Claudia Radel

Publications | Abstracts

• Mardero, S., Schmook, B., Christman, Z., Radel, C.A, (2016). Governmental responses and smallholders’ adaptations to climatic variability in southeastern Mexico. Geophysical Research Abstracts
• Furniss, M., Saah, D., Hines, S., Radel, C.A, McGroddy, M., Ganz, D., (2014). A university-level curriculum in climate change for SE Asia and the Asian Pacific. American Geophysical Union

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Books

• Radel, C.A, Vadjunec, J., (2017). Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods. MDPI

Publications | Book Chapters

• Schmook, B., Carte, L., Radel, C.A, Navarro-Olmedo, S., (2020). Links between land access, land use, and hunger in today’s neoliberal Nicaragua: Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival. Routledge
• Schmook, B., Haenn, N., Radel, C.A, Navarro- Olmedo, S., (2018). Empowering women? Conditional cash transfers in Calakmul, Mexico: Money from the Government in Latin America: Social Cash Transfer Policies and Rural Lives. Routledge
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., Carte, L., Mardero, S., (2016). Migración y cambio climático en el Noroeste de Nicaragua: una visión crítica y de género: Transformaciones ambientales e igualdad de género en América Latina: temas emergentes, estrategias y acciones. UNAM
• Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Méndez, C., (2014). Labour migration and gendered agricultural asset shifts in southeastern Mexico: Two stories of farming wives and daughters: Ester Boserup's Legacy on Sustainability: Orientations for Contemporary Research. Springer
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., McCandless, S., (2013). Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: Case studies from Southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA: Migration and Climate Change. Edward Elgar Publishing
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., Méndez, C., (2013). Gender, the household, and land change in southeastern Mexico: Land Change Science, Political Ecology and Sustainability: Synergies and Divergences. Routledge
• Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Méndez, C., McEvoy, J., Petrzelka, P., (2012). Migración, género y tenencia de la tierra: Identidades femeninas complejas en el sector rural de Calakmul: Género y Migración. ECOSUR / EL COLEF / COLMICH / CIESAS
• Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, (2009). Migración Internacional Desde un Área de Frontera Agrícola y Reserva Ecológica: El Caso del Sur de la Península de Yucatán: Una Aproximación a las Migraciones Internacionales en la Frontera Sur de México. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
• Radel, C.A, (2009). Natures, Gendered: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford: Elsevier

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Curriculum

• Radel, C.A, (2015). Social and Environmental Soundness Module, USAID LEAF Regional Climate Change Curriculum. USAID LEAF
• Burnham, M., Radel, C.A, Ma, Z., Laudati, A., (2014). Teaching and learning guide for: Extending a geographic lens towards climate justice. Geography Compass

