15 results on '"Torres, Cati"'
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2. Framing Decisions in Uncertain Scenarios: An Analysis of Tourist Preferences in the Face of Global Warming
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Bujosa, Angel, Torres, Cati, and Riera, Antoni
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- 2018
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3. Waiting or acting now? The effect on willingness-to-pay of delivering inherent uncertainty information in choice experiments
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Torres, Cati, Faccioli, Michela, and Riera Font, Antoni
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- 2017
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4. ¿Necesita la Agenda Climática Global un giro de 180 grados?
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Moranta, Joan [0000-0002-9814-0735], Torres, Cati, Moranta, Joan, Murray, Ivan, Moranta, Joan [0000-0002-9814-0735], Torres, Cati, Moranta, Joan, and Murray, Ivan
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[ES] Los acuerdos internacionales negociados bajo la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático no han modificado la tendencia al alza de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Desde la economía ecológica crítica, este artículo busca estimular el debate sobre si la actual Agenda Climática Global (ACG) está siendo eficaz o, por el contrario, necesita un giro de 180 grados, como sugieren investigadoras e investigadores críticos sobre política y gobernanza climáticas, que señalan a una ACG que alimenta el capitalismo como la causa de su fracaso. En otras palabras, estas autoras y autores sostienen que las reglas que rigen la economía capitalista mundial también están moldeando la ACG. Estas reglas se fundamentan en el imperativo del crecimiento económico que beneficia a una élite minoritaria al tiempo que estimula un metabolismo socioeconómico en constante expansión, responsable de la crisis socioecológica planetaria. El artículo subraya el cambio ocurrido en los principios rectores de la política climática a partir de la década de 1980, cuando el crecimiento se convirtió en un objetivo político global incuestionable en la esfera de la gobernanza internacional. En un contexto de emergencia climática donde la evidencia muestra una correlación positiva entre el PIB mundial y las emisiones, analizar críticamente la ACG dado su empeño en promover una economía verde pro-crecimiento bajo el paraguas del desarrollo sostenible se convierte hoy en una tarea ineludible., [EN] International agreements negotiated under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change have not changed greenhouse gas emission trends. From a critical ecological economics perspective, this article pursues to further stimulate the debate on whether the current Global Climate Agenda (GCA) is being effective or, in contrast, needs a U-turn, as suggested by researchers on climate policy and governance who critically point to a GCA fueling capitalism as the cause behind its failure. In other words, these authors argue that the rules driving the world capitalist economy are also shaping the GCA. Such rules build on the growth imperative benefitting an elite minority while entailing an ever-expanding socioeconomic metabolism being responsible for the planetary socioecological crisis. The paper underlines the occurrence of a shift in the guiding principles of climate politics from the 1980s onwards when economic growth became an unquestionable global political objective at the international governance level. In a context of climate emergency where evidence shows a positive correlation between global GDP and emissions, critically analyzing the GCA due to its promotion of a growth-oriented green economy under the umbrella of sustainable development (SD) becomes an unavoidable task.
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- 2023
5. Do we care about sustainability? An analysis of time sensitivity of social preferences under environmental time-persistent effects
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Faccioli, Michela, Hanley, Nick, Torres, Cati, and Font, Antoni Riera
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- 2016
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6. Transcending capitalism growth strategies for biodiversity conservation
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Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Moranta, Joan, Torres, Cati, Murray, Ivan, Hidalgo, Manuel, Hinz, Hilmar, Gouraguine, Adam, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Moranta, Joan, Torres, Cati, Murray, Ivan, Hidalgo, Manuel, Hinz, Hilmar, and Gouraguine, Adam
