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Unai Pascual

Unai Pascual

Science should play a key role to achievie a fair and sustainable de-carbonised economic system and to help people and biodiversity to adapt to increasing climate risks. This is one of the most pressing issues of our time.

  • Position:
     Ikerbasque Research Professor
  • Main Research Line:
    The ecological-economic relationship between human well-being, biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate change
  • BC3 joining year: 2010
  • Contact information:
    Email adress: unai.pascual@bc3research.org
    Contact phone: +34 94 401 4690 ext. 29

Short CV


  • Dr. Unai Pascual is Ikerbasque Reserarch Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge (since 2003). Unai Pascual an ecological economist with more than 15 year experience who bridges the social and natural sciences for understanding complex social-ecological systems.

  • His research focuses on the interconnectedness between global environmental change and economic development paying special attention to the evolutionary role of institutions, markets and environmental governance across scales. He has conducted research projects in many countries around the world, including Europe, the USA and in developing countries such as Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, India, Ethiopia and Malawi.

  • Prof Unai Pascual has an active role as advisor to international environmental policy bodies, including the European Commission, the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (UN-FAO). He is member of the AgroBiodiversity scientific committee of Diversitas International, twice elected to the European Board of the European Society of Ecological Economists (ESEE) and editorial member of international journals in Environment and Development Economics.

  • He has been a Coordinating Lead Author for the Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative and has also been involved in the Millennium Assessment exercises in the UK (UKNEA) and Japan.

  • Prof. Unai Pascual’s work appears in more than 150 research outputs including books, conference proceedings, etc. as well as peer reviewed journal articles including Ecological Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Global Environmental Change, AMBIO, Environmental Science and Policy, Land Economics, Land Use Policy, Environmental Conservation, Conservation Biology, World Development, etc. He has also edited books with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Routledge.

  • Prof. Unai Pascual has lectured in universities in Europe (Cambridge, Manchester, York, Barcelona, Bilbao) and Latin America (Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia) and visited universities in the USA and Mexico.