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Carte, L., Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Johnson, R., (2025). Linkages between international migration and agrarian extractivism in Guatemala. Journal of Peasant Studies
• Radel, C.A, Carte, L., Johnson, R., Schmook, B., (2025). Emotions and gendered experiences of livelihood migration: Memos from Nicaragua and Guatemala. Gender, Place and Culture, 32:1, 73-82.
• Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Carte, L., Johnson, R., (2023). In the shadow of the Green Revolution: Constrained spatial imaginaries and smallholder farming in western Guatemala. The Profesional Geographer, 75:2, 305-315.
• Schmook, B., Carte, L., Radel, C.A, Aguilar-Stoen, M., (2023). A diversity of migration and land couplings: An introduction to the special issue “Migration and Land” . Land, 12:7, 1366.
• Mack, E., Sauls, L., Jokisch, B., Nolte, K., Schmook, B., He, Y., Radel, C.A, Allington, G., Kelley, L., Scott, C., Leisz, S., Chi, G., Sagynbekova, L., Cuba, N., Henebry, G., (2023). Remittances and land change: A systematic review. World Development, 168, 106251.
• Hoominfar, E., Radel, C.A, (2023). “Frankly my dear, I don’t want a dam” in the US or in Iran: Environmental movements in differing political economies. Social Sciences, 12:3, 161.
• Spangler, K., Burchfield, E., Radel, C.A, Jackson-Smith, D., Johnson, R., (2022). Crop diversification in Idaho’s Magic Valley: the present and the imaginary. Agronomy for Sustainable Development
• Schmook, B., Mardero, S., Calmé, S., White, R., Radel, C.A, Carte, L., Cassanova, G., Castelar Cayetano, J., Joo Chang, J., (2022). The border-development-climate change nexus: Precarious campesinos at the Selva Maya Mexico–Guatemala border. Borders in Globalization Review, 3:2, 38-52.
• Tagen, B., Radel, C.A, Dale-Hallett, L., Forge, C., (2021). Photovoice, claiming visibility, and women's farming identities in Australia. Emotion, Space, and Society, 41, 100835.
• Bauchet, J., Asquith, N., Ma, Z., Radel, C.A, Godoy, R., Zanotti, L., Steele, D., Gramig, B., Estrella Chong, A., (2020). The practice of payments for ecosystem services (PES) in the Tropical Andes: Evidence from program administrators. Ecosystem Services, 45, 101175.
• Mardero, S., Schmook, B., Navarro Olmedo, S., Christman, Z., Radel, C.A, de la Barreda Bautista, B., (2020). Water scarcity, agricultural and conservation policies: Old and new challenges for Mexican smallholder maize production in the protected forests of the Mexico-Guatemala border. Journal of Latin American Geography, 19:3, 112-132.
• Hoominfar, E., Radel, C.A, (2020). Contested dam development in Iran: A case study of the exercise of state power over local people. Sustainability, 12, 5476.
• Green, L., Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Mardero, S., (2020). Living smallholder vulnerability: The everyday experience of climate change in Calakmul, Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography, 19:2, 110-142.
• Mansfield, B., Lave, R., McSweeney, K., Bonds, A., Cockburn, J., Domosh, M., Hamilton, T., Hawkins, R., Hessl, A., Monroe, D., Ojeda, D., Radel, C.A, (2019). It’s time to recognize how men’s careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia. Human Geography , 12:1, 82-87.
• Carte, L., Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Johnson, R., (2019). The slow displacement of smallholder farming families: land, hunger and labor migration in Nicaragua and Guatemala. Land, 8:6, 89.
• Radel, C.A, Jokisch, B., Schmook, B., Carte, L., Aguilar-Støen, M., Hermans, K., Zimmerer, K., Aldrich, S., (2019). Migration as a feature of land system transitions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 38, 103-110.
• Jokisch, B., Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., Carte, L., (2019). Migration matters: How migration is critical to contemporary human-environment geography. Geography Compass, 13:8, e12460.
• Parry, L., Radel, C.A, Adamo, S., Clark, N., Counterman, M., Flores-Yeffal, N., Pons, D., Romero-Lankao, P., Vargo, J., (2019). The (in)visible health risks of climate change. Social Science & Medicine , 241
• Carte, L., Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., (2019). Subsistence migration: Smallholder food security and the maintenance of agriculture through mobility in Nicaragua. The Geographical Journal, 185, 180-193.
• Mardero, S., Schmook, B., Lopez-Martinez, J., Cicero, L., Radel, C.A, Christman, Z., (2018). The uneven influence of climate trends and agricultural policies on maize production in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Land, 7:3, 80.
• Navarro, S., Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Armijo-Canto, N., (2018). Los nudos del ejido: Disputas y relaciones intra-ejidales en Calakmul, Campeche. Peninsula, 13:2, 125-150.
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., Carte, L., Mardero, S., (2018). Toward a political ecology of migration: Land, labor migration, and climate change in northwestern Nicaragua. World Development, 108, 263-273.
• Bose, P., Larson, A., Lastarria-Cornhiel, S., Radel, C.A, Schmink, M., Schmook, B., Vázquez-García, V., (2017). Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America. Women's Studies International Forum, 65, 53-59.
• Olvera, B., Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Nazar, A., (2017). Efectos adversos de los programas de apoyo alimenticio en los hogares rurales de Calakmul, Campeche. Estudios Sociales, 27:49, 11-46.
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., Haenn, N., Green, L., (2017). The gender dynamics of conditional cash transfers and smallholder farming in Calakmul, Mexico. Women's Studies International Forum, 65, 17-27.
