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Julia Martín-Ortega

Julia Martin

Current and future economic crises should not prevent us from facing climate change. Postponing mitigation and adaptation policies would not only become more expensive but would enhance social inequalities.

Those who have the capacity, also have the duty of action. In our case, the duty of research”

  • Position:
    Postdoctoral researcher
  • Main Research Line:
    Environmental economics: socio-economic drivers and impacts of environmental damage and climate change
  • Expected Results:
    First results on the XEROCHORE Project, aimed to assist the development of a European Drought Policy including the effects of climate change, are expected by mid-2009
  • BC3 joining data:
    07/01/2009.
  • Contact information:
    Email adress: julia.martin.ortega@bc3research.org
    Contact phone: +34 94-401 46 90

CURRICULUM VITAE

  • Julia Martín-Ortega is an environmental scientist with a PhD in Environmental Economics.
  • After an international Master in Business and Administration and a period working in the private sector, she went back to Academia specializing in environmental valuation. She obtained her PhD (Cum Laude) at the University of Córdoba (Spain) which was awarded with the national PhD Award of the Centre of Andalusian Studies.
  • Julia is currently a researcher at BC3, after being a member of the research group Decision models on environment and agriculture of the Andalusia Researching Plan and guest researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies of VU University of Amsterdam from October 2006 to December 2008. She was also invited to do research at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.
  • Her research experience involves the assessment and transferability of environmental costs and benefits of water quality; the economic analysis of water under scarcity conditions; multi-criteria analysis for water management and the economic valuation of environmental damage and compensatory measures.
  • She has participated in the following European research projects:
    • AQUAMONEY: Development and Testing of Practical Guidelines for the Assessment of Environmental and Resources Costs and Benefits in the Water Framework Directive.
    • REMEDE: Resource Equivalency Methods for Assessing Environmental Damage in the European Union.
  • And in several national Spanish projects such as:
    • “Prospective analysis for the sustainability of the national agricultural systems in the CAP Framework”. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
    •  “Analysis of the water demand: new scenarios and analysis of environmental benefits”. Spanish Ministry of Environment.
  • She also teaches environmental economics. She recently designed and coordinated the course Methodologies for the Economic Valuation of Environmental Impacts and Resources for the Committee for Capacity Building (CAREC) of the Ministry of Energy and Mining of Peru.

Julia Martín-Ortega is member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal Ambientalia, specialized on the publication of multidisciplinary environmental studies: http://revista.ambientalia.org/

 



 
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