Jesus Ramos-Martin                                        

Tel: + 34 620336192                                    

http://www.jesusramos.org

ACADEMIC DETAILS

2001- : PhD (c) in Ecological Economics at Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

2000-2001: MPhil researcher at Keele University. Topic of the research: “Analysing Energy Metabolism of Societies from a Complex-Systems Perspective”. Scholarship given by Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo (CAM) and the British Council.

1999-2000: MA in “Environmental Politics” at Keele University, UK. Topic of the research: “Equity issues regarding the CO₂ emissions property rights under the FCCC”. Scholarship given by Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo (CAM) and the British Council.

1998-1999: MSc in “Ecological Economics, Territory and Environmental Management” within the PhD Programme in Environmental Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. My research focused on Climate Change, mainly CO₂ abatement measures in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona through Joint Implementation projects.

1992-1996: “Economics” degree (branch of Development and International Economics) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

OTHER RELEVANT COURSES

September 1999: Advanced Course in “Decision Tools and Processes for Integrated Environmental Assessment”, focusing on Multicriteria Decision Aid. Environment and Climate Programme. European Commission. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

From 26^th to 30^th July 1999, Seminar “Environment as a competitive factor. Economic ideas for the next century”, organised by the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander (Spain).

June-December of 1998: Course Management and Development of Renewable and Alternative Energy organised jointly by the Catalan Institute of Technology and by the Industrial Organisation School of Madrid.

From 4^th to 8^th of August 1997, “Magisterial Course: The Public Sector in a Market Economy: redistribution, regulation, and stabilisation” at the Menéndez Pelayo International University Summer Courses’, in Santander.

In 1997 Course: Solar Energy Designing and Installing, organised by CENSOLAR.

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

17^th – 20^th March 2004, paper presented at the International Conference “Bridging Scales and Epistemologies: Linking Local Knowledge and Global Science in Multi-Scale Assessments” within the activities of the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Title: “Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism: Learning from Trajectories of Development and Building Robust Scenarios”.

3^rd March 2004, seminar at the University of Pisa (Italy) on “Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism: The Theory and Practice”

27^th – 28^th November 2003, seminar given at the International Workshop “Interfaces between Science & Society”, organised by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission at Ispra, hold in Milano. Title: “Multiple-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism: Examples of Applications”.

12^th to 15^th of February 2003, paper presented jointly with Miquel Ortega Cerdà at the ESEE Conference Frontiers 2, hold in Tenerife, Spain. Title: “Non-linear relationship between energy intensity and economic growth”.

18^th - 20^th of November 2002, paper presented at the Encuentro Nacional Rio + 10: II Cumbre de la Tierra hold at the University of Almeria. Title: "Johannesburg '02: La política ambiental en venta".

6^th and 7^th of June 2002, paper presented jointly with Miquel Ortega Cerdà at the IX Symposium on Economic History held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Title: “Energy intensity and economic growth: attractor points for both developed and developing countries”.

25^th-29^th of April 2002, seminar given at the workshop SOCIAL METABOLISM. Physical indicators of unsustainability Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Title: “Multiple-Scale Integrated Assessment of Societal Metabolism”.

From 6^th to 9^th March 2002, two papers given at the 7^th Biennial Conference of the ISEE (International Society for Ecological Economics), held in Sousse, Tunisia. Titles: “Grandfathering  vs. equitable allocations: The case for CO₂ emission rights”, and  “Integrated assessment of development trajectories: the two sides of the bifurcation of economic development (Spain versus Ecuador)”, this latter jointly with Fander Falconí.

30^th- 31^st August 2001, paper given at the Conservation and Sustainable Development – Comparative Perspectives workshop, held at the Yale Center for Comparative Research, Yale University, New Haven, USA. Title: “Empiricism in Ecological Economics: A Vision from Complex Systems Theory”.

From 4th to 7^th of July 2001, paper given with John Proops at the EC High Level Scientific Conference, “Frontiers 1: Fundamental Issues of Ecological Economics”, organised by the ESEE (European Society for Ecological Economics), Cambridge, UK. Title: “Empiricism in ecological economics: can there be a predictive ecological econometrics?”.

From 18^th to 22^nd of June 2001, paper given at the Tercera Convención Internacional sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo. Tercer Congreso de Economía y Medio Ambiente. La Habana, Cuba. Title: “Empirismo en economía ecológica: una visión desde la teoría de los sistemas complejos”.

