Nick Tinoco
Biography
Nick Tinoco is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA interested in environmental sociology, climate mobilities, and the politics of climate change adaptation. Currently, his work examines how residents in wildland-urban interface communities mobilize in response to wildfire in order to remain in and defend high fire-risk communities. He is interested in understanding how residents act collectively to support, challenge, or transform local wildfire governance regimes, and shape the preparedness strategies enacted at the neighborhood and city levels. He has previously published research into post-wildfire migration decision-making following the 2018 Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles County in Population and Environment, and he recently co-authored a book chapter on climate migration and collective action which is set to appear in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Climate Action.
Degrees
- M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 2022.
- B.A. in International Relations and Contemporary Latino and Latin American Studies, University of Southern California 2019.
Fields of Study
Environmental Sociology, Climate Mobilities, Disasters, Displacement, Qualitative Methods
Publications
Tinoco, Nick; Menjívar, Cecilia. Forthcoming. “Refugees, Displaced Persons, or Economic Migrants? Climate-related migration and implications for migration classificatory systems.” in Oxford Handbook of Climate Action. Ed. Paul Almeida. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tinoco, Nick. 2023. “Post-disaster (im)mobility aspiration and capability formation: case study of Southern California wildfire.” Population and Environment. (45)4: 1-20.
Menjívar, Cecilia; Tinoco, Nicholas. 2023. “The Long Arm of Arizona’s SB 1070: Antecedents and Far Reaching Spillover Effects.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. Ed. Ilan Stavans. New York: Oxford University Press.
Awards & Grants
- Graduate Research Mentorship Program Award, Graduate Division, UCLA, 2022-2023
- Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program Award, Graduate Division, UCLA, 2022
- Student Opportunities for Academic Research, USC Dornsife, 2018
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fund, USC Dornsife, 2018
Conference Presentations
“Post-disaster (im)mobility aspiration and capability formation: Case study of Southern California wildfire.” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. April 2023 (Presentation)
“(Im)mobility aspiration formation in the wildland-urban interface: How wildfire shapes mobility preferences in Southern California” American Sociological Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles, CA August 2022. (Roundtable Session)
