Manuel Valdés Pizzini ha sido director del Programa Sea Grant, del Centro de Investigación Social Aplicada (CISA), del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y del Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios del Litoral (CIEL). Valdés Pizzini fue Decano de la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias e investigador asociado en dos centros de la UPR-Río Piedras.
Educación: Doctorado en Ciencias Antropológicas (1985) en la Universidad del Estado de Nueva York (SUNY), en Stony Brook.
Investigación / Áreas de Interés: Pescadores y pesquerías, usos de los bosques, relación entre los humanos y la naturaleza, conservación de áreas costeras y marinas, e historia de las comunidades costeras.
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Manuel Valdés Pizzini has been director of the Sea Grant Program, the Center for Applied Social Research (CISA), the Social Sciences Department, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Coastal Research (CIEL). Valdés Pizzini was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and an associate researcher at two centers at UPR-Rio Piedras.
Education: PhD in Anthropological Sciences (1985) at the State University of New York, at Stony Brook.
Research / Areas of Interests: Fishers and fisheries, uses of forests, relationship between humans and nature, conservation of coastal and marine areas, and the history of coastal communities.
Publications Publicaciones:
2022 Memoria de la jarea. Capítulo en el libro Verdor que clama: Medioambiente, lengua y literatura. Carmen Rivera Villegas, Alexandra Morales Reyes y Rocío Luque Colautti, editoras. San Juan: Ediciones del Flamboyán.
2022 Prólogo. Historia de la industria atunera en Mayagüez: De 1960 al 2012. Luís Manuel Baquero Rosas. Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas Inc.
2021 La imperiosa necesidad del bacalao: Puerto Rico y Terranova en la Ecología-Mundo. Relaciones Internacionales, (47), 163–179. https://doi.org/10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2021.47.008
2021 Anthropological musings: history, memory, and the smell of codfish. Academia Letters, Article 311. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL311.
2020 Editorial: Making Sense out of Coastal Peoples and Fishers’ Responses to Extreme Natural Events in the Caribbean. Coastal Management, Volume 48, 2020, pp: 349-353. Issue 5: Caribbean community resilience to extreme environmental events, Guest Editors: Tarsila Seara, Richard Pollnac.
2018 Prologo. Ambiente y democracia: Experiencias de gestión comunitaria ambiental en Puerto Rico. Carmen M. Concepción, Gustavo García López and Alejandro Torres Abreu, editors. Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.
2014 Valdés Pizzini, Manuel and Michelle T. Schärer Umpierre. 2014. People, Habitats, Species, and Governance: An Assessment of the Socio-Ecological System of La Parguera. Interdisciplinary Center for Coastal Studies and UPR Sea Grant College Program, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
2014 Carlos García Quijano and Manuel Valdés. Ecosystem-based knowledge and reasoning in tropical, multispecies, small-scale fishers’ LEK: What can fishers LEK contribute to coastal ecological science and management? In Fishers’ knowledge and the ecosystem approach to fisheries: Applications, experiences and lessons in Latin America, J Fischer, J. Jorgensen. H. Josupeit, D. Kalikoski and C. Lucas, editors. Rome: Food and Agriculture of the United Nations.
2014 Marine Managed Areas and Associated Fisheries in the U.S. Caribbean (Chapter Four). Advances in Marine Biology. Marine Managed Areas and Fisheries. Edited by Magnus L. Johnson and Jane Sandell. 2015. Michelle T. Schärer, Daniel Mateos Molina, Richard Appeldoorn, Ivonne Bejarano, Edwin Hernández, Michael Nemeth, Richard Nemeth and Tyler Smith. Volume 69: 129-150.