From 23^rd to 27^th of May 2000, poster presented at the Second International Workshop Advances in Energy Studies “Exploring Supplies, Constraints, and Strategies”. Porto Venere, Italy. Title: Non-linearity in energy metabolism of Spain: “Attractor Points” for the Development of Energy Intensity.

From 3^rd to 6^th of May 2000, 2 communications presented at the Third International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics “Transitions to a Sustainable Europe: Ecology-Economy-Policy”, University of Vienna, Austria. Titles: “The Role of the Different Groups of Countries in the International Negotiations on Climate Change”, and “Brief comment on dematerialization and the energy intensity in Spain”.

From 12^th to 16^th July 1999: communication, jointly with Professor Joan Subirats “Ejercicio de simulación de las negociaciones de Cambio Climático. Negociación de un protocolo que limite las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero”, at the I Curs Internacional d'Estiu de Medi Ambient. Medi i societat: noves tendències, Canillo, Andorra. Organised by the Institut d'Estudis Andorrans.

January 1999: “Workshop on Complex Systems Analysis, European Project “Environmental Valuation in Europe”. Barcelona.

From 4th to 7th of March 1998, participant at the Second International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics  on: “Ecological Economics and Development” at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

LANGUAGES

Spanish and Catalan: mother tongue.

English: Fluent in reading, writing and speaking. TOEFL and IELTS. Two years living in the UK.

Italian: Fluent in reading, writing and speaking, living in Italy since september 2003.     

Portuguese: reading and understanding.

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge of the MS Office package, including the word processor Word; the spreadsheet Excel, the presentation assistant PowerPoint, web editor Front-Page, as well as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, for Internet. Moreover, I have used Access database and the statistical program SPSS. Programming in HTML language as well.

PROFESSIONAL DETAILS 

From September 2003: Researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione, Roma, Italy. Working on a Participatory Integrated Assessment of the use of GMOs in agriculture.

August 2002: Associated lecturer of “Ecological Economics” and “Economics and Politics of Climate Change” at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), in Quito, Ecuador.

Since February 2002, founding partner and Manager of the environmental consultancy ENT Environment and Management (http://www.ent-consulting.com), in charge of the Administration and Finances.

October 2000 – September 2003 and October 1998 - September 1999: associated lecturer of the degree course subject “Economics of Natural Resources” to both Economics and Environmental Sciences students at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

August 1998: Co-ordinator and lecturer of the subject “Environmental Management Systems”, in the Summer Courses of the Open University of Catalonia, dealing with the relationship between the environment and firms in general, and the environmental standards EMAS and ISO 14001 in particular.

March-June 1998: assistant lecturer of the degree course subject “Economics of Natural Resources” in the framework of the “New Project of Joint Subjects in Videoconference between the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Barcelona”, monitoring and assessing the students of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

February-June 1998: Rugby instructor in some primary and secondary schools of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, within the Sport Club Puig Castellar and Santa Coloma City Council Joint Programme on “Initiation and Promotion of Rugby in schools 1998”.

March-April 1998: Co-author and chairperson of the virtual discussion forum on “Industry and the Environment” in the Open University of Catalonia web page within the framework of the ECOCAMPUS project.

From September 1996 to June 1997 I have done the Military Service as an Officer, specifically as a second lieutenant.

From October 1995 to June 1996 I have been scholarship holder in the Library Service of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2003-2004: Researcher for the Italian Ministry of Agriculture project “Developing procedures for improving the quality of scientific information used for diffusion on GMOs”.

2002-2003: Researcher for the EU funded project “Development and application of a multi-criteria software decision analysis tool for renewable energy sources”, contract NNE5-1999-NNE5/273/2001, under the supervision of Professor Giuseppe Munda.

2002: Participant in the Integrated Action between the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology and the Austrian Government, contract HU2000-0025: “Integración del análisis de flujos de materia y energía en el análisis multicriterial (Integrating materials and energy flows analysis into multicriteria analysis)”.

2002: Participant at the project EASY-ECO (Evaluation of sustainability), coordinated by the University of Economics and business Administration of Vienna, and funded by the European Commission (Contract HPCF-CT-2001-00286).

