Federico Demaria

Background

About Federico Demaria

I am an associate professor in ecological economics and political ecology at the University of Barcelona. My main research interest is to understand the interactions among environment, society and economy. I am also an associate researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a prestigious interdisciplinary centre of environmental research (ranked 8th in environmental studies by the Center for World University Rankings and awarded as a unit of research excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Economy). I have a consolidated experience in international and national competitive research projects. For instance, I have been the deputy coordinator of the ERC project EnvJustice (led by Prof. Joan Martinez-Alier) which maps and analyses the social conflicts between the environment and the economy (2016-2021; 2 million euro). Overall, I have published more than 20 articles in highly ranked journals in socio-environmental sciences like Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Change, and Sustainability Science, 25 book chapters, as well as edited 5 special issues and 2 successful books: Degrowth (2014) and Pluriverse (2019). Moreover, I am co-author of the book “The case for degrowth” (Polity Press, 2020). My latest book is titled “The political ecology of informal waste recyclers in India” (Oxford University Press, 2021). My publications regularly get translated into other languages, most notably Degrowth (2014) into more than 10. I am an editor for the journal of Sustainability Science that offers insights into interactions within and between nature and the rest of human society, and the complex mechanisms that sustain both. I have proven experience in teaching and mentoring, that I consider an essential part of my professional and intellectual activity. I am also an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I have given over 100 talks and presentations in more than 30 countries mainly at scientific conferences, but also for the general public and policy makers, including at the House of Commons, Oxford University, and the European Commission. I am also active on academic social networks with personal profiles at Academia.edu and ResearchGate (with more than and views, respectively). Lastly, aiming to ensure a wide outreach of my research, I regularly publish press articles in English, Spanish, French and Italian, in newspapers like The Guardian, The Ecologist, The Conversation, Open Democracy, and eldiario.es (Spain).