David Heres del Valle
- Position:
Postdoctoral researcher - Main Research Line:
Comparison of alternative policies to mitigate GHG emissions from the transportation sector in Europe and in the United States; economic analysis of biodiversity and climate change in Mexico; and evaluation of environmental policies through experimental methods. - Expected Results:
Working papers reporting main results are expected to be available by the end of 2010 - BC3 joining data:
01/03/2010. - Contact information:
Email adress: david.heres@bc3research.org
Contact phone: +34 94-401 46 90
CURRICULUM VITAE
- David obtained a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Davis (December, 2009). His doctoral dissertation strongly relied on the use of econometric techniques and experimental methods to evaluate alternative climate change policies; some of which particularly pertain to the transportation sector.
- During his doctoral studies he also did extensive research on local strategies for the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as on the potential impacts of climate change on the transportation sector (i.e., adaptation).
- In 2007 he collaborated in a report on GHG emissions mitigation strategies for local governments in the Basque Country which was coordinated by a team based at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Venice, Italy).
- Since his undergraduate thesis on the impact of new roads on future travel and pollution (Faculty of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2004), David materialized his interest in studying the linkages between transportation and the environment through economics methods.
- His concerns regarding environmental issues were early triggered by courses in environmental economics and global environmental systems taken as an exchange student at McGill University, Canada in 2002.
- In 2002 he also had the opportunity to serve as an intern at the National Institute of Ecology in Mexico collaborating in several projects in the Department of Environmental Economics and Policy.
- As part of his academic training he attended the “2009 European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics” (Venice, Italy), and the “Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics” (George Washington University, USA, 2007).
- He has presented his work at the 11th Occasional Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics (Santa Barbara, USA), the “European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics” (Venice, Italy), and at the Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (University of California at Davis, USA).
- He is a referee for “Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice”, a leading journal in the transportation field.
PUBLICATIONS
- Niemeier, D.; Gould, G.; Karner, A.; Hixson, M.; Bachmann, B.; Okma, C.; Lang, Z.; and Heres, D. (2008), “Rethinking downstream regulation: California´s opportunity to engage households in reducing greenhouse gases”, Energy Policy 36(9):3436-3447
- Galindo, L.; Heres, D.; and Sanchez, L. (2006), “Trafico inducido en Mexico: Contribuciones al debate e implicaciones de politica publica”, Estudios Demograficos y Urbanos 21(1): 123-157
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In recent years, the threat of climate change has been widely recognized. From local governments to supranational authorities, steps have already been taken towards curbing greenhouse gas emissions; however, these actions are not yet enough to guarantee the endurance of our planet as we know it. A crucial component in generating a larger-scale and more solid consensus among societies is to find economically-efficient, socially-equitable, and politically-palatable means to align consumption patterns and production technologies with the needs of a constrained planet.