Paula Lady Pacheco Mollinedo

Motivated Bolivian engineer with over 13 years of extensive experience specializing in water resources and climate change. Dedicated several years to serving as a researcher and project coordinator at the esteemed NGO Agua Sustentable, playing a pivotal role in authoring and co-authoring impactful publications spanning a wide array of crucial topics including water management, mountain ecosystems, wetland conservation, and gender-inclusive approaches. Strong commitment to bridging the gap between science and policy has been evident in the contributions towards transforming scientific research into actionable policies. The research interests encompass hydrological modeling, remote sensing applications, participatory approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation, effective communication strategies, and evidence-based policy formulation. With a proven track record in project leadership and collaborative teamwork, she brings invaluable expertise in facilitating participatory methodologies for workshops and advocating for policy changes at local and international levels.

• Reliability of gridded temperature datasets to monitor surface air temperature variability over Bolivia (2023), 10.1002/joc.8200, F. Satgé | R. Pillco | J. Molina-Carpio | P. Pacheco Mollinedo | M-P. Bonnet
• Research and innovation missions to transform future water systems. Nat Water (2023), 10.1038/s44221-023-00049-w, D. Mark Smith, Christopher Gordon, Anoulak Kittikhoun, Jennifer Molwantwa, Paula Pacheco Mollinedo, Abir Ben Romdhane, Raunak Shrestha, Callist Tindimugay & Rachael McDonnell
• Plant community assembly is predicted by an environmental gradient in high-altitude wetlands in the semiarid western Bolivian Andes. Mires and Peat, Volume 27 (2021), 10.19189/MaP.2019.JSP.StA.1916, Alejandra I. Domic, José M. Capriles, Rosa Isela Meneses, Paula Pacheco
• Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers. Nature 577, 364–369 (2020), 10.1038/s41586-019-1822-y, Immerzeel, W.W., Lutz, A.F., Andrade, M., Bahl, A., Biemans, H., Bolch, T., Hyde, S., Brumby, S., Davies, B.J., Elmore, A.C., Emmer, A., Feng, M., Fernández, A., Haritashya, U., Kargel, J.S., Koppes, M., Kraaijenbrink, P.D.A., Kulkarni, A.V., Mayewski, P., Nepal, S., Pacheco, P., Painter, T.H., Pellicciotti, F., Rajaram, H., Rupper, S., Sinisalo, A., Shrestha, A.B., Viviroli, D., Wada, Y., Xiao, C., Yao, T., Baillie, J.E.M.
• Socio-ecological dimensions of Andean pastoral landscape change: bridging traditional ecological knowledge and satellite image analysis in Sajama National Park, Bolivia. Regional Environmental Change 19, 1353–1369 (2019), 10.1007/s10113-019-01466-y, Karina Yager, Corinne Valdivia, Daniel Slayback, Elizabeth Jimenez, Rosa Isela Meneses, Arely Palabral, Mary Bracho, Daniela Romero, Alfred Hubbard, Paula Pacheco, Alan Calle, Humber Alberto, Olga Yana, Daniela Ulloa, Gabriel Zeballos, Alejandro Romero
• Adaptative water governance: a theoretical approach reflected in the Mauri and Desaguadero River Basin Adaptation Plan. Routledge Handbook of Water Law and Policy (2017), 10.4324/9781315651132, Juan Carlos Sanchez, Paula Pacheco Mollinedo, Natalia Aguilar Porras
• The impact of climate change on human health in the Basin of the rivers Mauri and Desaguadero (Bolivian Altiplano Central). Revista Ciencia y Cultura N34 – Universidad Católica Boliviana. ISSN: 2077-3323 June 2015 59-80, Paola A. Alvizuri Tintaya
• Paula Pacheco M.
• Local Management of Andean Wetlands in Sajama National Park, Bolivia: Persistence of the Collective System in Increasingly Family-oriented Arrangements. Mountain Research and Development 34(4), 356-368, (1 November 2014), 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-14-00024.1, Elena Katia Villarroel
• Paula Lady Pacheco Mollinedo
• Alejandra I. Domic
• José M. Capriles
• Carlos Espinoza
• A First Rock Glacier Inventory for the Bolivian Andes. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. (2014), 10.1002/ppp.1816, Sally Rangecroft
• Stephan Harrison
• Karen Anderson
• John Magrath
• Ana Paola Castel
• Climate Change and Water Resources in Arid Mountains: An Example from the Bolivian Andes. Ambio. 42. (2013), 10.1007/s13280-013-0430-6, Sally Rangecroft
• Paula Pacheco
• Data and Information Management in Transboundary Water Governance. Journal of Water Law. 23. (2012), Paula Pacheco
• Juan Carlos Sanchez
• Quinn Tattle

• Date of Birth: 04/23/80
• Nationality: Bolivian

• David Molden, djmolden@gmail.com
• Marisa Escobar, marisa.escobar@sei.org
• Marie-Paule Bonnet, marie-paule.bonnet@ird.fr

Member - Bolivian Society of Engineers

Co-leader - International Water Resources Association IWRA

Institutional Representative - International Union for Nature Conservation IUCN