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The unlimited economic growth that fuels capitalism's metabolism has profoundly transformed a large portion of Earth. The resulting environmental destruction has led to an unprecedented rate of biodiversity loss. Following large-scale losses of habitats and species, it was recognized that biodiversity is crucial to maintaining functional ecosystems. We sought to continue the debate on the contradictions between economic growth and biodiversity in the conservation science literature and thus invite scholars to engage in reversing the biodiversity crisis through acknowledging the impacts of economic growth. In the 1970s, a global agenda was set to develop different milestones related to sustainable development, including green-blue economic growth, which despite not specifically addressing biodiversity reinforced the idea that economic development based on profit is compatible with the planet's ecology. Only after biodiversity loss captured the attention of environmental sciences researchers in the early 2000s was a global biodiversity agenda implemented. The agenda highlights biodiversity conservation as a major international challenge and recognizes that the main drivers of biodiversity loss derive from economic activities. The post-2000 biodiversity agendas, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the post-2020 Convention on Biological Diversity Global Strategy Framework, do not consider the negative impacts of growth-oriented strategies on biodiversity. As a result, global biodiversity conservation priorities are governed by the economic value of biodiversity and its assumed contribution to people's welfare. A large body of empirical evidence shows that unlimited economic growth is the main driver of biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene; thus, we strongly argue for sustainable degrowth and a fundamental shift in societal values. An equitable downscaling of the physical economy can improve ecological conditions, thus reducing biodiversity loss an
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- 2022
7. The construction of a growth-oriented global climate agenda: A critical historical analysis
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Torres, Cati, Moranta, Joan, Murray, Ivan, Torres, Cati, Moranta, Joan, and Murray, Ivan
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[EN] By the end of 2019, more than 11,000 world scientists declared Planet Earth is facing a climate emergency, which signals the failure of the global climate agenda (GCA). Since it took off thirty years ago, emissions have continued to increase at the planetary level. We add to the literature focusing on the economic and political dimensions shaping the GCA. In particular, we examine its economic growth roots under the umbrella of sustainable development (SD) or green growth to shed some light on whether the rules driving the world economy are shaping it. Such rules are built on the growth ideology fuelling the current extractivist socioeconomic metabolism, which in turn lies behind the socioecological crisis. We review the main international climate-focused events and document a shift in the guiding principles of climate politics from the 1980s onwards under which growth is no longer viewed as a driver of climate change (CC) but as its solution. We argue that the strategy to promote growth-based SD represents the main cause of policy failure. Indeed, the result is a policy that is highly reliant on technological solutions and market-based instruments and leads to the belief that green growth is both possible and the solution to CC. Such a belief restricts the debate to the economy's 'decarbonisation' and CC adaptation and overlooks other important socio-political aspects involve in climate action., [ES] A finales de 2019, más de 11.000 científicos declararon que afrontamos una emergencia climática que obliga a actuar con urgencia, lo que muestra el fracaso de la agenda climática global (ACG). Desde sus inicios hace treinta años, no se ha revertido la tendencia creciente de las emisiones globales. Este artículo contribuye al debate existente en torno al análisis de la influencia de factores económicos y políticos sobre el diseño de ACG examinando su objetivo de crecimiento económico. Buscamos aclarar si las reglas del juego económico mundial, sustentadas en la ideología del crecimiento, impulsora del actual metabolismo socioeconómico extractivista que subyace a la crisis socioecológica planetaria, determinan dicha agenda. Así, revisamos los principales eventos internacionales en torno al cambio climático (CC) y documentamos un giro en los principios de la política climática a partir de los años ochenta del siglo pasado, según el cual el crecimiento dejó de verse como la causa del CC para verse como su solución. Argumentamos que el hecho de promover un desarrollo sostenible basado en el crecimiento explica el fracaso de la política climática. Y es que esto resulta en una política demasiado optimista hacia las soluciones tecnológicas y los instrumentos de mercado que lleva a creer que el crecimiento verde es posible y la solución al CC, lo que limita la acción a la “descarbonización” de la economía y la adaptación al CC ignorando otros aspectos sociopolíticos relevantes.
