Gracia Andrea Pacheco

Doctoral Researcher

Macroecology and Society
yDiv – Doctoral Researchers

Research interests

I’m a doctoral researcher broadly interested social-ecological systems. More specifically, I’m interested in the governance systems that interact with the natural environment (oftentimes with mixed effects). I’m currently investigating the relationship between land tenure and environmental sustainability, and am particularly invested in finding patterns across the tropics.
In the past, I have also worked with governance of climate change mitigation mechanisms (Monitoring, reporting, and verification), as well as risk governance in drought contexts.

Short CV

Since 10/2017
Doctoral researcher in the Macroecology and Society Group at iDiv
2015–2017
M.Sc. in Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests and Biodiversity at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica
2009–2013
B.A. in International Development Studies at Houghton College, New York

Influence of land governance on global land-cover and biodiversity change

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iDiv publications

Desvars-Larrive, A., E. Dervic, N. Haug, T. Niederkrotenthaler, J. Chen, A. Di Natale, J. Lasser, D. S. Gliga, A. Roux, J. Sorger, A. Chakraborty, A. Ten, A. Dervic, A. Pacheco, A. Jurczak, D. Cserjan, D. Lederhilger, D. Bulska, D. Berishaj, E. F. Tames, F. S. Álvarez, H. Takriti, J. Korbel, J. Reddish, J. Grzymała-Moszczyńska, J. Stangl, L. Hadziavdic, L. Stoeger, L. Gooriah, L. Geyrhofer, M. R. Ferreira, M. Bartoszek, R. Vierlinger, S. Holder, S. Haberfellner, V. Ahne, V. Reisch, V. D. P. Servedio, X. Chen, X. M. Pocasangre-Orellana, Z. Garncarek, D. Garcia, S. Thurner

(2020): A structured open dataset of government interventions in response to COVID-19. Scientific Data 7(1) *

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