Roldan MuradianUniversidade Federal Fluminense | UFF · Departamento de Economia (SEN)
Roldan Muradian
PhD
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Introduction
Interested in environmental governance and human-nature interactions, at different scales.
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May 2014 - present
July 2013 - June 2014
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- Professor
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- Funded by the CAPES Programme for Visiting Professors
May 2003 - March 2009
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Publications (90)
Academic schools are important institutions for consolidating and disseminating ideas. They can be defined as diffused communities held together by a collectively constructed body of knowledge, a shared worldview and a network of social relations. Identifying and delimiting academic schools might be a hard endeavor, since they are embedded in a flu...
This chapter aims to give an overarching vision of the plural epistemological basis of the Barcelona school of ecological economics and political ecology, as well as to provide examples of the cross-fertilization between disciplines, methods and approaches that we think constitute one of the main contributions of the School. The chapter identifies...
Reversing ecosystem degradation and halting global biodiversity loss due to climate change and other anthropogenic drivers are essential for socioeconomic development and human wellbeing, as well as for advancing global sustainability. The latest initiative in this direction is the 'Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework', which establishes a blue...
Corporate misperceptions of environmental risks are relatively frequent and can have catastrophic consequences, as in the case of the two recent tailings dam breaks in Brazil of the mining company Vale. By analysing Vale's documents and testimonies of investors, managers and engineers in the period between the two accidents (2015-2019), we investig...
The Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) approach, developed as theoretical backdrop for the assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), aims to provide a more inclusive discourse in sustainability science, while addressing some of the limitations of the ecosystem services (ES) fram...
While there is much debate on transformative change among academics and policymakers, the discussion on how to govern such change is still in its infancy. This article argues that transformative governance is needed to enable the transformative change necessary for achieving global sustainability goals. Based on a literature review, the article unp...
While there is much debate on transformative change among academics and
policymakers, the discussion on how to govern such change is still in its infancy. This article argues that transformative governance is needed to enable the transformative
change necessary for achieving global sustainability goals. Based on a literature
review, the article unp...
Cognitive framing, collective action and ecosystem services
Far right political movements are rising and seizing power in many influential countries, affecting not only the governance of democratic regimes but also the science-policy relationship and the global environmental agenda. Here we disentangle the roots of such 'far right insurgency' and discuss the implications for ecological economics as a field....
I argue that the degrowth movement reflects the values of a particular social group, namely the well-educated European middle class that share progressive-green-cosmopolitan values. This feature creates significant barriers for its dissemination among lower-income social groups in other parts of the world. There is an important difference between f...
This document is chapter 6 (Option for decision makers) of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2019). In response to the interconnected challenges of sustainable development, biodiversity conservation, and climate change identified in previous chapters, chapter 6 organizes its analysis on the options for decision mak...
Transitioning towards agroecology involves the integration of biodiversity based ecosystem services into farming systems: for example, relying on biological pest control rather than pesticides. One promising approach for pest control relies on the conservation of semi-natural habitats at the landscape scale to encourage natural enemies of insect pe...
This article aims to contribute to the debate about the role of relational values in environmental decision making, by putting forward a typology of ‘human-nature relational models’. We argue that human-nature relational models, which stress the notion of cognitive frameworks, can be useful to understand core drivers of individual and social behavi...
Resumo: As novas ruralidades têm como uma das principais características a heterogeneidade socioeconômica e sociocultural construídas pela convivência entre agricultores e novos moradores dos espaços rurais. Como proprietários rurais, ambos se tornam público-alvo de novas políticas ambientais, especialmente aquelas de pagamento por serviços ambient...
The governance of ecosystem services (ES) has been predominantly thought of in terms of market or state-based instruments. Comparatively, collective action mechanisms have rarely been considered. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a conceptual framework that brings together ES, social interdependencies, and collective action thinking. We us...
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) constitute an innovative economic intervention to counteract the global loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. In theory, some appealing features should enable PES to perform well in achieving conservation and welfare goals. In practice, outcomes depend on the interplay between context, design and im...
