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Sustainability and Climate Risks

Sustainability and Climate Risks

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Nicole Acosta

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PhD Student

Address

University of Hamburg
Sustainability and Global Change
Bundesstraße 57
20146 Hamburg

Office

Haus der Erde
Room: 06.A.033

Contact

ORCID: 0000-0003-2207-7319

Nicole Acosta studied biology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and Juniata College, USA. She graduated as M.Sc. in Tropical Forestry at the Technische Universität Dresden in 2020 with the master thesis title "Participatory scenarios for sustainable livelihoods of farmers in the parish of La Libertad, Ecuador".  She currently works on her PhD project "Joint preservation of ecological systems and farm livelihoods in the Galapagos Islands through improved food system resilience". This research will contribute to the  CLICCS-C2 project Sustainable Land-Use Scenarios: Soil, Biodiversity, Water, Food and Energy Security.

Publications

Acosta-Vásconez, N., Forstner, S., Vásconez, L., Zehetener, F. (2026). High-resolution soil property maps of the agricultural areas of the Galápagos Islands. Geoderma. 472 (117931). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2026.117931

Acosta-Vásconez, N., Jäger, H., Schneider, U. A., Santos, F., Kabir, K. H., Jantke, K. (2025). The socioeconomic dimensions of invasive plant cover in rural Galapagos. Biological Invasions, 27 (204), 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-025-03662-w

Santos, F., Jara, J., Acosta, N., Galeas, R., de Bièvre, B. (2024). Assessing Annual and Monthly Precipitation Anomalies in Ecuador Bioregions Using WorldClim CMIP6 GCM Ensemble Projections and Dynamic Time Warping. International Journal of Climatology, 1-26. DOI:10.1002/joc.8685

Santos, F. & Acosta, N. (2023). An Approach Based on Web Scraping and Denoising Encoders to Curate Food Security Datasets. Agriculture, 13 (5). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13051015

Kimengsi, J. Owusu, R., Djenontin, I., Pretzsch, J., Giessen, L., Buchenrieder, G., Pouliot, M., & Acosta, N. (2021).  What do we (not) know on forest management institutions in sub-Saharan Africa? A regional comparative review. Land Use Policy, 114, 105931. DOI. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105931.

Acosta-Vásconez, N., Carrera, M., Peñaherrera, E., & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F.  (2018). Predation on the teiid lizard Dicrodon guttulatum Duméril and Bibron, 1839 by the pitviper Porthidium arcosae Schätti and Kramer, 1993. Herpetology Notes, 11, 391-393.