Dra. Lakshmi E. Charli Joseph

Temas de investigación

  • Cambio transformativo
  • Agencia colectiva
  • Investigación transdisciplinaria
  • Métodos colaborativos
  • Narrativas e imaginarios de sosteninibilidades

Proyectos destacados

Co-coordinación de cursos

Semblanza

Bióloga por la UNAM, con una maestría en Derecho, Gestión y Política Ambientales (UAX), una en Planeación y Gestión Ambiental (IHE-Delft), y un doctorado en Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad (UNAM) con mención honorífica por la investigación: "Promoviendo vías de transformación hacia la sostenibilidad a través de la agencia colectiva: el Laboratorio de Transformación en el sistema socio-ecológico de Xochimilco". Desde 2015, forma parte del Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad (LANCIS) del Instituto de Ecología de la UNAM, enfocando su trabajo en el diseño de estrategias metodológicas y en la facilitación de procesos de colaboración transdisciplinaria dentro de diversos proyectos sobre sostenibilidad. Su principal línea de investigación es examinar condiciones que habilitan el cambio transformativo, desde diversas articulaciones metodológicas de coproducción encaminadas en catalizar un mayor sentido de agencia colectiva para enactuar trayectorias de sostenibilidad más plurales y situadas. Cuenta con más de 15 años de experiencia en el diseño y facilitación de procesos de aprendizaje en sostenibilidad centrados en experimentar diversas formas de colaboración transdisciplinaria que incluyen: el diseño de currícula y programas de enseñanza formal y no formal; la coordinación e impartición de cursos de posgrado en diferentes universidades; y la facilitación de programas internacionales de capacitación a grupos multiculturales.

Bio

Lakshmi has a BSc in biology, two MSc in environmental planning and management, and a PhD in sustainability sciences. Since 2015, she works at the National Laboratory for Sustainability Sciences (Institute of Ecology -UNAM, Mexico) in designing methodological strategies and facilitating collaborative processes within sustainability transdisciplinary projects. Her main research interest centres in examining how different methodological articulations might enable an enhanced sense of agency for enacting transformative change. For the past 15 years, she has been involved in diverse educational endeavours such as designing sustainability-related learning programmes, facilitating capacity development training courses with multi-cultural international groups, and teaching postgraduate courses about transformative change and collaborative methods inspired by participatory action-research and transdisciplinary approaches.

Publicaciones

Contribuciones en reportes internacionales para tomadores de decisiones

  • Convention on Wetlands and FAO. 2025. Agriculture and wetlands: maintaining and restoring wetlands for sustainable food production and ecosystem health. Technical Report 13. Gland, Convention on Wetlands. DOI: 10.69556/strp.tr13.25.eng. link
  • Convention on Wetlands. 2025. Agriculture and Wetlands: Maintaining and restoring wetlands for sustainable food production and ecosystem health. Supplementary Materials: Case study descriptions. Gland, Switzerland: Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands. DOI: 10.69556/strp.tr13.25.supp. link
  • Bennett E, et al. 2024. Chapter 3: How transformative change occurs. In Thematic Assessment Report on the Underlying Causes of Biodiversity Loss and the Determinants of Transformative Change and Options for Achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. O’Brien, K., Garibaldi, L., and Agrawal, A. (eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11382244 link

