Biography
Valeria Toledo is an environmental and agricultural economist with a background in environmental sciences. She is interested in understanding how environmental preferences are affected by the socio-cultural, spatial and temporal context. Her research uses environmental valuation methods and experimental economics to get further insights into decision-making behaviour and explore the drivers of public preferences towards environmental/agricultural policies.
Before joining the James Hutton Institute she was a research associate at the University of East Anglia and a research fellow at the University of Stirling. She holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews and an M.Sc. in Environment and Sustainable Development from the University of Glasgow, UK. In Mexico, she completed a Specialist Degree in Economic Theory and a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, both at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Research
- Spatially explicit environmental valuation
- Motivations and barriers to the adoption of pro-environmental practices
- Promotion of policy applications of the Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital framework
- Pathway for to net-zero agriculture and agricultural land-related emissions
- Use of visual methodologies in environmental valuation methods
Ongoing research projects:
- ReAlising DynamIc vAlue chaiNs for underuTilised crops (RADIANT)
