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Glocalfilia
Biólogo por la UNAM, PhD en ecología y evolución por Montpellier II, Francia. Director Ejecutivo del Centro Interdisciplinario de Biodiversidad y Ambiente (CeIBA). Consultor independiente.
Selected papers
24 de julio, día del rebase ecológico planetario 2025. Glocalfilia, 24 de julio 2025.
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Planteamientos estratégicos 2018-2025 de CeIBA. La Crónica de Hoy, 8 de junio 2018.
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Transgresión de umbrales planetarios y desarrollo sustentable. Configuraciones 44, mayo – agosto 2017, Rev. Fund. Pereyra e IETD, México, Pág. 54 – 79.
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Fortalecer el desarrollo sustentable: una prioridad nacional. (Síntesis propuesta CeIBA, PND 2012 – 2018). El Correo del Sur – La Jornada de Morelos, Núm. 289, Junio 24, 2012.
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Darwin en el pensamiento del siglo XXI
Casa del Tiempo, Vol. II, Ép. 4, Núm. 21, julio 2009. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México. Pág. 3 – 9.
An analysis of The Limits to Growth, Sustainability, Planetary Boundaries Science, and Thermodynamics of the Economic Process (Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 1971).
Enero 2026
Modélisation et applications à la gestion d’espèces sauvages
Fundamentals on demography and models for wild populations.
Doctoral Thesis
PhD in «Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution»
Université de Montpellier II, France, 27 octobre 1994
Semblanza curricular
Biólogo por la UNAM, 1988. PhD por el Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, Montpellier, Francia, 1989 a 1994. Representante de la SEMARNAP ante la OCDE, 1995 a 2000. Asesor del Consejero Presidente del IFE (INE) 2001 a 2003. Director de Políticas Ambientales Globales, SEMARNAT 2004 a 2010; redactor coordinador de la primera Estrategia Nacional de Cambio Climático (2007) y del primer Programa Especial de Cambio Climático (PECC) 2009-2012. Especialidad en Economía Ambiental y Ecológica 2009-2010, Fac. de Economía, UNAM. Miembro del grupo de redacción del Panel de Alto Nivel para la Sostenibilidad Global ONU, 2011-2012, para la propuesta de Ban Ki-moon a la Cumbre Río+20: Resilient People Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing. Especialista en Sistemas de Manejo Ambiental, coordinó de su establecimiento en la UANL, Monterrey, 2010 a 2014. De 2014 a la fecha: Director Ejecutivo del Centro Interdisciplinario de Biodiversidad y Ambiente (CeIBA A. C.). Profesor invitado sobre «Transgresión de umbrales planetarios» y «Evolución humana», en el curso sobre Sustentabilidad del Desarrollo de la Fac. de Ciencias, UNAM. Ensayo para la Especialización de Posgrado en Economía Ambiental y Ecológica: Límites del crecimiento y termodinámica del proceso económico.
AGENDA
Our place in Planet Earth
We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself
Carl Sagan
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
A 1980 television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter. It covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life,
the history of the Univers, and a perspective of our place in it.
Watch here
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Information on the status of the environmental global agenda :
Agriculture & Food Security, Atmosphere, Biodiversity, Chemicals and Wastes, Cities, Climate Change, Disasters & Humanitarian Relief, Economics & Investment, Energy, Forests, Governance, Human Development, Islands, Land, Oceans & Coasts, Science, Sustainable Consumption & Production, Water & Sanitation, NEGOTIATIONS…
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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached
Planetary boundaries: the fundamentals
Living beyond the limits that biosphere’s boundaries dictates to Homo sapiens…
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Human Evolution
Each new piece of the puzzle of human evolution allows us to know a little more and better about our place in the Earth’s biodiversity and about the meaning of life. How we came to be the only humans on Earth and then, how we became a kind of gods thanks to our science and technology, mixed with Stone Age emotions and Middle Age institutions… Some pieces of this puzzle here
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Thermodynamics of the economic process
Main critics of economic theory from the point of view of thermodynamics. He developed, although left unfinished, the bioeconomic theory. His legacy provides the scientific foundation for ecological economics, and the inspiration for the various zero-growth, «strategic retreat,» or degrowth movements.
More on N. Georgescu-Roegen: here
BIBLIO
Planetary Boundaries
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached
Smil, V. 2013. Harvesting the Biosphere – What We Have Taken from Nature. MIT Press
[Here, a résumé]
An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere’s stores of living matter, from prehistory to modern crop production, noting that the increasing extent and intensity of present-day biomass harvests are changing the very foundations of civilisation’s well-being.
Smil, V. 2022. How The World Really Works. Penguin Books, UK. 326 pp.
Vaclav demonstrates that the world works supported by four main pillars: steel, cement, plastics and ammonia. To maintain these pillars, our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, making their complete and rapid elimination unlikely. More on Vaclav Smil here.
Hutchinson, G. E., et al. 1970. Sci. Am. Sp. Iss., Sept. 1970, Vol. 223, Num. 3.
Pioneering publication explaining the production of food, goods and services through energy and materials flows in the human economy, processes embedded in the biogeochemical earth’s cycles and physically constrained by the biosphere and its planetary boundaries.
Planetary Boundaries
Transgresión de umbrales planetarios y desarrollo sustentable. Configuraciones 44, mayo-agosto 2017, Revista de la Fundación Pereyra y del IETD
Demography
DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS
Continuous-time; discrete-time; branching processes; demographic parameters; life-tables; evolutionary fitness.
Political Ecology
Carabias, J. & Toledo, V (coord.). 1983. México.
This work triggered the public policies for renewable natural resources in Mexico.