Araceli Clavijo

Araceli Clavijo is a biologist with a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Risk Prevention from the University of Granada (Spain) and a PhD in Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). She is currently an assistant researcher at the Institute for Non-Conventional Energy Research (INENCO) of CONICET in Argentina. Her research focuses on the water-energy nexus addressing water governance and territorial risk analysis, grounded in the fundamental pillars of sustainable development — equity, environmental sustainability and economic growth — from a Political Ecology perspective. She has specialized in highly vulnerable territories, particularly the Andean region, and the semi-arid Chaco, where she has studied land tenure conflicts, water access for indigenous communities and resource governance. Her main line of research is about energy transition and sustainability, with special emphasis on the analysis of socio-environmental impacts in the Lithium Triangle. With more than ten years of experience in Latin America, she has conducted research stays in EEUU, Israel and Spain, and is an active member of a global research network on energy transitions involving institutions in Canada, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico and Spain. Her approach combines academic research with community-led initiatives and capacity-building for Indigenous and peasant organizations.