Department of Land Economy

Staff

Dr Unai Pascual

Dr Unai Pascual

Position(s):

  • University Senior Lecturer
  • Fellow and Director of Studies in Land Economy at Homerton College

Other posts:

  • Ikerbasque Research Professor, Basque Foundation for Science (Basque Centre for Climate Change, BC3, Bilbao)

Contact information:

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 (3)37151
Email: up211

Research interests:

  • Ecological and Natural Resource Economics
  • Global Environmental Change and Sustainability
  • Environmental Governance and Policy
  • Complex Social-Ecological Systems

Publications:

Books

  • Pascual, U., Shah, A., and J. Bandyopadhyay (2009): ‘Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being’. Oxford University Press. 360 pp. ISBN: 0198061757.
  • Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U. and M. Smale (2009): ‘Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development’. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. 456pp.  ISBN: 978-0-415-46505-2
  • Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U. and T. Swanson (2007): ‘Biodiversity Economics’. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 692pp. ISBN-13: 9780521866835.

Monographs

  • Pascual, U., Corbera, E. (2011). Payments for Environmental Services and Economic Development: Perspectives and Challenges. Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros. Monograph 228. 165 pp. Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Marine Environment. Madrid.
  • Pascual, U., Corbera, E., Muradian, R., Kosoy, N. (2010). Special Issue monograph in Ecological Economics. Volume 69: 1202-1302. Elsevier. The Netherlands.
  • Jackson, L., Bawa, K., Pascual, U., Perrings, C. (2005) “AgroBIODIVERSITY: A New Science Agenda for Biodiversity in Support of Sustainable Agroecosystems”. DIVERSITAS No. 4, pp. 44. Paris, France.  [ISBN: 2-9522982-2-X – ISSN: 1813-7105]

Journal articles

  • 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., Fox, J., Dressler, W., Padoch, C., Ziegler, A.D. (in press) Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment. Global Environmental Change.
  • Sunderland, L-A., Gabriel, D., Pascual, U., Schmutz et al. (in press), The ‘neighbourhood effect’: a multidisciplinary assessment of the case for farmer co-ordination in agri-environmental programmes. Land Use Policy. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.09.003
  • Narloch, U., Pascual, U., Drucker, A.G. (2011) Cost-effectiveness targeting under multiple conservation goals and equity considerations in the Andes. Environmental Conservation. 38(4): 417-425. doi:10.1017/S0376892911000397
  • Narloch, U., Drucker A. and Pascual, U (2011) Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services for sustained on-farm utilization of plant and animal genetic resources Ecological Economics, 70(11): 1837-1845. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.05.018
  • 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(1): 191-220.
  • 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(11):2163-2174. doi: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(2):492-504. doi: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(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. DOI 10.1007/s13280-010-0107-3
  • 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. (2011). Governing the Environment: Salient institutional Issues. (book review) Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences. 8(1): 69-71.
  • 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.025
  • 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. DOI: 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(9): 1741-1747. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.017
  • 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. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-010-9333-3
  • 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.004
  • 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.006
  • 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 (Case study: quinoa). CienciaAgro. Journal de Ciencia y Tecnologia Agraria. 2(1): 188-198.
  • 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. DOI: 10.1002/jid.1564
  • Ishihara, I and Pascual, U. (2009) Social capital in community level environmental governance: A critique. Ecological Economics 68(5): 1549-1562. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.11.003
  • 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. DOI: 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(2): 308-329. ISSN: 0021-857X
  • 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.12.011.
  • Jackson, L., Bawa, K., Brussard, L., Pascual, U., Perrings, C., de Ruiter, P. (2007). ‘Agrobiodiversity’. In: Levin, S. (Ed), Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, Vol 5: 1-13. Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-226865-6
  • Jackson, L.E., Pascual, U. and Hodgkin, T. (2007). Utilizing and conserving agrobiodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 121: 196-210. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.12.017
  • Pascual, U. and Barbier, E.B. (2007). On price liberalization, poverty and shifting cultivation: An example from Mexico. Land Economics, 83(2):192-216. ISSN: 0023-7639
  • 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. DOI: 10.1111/J.1523-1739.2006.00390.x
  • Pascual, U. and Barbier, E.B. (2006). “Deprived Land-Use Intensification in Shifting Cultivation: The Population Pressure Hypothesis Revisited’, Agricultural Economics, 34: 155-165. ISSN: 0169-5150.
  • 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. ISSN 1578-0732
  • 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.03.022
  • Konchak, W. And Pascual, U. (2006). ‘Changing paradigms for a co-evolutionary environmental limit discourse’, Environmental Science and Policy 9(1):10-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2005.08.004
  • Pascual, U. (2005). ‘Land-use intensification potential in slash-and-burn farming through improvements in technical efficiency’, Ecological Economics. 52:497-511. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecom.2004.09.012
  • Rodríguez, L.C. and 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.03.023
  • Pascual, U. (1998). ‘Peasant economics and soil degradation’ UZTARO, Basque Social Science Journal, 35, pp: 19-31.

