, respectively (e.g. questionnaire prese…
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…
Economics (20 works) · Geography (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Business (14 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Environmental resource management (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Engineering (8 works)