Víctor Manuel Velázquez Durán

I’m a human geographer interested in studying the socio-environmental injustices that emerge at different territorial scales in the configuration of food value chains and carbon markets. In particular, I’m interested in learning how coastal communities develop social innovations to respond to climate change scenarios and the global environmental crisis. My research lies at the intersections of Political Ecology, Political Economy, Marine Social Sciences, Maritime Border Studies, and the Uneven Geographies of Development. I have conducted research on fishing value chains involving different marine species (lobsters, tuna, shrimp, and multi-species fisheries) on different coastlines and seas in Mexico and Central America, as well as the implementation of the blue carbon market in mangrove areas on the Mexican coast.

I am very interested in taking knowledge beyond the academic sphere and collaborating with coastal communities in building more equitable governance frameworks to reduce the stark power asymmetries that generate environmental injustices in these territories. Similarly, I believe that collaboration between academia and communities is essential to build knowledge that is more closely aligned with the realities and needs of local coastal populations.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Caribbean Sea, South Pacific of Mexico, Central American Pacific, Chiapas coast, The Pacific Coastal-Marine Transboundary Region in between Mexico and Guatemala.

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