Elena Ojea
- Position:
Postdoctoral researcher - Main Research Line:
My research lines deal with biodiversity and ecosystem services valuation, by focusing on the economic impacts of climate change and the role that ecosystems have on adapting to and mitigating climate change. - Expected Results:
Presentations on international conferences as well as scientific publications are expected in the mid-term. - BC3 joining data:
07/01/2009. - Contact information:
Email adress: elena.ojea@bc3research.org
Contact phone: +34 94-401 46 90
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Elena Ojea holds a PhD in Environmental Economics (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and is graduated in Environmental Sciences (University of Salamanca, Spain)
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She obtained her PhD in 2008 with European mention and has been recently awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award of the Faculty of Economics
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She has five years of research experience applying non-market valuation techniques to biodiversity and on studying the environmental impacts of major catastrophic events.
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In her dissertation, entitled Anomalies in Contingent Valuation, Plausible Empirical Explanations, she analyzes the causes for some anomalies found when applying the Contingent Valuation technique to the valuation of environmental goods, providing new insights and some recommendations for the application of the methodology.
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She has visited Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei for three months in 2008 to work in forest valuation with the aim of assessing Climate Change impacts on Biodiversity in the framework of the European 6PM CIRCE project.
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She has participated and presented her research on many conferences such as EAERE 2007, 2008 and 2009, ISEE 2007, or BIOECON conferences in Cambridge in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and in Venice 2009, together with national Spanish and Portuguese environmental economics conferences (AERNA 2006, 2008).
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Her work has also succeeded in publications in international journals such as Marine Policy, Ecological Economics or Contemporary Economic Policy.
Publications:
- Elena Ojea, Paulo A. L. D. Nunes and Maria L. Loureiro (2010). Mapping Biodiversity Indicators and Assessing Biodiversity Values in Global Forests. Environmental & Resource Economics.
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Ojea, Elena and Maria L. Loureiro (2010). Valuing the Recovery of Overexploited Fish Stocks in the Context of Existence and Option Values. Marine Policy 34(3), 514-521.
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Ojea, Elena, Ranjan Ghosh, Bharat B. Agrawal and P. K. Joshi. 2009. The Costs of Ecosystem Adaptation: Methodology and Estimates for Indian Forests. BC3 Working Paper Series 2009-10. download
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Ojea, Elena, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes and Maria L. Loureiro, (2009). Mapping of Forest Biodiversity Values: A Plural Perspective, FEEM Working Papers 4.
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Ojea, Elena and Maria L. Loureiro, (2009). Valuation of Wildlife: Revising Some Additional Considerations for Scope Tests. Contemporary Economic Policy 27(2): 236-250.
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Loureiro, Maria L. and Elena Ojea, (2008). Valuing Local Endangered Species with Abundant Biological Substitutes. Ecological Economics 68:362-369.
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Ojea, Elena and Maria L. Loureiro, (2007). Altruistic, Egoistic and Biospheric Values in Willingness to pay (WTP) for Wildlife. Ecological Economics 63:807-814. Download
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Loureiro, Maria L., Alfonso Ribas, Edelmiro López and Elena Ojea, (2006). Estimated costs and admissible claims linked to the Prestige oil spill. Ecological Economics, 59:48-63. Download
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Climate Change and its impacts are expected to be the dominant cause of biodiversity loss and changes in global ecosystem services by the end of the twenty-first century.
Assessing the economic impacts of global warming in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is crucial to avoid greater damages in the future as well as to plan adaptation strategies. “Preserving ecosystem richness for future generations is crucial for our societies.”