Ricardo Gutiérrez junto a Isabella Alcañiz escribieron el libro «La política distributiva de la protección ambiental en América Latina» . Publicado por la Cambridge University Press este libro indaga acerca de quiénes son los grandes beneficiarios de la apropiación y contaminación del ambiente en América Latina y la asignación de la protección estatal para que esto suceda.

Resumen:
The study of environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean expands as conflicts stemming from the deterioration of the natural world increase. Yet this scholarship has not generated a broad research agenda similar to the ones that emerged around other key political phenomena. This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrate the existing, disparate literatures. Drawing from distributive politics, this Element asks who benefits from the appropriation and pollution of the environment, who pays the costs of climate change and environmental degradation, and who gains from the allocation of state protections.