Luz-Maria Lozada-Ellison

Land Systems Analyst
Information and Computational Sciences
E: maria.lozada@hutton.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)344 928 5428 (*)
Luz Maria is a socio-economist developing interdisciplinary research based on mixed methods. She has carried out research using her knowledge on economics (BUAP-Mexico), anthropology (EHESS-France), land economy and geography (University of Aberdeen and University of Birmingham-UK) to investigate land use systems at different scales for both food production and conservation, apprehended from a decision-making perspective.

Research

After a career break from 2015-2019, Luz Maria’s current research interests address food production and conservation through questions related to diverse demands over land as a finite resource that is impacted by climate change. The social dynamics created over land and landscapes from international to national public policy demands and land managers’ decision-making about management and what they can, want or should produce are at the heart of her work.

She is currently working on different projects.

 

Biodiversity Survey. From 28 August to 11 October 2024

 

 

Agroecology research.

This area of research studies agroecological principles as an alternative response to multiple demands. Luz Maria is interested in agroecology from the social perspective. She develops research related to current adoption of practices, how to design payments to enable adoption of new practices and how to upscale those by studying behavioural change for implementing agroecological principles.

Social and Economic research on perceptions, values and attitudes.

The study of perceptions, values and attitudes allows fine understanding of behaviours from different angles. Work developed in this area uses qualitative research to inform quantitative methods such as experimental economics.

Environmental index.

Work developed in this area of interest relates to poverty and the benefits people can access from the countryside. This work is to enhance the Scottish poverty index by including other indicators that are currently excluded from the index, especially in relation to the environment.

 

Publications

Journals

Technical / contract reports

Conference papers

  • Lozada-Ellison, L.M.; Gimona, A. (2012) Cooperation and coordination for ecosystem services delivery., International Association of Landscape Ecology UK Conference, University of Edinburgh, 4-6 September 2012.
  • Lozada-Ellison, L.M. (2012) Designing economic incentives for forest networks: Results from workshops in experimental economics., Fourth International Faustmann Symposium, Forest Economics under Multiple Challenges, Lapland, Finland, 9-12 September 2012.
  • Lozada-Ellison, L.M.; Gimona, A.; Munoz-Rojas, J. (2012) From bottom to top and vice versa: Market-based and planning instruments to deliver environmental services., Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, USA, 24-28 February 2012.
  • Lozada-Ellison, L.M.; Gimona, A.; Munoz-Rojas, J. (2012) Synergies and conflicts in the use of planning and market-based instruments for the implementation of forest networks., Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, USA, 24-28 February 2012.
  • Lozada-Ellison, L.M.; Gimona, A.; van der Horst, D.; Schwarz, G. (2012) Assessing the potential of adaptive co-management for ecosystem services delivery: the case of ecological networks in the Dee valley, Scotland, Agriculture and the Environment IX. Valuing Ecosystems: Policy, Economics and Management Interactions. Proceedings of the SAC and SEPA Biennial Conference 3-4 April 2012.

Conference posters / abstracts

  • Hewison, R.; Bell, J.: Nolan, A. (2014) ECN Soil Monitoring Protocols. To classify the soils at ECN sites, to characterise and quantify their physical, chemical and mineralogical properties and to quantify temporal changes in those properties., UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) 20 Year Symposium, Lancaster University, 12-13 May 2014.
  • Lozada-Ellison, L.M.; Bown, I. (2014) Whose land, whose decisions? Delivering multiple benefits from our land: the example of Birse Community Trust (BCT)., Presentation at SRUC/SEPA Biennial Conference: Delivering Multiple Benefits from our Land: Sustainable Development in Practice, University of Edinburgh, 15-16 April 2014.
  • Lozada-Ellison, L.M.; Gimona, A. (2012) Assessing the potential of adaptive co-management for ecosystem services delivery: the case of ecological networks in the Dee valley, Scotland, Agriculture and the Environment IX. Valuing Ecosystems: Policy, Economics and Management Interactions. Proceedings of the SAC and SEPA Biennial Conference 3-4 April 2012.
  • Lozada-Ellison, L.M.; Gimona, A.; van der Horst, D.; Schwarz, G. (2009) Social and ecological systems: the adaptive co-management approach and its application in Scotland., International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, 8th, Transformation, Innovation and Adaptation for sustainability: Integrating Natural and Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29 June to 2 July 2009.