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Roberto Rivas Hermann

Roberto Rivas Hermann (León, Nicaragua, 1982) is research assistant and graduate student at the Department of Development and Planning in Aalborg University. He received a B.S. in Environmental Quality Engineering with distinction from University of Central America (Managua), in 2006. He also received a M.S. in Environmental Management from Aalborg University, in 2011. In 2008 he participated in the Environmental Leadership Program, University California Berkeley. His current research focuses on institutional and organizational aspects of eco-innovation and eco-preneurship in the Northern Denmark shipping sector. The overall aim of his research is to improve the understanding on how market externalities create business opportunities in the maritime sector. Previously, he collaborated for the Danish steered project “Competing for Water-Understanding conflict and cooperation in local water governance”. He published working papers, conference papers and peer-review papers on local water governance, developing countries’ water institutions and the poor.