Dr Julia Touza Montero
Research Fellow

Applied Economics Department
Faculty of Economics
University of Vigo
Campus Lagoas Marcosende
Vigo, Spain
Telephone: +34 986 813515
e-mail: julia.touza@uvigo.es

 

 

Profile

Julia Touza is a research fellow in the Applied Economics Department at the University of Vigo (Spain), and a research associate at ecoSERVICES Group at Arizona State University (USA). Her fields of specialization are ecological and environmental economics. Research interests include natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, economics of biological invasions, and ecological-economic modeling.

She received her MSc (Environment Economics and Environmental Management) and her PhD (Environmental Economics) both from the University of York, UK, where she earned the 2004 KM Stott Prize for the best PhD dissertation.

Previous positions include research fellow at the University of York between 2001-2005; and Marie Curie Fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Germany (2005-2007). She has also been visiting faculty at Arizona State University (USA).

She has taught postgraduate courses in various universities: University of Vigo, University of the Basque Country, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, and Havana University (Cuba). She has been invited to be a reviewer and member of scientific committees of international conferences, e.g. European Society of Ecological Economics, BIOECON, and the Spanish Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists. She regularly acts as reviewer for international scientific journals.

Publications

Peer-review journal articles

• Touza J., Drechsler M., Smart J.C.R., Termansen M. (2012) Emergence of cooperative behaviours in management of mobile ecological resources. Environmental Modelling & Software. In press.
• Prestemon, J.P., M.L. Chas-Amil, J. Touza, S.J. Goodrick. (2012) Forecasting intentional wildfires using temporal and spatio-temporal autocorrelations. International Journal of Wildland Fire. In press.
• Doldan X., Chas-Amil M.L., Touza J. (2011) Estimating the economic impacts of maritime port development: the case of A Coruña (NW Spain). Ocean & Coastal Management, 54: 668-677.
• Touza J. and Perrings C. (2011) Strategic behavior and the scope for unilateral provision of transboundary ecosystem services that are international environmental public goods. Strategic Behaviour and Environment, 1(2): 89-117.
• Touza J., Perrings C. and Chas-Amil M. (2010) Harvest decisions and spatial landscape attributes: the case of Galician collective forest. Environmental and Resource Economics, 46 (1): 75-91.
• Touza J., Termansen M. and Perrings C. (2008) A bioeconomic approach to the Faustmann-Hartman rule: ecological interactions and even-aged forest management. Natural Resource Modeling, 21(4): 551 – 581.
• Areal F., Touza J., MacLeod A., Dehnen-Schmutz K., Palmieri G. M., Perrings, C., and Spence, N. (2008) Integrating drivers influencing the detection of plant pests carried in the international cut flower trade. Journal of Environmental Management, 89(4): 300-307.
• Dehnen-Schmutz K., Touza J., Perrings C. and Williamson, M. (2007) A century of the ornamental plant trade and its impact on invasion success. Diversity and Distributions, 13: 527-534.
• Dehnen-Schmutz K, Touza J., Perrings C., and Williamson M. (2007) The horticultural trade and ornamental plant invasions in Britain. Conservation Biology, 21(1): 224-231.
• Perrings C., Dehnen-Schmutz K, Touza J., and Williamson M. (2005) How to manage invasive species under globalization. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20: 212-215.

Contributions in books and science reports

• Chas-Amil M.L., García-Martínez E. and Touza J. (2012). Fire risk at the wildland-urban interface: A case study of a Galician county. Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires III. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment.In press.
• Grimm V, Polhill GP, Touza J. (2012). Documenting social simulation models: the ODD protocol as a standard. In: Edmonds B., Moss S. (eds.) Handbook on Simulating Social Complexity. Springer. In press.
• Touza J., Drechsler M., Johst K. and Dehnen-Schmutz K. (2010) The role of space in invasive species management. In Perrings C., Mooney H., Williamson M. (eds.) Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 145-157. ISBN: 978-0-19-956016-5.
• Touza J. and Perrings C. (2010) The provision of international environmental public goods. UNEP Ecosystem Services Economics Working Papers,Nairobi, UNEP.
• Chas-Amil M.L., Touza J. and Prestemon J.P. (2010). Spatial distribution of human-caused forest fires in Galicia (NW Spain). In G. Perona and C. A. Brebbia (eds.) Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires. WIT Press. pp. 247-258. ISBN: 978-1-84564-452-9.
• Dehnen-Schmutz K., and Touza, J. (2008) Plant invasions and ornamental horticulture: Pathway, propagule pressure and the legal framework. In Teixeira da Silva, J. A. (ed.) Floriculture, Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology: advances and topical issues. Global Science Books, Isleworth, pp 15-21.
• Touza J., Dehnen-Schmutz K., Jones G. (2007) Economic analysis of invasive species policies. In Nentwig, W. (ed.): Biological Invasions. Ecological Studies 193. Springer, Berlin, pp. 353-366.
• Azqueta D. and Touza J., (2000) Benefit Transfer: The Recreational Value of Three Natural Parks in Galicia. In N. Georgantzis and I. J. Barrenda (eds.), Spatial Economics and Ecosystems. The Interaction between Economics and the Natural Environment. WIT Press. pp. 257-283.

