Vivienne Solís Rivera
Area of expertise
Conservation and Governance of Biological Resources
Degrees
- B.S. in Biology, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica
- M.S. in Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Potential student research areas
- Biological and cultural diversity
- Socio-Environmental conflict transformation
- Governance of Protected Areas
- Community-based conservation initiatives
- Marine Conservation with people
Biography
Vivienne Solis Rivera is a Costa Rican Biologist. She has participated in interdisciplinary and inter-institutional projects of environmental conservation and training in the field of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Her professional activities in the last two decades have been oriented towards communitary-based sustainable use of wildlife and other natural resources, interdisciplinary discussions on the use of biodiversity elements with emphasis in the just and equitable distribution of the benefits derived from its use, co-management and other forms of governance of that promote local participation in the conservation of protected areas.
She is founder of CoopeSoliDar R.L. a cooperative formed by people of different knowledge’s and interests based on an ethical background of common values, with a social and cultural compromise. The mission of CoopeSoliDar R.L is oriented towards proposing new and creative alternatives to reach that the cultural and biological richness contributes to the improvement of the quality of life or population with justice and equity, through accompanying participative processes for decision making from individual and collective spaces, at the local, national and international levels.
www.coopesolidar.org