BC3. Basque centre for climate change – Klima aldaketa ikergai

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Dr. Unai Pascual received his BA (Economics) in 1996 from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), his MSc (Environment Economics) in 1997 and his PhD (Environmental Economics) in 2002 both from the University of York, UK, where it earned the 2002 KM Stott Prize for the best PhD dissertation in Environmental Economics.
• He was a researcher at the University of York between 1996 and 2001. His main projects there were modelling the connection between poverty and environmental degradation and analyzing the socio-economic factors associated with deforestation in the tropics.
• He was a lecturer at the Economics Department of the University of Manchester (2001-2003). There, he lectured environmental economics and natural resource modeling among other subjects.
• Unai then obtained a lectureship in the University of Cambridge in 2003 where he now holds a permanent position as University Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy and as Fellow of Homerton College.
• He has also lectured in the Business School of the University of Deusto, Bilbao (2004-2007), and given postgraduate courses in various other universities, including University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo ( Dominican Republic ) and the National University of La Pampa ( Argentina ). Currently he also serves as external examiner for the University of York, UK. He has also been a visiting researcher at the University of Wyoming and the Autonomous University of Yucatán, México.
• Unai collaborates with international organizations such as the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO), The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Diversitas International and Bioversity International. He also collaborates with leading Basque applied environmental research organizations such as TECNALIA’s Environment Research Unit.
• Unai is a member of various international scientific panels such as Diversitas International (Agrobiodiversity network), Member of the administrative board of the European Society of Ecological Economics (ESEE), and an Honorary Research Fellow at Bioversity International ( Rome ). He has also participated in scientific advisory panels and as lead coordinating author for various international initiatives such as TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity), and the UK and Japanese National Ecosystem Assessments ( Millennium Ecosystem Assessment follow ups).
• He also holds editorial roles. He serves in the editorial board of Environment and Development Economics (EDE) and in Spanish Journal of Agricultural & Fisheries Studies (REEAP). He has also served as guest editor for Ecological Economics and Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (AGEE). He is also regularly invited to serve as part of scientific committees of international conferences, e.g., European Society of Ecological Economics, the International Society of Ecological Economics, European Association of Environmental Economists, BIOECON and the Spanish Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists. He has also acted as reviewer for more than 25 international scientific journals.
• Other expert advisory roles relate to advising the European Commission’s Research and Environment DGs as well as research councils in the UK , Sweden and France .
• He has participated in eight international research projects and his output includes around 50 published works, including books, peer reviewed journal articles and chapters in books. He has also presented his work in numerous international conferences and workshops around the world.
• Currently Unai is visiting BC3 as part of his sabbatical academic year in Cambridge (2010-11).

Publications

Books

• Pascual, U., Shah, A., and J. Bandyopadhyay (2009): ‘Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being’. Oxford University Press. 360 pp (link)
• Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U. and M. Smale (2009): ‘Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development’. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. 456pp.  (link)
• Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U. and T. Swanson (2007): ‘Biodiversity Economics’. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 692pp. (link)

Journal articles

• Wegner, G., Pascual, U, (2011). Cost-benefit analysis in the context of ecosystem services for human well-being: A multidisciplinary critique. Global Environmental Change. (link)
• Wu, J., Fisher, M., Pascual, U. (2011). Urbanization and the viability of local agricultural economies. Land Economics. 87(1):109-125.
• 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. (link)
• 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. (link)
• 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(10):1926-1933. (link)
• 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(9): 1741-1747.(link)
• Soto, J.L., Valdivia, E., Drucker, A., Narloch, U., Pascual, U., Pinto, M. (2010). Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS) and its interlinkages with colective action and property rights (Case study: quinoa). CienciaAgro. Journal de Ciencia y Tecnologia Agraria. 2(1): 188-198. (in Spanish) (link)
• 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(6):1237-1244 (link)
• Muradian, R. Corbera, R. Pascual, U., Kosoy, N. May, P.H. (2010) Reconciling theory and practice: an alternative conceptual framework for understanding payments for environmental services. Ecological Economics. 69(6):1202-1208 (link)
• 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. (link)
• 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(3): 433-446. (link)
• Ishihara, I and Pascual, U. (2009) Social capital in community level environmental governance: A critique. Ecological Economics 68(5): 1549-1562. (link)
• Omer, A., Pascual, U. and Russell, N.P. (2007). Biodiversity conservation and productivity in intensive agricultural systems. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 58(2): 308-329. (link)
• Pascual, U. and Perrings, C. (2007). Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in-situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and the Environment. 121: 256–268. (link)
• 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 the Environment (editorial). 121:193-195. (link)
• Jackson, L., Bawa, K., Brussard, L., Pascual, U., Perrings, C., de Ruiter, P. (2007). ‘Agrobiodiversity’. In: Levin, S. (Ed), Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, v(5): 1-13. Elsevier. (link)
• Jackson, L.E., Pascual, U. and Hodgkin, T. (2007). Utilizing and conserving agrobiodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and the Environment. 121: 196-210. (link)
• Pascual, U. and Barbier, E.B. (2007). On price liberalization, poverty and shifting cultivation: An example from Mexico. Land Economics, 83(2):192-216 (link)
• 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(2): 263–264. (editorial, link)
• Pascual, U. and Barbier, E.B. 2006. “Deprived Land-Use Intensification in Shifting Cultivation: The Population Pressure Hypothesis Revisited’, Agricultural Economics, 34: 155-165. (link)
• 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. (link)
• Rodríguez, L.C., Pascual, U. and Niemeyer, H.M. 2006. ‘Peasant communities' cultural domain and the local use-value of plant resources: the case of Opuntia scrublands in Ayacucho, Peru’, Ecological Economics. 57: 30-44. (link)
• Pascual, U. and Konchak, W. 2006. ‘Changing paradigms for a co-evolutionary environmental limit discourse’, Environmental Science and Policy 9(1):10-21.(link)
• Pascual, U. 2005. ‘Land-use intensification potential in slash-and-burn farming through improvements in technical efficiency’, Ecological Economics. 52:497-511. (link)
• Rodríguez, L.C., Pascual, U. 2004. ‘Land clearance and social capital in mountain Agro-Ecosystems: The case of Opuntia Scrubland in Ayacucho, Peru’. Ecological Economics. 49: 243-252. (link)
• Pascual, U. 1998. ‘Peasant economics and soil degradation’ UZTARO, Social Science Journal, 35, pp: 19-31 (link, in Basque).

