Sandra Valencia

Visiting Address:
Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10
4th floor
(Close to Gerdahallen)

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 170
SE-221 00 LUND
Sweden

Phone:
+46 (0)46 222 0511

Fax:
+46 (0)46 222 0475

E-mail:
info(at)lucsus.lu.se

Webmaster:
webmaster(at)lucsus.lu.se

	Sandra Valencia PhD student in Sustainability Science MS in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE
Visiting Address:	Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10, 5th floor
Postal Address:	P.O.Box 170, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Phone:	+46 (0)46 222 8416
E-mail:	sandra.valencialucsus.lu.se

Background

Sandra holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Southern Polytechnic State University in the USA and a Master’s degree in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Sandra has worked for the past four years on climate change adaptation in the Latin American and Caribbean region at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. Before the IDB, Sandra worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a research scientist for the Micro-pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) project, which consists of the collection and analysis of atmospheric data used to understand the effects of human activities and natural phenomena in the changes of the planet’s environment.

Research interest

Keywords: Climate change adaptation, Vulnerability, Water resources management,
                  Urban planning in developing countries, Peri-urban areas,
                  Urban-rural linkages, Latin America, Climate change governance,
                  Disaster risk management

How does the relation between the city and surrounding rural area affect the vulnerability to multiple stressors of the population at the urban-rural interface? The research aims at increasing the knowledge concerning the vulnerability of livelihoods to multiple uncertain stressors at the urban-rural interface in developing countries, with a focus on climate variability and change and the impacts on water-related processes. The research will also explore the socio-economic interactions between urban and rural areas in relation to water, under the hypothesis that such interactions (e.g. ecosystem services from the rural to urban area, territorial planning, water management strategies) have an impact on the vulnerability of these areas, resulting at times as additional stressors. The research will be based on a case study of a peri-urban area of Bogota, Colombia and its functional rural region.