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Cecilia Turin is an interdisciplinary scientist with degrees in animal science, development studies and rural sociology. Currently she is Leader in Livestock and Mountain Socio-Ecosystem Research at The Mountain Institute and PI of a McKnight foundation project that aims understanding intensification use of agropastoral landscapes around Huascaran National Park. She was Climate Change Adaptation and Gender Scientist at the International Potato Center, CCAFS and Dryland Systems CGIAR research programs. She was awarded a Fulbright Nexus to study social and behavioral adaptation to climate change. She has vast experience implementing household surveys, participatory mapping, and collecting perceptions with Andean puna pastoralists and agropastoralists. Her research focuses on the human dimensions of rangeland management and governance including land access and tenure, indigenous knowledge systems, social organization and power and gender relations. Likewise, she studies the social and environmental impacts of agricultural intensification, land use change, and adaptation of rural livelihoods to climate, social and institutional change onto puna ecosystem services like landscape, soil carbon stocks, soil fertility and nutrient cycling.