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Paola Ovando Pol

Staff picture: Paola Ovando Pol
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Honorary Associate, former MDT Fellowship in Natural Capital
paola.ovandopol@hutton.ac.uk
+44 (0)344 928 5307

Craigiebuckler,
Aberdeen AB158QH, Scotland (UK)

 

 

I am an  Environmental Economist, with a PhD in Economics from the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). Former Macaulay Development Trust (MDT) Fellow in Natural Capital Accounting (2018-2021), and part of the Social, Economic and Geographic Sciences Group (SEGS).  Paola has now left the James Hutton Institute as a staff member, but still collaborates with us and remains affiliated as a Honorary Associate.

Full CV

Whilst I worked at the Hutton, my MDT fellowship focused on the Integration of natural capital thinking into land-based decision-making. For futher information on the MDT project objectives and outcomes please visit: Integrating natural capital thinking into land-based decision-making

Current research interests

My research focusses on the development of integrated economic and environmental models to better understand land use and management decisions and their environmental and socioeconomic effects. My research expertise includes economic valuation of ecosystem services and natural capital, and their integration into ecosystem accounting and economic decision analysis frameworks. I am especially interested in the quantification and analysis of trade-offs and synergies in the provision of private and public good and services.

I am member of the Steering Committe of various natural capital accounting related projects (INCASE, TEEBAgrifood framework applied to 7 countries, Scottish Natural Capital Account, I am also member of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Task Force on Forests and Water Interactions, and was member in the past of the IUFRO Global Forest Expert Panel on Forests and Water.

Past research

After finishing my PhD I was part of the scientific team of a large regional project aimed at developing an integrated Ecosystem Accounting System applied to forest landscapes in Spain, after which I was granted a Marie Curie Intra-European Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and The Environment of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Before joining the James Hutton Institute, I was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Economics cluster) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (eawag).

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