Artículos científicos

  • García-Meneses PM, García-Herrera R, Serrano-Candela F, Charli-Joseph L, Mota-Nieto J, Mejía Ciro JD, Garcilita-Arguello S, Fernández-Reyes JA, Toriz Cruz A, Platas Valle E, Corona-Jiménez A. 2024. Mapping causal networks from theories of change in sustainability projects: a software co-design process. Frontiers in Sustainability, 5:1405501.link
  • Augenstein K, Lam DP, Horcea-Milcu AI, Bernert P, Charli-Joseph L, Cockburn J, Kampfmann T, Pereira LM & Sellberg MM. 2024. Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 68, p.101438. link
  • Charli-Joseph L & Siqueiros-García JM. 2024. Transformations to sustainability. In The Companion to Development Studies (pp. 258-264). Routledge. link
  • Charli-Joseph L, Siqueiros-García JM, Eakin H, Manuel-Navarrete D, Mazari-Hiriart M, Shelton R, Pérez-Belmont P, & Ruizpalacios B. 2023. Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system. Sustainability Science, pp.1-19. link
  • Siqueiros-García JM, Manuel-Navarrete D, Eakin H, Mojica L, Charli-Joseph L, Pérez-Belmont P, & Ruizpalacios B. 2022. Sense of agency, affectivity and social-ecological degradation: an enactive and phenomenological approach. Frontiers in Psychology 13:911092. link
  • Chambers JM, Wyborn C, Klenk NL, Ryan ME, Serban A, Bennett NJ, Brennan R, Charli-Joseph L, ... & Rondeau R. 2022. Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations. Global Environmental Change 72. link
  • Chambers JM, Wyborn C, Ryan ME, Reid RS, .... Charli-Joseph L .... & Pickering T. 2021. Six modes of co-production for sustainability. Nature Sustainability, 4:938-996. link
  • Fazey I, Schäpke N, Caniglia G, Hodgson A, Kendrick I, Lyon C, Page G, Patterson J, .... Charli-Joseph L, .... & Young HR. 2020. Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there. Energy Research & Social Science, 70, 101724. link
  • Ely A, Marin A, Charli-Joseph L, Abrol D, Apgar M, Atela J, Ayre B, Byrne R, Choudhary BK, Chengo V, Cremaschi A, Davis R, Desai P, Eakin H, Kushwaha P, Marshall F, Mbeva K, Ndege N, Ochieng C, Ockwell D, Olsson P, Oxley N, Pereira L, Priya R, Tigabu A, Van Zwanenberg P, & Yang L. 2020. Structured Collaboration Across a Transformative Knowledge Network—Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts?. Sustainability 12(6),2499. link
  • Scoones I, Stirling A, Abrol D, Atela J, Charli-Joseph L, Eakin H, Ely A, Olsson P, Pereira L, Priya R, & van Zwanenberg P. 2020. Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 42:65–75. link
  • Pereira L, Frantzeskaki N, Hebinck A, Charli-Joseph L, Drimie S, Dyer M, Eakin H, Galafassi D, Karpouzoglou T, Marshall F, Moore ML, Olsson P, Siqueiros-García JM, van Zwanenberg P, & Vervoort JM. 2020. Transformative spaces in the making: key lessons from nine cases in the Global South. Sustainability Science 15:161–178. link
  • Charli-Joseph L, Siqueiros-Garcia J, Eakin H, Manuel-Navarrete D, & Shelton R. 2018. Promoting agency for social-ecological transformation: a transformation-lab in the Xochimilco social-ecological system. Ecology and Society 23(2):46. link
  • Eakin H, Shelton R, Siqueiros-Garcia J, Charli-Joseph L, & Manuel-Navarrete D. 2019. Loss and social-ecological transformation: pathways of change in Xochimilco, Mexico. Ecology and Society 24(3):15. link
  • Eakin H, Lerner AM, Manuel-Navarrete D, Hernández Aguilar B, Martínez-Canedo A, Tellman B, Charli-Joseph L, Fernández Álvarez R, Bojórquez-Tapia L. 2016. Adapting to risk and perpetuating poverty: Household’s strategies for managing flood risk and water scarcity in Mexico City. Environmental Science & Policy 66:324-333. link
  • Charli-Joseph L, Escalante AE, Eakin H, Solares MJ, Mazari-Hiriart M, Nation M, Gómez-Priego P, Domínguez CA, Bojórquez-Tapia L. 2016. Collaborative framework for designing a sustainability science program: lessons learned at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 17(2). link

Capítulos de libros

  • Pereira L, Olsson P, Charli-Joseph L, Zgambo O, Oxley N, Van Zwanenberg P, Siqueiros-García JM & Ely A. 2021. Transdisciplinary methods and T-Labs as transformative spaces for innovation in social-ecological systems. In Transformative Pathways to Sustainability (pp. 53-64). Routledge. link
  • Eakin H, Charli-Joseph L, Shelton R, Ruizpalacios B, Manuel-Navarrete D and Siqueiros-García JM. 2021. Wetlands under pressure: The experience of the Xochimilco T-Lab, Mexico. In Transformative Pathways to Sustainability (pp. 138-153). Routledge. link
  • Marshall F, Van Zwanenberg P, Eakin H, Charli-Joseph L, Ely A, Marin A and Siqueiros-García JM. 2021. Reframing sustainability challenges. In Transformative Pathways to Sustainability (pp. 187-205). Routledge. link
  • Ely A, Marin A, Marshall F, Apgar M, Eakin H, Pereira L, Charli-Joseph L, Siqueiros-García JM, Yang L, Chengo V and Abrol D. Emerging insights and lessons for the future. In Transformative Pathways to Sustainability (pp. 206-232). Routledge. link
  • Drimie S, Magner C, Pereira L, Charli-Joseph L, Moore ML, Olsson P, Siqueiros-Garcia, JM & Zgambo O. 2021. Facilitated dialogues. In The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems (Eds. Biggs R, de Vos A, Preiser R, Clements H, Maciejewski K and Schlüter M). (pp. 136-147) (2021):526, Routledge. link
  • Lerner AM, Charli-Joseph L. 2018. Marcos teóricos para el estudio de los sistemas socio-ecológicos y las ciencias de la sostenibilidad. En VS Ávila-Foucat & M Perevotchikova (Ed.) “Sistemas socio-ecológicos: marcos analíticos y estudios de caso en Oaxaca, México”. Cd.Mx, México: Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Pfeiffer E, Wehn U, Charli-Joseph L, Lerner AM, Irvine K. 2017. Training sustainability change agents: Lessons from international water education, in Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education, Vol. 4, pp 31-48 (Leal Filho, W., Azeiteiro, U.M., Alves, F., Molthan-Hill, P., ed). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47877-7_3; ISSN: 978-3-319-47876-0. link

