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2386
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66

Overview

Carlos Montes is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, and Immunology.

Their work extensively covers several main topics, including:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Regional resilience and development
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Carlos Montes has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, among them:

  • Quantifying spatial supply-demand mismatches in ecosystem services provides insights for land-use planning, 2020, Land Use Policy
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services mapping: Can it reconcile urban and protected area planning?, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Local Perceptions of Ecosystem Services Across Multiple Ecosystem Types in Spain, 2020, Land
  • The challenges of impact evaluation: Attempting to measure the effectiveness of community-based disaster risk management, 2020, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Protected areas as a double edge sword: An analysis of factors driving urbanisation in their surroundings, 2022, Global Environmental Change

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Land Use Policy
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Land
  • Ecological Indicators

Their collaborative work often involves coauthors such as:

  • Ignacio Palomo
  • José A. González
  • Alberto González-García
  • Marta Múgica
  • Marina García-Llorente

Best Publications

  • The history of ecosystem services in economic theory and practice: From early notions to markets and payment schemes

    Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Rudolf de Groot;Pedro L. Lomas;Carlos Montes

  • Uncovering ecosystem service bundles through social preferences.

    Berta Martín-López;Irene Iniesta-Arandia;Irene Iniesta-Arandia;Marina García-Llorente;Ignacio Palomo

  • Trade-offs across value-domains in ecosystem services assessment.

    Berta Martín-López;Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Marina García-Llorente;Carlos Montes

  • The non-economic motives behind the willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation

    Berta Martin-Lopez;Carlos Montes;Javier Benayas

  • National Parks, buffer zones and surrounding lands: Mapping ecosystem service flows

    Ignacio Palomo;Berta Martín-López;Marion Potschin;Roy Haines-Young

  • Social perceptions of the impacts and benefits of invasive alien species: Implications for management

    Marina García-Llorente;Berta Martín-López;José A. González;Paloma Alcorlo

  • Incorporating the Social–Ecological Approach in Protected Areas in the Anthropocene

    Ignacio Palomo;Carlos Montes;Berta Martín-López;José A. González

  • Cambio global: impacto de la actividad humana sobre el sistema Tierra

    Sergio Alonso Oroza;Gerardo Benito;Jordi Dachs;Carlos M. Duarte

  • Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services: uncovering the links between values, drivers of change, and human well-being

    Irene Iniesta-Arandia;Marina García-Llorente;Marina García-Llorente;Pedro A. Aguilera;Carlos Montes

  • Rethinking the Galapagos Islands as a Complex Social-Ecological System: Implications for Conservation and Management

    José A. González;Carlos Montes;José Rodríguez;Washington Tapia

  • Impact of an introduced Crustacean on the trophic webs of Mediterranean wetlands

    Walter Geiger;Paloma Alcorlo;Angel Baltanás;Carlos Montes

  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge Trends in the Transition to a Market Economy: Empirical Study in the Doñana Natural Areas

    Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Sara Mingorría;Victoria Reyes-García;Laura Calvet

  • Traditional ecological knowledge and community resilience to environmental extremes: A case study in Doñana, SW Spain

    Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Victoria Reyes-García;Per Olsson;Carlos Montes

  • Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services in a transhumance social-ecological network

    Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Elisa Oteros-Rozas;Berta Martín-López;José A. González;Tobias Plieninger

  • Participatory Scenario Planning for Protected Areas Management under the Ecosystem Services Framework: the Doñana Social-Ecological System in Southwestern Spain

    Ignacio Palomo;Berta Martín-López;Cesar López-Santiago;Carlos Montes

  • The role of multi-functionality in social preferences toward semi-arid rural landscapes: An ecosystem service approach

    Marina García-Llorente;Berta Martín-López;Irene Iniesta-Arandia;Irene Iniesta-Arandia;César A. López-Santiago

  • Effects of land-use change on wetland ecosystem services: A case study in the Doñana marshes (SW Spain)

    P. Zorrilla-Miras;I. Palomo;E. Gómez-Baggethun;B. Martín-López

  • What drives policy decision-making related to species conservation?

    Berta Martín-López;Carlos Montes;Lucía Ramírez;Javier Benayas

  • Economic valuation of biodiversity conservation: the meaning of numbers.

    Berta Martín-López;Carlos Montes;Javier Benayas

  • CO2 emissions from saline lakes: A global estimate of a surprisingly large flux

    Carlos M. Duarte;Yves T. Prairie;Carlos Montes;Jonathan J. Cole

  • Quantifying spatial supply-demand mismatches in ecosystem services provides insights for land-use planning

    Alberto González-García;Ignacio Palomo;Ignacio Palomo;José A. González;César A. López

Frequent Co-Authors

Berta Martín-López
Berta Martín-López Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Marina García-Llorente
Marina García-Llorente Autonomous University of Madrid
Ignacio Palomo
Ignacio Palomo Grenoble Alpes University
Erik Gómez-Baggethun
Erik Gómez-Baggethun Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Antonio Castro
Antonio Castro Spanish National Research Council
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Martín R. Aguiar
Martín R. Aguiar University of Buenos Aires
Luis Santamaría
Luis Santamaría Spanish National Research Council
Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Paulo A. L. D. Nunes
Paulo A. L. D. Nunes Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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