1999-2002: Member of the research group at Autonomous University of Barcelona in the project “Evaluación económico-ambiental en un marco internacional (Environmental-economic evaluation in an international framework)”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, DGICYT (Sectorial Program of General Promotion of Knowledge), contract P98-0868.

ORGANISATION OF EVENTS

Member of the Organising Committee of the Iberoamerican Congress on Development and Environment (http://www.ent-consulting.com/cidma), hold in Quito, Ecuador, from 9^th to 12^th April 2003.

Member of the Organising Committee of the Second Iberoamerican Congress on Development and Environment, to be held in Mexico DF, Mexico, in November 2005.

SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS

Member of the Board of the European Society for Ecological Economics.

Member of the International Society for Ecological Economics.

Member of the European Working Group “Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding”.

Founding member of the Asociación Hispano Portuguesa de Economía de los Recursos Naturales (Portuguese-Spanish Association of Natural Resource Economics).

Founding member of the Red Iberoamericana de Economía Ecológica (Iberoamerican Network for Ecological Economics).

Founding member of the Scientific Society LIPHE⁴

Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Iberoameicana de Economia Ecologica (Iberoamerican Journal of Ecological Economics).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Giampietro, M., and Ramos-Martin, J. 2004. “Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Sustainability: a methodological tool to improve the quality of narratives”, International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, accepted for publication.

Ramos-Martin, J., and Giampietro, M. 2004. “ Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism: Learning from trajectories of development and building robust scenarios”, International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, accepted for publication.

Ramos-Martin, J. 2004. “La perspectiva biofísica del proceso económico: Economía Ecológica”. In F. Falconi, M. Hercowitz, R. Muradian (Eds.): Globalización y Desarrollo en América Latina. FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador.

Falconí, F., Ramos-Martin, J. 2003. “Societal Metabolism of Societies: The bifurcation between Spain and Ecuador”. In: Advances in Energy Studies. Reconsidering the Importance of Energy, S. Ulgiati, M.T. Brown, M. Giampietro, R.A. Herendeen, and K. Mayumi, Editors. SGE Publisher Padova, Italy, 2003, pp.45/61.

Ramos-Martin, J.: “Empiricism in Ecological Economics: A Perspective from Complex Systems Theory", Ecological Economics Vol 46/3 pp 387-398.

Ramos-Martin, J.: “Intensidad energética de la economía española: una perspectiva integrada”, accepted for publication in Revista de Economía Industrial.

Ramos-Martin, J.: “La perspectiva biofísica de la relació home-natura: Economia Ecològica”, in J. Valdivielso (comp.), Les dimensions socials de la crisis ecològica, Ed. UIB, in press.

Ramos-Martin, J., Russi, D., Puig, I., Ortega, M., and Ungar, P. (2003): Deuda Ecológica. ¿Quién debe a quién? Icaria Editorial, Barcelona. Also published in Catalan by the same Publisher, and in Italian (DEBITO ECOLOGICO Chi deve a chi? Editrice Missionaria Italiana. 2003).

Ramos-Martin, J. (2003): “Empirismo en economía ecológica: una visión desde la teoría de sistemas complejos”, Revista de Economía Crítica. Vol. 1: 75-93.

Ramos-Martin, J. (2001a): "Historical analysis of energy intensity of Spain: from a "conventional view" to an "integrated assessment", Population and Environment, 22: 281-313.

Ramos-Martin, J. (2001b): “Non-linearity in energy metabolism of Spain: “Attractor Points” for the Development of Energy Intensity”, in S. Ulgiati et al. (eds), Advances in Energy Studies. Exploring Supplies, Constraints, and Strategies, Padova (Italy), SGE Editoriali. Pp: 535-542.

Ramos-Martin, J. and J. Proops (2001c): “Empiricism in ecological economics: can there be a predictive ecological econometrics?”. ISEE Working Paper.

Ramos-Martin, J. (2001d): “De Kyoto a Marrakech: historia de una flexibilización anunciada”, Ecología Política 22: 45-56.

Ramos-Martin, J. (1999a): “Breve comentario sobre la desmaterialización en el estado español”, Ecología Política, 18: 61-64.

Ramos-Martin, J. (1999b): “New role of Flexibility Mechanisms for improving equity under a new burden sharing scheme”, Joint Implementation Quarterly, Vol. 5 (4).