Jenny Anne Glikman

TRAMAS – Territory, rurality, agriculture, environment environment and sustainability

Dr. in Human Geography and currently a Ramon y Cajal researcher for the Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (IESA-CSIC) within the Human Dimensions area. She worked as a professor/researcher in the department of Human Ecology at a National Center of Investigations (CINVESTAV-Mérida) in Mexico, focusing in understanding the historical and cultural establishment of marine and terrestrial protected areas. Then, she worked for six years as Associate Director within the Community Engagement Team of the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research (SDZWA), in California. Currently, she still collaborates with the SDZWA in international programs in Sud America, Africa and in S.E. Asia on programs focused on human-wildlife interaction and illegal wildlife trade.

 

Overall, her research seeks to gain deeper insight into the relationships between humans and nature and wildlife in order to tackle conflicts that threats biodiversity conservation and human activities. This helps to develop shared solutions and actions that best support conservation actions and build capacity locally to achieve human-wildlife coexistence.

 

Currently she is a Chief Editor of the international journal of Human Dimensions of Wildlife, and a senior associate editor for Conservation Science and Practice. In addition, she is an elected board member of the “Human Bear Conflict Expert Teams” and a steering committee member of the “Human-Wildlife Conflict & Coexistence Specialist Group” of the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN).

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