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Pamela Loreto Bachmann Vargas

Investigadora Principal Red de Conocimiento-Acción

Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP)

Coyhaique, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Nature-based tourism, human geography, remote peripheries, nature conservation, inter- and transdisciplinary research, socio-ecological systems, knowledge-action networks

Educación

  •  Environmental Policy, WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY. Holanda, 2021
  •  Environmental Management, CHRISTIAN ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAT ZU KIEL. Alemania, 2013
  •  Ecologia de Ecosistemas, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
  •  Bióloga c/m en Medio Ambiente, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2006
  •  Licenciatura en Biología, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2005

Experiencia Académica

  •   Investigadora postdoctoral Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF UMEA

    Social Sciences

    Umeå, Suecia

    2022 - 2024

  •   PhD student Full Time

    WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY

    Wageningen, Holanda

    2015 - 2021

  •   Research support Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF UMEA

    Social Sciences

    Umeå, Suecia

    2025 - 2025

  •   Visiting researcher Other

    UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE PERNAMBUCO

    Recife, Brasil

    2019 - 2019

  •   Researcher Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Santiago, Chile

    2014 - 2015

  •   Researcher/research assistant Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Science

    Santiago, Chile

    2005 - 2010

  •   Principal investigator Full Time

    CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION EN ECOSISTEMA DE LA PATAGONIA

    Coyhaique, Chile

    2026 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Consultant Part Time

    Cienciambiental

    Santiago, Chile

    2009 - 2011

  •   Coordinadora de Medio Ambiente Full Time

    Equipos y Construcciones S.A.

    Lirquén, Chile

    2011 - 2011

  •   Consultant Part Time

    Undersecretariat of Public Health, Ministry of Health

    Santiago, Chile

    2009 - 2009

  •   Intern Other

    Instituto de Fomento Pesquero

    Puerto Montt, Chile

    2004 - 2004

  •   Intern Other

    Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias

    Coyhaique, Chile

    2008 - 2008

Premios y Distinciones

  •   Wallenberg Travel Grants

    UNIVERSITY OF UMEA

    Suecia, 2023

    Travel grant to attend the Norwegian Polar Academy Summer School held in Svalbard, Norway.

  •   Umeå Transformation Research Initiative

    UNIVERSITY OF UMEA

    Chile, 2023

    Two small grants to organize workshops on serious games and on capacity building for transformative research.

  •   Strategic funds Arctic Centre

    UNIVERSITY OF UMEA

    Chile, 2022

    Grant to conduct fieldwork in Abisko, northern Sweden.

  •   BecasChile

    WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY

    Holanda, 2014

    Full scholarship to pursue PhD studies at Wageningen University (2015-2019)

  •   BecasChile

    CHRISTIAN ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAT ZU KIEL

    Alemania, 2009

    Full scholarship to pursue Master studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany (2011-2013)

  •   Research grant Oxfam Great Britain – Canada in Chile

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile, 2005

    Research grant, BSc. thesis, 2005. Awarded by Oxfam Great Britain – Canada in Chile; Multidisciplinary Program for the Social Dialogue, University of Chile.

  •   IGU Regional Conference Travel Grant

    The International Geographical Union (IGU)

    Turquia, 2026

    Travel grant to attend the IRC Conference, 17-21 August 2026 ?stanbul University


 

Article (10)

Notes from the field: An interdisciplinary perspective on the experiences, challenges and solutions for conducting fieldwork in glacial and periglacial environments

Popovaite, Virginija., Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela, Wood, Ella, Hübner, Anna, Kavvatha, Eleni, Duncan, Seira, Lauzon, Benoît

Article
NORDIA GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS  (2026)

A South-North research agenda for cryotourism in a warming world

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela; Demiroglu, O. Cenk; Ruiz Pereira, Sebastian; Bohn, Dorothee; Vereda, Marisol; Gale, Trace; Barrena, Jose

Article ISI
Frontiers in Human Dynamics  (2025)

Protecting wilderness or cultural and natural heritage?: Insights from northern Patagonia, Chile

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela, van Koppen C.S.A. (Kris), Lamers, Machiel

Article
CONSERVATION AND SOCIETY  (2024)

A social practice approach to nature-based tours: the case of the Marble Caves in Northern Patagonia, Chile

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela; van Koppen, C. S. A. (Kris); Lamers, Machiel

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF ECOTOURISM  (2022)

Re-framing salmon aquaculture in the aftermath of the ISAV crisis in Chile

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela; van Koppen, C. S. A. (Kris); Lamers, Machiel

