Research
After a career break from 2015-2019, Luz Maria’s current research interests address food production and conservation through questions related to diverse demands over land as a finite resource that is impacted by climate change. The social dynamics created over land and landscapes from international to national public policy demands and land managers’ decision-making about management and what they can, want or should produce are at the heart of her work.
She is currently working on different projects.
Biodiversity Survey. From 28 August to 11 October 2024
Agroecology research.
This area of research studies agroecological principles as an alternative response to multiple demands. Luz Maria is interested in agroecology from the social perspective. She develops research related to current adoption of practices, how to design payments to enable adoption of new practices and how to upscale those by studying behavioural change for implementing agroecological principles.
Social and Economic research on perceptions, values and attitudes.
The study of perceptions, values and attitudes allows fine understanding of behaviours from different angles. Work developed in this area uses qualitative research to inform quantitative methods such as experimental economics.
Environmental index.
Work developed in this area of interest relates to poverty and the benefits people can access from the countryside. This work is to enhance the Scottish poverty index by including other indicators that are currently excluded from the index, especially in relation to the environment.
Publications
The following Publications have not yet been migrated to the James Hutton Institute's Pure service and relate to the research outputs from the two legacy organisations: The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and The Scottish Crop Research Institute.
Journals
- van der Horst, D.; Lozada-Ellison, L.M. (2010) Conflictos entre las energias y el paisaje: siete mitos y la propuesta de manejo adaptativo y colaborativo., Nimbus. Revista de Climatologia, Meteorologia y Paisaje, 25-26, 231-251.
- Schwarz, G.; Wilson, R.; Goddard, P.; Lozada-Ellison, L.M. (2009) Review of the effectiveness of Axis II animal welfare measures – First evidence from the Animal Health and Welfare Management (AHWM) Programme in Scotland., In: Deltuvas, R, Kusta, A. et al. (eds.). Proceedings of the Fourth International Scientific Conference on Rural Development , Transitions towards Sustainability, Lithuanian University of Agriculture, Lithuania, 15-17 October 2009. Rural Development 2009, Volume 4(1), pp.408-413, LZUU, Kaunas.
- Lozada-Ellison, L.M. (2008) La cuisine ceremonielle de la Fete des Morts (Mexique)., Food and History, 6, 133-154.
- Lozada, L.M. (2002) Progresa en las Unidades Domesticas Campesinas. El caso de una comunidad totonaca. A socio-economic case study of the implementation of a social policy program for rural development in Mexico., UNAM, Mexico.
Conference posters / abstracts
- Lozada-Ellison, L.M.; Gimona, A.; van der Horst, D.; Schwarz, G. (2009) Social and ecological systems: the adaptive co-management approach and its application in Scotland., International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, 8th, Transformation, Innovation and Adaptation for sustainability: Integrating Natural and Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29 June to 2 July 2009.
