Carlos García-Quijano holds a Ph.D. in ecological and environmental anthropology from the University of Georgia, along with a Master of Science degree in geology and reef palaeoecology and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Puerto Rico. In his research and teaching, Garcia-Quijano strives to understand the dynamic and evolving relationship between people and their ecosystems. He has a special interest in how human cognition, culture, and society influence the interaction between people and the non-human environment, as well as who bears the impacts and the responsibility for environmental problems.
Garcia-Quijano’s applied goal is to help prevent environmental
degradation and its differential impacts on the less powerful sectors of
society. Towards these purposes he uses the tools of anthropology
together with those of disciplines such as ecology, cognitive science,
and ecological economics. Click here to read more about his research and publications.