Article ISI
MARINE POLICY  (2021)

Disentangling Environmental and Development Discourses in a Peripheral Spatial Context: The Case of the Aysen Region, Patagonia, Chile

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela; van Koppen, C. S. A. (Kris)

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT & DEVELOPMENT  (2020)

La investigación de servicios ecosistémicos en Chile: Una revisión sistemática

De la Barrera, Francisco, Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela, Tironi, Antonio

Article
Investigaciones Geográficas  (2015)

Conceptual models for ecosystem management through the participation of local social actors: The río Cruces wetland conflict



Article
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY  (2009)

Conceptual PHES-system models of the Aysén watershed and fjord (Southern Chile): Testing a brainstorming strategy

Marín, Victor H., Delgado, Luisa E., Bachmann, Pamela. L.

Article
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT  (2008)

Analysis of the citizen’s participation concept used by local decision makers: the case of the Aysén watershed in southern Chile

Bachmann, Pamela L., Delgado, Luisa E., Marín, Victor H.

Article
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT  (2007)

BookSection (5)

Participatory and deliberative governance tools for marine spatial planning in the tropical Atlantic

Toonen, Hilde, Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela, Keijser, Xander

BookSection
 (2023)

Values, conflicts, and narratives of private protected areas: The case of Tompkins Conservation in Chilean Patagonia and Argentina

Serenari, Christopher, Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela

BookSection
 (2023)

A New Environmental Governance

Delgado, Luisa,E., Zorondo-Rodríguez, Francisco, Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela, Soto, Carmiña, Avila, Veronique, Gutiérrez, Ricardo.A., Muñoz-Barriga, Andre, Ferreiro, Oscar.E.

BookSection
 (2019)

Conceptual, PHES-system, models of the Aysén fjord: The case of salmon farming

Delgado, Luisa E., Marín, Victor H., Tironi, Antonio, Bachmann, Pamela L.

BookSection
 (2008)

Socioeconomy of the Aysén area

Delgado, Luisa E., Bachmann, Pamela L.

BookSection
 (2008)

BookWhole (3)

Meanwhile in Aysén-Patagonia: exploring discursive transformations on environment and development in a remote periphery

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela

BookWhole
 (2021)

Historia natural del bosque maulino costero. Disectando la biodiversidad en un paisaje antropogénico

Bustamante, Ramiro O., Bachmann, Pamela L.

BookWhole
 (2010)

Hacia un manejo ecológico integrado de zonas costeras en Chile. Contribuciones del Proyecto ECOManage

Bachmann, Pamela L., Delgado, Luisa E., Marín, Victor H.

BookWhole
 (2007)

ConferencePaper (2)

Crioturismo: explorando el turismo de nieve y glaciares en tiempos de crisis climática

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela

ConferencePaper
 (2026)

Nature-based tourism and cryosphere conservation: climate, gaps and actions

Ruiz Pereira, Sebastian, Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela, Demiroglu, O. Cenk

ConferencePaper
 (2026)

ConferencePoster (4)

Analyzing university initiatives for sustainability transformations: Insights from northern Sweden and the Netherlands

García López, Natxo, Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela, Kaufmann, Maria, Mancheva, Irina

ConferencePoster
 (2025)

Cambios (in)esperados en el turismo glaciar: El caso del glaciar Exploradores, Campos de Hielo Norte, Patagonia, Chile

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela, Irarrázaval, Íñigo, Croxatto, Francisco, Astorga, Emilia

ConferencePoster
 (2025)

Discursos globales, discursos locales: Desarrollo y medioambiente en la región de Aysén, Patagonia Norte (Chile)

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela

ConferencePoster
 (2018)

Una aproximación teórica al análisis del reciclaje de nitrógeno total en dos ecosistemas de la región de Aysén

Bachmann, Pamela L., Marín, Victor H., Serey, Italo, Delgado, Luisa E.

ConferencePoster
 (2009)

Proyecto (1)

Cryotourism in a warming world: co-exploring glacier and snow-based tourism development in southern and northern peripheries

Bachmann-Vargas, Pamela

Proyecto
 (2023)

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Trace Gale

Senior Resident Researcher

Human - Environmental Interactions

CIEP - Center for Investigation in Ecosystems of Patagonia

Coyhaique, Chile

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Pamela Bachmann

Investigadora Principal Red de Conocimiento-Acción

Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP)

Coyhaique, Chile