W.K. Kellogg Chair/ Director of Sustainability Studies Program
University of New Mexico
Interests:
Sustainable development, environmental justice, environmental social movements, grassroots innovations and public policy, food systems policy, agroecology, ecological economics, Latin American politics, United Nations and global policy.Bio:
Dr. Hernandez’ research, filmmaking and teaching examines just transitions to sustainability and regeneration. His focus is on social movements and ecovillages in Brazil, and their construction of agroecological systems and emergent politics and worldviews. He also examines how social movement activity can be translated and implemented into social policy and may engage with the United Nations System.
