Karla Hernandez-Aguilar

PhD Candidate

Email: lgxkh5@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk

Karla is a PhD candidate with the Palaeobenchmarking Resilient Agricultural Systems project. Karla's PhD focuses mainly on understanding how Yucatec Maya small-scale farmers and their traditional agricultural systems are responding to climate change, specifically the environmental, social and economic factors that are impacting the sustainability of agriculture and food security. Karla holds a BA in Biology from The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City and an MSc in Conservation Leadership from Colorado State University (CSU). Before joining The University of Nottingham, Karla worked as the Protected Areas Program Director at Ya'axche Conservation Trust in Southern Belize working closely with The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, the Environment, Sustainable Development and Immigration of the Government of Belize. Her research interests are protected areas and environmental policy, climate change adaptation and resilience, traditional ecological knowledge and community-based conservation.