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I am a third year Human Geography PhD student and teaching assistant based at the University of Manchester. Also, I got an MA degree in Environment and Development from the same University in 2015. In my research, I bring together scholarship from political ecology, political economy, and agrarian studies to explore questions of socio-environmental change, knowledge, agrarian change, and how they are intertwined in contemporary environmental politics. Focusing on payments for ecosystem services (PES) in México, my PhD thesis critically explores the relationship between the notions of land rent mobilised by environmental economists/policy makers in models of spatial targeting for PES, and the agrarian and ecological changes that facilitated the transfer of the PES to specific regions.