Dr Angela Guerrero Gonzalez

Biography

Angela Guerrero is a sustainability scientist committed to the study of social-ecological systems. She focuses on understanding how collaborative governance and aspects of human behaviour affect environmental and social outcomes. Angela started her career as an engineer before embarking into environmental management and conservation. She obtained a PhD from The University of Queensland in 2015. She has Masters degree in Environmental Management from the same institution, and an Engineering degree from Universidad de Los Andes.  Before Angela joined QUT she was a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Prior to this she worked at the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and the Luc Hoffman Institute. Angela also has significant experience working in government and industry sectors in the areas of business strategy, international trade and supply chain management.

Angela’s research approach employs a diverse set of tools from multiple disciplines, primarily from the social sciences, but also from ecology and decision science. Her research approach is underpinned by systems thinking. Her interdisciplinary training allows her to understand environmental problems as complex systems of interactions between humans and nature, and to analyse these interactions using network models. She uses this approach to study important questions such as the factors that drive the effectiveness of collaborative governance approaches in a variety of contexts such as the environmental sustainability of agricultural systems, wildfire management, and the effectiveness of large-scale conservation programs.

Angela collaborates on multiple projects in the areas of governance, collaboration and organisational networks, food system sustainability and stakeholder values and perspectives in environmental decision making.

For more information, see Dr Guerrero’s website, twitter, or Google Scholar profile.