Conference proceedings and other publications

• Dehnen-Schmutz, Chas-Amil M.L. and Touza J. (2010) Stakeholders’ perceptions of plant invasions in Galicia, Spain. Aspects of Applied Biology, 104: 13-18.
• Touza J., Drechsler M., Smart J.C.R. and Termansen M. (2009) Evolution of cooperative behaviour in the management of mobile ecological resources. SRI Papers, 16. Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds.
• Chas Amil M.L. and Touza J. (2009) Estudio estadístico de la causalidad de los incendios forestales en Galicia. 5º Congreso Forestal Español. Montes y sociedad: saber qué hacer. S.E.C.F. editores. ISBN: 978-84-936854-61.
• Dehnen-Schmutz K., Touza J., Perrings C. and Williamson M. (2005) Ornamental horticultural trade as pathway for invasion. BCPC Proceedings Introduction and Spread of Invasive Species. pp. 7-12.
• Perrings C. and Touza J., (2004) Spatial interactions and forest management: policy issues. In Horne P. et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Conference on Policy Instruments for Safeguarding Forest Biodiversity - Legal and Economic Viewpoints -. METLA. pp. 15-24.
• Touza J., 1998. Economic value of Forest Ecosystems. In Rojas E. (ed.), III Forum de Política Forestal. Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Cataluña. pp. 339-346. (in Spanish)

Selected Projects

• 2012-2016: Maximizing yield of fisheries while balancing ecosystem, economic and social concerns (MYFISH). Funded body: European Commission,FP7. Pricipal Investigator: Dr Rindorf (National Institute of Aquatic Resources-DTU Aqua).
• 2009-2012: Temporal and spatial analysis of intentional forest fires in Galicia. Funded body: Xunta de Galicia. Principal investigator: M. Luisa Chas Amil (University of Santiago de Compostela).
• 2008-2010: Management of invasive plants: a socio-economic analysis. Funded body: Xunta de Galicia. Principal investigator: Julia Touza (University of Vigo).
• 2005-2007: Ecological-economic modelling for the design of biodiversity conservation policies. EU funded project. Principal investigator: Martin Drechsler and Frank Wätzold (Helmholtz Center of Environmental Research – UFZ).
• 2003-2005: Invasive species risk and the trade in plants: an ecological-economics analysis. Funded body: Leverhulme Trust. Principal investigator: Charles Perrings and Mark Williamson (University of York).
• 2003-2004: Trade and the environment: Integrating economic and environmental drivers for the sustainable export of cut flowers to the UK from East Africa. Funded body: DEFRA. Principal Investigator: N. Spence (Central Science Laboratory) and C. Perrings (University of York).
• 2001-2003: Biodiversity and Economics for Conservation (BIOECON). EU funded project. Main coordinator: Timothy Swanson (University College London); principal investigator of subproject at the University of York: Charles Perrings (University of York).
• 1998: Benefit-transfer: estimation of the recreational value of three natural parks in Galicia. Funded body: Xunta de Galicia. Principal investigator: Julia Touza (University of Vigo).

Workshop Organiser

• II Workshop on Age-Structure Models in Fishery Economics and Bioeconomic Modelling. Vigo, 4-5 November 2011. Funded by Research Groups in Economic Analysis (RGEA), and Economics, Business and the Environment (REDE) from the University of Vigo. Organised jointly with Dr J.M. Da Rocha, Prof. Anders Skonhoft, Prof. Olli Tahvonen.
  This workshop provided an opportunity to update, review, discuss and evaluate how modelling harvestable populations based on their age-structure affects our understanding of key natural and policy issues on natural resource management.
• Ghosts in the Machine: Human-Agency in Ecological-Economic Modelling. Leipzig, 29-30 November 2007. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Co-organiser with Dr Farrell K.
  Two day seminar on strategies for taking into account the behaviours and contributions of intentional human political actors within integrative ecological economic models.
• Linking Science, Policy & Ornamental Horticulture to Prevent Plant Invasions. York, 7-8 March 2005. Funded by UK Population Ecology Network (NERC), with Prof. C. Perrings, Prof. M. Williamson, Dr K. Dehnen-Schmutz.
  Two day workshop aimed to examine strategies to mitigate the effects of ornamental non-native plants on native biodiversity by bringing together representatives of the horticultural industry, policy makers, conservationists and natural and social scientists.

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