Yolanda Lopez
Academic Papers
My scientific research has been published in high-profile leading journals:
June 01, 2019
Research priorities for maintaining biodiversity’s contributions to people in Latin America
Citation: Pearson, R.,* Martínez-Meyer, E., Andrade Velázquez, M., Caron, M., Corona-Núñez, R., Davis, K., Paz Durán, A., García Morales, R., Hackett, T., Ingram, D., Loyola Díaz, R., Lescano, J., Lira-Noriega, A., López-Maldonado, Y. et al., (2019). “Research priorities for maintaining biodiversity’s contributions to people in Latin America”. UCL Open: Environment Preprint. DOI: 10.14324/111.444/000014.v2
November 28, 2018
Inequality and the Biosphere
Citation: Hamann, M., Berry, K., Chaigneau, T., Curry, T., Heilmayr, R., Henriksson, P., Hentati-Sundberg, J., Jina, A., Lindkvist, E., López-Maldonado, Y. et al., (2018). “Inequality and the Biosphere”. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 43:61-83. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025949
Restoring the environment, revitalizing the culture: Cenote conservation in Yucatan, Mexico
Elicitation of stakeholder’s mental models in order to characterise present-day local values for resource management and to analyse how the scientific community assimilate local knowledge in the study area in relation to a particular resource.
Citation: Lopez-Maldonado, Y., and F. Berkes. 2017. Restoring the environment, revitalizing the culture: cenote conservation in Yucatan, Mexico. Ecology and Society 22(4): 7. DOI: 10.5751/ES-09648-220407
Local groundwater balance model: stakeholders’ efforts to address groundwater monitoring and literacy
Development of a conceptual and numerical hydrological model to describe the natural system with the aim of producing relevant results for solving future resource problems in the study area.
Citation: Lopez-Maldonado, Y., Batllori-Sampedro, E., Binder, C., & Fath. B. 2017. Local groundwater balance model: stakeholders’ efforts to address groundwater monitoring and literacy. Hydrological Sciences Journal 62(14): 2297-2312. DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2017.1372857
Open Access: http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/14859/
May 23, 2016
Socio-ecological transformations within the Mayan area of Yucatan, Mexico: Past and present of a water oriented complex society
Citation: Lopez-Maldonado, Y.* (2016). “Socio-ecological transformations within the Mayan area of Yucatan, Mexico: Past and present of a water oriented complex society”. Proceedings of the workshop: Transformations of the Earth. International Graduate Workshop in Environmental History, 223-250. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and the School of History, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. May 18 – 23, 2016. DOI:
Towards an Understanding of the Human-Environment System of Mayan Communities: Knowledge, Users, Beliefs and Perception of Groundwater in Yucatan
Characterisation in a particular framework the socio-ecological system of the study area, and development of a research toolbox to contribute with environmental literacy and to provide support for a more strategic management or implementation of the SDG 6 at local level.
Citation: López-Maldonado, Y. 2014. Towards an understanding of the Human-Environment System of Mayan communities: Knowledge, users, beliefs and perception of groundwater in Yucatan. The Digital Library of the Commons. Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Indiana University. URL: http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/handle/10535/9408
Communitarian initiatives on cultural heritage: preservation, achievements and challenges
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Citation: López-Maldonado, Y. & Castillo-Burguete, T. 2013. Communitarian initiatives on cultural heritage: preservation, achievements and challenges. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 2551, 141-149. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3359952
Turismo cultural en una comunidad de la Costa de Yucatán. Estudio de caso
Cultural tourism in a coastal community of Yucatan. Case study.
Citation: López-Maldonado, Y. & Castillo-Burguete, T. 2010. Cultural tourism in a coastal community of Yucatan. Case study [in Spanish]. Topofilia, Revista de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Ciencias Sociales. 2(1). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2584.0729 URL: http://148.228.173.140/topofiliaNew/assets/lopez-castillo.pdf