Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez

Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez is a social scientist and professor-researcher at CIESAS, a Mexican public research center for social anthropology, based in Monterrey. She is trained in Economics, Regional Planning and Gender Studies, and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Bremen, Germany, for her thesis on the significance of gender and intersectionality in the social vulnerability to extreme weather events in the context of climate change.

Her work integrates gender studies and political ecology perspectives to study socio-environmental issues, such as social vulnerability to climate change; gender, intersectionality and disasters; urban mobility and environmental justice.

As activist scholar she is engaged in the collectives: EnJust Network for environmental justice based in Kiel; Academicxs de Monterrey 43 against state violence; as well as the Mexican Gender and Environment Network RedGESMA.

She is co-author, with Silja Klepp, of A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Discourses, Policies and Practices, from the Routledge Series Advances in Climate Change Research (2018, reprinted 2020); and of Environmental Justice in Latin America: Violence and Resistance (2024), an open access scientific dissemination work co-edited with Celia Ruiz de Oña Plaza and Ignacio Rubio Carriquiriborde. Her current project explores risk perception and coping, adaptation and survival practices to hydro-meteorological hazards in the city of Monterrey.