Dr. María Fernández-Giménez is a specialist in rangeland and human ecology. Especially on ecological and social dimensions of rangeland ecosystems. María has conducted research in Mongolia, Spain, Morocco, and across the western US on community-based natural resource management; traditional ecological knowledge; pastoralism; gender and rangeland management; and the effects of grazing livestock on the structure and function of rangeland ecosystems. In 2016, María was awarded the Order of the Polar Star from the government of Mongolia for her decades of work researching Mongolia’s rangelands and how natural and human communities are adapting to ecological and economic change.

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