• Ma, Z., Bauchet, J., Steele, D., Godoy, R., Radel, C.A, Zanotti, L., (2017). Comparison of direct transfers for human capital development and environmental conservation. World Development, 99, 498-517.
• Turner, II, B., Geoghegan, J., Lawrence, D., Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., Vance, C., Manson, S., Keys, E., Foster, D., Klepeis, P., Vester, H., Rogan, J., Roy Chowdhury, R., Schneider, L., Dickson, R., Ogenva-Himmelberger, Y., (2016). Land system science and the social-environmental system: The case of Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR) project. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 19, 18-29.
• Vadjunec, J., Radel, C.A, Turner, II, B., (2016). Introduction: The continued importance of smallholders today. Land, 5:4, 34-45.
• Navarro, S., Haenn, N., Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, (2016). The legacy of Mexico’s agrarian counter-reforms: Reinforcing social hierarchies in Calakmul, Campeche. Journal of Agrarian Change, 16:1, 145-167.
• Mardero, S., Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Christman, Z., Lawrence, D., Millones, M., Nickl, E., Rogan, J., Schneider, L., (2015). Smallholders' adaptations to droughts and climate variability in southeastern Mexico. Environmental Hazards, 14:1, 271-288.
• Brand, J.C, Radel, C.A, McCann, R.B, Greene, J., (2014). Developing, implementing, and evaluating a No-Child-Left-Inside pilot program. Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 13:4, 261-268.
• Madsen, J., Radel, C.A, Endter-Wada, J.L, (2014). Justice and immigrant Latino recreation geography in Cache Valley, Utah. Journal of Leisure Research, 46:3, 291-312.
• Radel, C.A, Coppock, D.D, (2013). The world’s gender gap in agriculture and natural resources: Evidence and explanations. Rangelands, 35:6, 7-14.
• Burnham, M., Radel, C.A, Ma, Z., Laudati, A.A, (2013). Extending a geographic lens towards climate justice, part 1: Climate change characterization and impacts. Geography Compass, 7:3, 239-248.
• Burnham, M., Radel, C.A, Ma, Z., Laudati, A.A, (2013). Extending a geographic lens towards climate justice, part 2: Climate action. Geography Compass, 7:3, 228-238.
• Schmook, B., van Vliet, N., Radel, C.A, Manzón-Che, M., McCandless, S., (2013). Persistence of swidden cultivation in the face of globalization: a case study from communities in Calakmul, Mexico. Human Ecology, 41:1, 93-107.
• Radel, C.A, (2012). Gendered Livelihoods and the Politics of Socio-Environmental Identity: Women’s Participation in Conservation Projects in Calakmul, Mexico. Gender, Place, and Culture, 19:1, 61-82.
• Mannon, S.E, Petrzelka, P., Glass, C.M, Radel, C.A, (2012). Keeping Them in Their Place: Migrant Women Workers in Spain’s Strawberry Industry. International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture, 19, 83-101.
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., McEvoy, J., Mendez, C., Petrzelka, P., (2012). Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Relations: The Feminization of Agriculture in the Ejidal Sector of Calakmul, Mexico. Journal of Agrarian Change, 12:1, 98-119.
• McEvoy, J., Petrzelka, P., Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., (2012). Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind. Mobilities, 7:3, 369-388..
• Radel, C.A, (2012). Outcomes of Conservation Alliances with Women’s Community-Based Organizations in Southern Mexico. Society & Natural Resources, 25:1, 52-70. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2011.555879
• Radel, C.A, (2011). Becoming Farmers: Opening Spaces for Women’s Resource Control in Calakmul, Mexico. Latin American Research Review, 46:2, 29-54.
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., Roy Chowdhury, R., (2010). Agricultural Livelihood Transition in the Southern Yucatán Region: Diverging Paths and their Accompanying Land Changes . Regional Environmental Change, 10:3, 205-218.
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., McCandless, S., (2010). Environment, Transnational Labor Migration, and Gender: Case Studies from Southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA. Population and Environment, 32:2, 177-197.
• Lawrence, D., Radel, C.A, Tully, K., Schmook, B., Schneider, L., (2010). Untangling a Global Decline in Tropical Forest Resilience: Constraints on the Sustainability of Shifting Cultivation. Biotropica, 42:1, 21-30.
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., (2009). Migration and Gender: The Case of a Farming Ejido in Calakmul, Mexico. The Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers71, 144-163.
• Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, (2008). International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and an Incipient Forest Transition—the Southern Yucatán Case. Human Ecology, 36:6, 891-908.
• Radel, C.A, Schmook, B., (2008). Male Transnational Migration and its Linkages to Land Use Change in a Southern Campeche Ejido. Journal of Latin American Geography, 7:2, 59-84.
• Radel, C.A, (2005). Women’s Community-Based Organizations, Conservation Projects, and Effective Land Control in Southern Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography, 4:2, 9-36.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Newsletter

• Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, Carte, L., (2022). Migration as a survival strategy for smallholder farmers facing an authoritarian extractivist regime in Nicaragua. LASA Forum *
• Schmook, B., Radel, C.A, (2009). Los Maridos en el ‘Norte’; las Mujeres ¿Bien Gracias?. Ecofronteras *

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An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.