Purpose: This study uses data from a sample of 150 oilseed farming households from Arsi Robe, Ethiopia, to assess the impact of different knowledge bases (education, training and experience) and their interactions on linseed productivity.
Methodology: A multiple regression analysis was employed to assess the combined effect of the knowledge bases,...
1. Les PSE : entre theorie et pratiques Instruments incitatifs pour la conservation des ressources naturelles (eau, biodiversite, forets, etc.), les paiements pour services environnementaux ou ecosystemiques (PSE) sont de plus en plus utilises dans les politiques de conservation de la biodiversite. Leur succes s’explique par l’interet des decideurs...
This study assesses the impact of cooperative membership among dairy producers in Selale, Ethiopia. We selected ten impact indicators: proportion of dairy income to total household income, total dairy income, proportion of crossbreed cows to the total number of cows in the herd (indicator of technological innovation), amount of feed bought (another...
Agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations are institutional innovations which have the potential to reduce poverty and improve food security. This book presents a raft of international case studies, from developing and transition countries, to analyse the internal and external challenges that these complex organizations face and the solu...
This synthesis chapter discusses the issues that are at the core of the academic discourse on the transformation of cooperatives in developing countries. The first is about inclusion or exclusion of particular groups of farmers. This issue has gained significance because cooperatives-as-businesses are more likely to be selective in allowing farmers...
The chapter addresses the relation between the performance of agricultural cooperatives and indicators of trust, reciprocity and cooperativeness. On the basis of empirical research among coffee cooperatives in Ethiopia, the authors find significant higher levels of stated trust, behavioural trust, reciprocity and cooperativeness among members of hi...
Les écosystèmes naturels fournissent des services de toute sorte aux sociétés humaines. Cette reconnaissance a été portée par des économistes écologiques. Mais ceux-ci se divisent sur le risque d'une marchandisation de la nature.
Coffee is – next to petroleum – one of the most valuable agricultural commodities traded at international markets (Arslan and Reicher, 2010; Rodriquez, 2012). Today, coffee remains one of the most important sources of export income for East African nations (i.e. Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania). Ethiopia is known to be the birthplace and the...
The case of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in Brazil provides an interesting illustration of how different PES models have emerged, according to different agendas, and how they have consolidated themselves. While PES in other Latin American countries were driven by national governments, in Brazil, PES were initiated in the early 2000s by...
Coudel E., Ferreira J., Amazonas M., Eloy L., Hercowitz M., Mattos L., May P., Muradian R., Piketty M.G., Toni F.. 2013. Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica, 32-33 : 6-15.
Although conservation efforts have sometimes succeeded in meeting environmental goals at the expense of equity considerations, the changing
context of conservation and a growing body of evidence increasingly suggest that equity considerations should be integrated into conservation
planning and implementation. However, this approach is often perceiv...
The design and thriving of payments for ecosystem services (PES) have occurred as a response to the relative failure of integrated strategies for reconciling conservation and development. The most widespread definition of PES conceives these payments as markets to solve environmental externalities. This article analyzes the limitations of this “Coa...
This chapter is an introduction to the book ‘Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services’. It aims to create a common analytical framework to the different contributions that compose the book. The call to value nature when making development decisions and to treat the world’s ecosystems as capital assets in order to prevent their continued degrad...
In this commentary we critically discuss the suitability of payments for ecosystem services and the most important challenges they face. While such instruments can play a role in improving environmental governance, we argue that over-reliance on payments as win-win solutions might lead to ineffective outcomes, similar to earlier experience with int...
This paper analyzes the impact of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) in Sauri, Kenya. We found significant higher agricultural productivity, self-consumption, production margins, and total (surrogate) income, but an insignificant impact on cash income among targeted households, when compared to similar ones in neighboring villages. These outcomes...
This book, published in 2013, is an updated and extended version of José Esteban Castro and Léo Heller (Eds.), Water and Sanitation Services: Public Policy and Management (Earthscan, 2009; Routledge, 2012) and contains 5 new chapters on Brazil and 1 on Venezuela.
O livro estrutura-se com base em vários pressupostos, que proporcionam um arcabouço c...