Journal Articles

  • 2012
  • Corbera, E. and Pascual, U. 2012. Ecosystem services: heed social goals. Science. 335. 655-656. DOI:10.1126/science.335.6069.655-c.  
  • Narloch, U., Pascual, U., Drucker, A. 2012. Collective action dynamics under external rewards: experimental insights from Andean farming communities. World Development. 10.1126/science.335.6069.655-c.  
  • Pascual, U., Jackson, L., Drucker, A. 2012. (Forthcoming). Economics of Agrobiodiversity. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. 2.  
  • Sunderland, L-A., Gabriel, D., Pascual, U., Schmutz, Rigby, D Godwin, R, Sait, S.M, Sakrabani, R., Kunin, W.E., Benton, T.G, Stagl, S. 2012. The ‘neighbourhood effect’: a multidisciplinary assessment of the case for farmer co-ordination in agri-environmental programmes. Land Use Policy. 29. 502-512. 10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.09.003.  
  • Van Vliet, N. Mertz, O., Heinimann, A., Langanke, T., Adams, C., Messerli, P., Leisz, S., Pascual, U., Schmook, B., Schmidt-Vogt, D., Castella, J-C., Jørgensen, L., Birch-Thomsen, T.., Hett, C., Bech-Bruun, T., Ickowitz, A., Chi Vu, KI., Yasuyuki, K., F. 2012. (Forthcoming). Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment. Global Environmental Change. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.10.009.  
  • 2011
  • Narloch, U., Drucker A. and Pascual, U. 2011. Payments for agrobiodivesity conservation services for sustained on-farm utilization of plant and animal genetic resources. Ecological Economics. 70. 1837-1845. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.05.018.  
  • Narloch, U., Pascual, U., Drucker, A.G. 2011. Cost-effectiveness targeting under multiple conservation goals and equity considerations in the Andes. Environmental Conservation. 38. 417-425. 10.1017/S0376892911000397.  
  • Pascual, U., Corbera, E. 2011. Payments for Environmental Services: Perspectives and innovative experiences for nature conservation and rural development. Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros. 287. 11-32.  
  • Pascual, U., Narloch, U., Nordhagen, S., Drucker, A. 2011. The economics of agrobiodiversity conservation for food security under climate change. Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales. 11. 191-220.  
  • Reyes-García, V., Pascual., U., Vadez, V, Huanca, T. 2011. The role of ethnobotanical skills and agricultural labor in forest clearance. Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon. Ambio. 40. 310-321. 10.1007/s13280-010-0107-3.  
  • Rodríguez, L.C., Pascual, U., Muradian, R., Pazmino, N., Whitten S. 2011. Towards a unified scheme for environmental and social protection: Learning from PES and CCT experiences in developing countries. Ecological Economics. 70. 2163-2174. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.019.  
  • Wegner, G., Pascual, U. 2011. Cost-benefit analysis in the context of ecosystem services for human well-being: A multidisciplinary critique. Global Environmental Change. 21. 492-504. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.12.008.  
  • Wu, J., Fisher, M., Pascual, U. 2011. Urbanization and the viability of local agricultural economies. Land Economics. 87. 109-125.  
  • 2010
  • Krishna, V., U. Pascual, D. Zilberman. 2010. Assessing the potential of labelling schemes for in-situ landrace conservation: An example from India. Environment and Development Economics. 15. 127-151. 10.1017/S1355770X09990155.  
  • Martínez-Alier, J., Pascual, U., Vivien, F-D., Zaccai, E. 2010. Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm. Ecological Economics. 69. 1741-1747. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.017.  
  • Muradian, R. Corbera, R. Pascual, U., Kosoy, N. May. 2010. Reconciling theory and practice: an alternative conceptual framework for understanding payments for environmental services. Ecological Economics. 69. 1202-1208. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.006.  
  • Omer, A., Pascual, U. and Russell, N.P. 2010. A theoretical model of agrobiodiversity as a supporting service for sustainable agricultural intensification. Ecological Economics. 69. 1926-1933. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.025.  
  • Pascual, U., Muradian, R., Rodríguez, L.C, Duraiappah, A. 2010. Exploring the links between equity and efficiency in payments for environmental services: a conceptual approach. Ecological Economics. 69. 1237-1244. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.004.  
  • Soto, J.L., Valdivia, E., Drucker, A., Narloch, U., Pascual, U., Pinto, M. 2010. Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS) and its interlinkages with collective action and property rights. CienciaAgro. Journal de Ciencia y Tecnologia Agraria. 2. 188-198.  
  • Stromberg, P., Pascual, U., Bellon, M. 2010. Seed systems and farmers’ seed choices: The case of maize in the Peruvian Amazon. Human Ecology. 38. 539-553. 10.1007/s10745-010-9333-3.  
  • 2009
  • Ishihara, I and Pascual, U. 2009. Social capital in community level environmental governance: A critique. Ecological Economics. 68. 1549-1562. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.11.003.  
  • Pascual, U., Martínez-Espiñeira, R. 2009. The effect of environmental change and price policies on livelihoods in tropical agroforestry systems. Journal of International Development. 21. 433-446. 10.1002/jid.1564.  
  • 2007
  • Jackson, L., Bawa, K., Brussard, L., Pascual, U., Perrings, C., de Ruiter, P. 2007. Agrobiodiversity. Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity. 5. 1-13. 10.1016/B978-012226865-6/00572-9.  
  • Jackson, L.E. Bawa, K.S., Brussaard, L., Pascual, U. and de Ruiter, P. 2007. Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Investing without losing interest. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 121. 193-195. 10.1016/j.agee.2006.12.011.  
  • Jackson, L.E., Pascual, U. and Hodgkin, T. 2007. Utilizing and conserving agrobiodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 121. 196-210. 10.1016/j.agee.2006.12.017.  
  • Omer, A., Pascual, U. and Russell, N.P. 2007. Biodiversity conservation and productivity in intensive agricultural systems. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 58. 308-329. 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2007.00091.x.  
  • Pascual, U. and Barbier, E.B. 2007. On price liberalization, poverty and shifting cultivation: An example from Mexico. Land Economics. 83. 192-216. 10.3368/le.83.2.192.  
  • Pascual, U. and Perrings, C. 2007. Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in-situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 121. 256–268. 10.1016/j.agee.2006.12.017.  
  • 2006
  • Konchak, W. And Pascual, U. 2006. Changing paradigms for a co-evolutionary environmental limit discourse. Environmental Science and Policy. 9. 10-21. 10.1016/j.envsci.2005.08.004.  
  • Pascual, U. and Barbier, E.B. 2006. Deprived Land-Use Intensification in Shifting Cultivation: The Population Pressure Hypothesis Revisited. Agricultural Economics. 34. 155-165. 10.1111/j.1574-0864.2006.00115.x.  
  • Pascual, U. and Martínez-Espiñeira, R. 2006. Second-best policy options against poverty and environmental degradation in forest based agricultural systems. Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales. 12. 121-144.  
  • Perrings, C., Jackson, L., Bawa, K., Brussaard, L., Brush, S., Gavin, T., Papa, R., Pascual, U., de Ruiter, P. 2006. Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Saving natural capital without losing interest’. Conservation Biology. 20. 263–264. 10.1111/J.1523-1739.2006.00390.x.  
  • Rodríguez, L.C., Pascual, U. and Niemeyer, H.M. 2006. Local identification and valuation of ecosystem goods and services from Opuntia scrublands of Ayacucho, Peru. Ecological Economics. 57. 30-44. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.03.022.  
  • 2005
  • Pascual, U. 2005. Land-use intensification potential in slash-and-burn farming through improvements in technical efficiency. Ecological Economics. 52. 497-511. 10.1016/j.ecolecom.2004.09.012.  

