Dr Rosa Hernadez-Cruz
Associate Lecturer

Profile

Biography

Rosa joined the Department of Environment and Geography, as an associate lecturer. She has a masters in Natural Resources and Rural Development (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico) investigating Ecotourism and Social Adaptation in the Lacandon Rainforest in Chiapas, Mexico.

She recently completed her PhD in Environmental Management within the department researching food culture and culinary practices in rural areas of Mexico using photo voice methodology.

Rosa is a social researcher with a passion for constructing knowledge using participatory methodologies. Her principal research interests are food culture, food sovereignty, social organization in alternative food networks and ecotourism and gender in rural areas of developing countries.

Publications

Selected publications

• Aguilar Jimenez Guadalupe, Montoya Gomez Guillermo, Hernandez Cruz Rosa Elba, Vazquez Sanchez Miguel Angel. 2018. Apropiacion y reapropiación de recursos en Agua de Pajarito: de las practicas campesinas al ecoturismo. El Periplo Sustentable. No. 35. P. 212-241.
• Suarez Gutierrez, Gloria Mariel, Bello Baltazar Eduardo, Rosa Elba Hernandez Cruz, Allan Rhodes. 2016. Ecoturismo y el trabajo invisibilizado de las mujeres en la Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, México. El Periplo Sustentable. Vol. 16, no. 31.
• Hernandez Cruz Rosa Elba, Suarez Gutiérrez Gloria, Lopez-Digueros Jose A. 2015. Integración de una red de agreocoturismo en México y Guatemala como alternativa de desarrollo local. Pasos. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural. Vol. 13, no. 1, p. 191-205.
• Ramírez-Moreno L., Bello-Baltazar E., Hernández-Cruz R.E. 2013. Reflexiones sobre el desarrollo de un proceso ecoturístico: el caso de La Palma, Acapetahua, Chiapas. In: Guzmán M.G., Juárez D. (Eds.). En busca del ecoturismo: casos y experiencias del turismo sustentable en México, Costa Rica, Brasil y Australia. Eón: El Colegio de San Luis, A.C. ISBN: 978-607-7601-78-4. pp. 177-198.
• Hernández Cruz R.E., Bello Baltazar E., Montoya Gómez G., Estrada Lugo E.I.J. 2005. Social Adaptation and Ecotourism in the Lacandon Forest. Annals of Tourism Research. 32(3): 610-627.