Edith Kauffer Author

Hanna Laako is a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). She worked as a researcher in Southern Mexico for ten years and currently leads a research project on Political Forests – the Maya Forest – financed by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology CONACYT and the Finnish Kone Foundation. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Edith Kauffer is a senior researcher at CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Mexico. She is the former coordinator of the researchers’ water network on the border between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize (RISAF) (2003-2016) and the co-coordinator of the Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion Consortium (RISC) working group on Management of Strategic Resources, Environment and Society. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Aix-Marseille University, France.