A5043216394- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Forest Management and Policy
- Water resources management and optimization
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Latin American Urban Studies
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- Housing Market and Economics
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Noise Effects and Management
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Urban Planning and Valuation
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2021-2025
University of British Columbia
2015-2025
Vancouver Community College
2016-2020
World Bank
2017
Harvard University Press
2017
University of Girona
2011-2013
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2008-2013
Catalan Institute for Water Research
2011-2013
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2013
Universitat Ramon Llull
2013
Restrictions on the use of public space and physical distancing have been key policy measures to reduce transmission COVID-19 protect health. At time writing, one half world's population has asked stay home avoid many places. What will be long term impacts pandemic once restrictions lifted? The depth extent transformation is unclear, especially as it relates future design, perceptions space. This article aims highlight emerging questions at interface city design. It possible that crisis may...
An important part of conservation practice is the empirical evaluation program and policy impacts. Understanding why programs succeed or fail essential for designing cost-effective initiatives improving livelihoods natural resource users. The evidence we seek can be generated with modern impact designs. Such designs measure causal effects specific interventions by comparing outcomes to in credible counterfactual scenarios. Good also identify conditions under which effect arises. Despite a...
The global COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people's work-life balance across the world. For academics, confinement policies enacted by most countries have implied a sudden switch to home-work, transition online teaching and mentoring, an adjustment of research activities. In this article we discuss how crisis our profession it may change in future. We argue that academia must foster culture care, help us refocus on what important, redefine excellence research. Such re-orientation can make...
Abstract: With the potential expansion of forest conservation programs spurred by climate-change agreements, there is a need to measure extent which such achieve their intended results. Conventional methods for evaluating impact tend be biased because they do not compare like areas or account spatial relations. We assessed effect initiative that combined designation protected with payments environmental services conserve over wintering habitat monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) in Mexico....
We assess the additional forest cover protected by 13 rural communities located in southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, as a result economic incentives received through country's national program payments for biodiversity conservation. use spatially explicit data at intra-community level to define credible counterfactual conservation outcomes. covariate-matching specifications associated with variables and difference-in-difference estimators determine treatment effect. estimate that represents...
RESUMENLa planificación transformadora reestructura radicalmente los usos del suelo urbano, diseños y paisajes urbanos para responder al cambio climático mejorar la salud calidad de vida ciudadanía. Examinamos cómo puede perder vista a cuestiones relacionadas con equidad, apoyándonos en el ejemplo plan transformador Barcelona implementar Supermanzanas (Superblocks in English, Superilles Catalan). Argumentamos que las preguntas sobre equidad distributiva relacional, incluida evaluación...
Science skeptics have spent years attacking climate science, but it has only been recently that post-COVID-19 conspiracy theorists directed their attention to local city planning, with misinformation campaigns throwing vitriol at the idea of 15-minute and denouncing planning best practices as a global form social engineering hidden agendas restrict private freedoms. In this context, urban planners practitioners need understand nature claims distinguish legitimate concerns about model. As...
The effectiveness of conservation interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) is often evaluated—if it evaluated at all—only the completion intervention. Since gains achieved by intervention may be lost after ends, even apparently successful not result in long-term benefits, a problem known that permanence. This paper uses unique dataset to examine permanence land use change induced short-term, asset-building PES program implemented Quindío, Colombia, between 2003 and...
It has been well established that gentrification can undermine access to green amenities for socially vulnerable residents through socio-cultural or physical displacement from working-class and minority neighbourhoods. However, in the growing literature on environmental gentrification, little attention given impacts of young families children, especially neighbourhood spaces where children socialise play. Using observational methods, surveys interviews, we assessed perceptions use play two...
SUMMARY Paying landowners to conserve forests is a promising new strategy protect biodiversity and ecosystem services. However succeed with this approach, programme managers need reliable monitoring data make informed payment decisions. This includes withholding from who do not meet conservation objectives. The method used for the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund compared aerial photographs conducted field sampling identify forest changes. comparison of showed that 161 hectares were...
Gains achieved by conservation interventions such as payments for environmental services (PES) may be lost upon termination of the program, a problem known permanence. However, there have been few efforts to evaluate permanence results. This article examines land-use changes induced short-term PES program implemented between 2003 and 2008 in Matiguás-Río Blanco, Nicaragua. Under this had substantial adoption silvopastoral practices. To assess long-term these changes, participants were...
Abstract Community-based forestry has the potential to improve forest management in commons. Unfortunately, ease with which logging interests are able ignore community decisions and steal timber remains troubling. This article analyzes how illegal is highly erosive cohesiveness institutions context of Mexico. It modus operandi clandestine operations their complex relationship common property managers. Resistance complicity simultaneously manifest themselves struggle protect resources....
Access to high quality spatial data raises fundamental questions about how select the appropriate scale and unit of analysis. Studies that evaluate impact conservation programs have used multiple scales areal units: from 5x5 km grids; 30m pixels; irregular units based on land uses or political boundaries. These choices affect estimate program impact. The bias associated with selection is a part well-known dilemma called modifiable problem (MAUP). We introduce this literature evaluation then...
Large crowds in parks can be a problem for park managers and visitors. However, perceptions of crowding are difficult to measure due coping mechanisms deployed by Furthermore, should not measured isolation, but rather as part suite conditions that comprise the visitors' outdoor experience. We used dichotomous choice experiment with visual images eight attributes estimate users' utilities associated their visitor experience Garibaldi Provincial Park British Columbia, Canada. Our method...
Costa Rica is a global ecotourism destination, yet tourism growth has contributed to conflicts over water use. Given the potential for revenue address important environmental challenges, this study examined factors that influence financial support conservation, evaluating role of relational values both as an independent measure and comparing how tourists respond "relational" program design features (where personal connection emphasized) those without. A survey (n = 263) with choice...
Improving bikeability is an urban policy goal that cities are pursuing to reduce their transport-related carbon emissions. To support this goal, paper introduces BiciZen: a collaborative platform aims make and regions more bikeable. We describe the lessons learned from development of citizen science project. BiciZen mobile phone app allows users crowdsource information about cycling experiences suggest improvements infrastructure as well report positive experiences. open concerned cyclists,...