Books and Specials

  • 2009
  • Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U. and M. Smale. 2009. Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development. UK. 456.
  • Pascual, U., Shah, A., and J. Bandyopadhyay. 2009. Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being. New Delhi. 360.
  • 2007
  • Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U. and T. Swanson. 2007. Biodiversity Economics. Cambridge. 692.
  • 2005
  • Jackson, L., Bawa, K., Pascual, U., Perrings, C. 2005. AgroBIODIVERSITY: A New Science Agenda for Biodiversity in Support of Sustainable Agroecosystems. Paris. 44.

Book chapters

  • 2012
  • Dedeurwaerdere, T., P.M. Stromberg and Pascual, U. 2012. Social motivations and incentives in ex situ conservation of microbial genetic resources. The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture. 1st ed. Cambridge. Openbook Publishers. 111-124.
  • 2010
  • Kumar, P., Brondizio, E., Elmqvist, T., Gatzweiler, F., Gowdy, J., de Groot, D., Muradian, R., Pascual, U., Reyers, B., Smith, R. B-W., Sukhdev, P. 2010. Lessons learned and linkages with national policies. The economics of valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Ecological and Economic Foundations. London. 285-306.
  • Omer, A., Pascual, U. and Russell, N.P. 2010. The contribution of biodiversity to modern intensive farming systems. Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets: Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective. London. 117-136.
  • Pascual, U., Muradian, R., Brander, L., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Martín-López, M, Verman, M., Armsworth, P., Christie, M., Cornelissen, H., Eppink, F., Farley, J., Loomis, J., Pearson, L., Perrings, C., Polasky, S. 2010. The economics of valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Ecological and Economic Foundations. London. 183-256.
  • 2009
  • Barbier, E.B., S. Baumgärtner, K. Chopra, C. Costello, A. Duraiappah, R. Hassan, A. Kinzig, M. Lehman, U. Pascual, S. Polasky, C. Perrings. 2009. The Valuation of Ecosystem Services. Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective. Oxford University Press. Chapter 18.
  • Brock, W.A., D. Finnoff, A.P. Kinzig, U. Pascual, C. Perrings, J. Tschirhart, A. Xepapadeas. 2009. Modeling Biodiversity And Ecosystem Services in Coupled Ecological-Economic System. Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective. Oxford University Press. Chapter 19.
  • Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U., and Smale, M. 2009. Agrobiodiversity for Economic Development. What do we Know?. Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development. Routledge. 1-25.
  • Krishna, V. and Pascual, U. 2009. greening markets help conserve landraces in situ? Eggplants in India. Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development. Routledge, UK. 267-289.
  • Omer, A., Pascual, U. and Russell, N.P. 2009. Biodiversity conservation and productivity in intensive agricultural systems. Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development. UK, Routledge. 113-136.
  • Pascual, U., Maddison, D., Field, E., Choudury, Z. 2009. Trade-offs between Risk and Latency of Health Hazards from Groundwater Contamination: An example from Bangladesh. Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being’. New Delhi. Chapter 3.
  • Pascual, U., Shah, A., and J. Bandyopadhyay. 2009. Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being: Introduction. Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being. New Delhi. Chapter 1.
  • Perrings, C., S. Baumgärtner, W.A. Brock, K. Chopra, M. Conte, C. Costello, A. Duraiappah, A.P. Kinzig, U. Pascual, S. Polasky, J. Tschirhart, A. Xepapadeas. 2009. The Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective. Oxford University Press. Chapter 17.
  • Rodríguez, L.C., Pascual, U., Niemeyer, H.M. 2009. Local Identification and Valuation of Ecosystem Goods and Services from Opuntia Scrublands of Ayacucho, Peru. Ecological Economics. SAGE. 253-273.
  • Stromberg, P., Pascual, U., Bellon. M. 2009. Etnicidad, agrobiodiversidad y sistemas locales de semillas en el Amazonas central Peruano. ¿Cómo conservan los agricultores sus semillas en el trópico húmedo de Cuba, México y Perú? Experiencias de un proyecto de investigación en sistemas informales de semillas de chile, frijoles y maíz. Rome. 123-142.
  • 2008
  • Pascual, U. and Perrings, C. 2008. Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in-situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity. London. chapter 8.
  • 2007
  • Deurwaerdere, T., Krishna, V., and Pascual, U. 2007. An evolutionary institutional economics approach to the economics of bioprospecting. Biodiversity Economics: Principles, Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. 417-445.



 
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