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- 2022
8. The construction of a growth-oriented global climate agenda: a critical historical analysis
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Torres, Cati, primary, Moranta, Joan, additional, and Murray, Ivan, additional
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- 2022
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9. Transcending capitalism growth strategies for biodiversity conservation
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Moranta, Joan, primary, Torres, Cati, additional, Murray, Ivan, additional, Hidalgo, Manuel, additional, Hinz, Hilmar, additional, and Gouraguine, Adam, additional
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- 2021
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10. The construction of a growth-oriented global climate agenda: a critical historical analysis
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Torres, Cati, Moranta, Joan, Murray Mas, Ivan, Torres, Cati, Moranta, Joan, and Murray Mas, Ivan
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By the end of 2019, more than 11,000 world scientists declared Planet Earth is facing a climate emergency, which signals the failure of the global climate agenda (GCA). Since it took off thirty years ago, emissions have continued to increase at the planetary level. We add to the literature focusing on the economic and political dimensions shaping the GCA. In particular, we examine its economic growth roots under the umbrella of sustainable development (SD) or green growth to shed some light on whether the rules driving the world economy are shaping it. Such rules are built on the growth ideology fuelling the current extractivist socioeconomic metabolism, which in turn lies behind the socioecological crisis. We review the main international climate-focused events and document a shift in the guiding principles of climate politics from the 1980s onwards under which growth is no longer viewed as a driver of climate change (CC) but as its solution. We argue that the strategy to promote growth-based SD represents the main cause of policy failure. Indeed, the result is a policy that is highly reliant on technological solutions and market-based instruments and leads to the belief that green growth is both possible and the solution to CC. Such a belief restricts the debate to the economy’s ‘decarbonisation’ and CC adaptation and overlooks other important socio-political aspects involve in climate action., A finales de 2019, más de 11.000 científicos declararon que afrontamos una emergencia climática que obliga a actuar con urgencia, lo que muestra el fracaso de la agenda climática global (ACG). Desde sus inicios hace treinta años, no se ha revertido la tendencia creciente de las emisiones globales. Este artículo contribuye al debate existente en torno al análisis de la influencia de factores económicos y políticos sobre el diseño de ACG examinando su objetivo de crecimiento económico. Buscamos aclarar si las reglas del juego económico mundial, sustentadas en la ideología del crecimiento, impulsora del actual metabolismo socioeconómico extractivista que subyace a la crisis socioecológica planetaria, determinan dicha agenda. Así, revisamos los principales eventos internacionales en torno al cambio climático (CC) y documentamos un giro en los principios de la política climática a partir de los años ochenta del siglo pasado, según el cual el crecimiento dejó de verse como la causa del CC para verse como su solución. Argumentamos que el hecho de promover un desarrollo sostenible basado en el crecimiento explica el fracaso de la política climática. Y es que esto resulta en una política demasiado optimista hacia las soluciones tecnológicas y los instrumentos de mercado que lleva a creer que el crecimiento verde es posible y la solución al CC, lo que limita la acción a la “descarbonización” de la economía y la adaptación al CC ignorando otros aspectos sociopolíticos relevantes.
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- 2021
11. Transcending capitalism growth strategies for biodiversity conservation
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Moranta, Joan, Torres, Cati, Murray, Ivan, Hidalgo, Manuel, Hinz, Hilmar, Gouraguine, Adam, Moranta, Joan, Torres, Cati, Murray, Ivan, Hidalgo, Manuel, Hinz, Hilmar, and Gouraguine, Adam
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The search of unlimited economic growth to fuel capitalism's metabolism has profoundly transformed a large portion of the Earth. The derived environmental destruction has led to a biodiversity loss at an unprecedented rate. Following the large-scale losses of habitats and species, it was recognized that biodiversity is crucial in maintaining ecosystems. Since the 1970s a global sustainability agenda was set to develop different types of sustainable development (SD) related milestones, including Green-Blue Economic Growth which despite not specifically addressing the biodiversity issues served to reinforce the idea that economic development based on profit is compatible with our planet's ecology. Only after biodiversity literature became mainstream in the early 2000s a global biodiversity agenda was implemented. The agenda highlights biodiversity conservation as a major international challenge and finally recognizes that the main drivers for biodiversity loss derive from economic activities. Much alike pre-, the post-2000 biodiversity agendas, including the 2030 Agenda for SD and post-2020 Convention on Biological Diversity Global Strategy Framework, are based on SD principles, and do not consider the negative impacts of growth-oriented strategies on biodiversity. As a result, the global biodiversity conservation priorities are governed by the biodiversity's economic value and its assumed contribution to people's welfare. While pointing to a body of empirical evidence that unlimited economic growth is the main driver of biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene, we strongly argue for sustainable degrowth and a fundamental shift in societal values. An equitable downscaling of the physical economy can improve ecological conditions, reducing biodiversity loss, while enhancing our well-being. This paper attempts to reinforce the debate on the contradictions between growth and biodiversity within the biology conservation literature, as well as invite scholars to engage in thi