Otras publicaciones y materiales

  • Chambers J, Wyborn C, Österblom H, Charli-Joseph L, Cockburn J, Hill R, Brennan R & Cvitanovic C. 2021. The hitchhiker’s guide to co-production: six ways to link knowledge and action for sustainability. Impact of Social Sciences Blog entry (06 Aug 2021). link
  • Manuel-Navarrete D, Charli-Joseph L, Eakin H, & Siqueiros-Garcia JM. 2021. Applying Technologies of the Self in Transformation Labs to Mobilize Collective Agency. Social Innovations Journal, 5. link
  • Ruizpalacios B, Charli-Joseph L, Eakin H, Siqueiros-García JM, Manuel-Navarrete D, & Shelton R. 2019. El Laboratorio de Transformación en el Sistema Socio-Ecológico de Xochimilco, Ciudad de México: Narrativa del proceso y guía metodológica. Ciudad de México, México: LANCIS-IE, UNAM. link. [English version: The Transformation Laboratory of the social-ecological system of Xochimilco, Mexico City: Description of the process and methodological guide]
  • Toward Democratic Transformations: A Lab on Labs. Report. 9-10 Dic. 2019. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Alemania. link
  • Ruizpalacios B, Charli-Joseph L, Eakin H, Siqueiros-García JM, & Shelton R. 2018. Creating bridges in Xochimilco through the “Pathways to Sustainability Game”. STEPS Centre webpage blog entry. link
  • Scoones I, Stirling A, Abrol D, Atela J, Charli-Joseph L, Eakin H, Ely A, Olsson P, Pereira L, Priya R, van Zwanenberg P, & Yang L. 2018. Transformations to Sustainability. STEPS Working Paper 104, Brighton: STEPS Centre. link
  • Charli-Joseph L, Escalante AE, Solares MJ. 2018. Los grandes retos del planeta y la sostenibilidad. Gaceta FESAragón, UNAM Num. 383. 16-17pp. link
  • Eakin H, Charli-Joseph L. & Siqueiros- García JM. 2017. What ‘Agency’ do researchers have in transformative research projects?. STEPS Centre webpage blog entry. link
  • Pérez-Belmont P, Charli-Joseph L, Valiente-Riveros E, Mazari-Hiriart M. 2018. Xochimilco y sus chinampas: lecciones del sismo del 19 de septiembre, 2017 Oikos= No. 20 Áreas naturales protegidas: ciencia, educación y arte. Instituto de Ecología, UNAM. link
  • Mazari-Hiriart M, Vázquez Salvador N, Equihua Zamora C, Espinosa García AC, Charli-Joseph L. 2017. Agua segura durante un estado de emergencia. H20 Gestión del Agua Num. 16. 14-20pp. link
  • Escalante AE, Charli-Joseph L, Solares MJ. 2013. Las Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad en las Aulas de la UNAM. Oikos= No.9 Ecología y sostenibilidad: del campo a la academia. Instituto de Ecología, UNAM. link
  • Escalante AE, Charli-Joseph L, Solares MJ. 2013. El cambio climático, un gran reto de sostenibilidad. Oikos= No.7 Biodiversidad y cambio climático. Instituto de Ecología, UNAM. link
  • Charli-Joseph L, Bojórquez-Tapia L, Gómez-Priego P, Pedroza-Páez D. 2012. A capacity building programme for sustainability: key competencies through formal and non-formal approaches. Published in the Proceedings of INTED2012 Conference ISBN: 978-84-615-5563-5. 5th-7th March 2012, Valencia, Spain. link

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