Santiago Izquierdo-Tort, PhD
Assistant Professor, David Brand Professorship in Sustainable forestry and Conservation Finance.
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Resources Management
UNESCO Chairholder
Socio-Economic Evaluation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem (co-chaired with Prof Jerome Dupras).
Contact:
E-mail: santiago(dot)izquierdotort(at)ubc(dot)ca
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Bio:
Santiago is an Assistant Professor, the inaugural holder of the David Brand Professorship in Sustainable forestry and Conservation Finance at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Resources Management. He is also Co-Holder of the Unesco Chair in Socio-Economic Evaluation of Biodiversity and Ecosystems. His research centres on how conservation actions for achieving climate and biodiversity goals through the use of economic incentives or markets interact with rural livelihoods and local development pathways, particularly in forest tropical frontiers. He has 15 years of research and practitioner experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes in Mexico and other regions in Latin America. Santiago holds PhD and MPhil degrees in International Development and Development Studies from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He held advisory positions at Natura y Ecosistemas Mexicanos, Centro Interdisciplinario de Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente (CEIBA), and Sports for Nature, an initiative led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is a Subject Editor for Ecology & Society. Previously, he held an Associate Researcher (akin to Associate Professor) appointment at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s Institute of Economic Research
Keywords:
forest conservation payments, market environmentalism, environmental governance, policy design and implementation, social-ecological systems, community engagement