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- 2021
12. Transcending capitalism growth strategies for biodiversity conservation.
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Moranta, Joan, Torres, Cati, Murray, Ivan, Hidalgo, Manuel, Hinz, Hilmar, and Gouraguine, Adam
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SCIENTIFIC literature , *BIODIVERSITY conservation , *ENVIRONMENTAL degradation , *BIODIVERSITY , *CAPITALISM , *ENVIRONMENTAL sciences , *SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
The unlimited economic growth that fuels capitalism's metabolism has profoundly transformed a large portion of Earth. The resulting environmental destruction has led to an unprecedented rate of biodiversity loss. Following large‐scale losses of habitats and species, it was recognized that biodiversity is crucial to maintaining functional ecosystems. We sought to continue the debate on the contradictions between economic growth and biodiversity in the conservation science literature and thus invite scholars to engage in reversing the biodiversity crisis through acknowledging the impacts of economic growth. In the 1970s, a global agenda was set to develop different milestones related to sustainable development, including green–blue economic growth, which despite not specifically addressing biodiversity reinforced the idea that economic development based on profit is compatible with the planet's ecology. Only after biodiversity loss captured the attention of environmental sciences researchers in the early 2000s was a global biodiversity agenda implemented. The agenda highlights biodiversity conservation as a major international challenge and recognizes that the main drivers of biodiversity loss derive from economic activities. The post‐2000 biodiversity agendas, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the post‐2020 Convention on Biological Diversity Global Strategy Framework, do not consider the negative impacts of growth‐oriented strategies on biodiversity. As a result, global biodiversity conservation priorities are governed by the economic value of biodiversity and its assumed contribution to people's welfare. A large body of empirical evidence shows that unlimited economic growth is the main driver of biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene; thus, we strongly argue for sustainable degrowth and a fundamental shift in societal values. An equitable downscaling of the physical economy can improve ecological conditions, thus reducing biodiversity loss and consequently enhancing human well‐being. Article impact statement: Moving away from growth‐based socioeconomic metabolism of capitalism is required and essential for successful biodiversity conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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13. L'economia balear davant del canvi climàtic. Canvi de paradigma com a camí cap a l'acció efectiva
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Torres, Cati
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Economic policy - Abstract
[cat] Reptes davant el canvi climàtic : La reflexió al voltant de la salut de l’economia balear i les implicacions derivades de la política climàtica actual centrarà la propera conferència del Laboratori Interdisciplinari sobre Canvi Climàtic (LINCC UIB).
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- 2019
14. Incorrectly accounting for taste heterogeneity in choice experiments: Does it really matter for welfare measurement?
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Torres, Cati, Hanley, Nicholas, and Colombo, Sergio
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welfare measurement ,Monte Carlo method ,choice experiments ,accuracy ,efficiency ,preference heterogeneity ,Consumption (Economics) ,Monte Carlo analysis - Abstract
A range of empirical approaches to representing preference heterogeneity have emerged in choice modelling. Researchers have been able to explore the differences which selection of a particular approach makes to welfare measures in a particular dataset, and indeed have been able to implement a number of tests for which approach best fits a particular set of data. However, the question as to the degree of error in welfare estimation from an inappropriate choice of empirical approach has not been addressed. In this paper, we use Monte Carlo analysis to address this question. Given the high popularity of both the random parameter logit (RPL) and latent class models among choice modellers, we examine the errors in welfare estimates from using the incorrect model to account for taste preference heterogeneity. Our main finding is that using an RPL specification with log-normally distributed preferences seems the best bet.
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- 2011
15. The implications of incorrect utility function specification for welfare measurement in choice experiments
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Torres, Cati, Hanley, Nicholas, and Riera, Antoni
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choice experiments ,accuracy ,efficiency ,welfare measurement ,Monte Carlo analysis ,attributes ,utility specification - Abstract
Despite the vital role of utility functional form in welfare measurement, the implications of working with incorrect utility specifications have not been examined in the choice experiments (CE) literature. This paper addresses the importance of the specification of both non-monetary attributes and the marginal utility of income. Monte Carlo experiments have been conducted wherein different attribute specifications and assumptions for the Cost parameter –that is, different functional forms of utility– have been assumed to generate simulated choices on which Multi-Nomial Logit and Mixed Logit models have been estimated under correct and incorrect assumptions about the true, underlying utility function. The inferred values have been compared with the true ones directly calculated from the true utility specifications. Results show that working with simple experimental designs and continuous-linear specifications makes attribute specification irrelevant for measuring attribute marginal values regardless of the true effects the attribute has on utility.
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- 2009
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