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.
  • Ishihara, I., Pascual, U. (2011). Social Capital and Collective Action in Environmental, Governance Revisited . (in  Brousseau, E., Dedeurwaerdere, T., Jouvet, M. Willinger, P.-A, (Eds): “Global Environmental Commons: Analytical and Political Challenges in Building Governance Mechanisms”.  Chapter 1 (Part III). Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
  • 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. In Kumar, P (ed): The Economics of Ecosystems and BiodiversityEcological and Economic Foundations. Chapter 5, pp. 183-256. Earthscan.
  • 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. In Kumar, P (ed): The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Ecological and Economic Foundations. Chapter 7, pp.285-306. 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.
  • 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.
  • Pascual, U., Shah, A., and J. Bandyopadhyay (2009) ‘Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being: Introduction’. Chapter 1. In Pascual, U., Shah, A., and J. Bandyopadhyay (eds) ‘Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being’. Chapter 1. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
  • 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. In Pascual, U., Shah, A., and J. Bandyopadhyay (eds) ‘Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-being’. Chapter 3. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Policy reports

  •  "Exploring the potential of payments for ecosystem services for in-situ agrobiodiversity conservation" Discussion Paper N.14. Ecosystem Services Economics Unit, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya. 2011.
  •  "A multidisciplinary critique of the ecosystem services-based cost-benefit analysis for environmental policy evaluation" Discussion Paper N.13. Ecosystem Services Economics Unit, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya. 2011.
  •  "Are the amounts of Payments for Environmental Services enough to contribute to poverty alleviation efforts in developing countries?" Discussion Paper N.12. Ecosystem Services Economics Unit, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya. 2011.
  •  "Towards a unified scheme for environmental and social protection: Learning from PES and CCT experiences in developing countries" Discussion Paper N.11. Ecosystem Services Economics Unit, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya. 2011.
  • “Revisiting the relationship between equity and efficiency in Payment for Environmental Services”. Discussion Paper n.1. Ecosystem Services Economics Unit, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya. 2009.
  • “An integrated methodological framework to value Red Natura 2000 Network sites in the Basque Country”. IHOBE. Basque Government. 2009.
  • “Modelling household decisions on agro-biodiversity and livelihood diversification under climatic risks: An example from Eastern Ethiopia”, Agricultural Development Economics ESA policy paper. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO), Rome, Italy. 2008.
  • “Livelihood diversity and vulnerability under extreme drought: An example from Eastern Ethiopia”, Agricultural Development Economics ESA policy paper. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO), Rome, Italy. 2008.
  • “Incorporating Biodiversity into Integrated Assessments of Trade Policy in the Agricultural Sector. Volume II: A reference manual”. Economics and Trade Branch Division of Technology, Industry and Economics United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Geneva, Switzerland. 2007.
  • “The Total Economic Value of Forests in the Basque Country”. IKT Ikerketa eta Nekazal Teknologia. EU project: INTERREG IIIB FORSEE: Sustainable FOReSt management pp. 78. Vitoria, Spain. 2007.

PhD students

  • Dr. Ulf Narloch: “The role of payment for environmental service schemes in agro-ecosystems under Climate Change”. University of Cambridge. PhD awarded: 2011
  • Dr. Per Stromberg: Markets for Biodiversity Goods and Services. University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge. PhD Awarded in 2008.
  • Dr. Andres López: The Impact of Government Behaviour on Agricultural Income, Trade and the Environment.  University of Cambridge. PhD Awarded in 2008.
  • Dr. Amani Omer "An Economic Analysis of Interactions between Agriculture and Biodiversity". School of Economic Studies, University of  Manchester. PhD Awarded  in 2004.
  • Juan Luis Eugenio Martin: “Multicriteria evaluation of sustainable tourism development projects.”  University of Cambridge. Since 2005.
  • Hiroe Ishihara: Whose value should be valued in Environmental Policy formulation; Power relations and environmental evaluation? University of Cambridge. Since 2006.
  • Stella Nordhagen “The value of agrobiodiversity under climate change”. University of Cambridge. Since 2009.
  • Aiora Zabala: Economic and institutional analysis of sustainable agroforestry adoption by smallholders in Chiapas, Mexico. University of Cambridge. Since 2010.
  • Marta Olazabal: Towards a new conception of urban planning through optimization of urban energy metabolism. University of Cambridge. Since 2009.
  • Alexander Rincón: “Coca production in Colombia: an ecological-economics analysis of land use change” Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona co-supervised by Joan Martínez Alier. Since 2009.
  • Giulia Wegner: “A socio-institutional analysis of wildlife conservation in Africa”. University of Oxford, co-supervised by David McDonald. Since 2009.

Professional experience

Dr. Unai Pascual is an environmental economist with 15 year experience bridging 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, etc.
He 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 actively contributed to the Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative and has also been involved in the Millennium Assessment exercises in the UK (UKNEA) and Japan.
During the last 15 years 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.
Currently he is Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao, sponsored by the Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science.

 

Last updated 19 December, 2011