This paper deals with the comparison of two types of honey producers' enterprises in the Masha district, western Ethiopia. Cooperatives and private limited companies (PLCs) are both collectively owned by a group of farmers, but the former do not face a legal restriction regarding the number of members, are strongly regulated by the government, and...
This conclusive chapter of the book entitled “Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services” attempts to summarize the main overall issues addressed by the different contributions that compose this volume. The insights gained through the broad range of case studies and conceptual chapters in the book are in line with the proposition that rules and...
Founded on the core notion that we have reached a turning point in the governance, and thus the conservation, of ecosystems and the environment, this edited volume features more than 20 original chapters, each informed by the paradigm shift in the sector over the last decade. Where once the emphasis was on strategies for conservation, enacted throu...
This introductory paper to the special section of Global Environmental Change entitled “Global transformations, social metabolism and the dynamics of socio-environmental conflicts” argues that the emergence of new global economic centers is inducing a major expansion in the global social metabolism—the flows of energy and materials into the world e...
The spread of the ecosystem services framework has been accompanied by the promotion of market-based policy instruments for environmental governance. In this paper we clarify the rationale, policy goals and governance challenges of the ecosystem services framework. After systematizing the limitations of market-based policy tools for enhancing the p...
NGOs have, of late, found some of their traditional domains, such as provision of micro-credit and participatory development, coinciding with or being taken away by the state. How do they position themselves and retain relevance vis-a-vis the state in the changed scenario? Tracing the trajectory of interventions of a local NGO in Kerala, India, thi...
This paper addresses the relationship between equity and efficiency in PES schemes from a conceptual point of view. Emphasis is placed on the role of the institutional setting, social perceptions about economic fairness (or distributive justice of the payments), uncertainty and interactions between agents, including power relations. We introduce th...
This article provides an alternative and novel theoretical approach to the conceptualization and analysis of payments for environmental services (PES). We devote special emphasis to institutional and political economy issues, which have been somewhat neglected in the literature on PES. We argue that the Coasean and pure market approach dominating t...
In the backdrop of the popularisation of social capital, it has become fashionable in development circles to highlight the resilience of the poor in the midst of stresses and shocks as well as their resourcefulness. Expressing scepticism, this article argues that social capital is a ‘conditional’ resource for the poor, availability of which is depe...
In the Total Economic Value (TEV) framework, ecosystems may generate output values (the values generated in the current state of the ecosystem, e.g., food production, climate regulation and recreational value) as well as insurance values. The latter, closely related to ?option value?, is the value of ensuring that there is no regime shift in the ec...
In this paper we compare and contrast the view on poverty of lay people, who are affected by the policies, with that of academics and policy-makers. Drawing from fieldwork in a village in Kerala, India, and applying the 'participatory numbers' approach, we devise a 'local method' to identify poor households, based on the villagers' poverty criteria...
The paper reports on a field experiment that investigates whether households in Guatemala are willing to surrender a small material gain in order to buy legal rather than illegal firewood. Given the ineffectiveness of command-and-control policies to curb the problem of illegal logging in Guatemala, the experiment assesses the potential viability of...
The book is structured on the basis of several assumptions that provide a common framework to the different contributions, although these presuppositions are the responsibility of the editors and they are not fully shared by all of the participating authors. First, we assume that WSS policies must be grounded on the principle that these services co...
Evidence from two Cistothoras wrens (C. palustris, C. platensis) has suggested that repertoire size increases with population density and that song imitators are more likely to be site faithful than are song improvisers. We tested these two ideas on a third species, C. meridae, an endemic to the Venezuelan Andes. Of the three Cistothorus wrens. son...
We have compared three cases of payments for water-related environmental services (PES) in Central America, in terms of socioeconomic background, opportunity costs of forest conservation and stakeholders' perceptions of the conditions of water resources and other issues. We found that, in general, the opportunity costs are larger than the amounts p...
The present paper describes the two most important streams of environmental restrictionists in the U.S., and argues that both traditions share an over-emphasis on the negative effects of immigration and a nationalist viewpoint. The paper pleads for a broader scale and scope of analysis. It concludes that immigration restriction should not be used a...
