A Story of Disconnections
From climate change to the lack of interdisciplinarity in academic and policy spaces — a natural scientist explores the unseen reasons behind the social unrest in Chile
Paulina Lopez
Paulina Lopez has an international academic background and a professional experience in the field of water, acquired at the intersection of natural and social sciences. After being qualified as a cartographer (Santiago, Chile), she obtained a MSc in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (Toulouse, France), a MSc and a Ph.D. in Water Sciences (Montpellier, France) and a MA in International Relations (New Delhi, India). Currently she works at TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute, is a consultant in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) – India and associate researcher in CSH. Her research focuses on water scarcity and the various political, socio-economic and environmental issues that emerge from it.
