Maria Jose Barragan P.

Maria Jose Barragan Paladines currently is the Science Director at the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands. Previously she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher within the Social Sciences Department, at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, Germany. In that period Maria Jose developed Qualitative Social Research under the development and knowledge sociology working group, with focus into small-scale fisheries sustainability, fishing communities’ viability, food security from the marine perspective, and marine resource governance.