We have compared three cases of payments for water-related environmental services (PES) in Central America, in terms of socioeconomic background, opportunity costs of forest conservation and stakeholders' perceptions on the conditions of water resources and other issues. We found that, in general, the foregone benefits from land uses alternative to...
Initiatives certifying that farms and firms adhere to predefined environmental and social welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, they create financial incentives for farms and firms to improve their environmental and socioeconomic performance. This paper reviews the evidence on whether sustainable certificat...
This paper describes some historical features of the global economic geography of copper, and explores the conditions underpinning environmental conflicts in this sector, while showing some examples. We found that Europe and Japan are progressively more dependent on imports from developing countries to cover internal copper demand. In contrast, cop...
We characterize a social clash over a gold mining project in terms of perception of environmental risks, preferred decision-making mechanism, trust in experts and government institutions, and fairness in the distribution of burdens and benefits. The results reveal that 85% of the local population were against the project. Disagreement between exper...
Evidence from two Cistothorus wrens (C. palustris, C. platensis) has suggested that repertoire size increases with population density and that song imitators are more likely to be site faithful than are song improvisers. We tested these two ideas on a third species, C. meridae, an endemic to the Venezuelan Andes. Of the three Cistothorus wrens, son...
The existence of ecological discontinuities and thresholds has been recognised by ecological economics as a key feature to take into account in the study of environment–economy interactions. This paper reviews some theoretical developments and empirical studies dealing with ecological phenomena involving non-linear dynamics. The literature about th...
The present paper sets out to aid in the development of ‘environmental load displacement’ indicators. Developing the notion of the ‘environmental memory’ of physical flows, we estimated embodied pollution in trade of 18 industrialized countries with (a) the rest of the world and (b) developing countries, from 1976 to 1994. We found that in the last...
The current literature on the relationship between income and environmental quality is dominated by a notion of an inverted 'U'-shaped curve between both variables. However, a key variable is missing in this kind of study: the extra-territorial environmental effects of national economies. International trade of raw materials may be a good proxy to...
The relationship between free trade and the environment is one of the main issues of contention between environmental and ecological economics. Environmental economics assumes a positive relationship between free trade, economic growth and environmental policies. Environmental externalities may cause important damage. However, trade is not to be bl...
The focus of this paper is to discuss and show the policy relevance of "environmental load displacement" adjustments to national aggregate (macroeconomic) indicators for taking account of openness to the rest of the world. A national economy is considered as a set of production and consumption sectors interdependent with (i) natural processes and (...
The present paper sets out to aid in the development of "environmental load displacement" indicators. Developing the notion of the "environmental memory" of physical flows, we estimated embodied pollution in trade of 18 industrialised countries with a) the rest of the world and b) developing countries, from 1976 to 1994. We found that in the last y...
Measurements of CO, production of whole termite colonies showed that respiration intensity varies slightly during the daily cycle, that the relation between standard metabolism and colony size is best described with a negative exponential, taking into account the proportion of the various castes. Larger colonies were more efficient in their energy...
Este documento se elaboró en el marco del Foro Regional sobre Sistemas de Pago por Servicios Ambientales en Cuencas Hidrográficas se llevó a cabo entre el 9 y 12 de junio de 2003 dentro del marco del Tercer Congreso Latinoamericano de Manejo de Cuencas Hidrográficas donde presenta las presentaciones y trabajos que realizaron los participantes para...
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EPICC applies a polycentric governance and environmental justice approach to investigate four selected commodity chains (cattle, palm oil, gold and tin) that ‘feed’ the European market. EPICC seeks to map the governance and power links that connect the multiple territories of production and transformation and their plural legal systems with the European regulatory, political and socio-economic space. By doing so, EPICC identifies and analyses leverage points (chokeholds) and blind spots, and sheds light on the micro and macro conditions that may facilitate the mitigation of environmental and social impacts that occur at the selected locations of production (in Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia).
In this project, we develop a framework that uses an ES lens to highlight social interdependencies among people so as to reflect on existing or potential collective actions among them.