Maria Claudia Lopez
Maria Claudia Lopez is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Sustainability. Her research uses multiple methods, including field experiments from behavioral economics, institutional analysis, econometrics, ethnography, and participatory research, to understand how rural communities can collaborate successfully in the management of commonly held natural resources. She has done research in Colombia, Spain, Peru, Costa Rica, USA, Bolivia and Uganda. Before coming to MSU she was a Research Associate in the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. While there, she worked with an interdisciplinary group of researchers (ecologist, psychologists, economists and political scientists) developing a project aiming to understand how knowledge about how human decision making affects and is affected by changing forest conditions. Before that, Maria Claudia was an assistant professor in her home country, Colombia. While in Colombia, she taught various classes at the undergrad and grad level. She also supervised several thesis (undergrad and grad level) in natural resource management, tourism, conservation and collective action. Maria Claudia is an economist specializing in natural resources managment, environmental economics, experimental economics and collective action with a master's in rural development from the Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, and a PhD in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She also completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship working with Elinor Ostrom at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University on issues of governance, common property, and institutional analysis.
Related Work
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CANR honors Bergholz and Lopez as 2023 Global Scholars in Research
Published on April 14, 2023
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Challenges in accessing coffee pesticide for female household heads in Rwanda
Published on November 1, 2020
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Briefing Note 1: Attempts to organize the Flint food system
Published on May 29, 2020
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Cooperative membership and coffee productivity in Rwanda’s specialty coffee sector
Published on October 15, 2019
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Food Systems in 2050: Visions for food systems that sustain people and planet
Published on October 25, 2018
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Analysis of Distributed Coffee Inputs in Rwanda: Pesticide Access and Fertilizer Volume
Published on October 16, 2018
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AGLC "Closing Workshop”
Published on June 26, 2018
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Pricing Coffee Cherry to Incentivize Farmers and Improve Quality
Published on August 2, 2017
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Stakeholder Perceptions on Geographic Zoning in Rwanda’s Coffee Sector and Opportunities for Policy Adjustment
Published on August 1, 2017