Contact details +6469516630
Dr Martin Garcia Cartagena PhD
Lecturer, Resource & Environmental Planning
Doctoral Co-Supervisor School of People, Environment and PlanningMy research and teaching networks span across Aotearoa-New Zealand and South, Central, and North America. I am passionate about the environment, and social-ecological justice and transformations. I try my best to actively challenge academia and the privileging of scientific knowledge above others, and embrace a genuine recognition of all forms of knowledge and knowing. I am theoretically driven, and practically grounded. So, I am particularly interested in developing innovative ways to reduce environmental policy implementation gaps through transformative, equitable, and inclusive pathways towards sustainability based on collaborations and participation.
I am an early-career academic with 11 years of research and teaching experience in environmental planning, climate change, integrated coastal zone management, community resilience, biodiversity conservation, and inter & trans-disciplinary approaches to knowledge production processes in the context of global environmental change.
Professional
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy - Ƶ (2020)
Certifications and Registrations
- Licence, Co-Supervisor, Ƶ
Research Expertise
Research Interests
Previous Research work:
1. Research title: Incorporating local and traditional knowledge systems – New insights for ecosystem services and trans-disciplinary collaborations.
Principal outcomes: Edited book, doctoral thesis, master thesis, policy reports, workshops.
Principal end-user and contact: Sebastian Bonelli (Water Security Strategy Manager at The nature conservancy, Chile), Andres Fernandez (Regional System of Protected Areas, Uruguay), Jorge Rubiano (Director of NGO Semillas de Agua, Colombia).
2. Research title: Reducing flood risk in a changing climate: A project to inform Horizon’s Regional Council flood risk reduction strategy for Anzac Parade.
Principal outcomes: Resilience strategy for Anzac Parade (Whanganui).
Principal end-user and contact: Horizons Regional Council.
3. Research title: Community Resilience Capital Framework: An action-research approach
to Earthquake Community Resilience and Sustainability in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Principal outcomes: Doctoral thesis.
Principal end-user and contact: Waimakariri District Council (Simon Markham, Strategy and Engagement Manager at Waimakariri District Council).
4. Research title: Desmitificando conocimientos sobre cambio climático en la sociedad [Documentary film: Demystifying climate change knowledge in society].
Principal outcomes: Short film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOyahEKPmu8).
Principal end-user and contact: Education providers in Uruguay (Nancy Nieto, Rural Public School N. 88).
5. Research title: Knowledge and action systems: Capacity building to transform knowledge production into effective action under conditions of uncertainty in the Americas.
Principal outcomes: Policy reports, white papers.
Principal end-user and contact: Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (Marcella Ohira, Deputy Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research).
6. Research title: Fortalecimiento de la efectividad del Sistema Nacional de Áreas
Protegidas incluyendo el enfoque de paisaje en la gestión (Proyecto URU/12/G32) [Strengthening the National Protected Areas System by incorporating Landscape Approach to Management].
Principal outcomes: Policy reports.
Principal end-user and contact: Sistema Nacional de Areas Protegidas (Soledad Ghione, proyect coordinator for Sistema Nacional de Areas Protegidas).
7. Research title: Relevamiento de capacidades nacionales relacionadas al cambio climático [Climate change national capacities survey].
Principal outcomes: Book chapter, policy reports.
Principal end-user and contact: Unidad de Cambio Climático (Ignacio Lorenzo).
Thematics
Resource Development and Management
Area of Expertise
Field of research codes
Conservation and Biodiversity (050202):
Environment Policy (160507):
Environmental Politics (160605):
Environmental Science and Management (050200):
Environmental Sciences (050000):
International Relations (160607):
Natural Resource Management (050209):
Policy and Administration (160500):
Political Science (160600):
Studies In Human Society (160000):
Wildlife and Habitat Management (050211)
Teaching and Supervision
Teaching Statement
Current teaching:
132.112 - Planning for sustainable development (course coordinator)
132.305/132.735 - Natural resource policy and planning (course coordinator)
Past teaching:
132.213 - Policy analysis and evaluation
132.217 - Planning natural hazard-resilient communities
132.313 - Advanced planning techniques
132.751 - Natural hazards and resilient communities
Summary of Doctoral Supervision
Position | Current | Completed |
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Co-supervisor | 1 | 0 |
Current Doctoral Supervision
Co-supervisor of:
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Fenjie Qi
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Doctor of Philosophy
Regenerative tourism and social-ecological resilience: Application to Picton (Waitohi & Waikawa), Aotearoa New Zealand