Katya Perez Guzman
Research Scholar
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Research Scholar
Strategic Initiatives Program
Biography
Katya Perez Guzman is a research scholar the IIASA Strategic Initiatives Program. Her main interest is to develop and promote quantitative scientific instruments to inform public policy on climate change in Mexico.It was with this objective in mind that she worked in civil society and the governmental sector of Mexico for ten years. This experience of environmental advocacy was complemented by nine years of research experience, starting with a master's degree in Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics at the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM), where she specialized in the analysis of complex networks. Following her master’s studies, she pursued a PhD at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Mexico, focusing on the analysis of the implications of oil production and exports on a country's carbon intensity, a proposed "carbon curse". Most recently, she finalized a postdoctoral fellowship with the former IIASA Advanced Systems Analysis Program (ASA), where she quantified global extractivism with a network analysis of input-output tables.
Perez Guzman supported the IIASA Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy (FABLE) project from 2019-2021, as part of the larger Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) initiative. This crystallized her experience within a global consortium of climate change policy and research network, where she helps stakeholders to model, analyze, and better understand the different future policy scenarios of land use, food, and agriculture systems. Her main responsibility was supporting capacity building and the development of the FABLE calculator, an Excel based model that performs integrated analysis of the nexus between land use, food, and agriculture systems, with inclusion of biodiversity, climate change, and water criteria.
Last update: 10 FEB 2022
Publications
FABLE (2022). National food and land mitigation pathways for net zero. Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture & Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) , Montpellier/Paris, France.
Mosnier, A., Schmidt-Traub, G., Obersteiner, M. , Jones, S., Javalera Rincón, V. , DeClerck, F., Thomson, M., Sperling, F., Harrison, P., Pérez Guzmán, K. , McCord, G.C., Navarro-Garcia, J., Marcos-Martinez, R., Wu, G.C., Poncet, J., Douzal, C., Steinhauser, J. , Monjeau, A., Frank, F., Lehtonen, H., Rämö, J., Leach, N., Gonzalez-Abraham, C.E., Ghosh, R.K., Jha, C., Singh, V., Bai, Z., Jin, X., Ma, L., Strokov, A., Potashnikov, V., Orduña-Cabrera, F. , Neubauer, R., Diaz, M., Penescu, L., Domínguez, E.A., Chavarro, J., Pena, A., Basnet, S., Fetzer, I., Baker, J., Zerriffi, H., Reyes Gallardo, R., Bryan, B.A., Hadjikakou, M., Lotze-Campen, H., Stevanovic, M., Smith, A., Costa, W., Habiburrachman, A.H.F., Immanuel, G., Selomane, O., Daloz, A.-S., Andrew, R., van Oort, B., Imanirareba, D., Molla, K.G., Woldeyes, F.B., Soterroni, A.C., Scarabello, M., Ramos, F.M., Boer, R., Winarni, N.L., Supriatna, J., Low, W.S., Fan, A.C.H., Naramabuye, F.X., Niyitanga, F., Olguín, M., Popp, A., Rasche, L., Godfray, C., Hall, J.W., Grundy, M.J., & Wang, X. (2022). How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative. Sustainability Science 18 (1) 335-345. 10.1007/s11625-022-01227-7.
Navarro Garcia, J., Marcos-Martinez, R., Mosnier, A., Schmidt-Traub, G., Javalera Rincón, V. , Obersteiner, M. , Pérez Guzmán, K. , Thomson, M. , Penescu, L., Douzal, C., Bryan, B.A., & Hadjikakou, M. (2022). Multi-target scenario discovery to plan for sustainable food and land systems in Australia. Sustainability Science 18 (1) 371-388. 10.1007/s11625-022-01202-2.
Jha, C.K., Ghosh, R.K., Saxena, S., Singh, V., Mosnier, A., Pérez Guzmán, K. , Stevanović, M., Popp, A., & Lotze-Campen, H. (2022). Pathway to achieve a sustainable food and land-use transition in India. Sustainability Science 18 (1) 457-468. 10.1007/s11625-022-01193-0.
FABLE (2022). Pathways for food and land use systems to contribute to global biodiversity targets. FABLE Policy Brief. Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture & Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) , Montpellier/Paris, France.