Scholars
Paul Cisneros
Colorado State University
Based in
United States
North America
Paul Cisneros is a social science researcher and independent consultant working on the intersection between environmental and climate governance in Latin America. Paúl has extensive experience in public policy and governance across multiple sectors, levels, and scales. His academic work is multidisciplinary and comparative. He is looking to grow his professional network to study pressing environmental and climate problems.
Country(ies) of Specialty
Colombia Ecuador GuatemalaFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate Justice Social movementsPublications
Articles
Cabrera-Barona, P. & Cisneros, P. (2021). Explaining the effectiveness of forest and water management and its spatial distribution in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 14(1), 53–62.
Cisneros, Paúl. (2011). ¿Cómo se construye la sustentabilidad ambiental? Análisis de experiencias conflictivas de la industria minera en el Ecuador. FLACSO.
Cisneros, Paúl. (2019). What makes collaborative water governance partnerships resilient to policy change? A comparative study of two cases in Ecuador. Ecology and Society, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-10667-240129
Cisneros, Paúl. (2021a). Policy designs for interorganizational coordination: Lessons from failures in governing the mining sector in Colombia and Ecuador. Latin American Policy, 12(1), 6–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.12211
Cisneros, Paul. (2022). Intergovernmental relations and the effective implementation of Agenda 2030 in South America (pp. 1–23). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2_17-1
Cisneros, Paul, Cabrera-Barona, P. & López, V. (2020). Civil society and the 2030 Agenda. An assessment of the implementation of SDG-actions in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo = Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies, 9(1), 100–119. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_ried/ijds.431
Cisneros, Paul & Ilbay-Yupa, M. (2023). How is climate change adaptation aid allocated? A study of climate justice in Ecuador. Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, 95, 91–130. https://doi.org/10.13043/dys.95.3
Cisneros, Paul, Macdonald, K. & Parrado, C. (2024). Policy Capacity, Design and the Sustainable Development Goals, Wicked Problems in Uncertain Environments. 163–181. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-686-320241012
Fischer, M., Cisneros, P., Duval, J., Gonzales-Iwanciw, J. & Cordero, S. (2022). Sustainable development and water: cross-sectoral, transboundary and multi-level governance arrangements in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Switzerland. In L. Partzch (Ed.), The environmental in global sustainability governance. Bristol University Press.
Macdonald, K., Bahruddin, Hartoto, A. S., Unger, C., Cisneros, P., Pugley, D. D., Salazar, D. H., Winanti, P. S. & Kurniawan, N. I. (2024). The politics of accountability in global sustainable commodity governance: Dilemmas of institutional competition and convergence. Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13426
Macdonald, K., Diprose, R., Grabs, J., Schleifer, P., Alger, J., Bahruddin, Brandao, J., Cashore, B., Chandra, A., Cisneros, P., Delgado, D., h, R. G. & Hopkinson, W. (2024). Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable agro-commodity governance: the state of knowledge and future research directions. Earth System Governance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100227
Raschke, A. B., Cockburn, J., Cisneros, P., Ocampo-Melgar, A., Schoon, M., Kelman, C. C. & Srinivasan, J. (2023). Learning from sticky variables in cross-case analyses of collaboration in social-ecological systems. Ecosystems and People, 19(1), 2187639. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2023.2187639