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Alexander López (Costa Rica) holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, Norway. He is currently the director of the Institute for International Affairs of the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. He has worked and conducted extensive field work in the Brazilian Amazon focusing on environmental conflicts related to mining and water. In México and Central America he has been working for several years on issues related to socio-environmental conflict resolution and management of transboundary river basins. Most of his work on water management has been done in the border areas of Costa Rica-Nicaragua; Guatemala-El Salvador-Honduras; Guatemala-México and México-United States of America. Currently he is a member of the University Partnership for Transboundary Waters and member of the expert group on Environment and conflict prevention. Division on Early Warning and Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). His latest publication in english is: López, Alexander, Aaron Wolf, Joshua Newton. 2007. Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience Along International Waters: Latin America and the Caribbean. UNEP. Division of Early Warning and Assessment. Nairobi, Kenya. In Spanish his latest publication is: López, Alexander (2007) Cuencas Internacionales Como Sistemas de Seguridad Compleja. Editorial Universidad Nacional. Heredia, Costa Rica.