About Veronica Herrera
Veronica Herrera, Ph.D., studies the political economy of development and environmental governance, with a focus on cities, civil society, and Latin America. She is a specialist in urban climate change governance issues related to water, wastewater, and solid waste management.
Herrera’s book, Slow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation in Latin American Cities, examines environmental justice movements surrounding river pollution in the capital regions of Lima, Bogotá and Buenos Aires (Oxford University Press, 2024). In Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017), Herrera looks at the politics of public services provision in Mexican cities. Both titles received the Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Herrera was a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut.
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