Paola Beatriz
Ovando Pol
Redes sociales
Paola is an Environmental Economist, with a PhD awarded by the University of Alcalá in 2011 (with honors). She has joined the Institute of Public Goods and Policies in November 2021 as Research Associate Professor (Científica Titular).
From 2018 to 2021 Paola was a Research Leader and Macaulay Development Trust Fellow in Natural Capital Accounting, at the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department in the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland (UK).
From 2016 to 2018 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Economics cluster) of the Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology).
From 2014 to 2016 a Marie Curie Intra-European Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and The Environment of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, with the project FORESTA FORest conservation and EcoSysTem Accounting.
After completing her PhD Paola was part of the research staff of the project RECAMAN: Total income and capital of Andalusian Forestland at the IPP-CSIC.
Paola’s principal research contribution and interests focus on three research fields: (i) the economic valuation of ecosystem services and natural capital, and their integration into ecosystem accounting and decision making frameworks; (ii) the development of integrated economic and environmental models to better understand land use and management decisions; and more recently (iii) the potential and policy implications of forest carbon and other environmental markets for supporting decarbonization and sustainability aspirations.
Paola´s contribution to the field of natural capital accounting has been recognized beyond Academia, through her involvement in the Steering Group for TEEB-Agrifood framework in 7 countries implemented by the Coalition of Capitals, the project Irish Natural Capital Accounting for Sustainable Environments, the Sustainable Land Use group of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital and the Steering Committee on the Scottish Natural Capital Accounts.
Paola has contributed to numerous national and international research projects, act9ng as PI in 5 research projects. Paola has over 50 peer reviewed publications in scientific journals and book chapters (see the CV attached).
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2024-2029 Predoctoral – Contract Momentum Programme for Developing Digital Talent: “Analysis of the interconnections between voluntary forest carbon markets, corporate climate neutrality efforts, and consumer preferences in the digital age” (Reference MMT4-IPP-01). PI. Paola Ovando (IPP-CSIC) (with Kenedy Alba (UCM)).
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2022-2024: Proyectos de Transición Ecológica y Transición Digital 2021: “FORCARBON: Understanding business preferences for forest carbon offsets” (Reference: TED2021-130910A-I00). PI: Paola Ovando (IPP-CSIC) (with. J.L. Oviedo, P. Campos).
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2022-2025: Plan Estatal de I+D Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento: “FOREWAY - Finding Viable Pathways for Forest Carbon Offsetting in Europe” (Reference PID2021-125340OA-I00). PI: P. Ovando (IPP-CSIC, Spain), F. Cohen (UB, Spain), R, Hewitt (UCM, Spain), O. Hakan Can (UB), A. Gimona, M. Castellazzi (Hutton, UK), J. Vergunts, J. Koronka (U. Aberdeen, UK).
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2022-2025: Agencia Estatal CSIC “LINGGLOBAL 2022”: FORSCIRC: Sostenibilidad y circularidad - Retos y oportunidades para el sector forestal ante el cambio climático (Ref: INCGL20018). PI: P. Ovando (CSIC), S.M. Olivera, C.L. Heard, L. García (UAM, México), D.A. Rozas (UCT, Chile) and Julio Soria-Lara (UPM).
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2021-2025: EU H2020. FirEUrisk. Developing A Holistic, Risk-Wise Strategy for European Wildfire Management. P. Ovando (Hutton PI), M. Nijnik, M. Roberts, Z. Gagkas.
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