Chapters in books

• Pascual, U. and Rigby, D. (in press). ‘Values and Limits: Debates within Environmental Economics’ (in Allington and McCombie, eds): “Cambridge Essays in Applied Economics” Chapter 9. Cambridge University Press.
• 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. Chapter 5. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
  Ecological and Economic Foundations. Earthscan, pp. 400. ISBN 9781849712125
• 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. Chapter 7. TEEB. Earthscan, pp. 400. ISBN 9781849712125
• Omer, A., Pascual, U. and Russell, N.P. (2010). The contribution of biodiversity to modern intensive farming systems. In Stewart Lockie and David Carpenter ed: “Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets: Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective”. Earthscan.
• Colman, D., Pascual, U., Hodge, I, (2010) Evolution of Land Conservation Policy. In: Changing Landscape of European Agriculture: Essays in Honour of Professor Csaba Csaki (Eds) by Ferto, I. Forgacs, C. and Jambor, A. Agroinform, Budapest.
• Stromberg, P., Pascual, U., Bellon. M. (2009). Etnicidad, agrobiodiversidad y sistemas locales de semillas en el Amazonas central Peruano. Chapter 9. In Hermann M, Amaya K, Latournerie L, Castiñeiras, L (Eds). ¿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. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. pp. 179.
• 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. Chapter 17, in: Naeem S., D. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau and C. Perrings eds): “Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective”. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
• 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. Chapter 18, in: Naeem S., D. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau and C. Perrings eds): “Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective”. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
• 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. Chapter 19, in: Naeem S., D. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau and C. Perrings eds): “Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective”. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
• Stromberg, P., Pascual, U., Bellon, M.R. (2009). Etnicidad, agrobiodiversidad y sistemas locales de semillas en el Amazonas central peruano. In ¿Cómo conservan los agricultores sus semillas en el trópico húmedo de Cuba, México y Perú? 123-142. (Eds: Hermann, M., Amaya, K., Latournerie, L., Castiñeiras, L.). Bioversity International. Rome. Italy. Pp 179.
• Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U., and Smale, M. (2009). Agrobiodiversity for Economic Development. What do we Know? In “Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development” (Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U., and Smale, M, eds). Routledge, Abingdon, UK. Chapter 1: pp 1-25.
• Krishna, V. and Pascual, U., (2009). Can greening markets help conserve landraces in situ? Eggplants in India. In “Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development” (Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U., and Smale, M, eds).. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. Chapter 15: 267-289.
• Omer, A., Pascual, U. and Russell, N.P. (2007). Biodiversity conservation and productivity in intensive agricultural systems. In “Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development” (Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U., and Smale, M, eds).. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. Chapter 8: 113-136. (Reprint).
• Rodríguez, L.C., Pascual, U., Niemeyer, H.M (2008). Local Identification and Valuation of Ecosystem Goods and Services from Opuntia Scrublands of Ayacucho, Peru. In C. Perrings (ed) Ecological Economics, Volume 3, SAGE, London: 253-273.
• Pascual, U. and Perrings, C. (2008). Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in-situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. In Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (Ed. K.N. Ninan). Earthscan, UK.
• Deurwaerdere, T., Krishna, V., and Pascual, U (2007). An evolutionary institutional economics approach to the economics of bioprospecting” (in Kontoleon, Pascual and Swanson, eds): “Biodiversity Economics: Principles, Methods and Applications”. Chapter 15, pp. 417-445. Cambridge University Press.