PhD thesis: Family strategies and community. Migration and socio-cultural processes in two rural communities of the Sierra Region, Chiapas. (completed in 2010)
PhD Thesis:Analisis de la gestion de las politicas de saneamiento ambiental en asentamientos humanos en Costa Rica, periodo 1998-2006: Los casos de la Europa, San Martin y San Vicente
PhD thesis: La Crisis de los Espacios Públicos Urbanos en el Distrito Central (The Crisis of Urban Public Spaces in the Central District) (completed in 2011)
The NCCR North-South is hosted by the University of Bern
and funded jointly by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation