Short Bio
Claudio Cattaneo holds a PhD in environmental science from UAB, on the ecological economics of Barcelona squatters. He teaches ecological economics at Carlo Cattaneo University (Italy). His research interests focus on alternative life-styles, urban and squatting movements. He holds an Msc in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh and an undergradaute degree in Business and Economics from Carlo Cattaneo University.
In his life he combines research work with practical and social work: He is a squatter, a bicycle mechanic and an olive farmer. He practices de-growth by living with less than 250 euros per month.

Research Interests: squatting movement, do-it-yourself, human ecology, political ecological economics

Selected Publication:
Investigating neorural and squatters' lifestyles.http://psicologiasocial.uab.es/athenea/index.php/atheneaDigital/article/view/290/290

Short Bio
Gonzalo Gamboa holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences, Ecological Economics option, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . He holds a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile.
During 2008, he worked, as a post-doctoral researcher, on multi-scale integrated assessment of societal metabolism (SMILE project). Currently, he studies the metabolism of indigenous peasant households and communities in Guatemala.
His previous research has focused on the combination of participatory approaches and multi-criteria evaluation within the public policy domain. Specifically, applying the Social Multi-criteria Evaluation framework in order to support decisions on renewable energies implementation (MCDA-RES project) and costal management (MESSINA project) (2004-2005). He coordinated a research project on local water management carried out by FLACSO-Guatemala (2006). He has also collaborated with the University of the Basque Country in the research project EKO-LURRALDEA (2008).He is part of the following research groups at UAB: Integrated assessment: sociology, technology and the environment and Agriculture, livestock and food in the globalization (ARAG-UAB).

Research Interests: multi-criteria evaluation, multi-scale integrated assessment of societal metabolism, participatory approaches, and metabolism of peasant economies

Selected Publication:
Gamboa, G., Munda, G., 2007. The Problem of Wind-Park Location: A Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework. Energy Policy 35, pp.: 1564-1583

Short Bio
Kozo Mayumi graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics of Kyoto University. Between 1984 and 1988 he studied bioeconomics at the Department of Economics of Vanderbilt University under Prof. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s supervision, and since then has worked in the fields of energy analysis, ecological economics and complex hierarchy theory. Since 1998, he has been involved in organizing a biennial international workshop (Advances in Energy Studies) in which many distinguished scholars have taken part. Mayumi is a professor at the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, University of Tokushima, Tokushima City 770-8502. He is currently an editorial board member of Ecological Economics, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics and International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research.

Selected Publications:
Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, co-edited with John Gowdy (Edward Elgar, 1999)

The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen (Routledge, 2001)

The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements, with Blake Alcott, Mario Giampietro and John Polimeni (Earthscan, 2008)

The Biofuel Delusion: The Fallacy of Large-Scale Agro-Biofuel Production, with Mario Giampietro (Earthscan, 2009).

François Schneider
Associated Researcher at ICTA
Francois@degrowth.net
Web Page

Short Bio
François Schneider is an industrial ecologist and degrowth researcher. He worked on the development of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology at the INSA engineering school in Lyon and at the CML in Holland. He organized the first conference on allocation in LCA in Leiden, Holland. He finished his PhD on allocation problems in cascade systems in 1996. He worked on material flow of carbon or aggregated material at the Institute for Industrial Ecology in Austria. He contributed to SERI development in Vienna, working on rebound effect, transport issues, sustainable consumption and regional flows. He worked at the INETI in Lisbon, Portugal on product-service systems and material/water indicators in regions. Since 2001, he is active in the development of the degrowth concept and debate in France and Europe. Founding the research group Research and Degrowth in 2006, he initiated and organised the first scientific conference on degrowth for Sustainability and Equity in Paris in 2008.

Research Interests: degrowth economics, rebound effect, material flows allocation, consensus process.

Selected Publication:
Flipo F & Schneider F (Eds), Proceedings of the First Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity. Paris 18-19 April 2008, Research & Degrowth, INT, 322p. Available at http://events.it-sudparis.eu/degrowthconference/en/.

Iago Otero
Associated Researcher at ICTA
iago.otero@uab.cat
Web Page
Blog

Short Bio
Iago Otero is an environmental scientist working on environmental history, political ecology and environmental management. He has a Masters in Environmental Studies and a Bachelors degree in Environmental Science, both from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences (UAB, 2010). His research is concerned with the transformation from rural to urban socioecological systems in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region under current global change. He combines his research with the direction of documentaries and with conservation projects with local environmentalist organizations.

Research Interests: Land-use change, landscape, biodiversity, silenced memories.

AudioVisual Material:

- 'Iago Otero and artist Perejaume talk about Degrowth in Ràdio 4 (in Catalan)'

- Harvest of harvests'

Selected Publication:
Otero I, Boada M, Tàbara JD (2013). Social-ecological heritage and the conservation of Mediterranean landscapes under global change. A case study in Olzinelles (Catalonia). Land Use Policy, 30: 25-37. PDF

Otero I, Kallis G, Aguilar R, Ruiz V (2011). Water scarcity, social power and the production of an elite suburb. The political ecology of water in Matadepera, Catalonia. Ecological Economics, 70: 1297-1308..PDF

Martí Orta
Associated Researcher at ICTA
martiorta@gmail.com

Short Bio
Marti Orta received a Bachelors degree in Biological Sciences at the Universitat de Barcelona (2004). He is currently a PhD student at ICTA, UAB. His research, in collaboration with FECONACO (Federación de Comunidades Nativas del río Corrientes), is focused on the environmental impacts of oil activities in the Achuar indigenous territory (Peruvian Amazon). His work is done from a political ecology and participatory action research perspective, combining ethnocartography, GIS and remote sensing. In a wider sense, his research is focused on indigenous/local monitoring of extractive industry impacts, accountability of social and environmental liabilities of oil companies, oil frontier expansion and corporate-community relations. He is also interested in sustainability, conservation, ethnoecology and biodiversity management involving indigenous people. He participates in a project with the Tsimane’ tribes, from the Amazon lowland rainforests in Bolivia, that studies the role of indigenous traditional lifestyles in conservation. He is a member of the research group on Economic Institutions, Standards of Living and the Environment, and the Ethnoecology laboratory.

Research Interests: Indigenous people, Oil frontier, Ecological distribution conflicts, Extractive industry.

Selected Publication:
Martí Orta Martínez et al 2007. Impacts of petroleum activities for the Achuar people of the Peruvian Amazon: summary of existing evidence and research gaps. Environ. Res. Lett. 2 045006 (10pp) doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/2/4/045006