Jose M. Rodriguez-Flores

José supports Environmental Defense Fund's work promoting agricultural and rural community water resilience across California. He focuses particularly on supporting the implementation of sustainable groundwater management and multibenefit land repurposing. His current work is focused on developing scientific support, research, data analysis, and project implementation support for California's multibenefit land repurposing initiatives. José holds Bachelors and Masters degree in Agricultural Economics from Universidad Autónoma Chapingo and Colégio de Postgraduados, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Systems from the University of California - Merced. His Ph.D. research focused on Californias' San Joaquin Valley agricultural adaptation to achieve sustainable groundwater management and uncertain surface water supplies, rural communities vulnerabilities to agricultural pumping, land repurposing, drought impacts and coupled food-water systems modeling. He is interested in collaborations regarding multibenefit land repurposing, collaborative planning, water-food nexus, groundwater sustainability, trade-offs analysis, equitable land transitions, economic incentives and adaptive planning.