I work at the Federal Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in Argentina (www.ambiente.gob.ar). I am a professor at the National University of San Martín and a member of the Research Group of Environment and Policiy of the School of Politics and Government there (https://gapepyg.wordpress.com). I coordinate Working Party 9.05.06 Community Forestry and am a Deputy Coordinator of Research Group 9.03 Forest History and Traditional Knowledge at the International Union of Forest Researh Organizations - IUFRO (www.iufro.org). My main areas of interest include: governance, public policy, public regulation, natural resources, traditional knowledge, sustainable livelihoods.

Interests: governance, community forestry, sustainable livelihoods