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Unai Pascual

Unai Pascual

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
70
Citations
27636
World Ranking
1342
National Ranking
37

Overview

Unai Pascual is affiliated with Ikerbasque in Spain and has a significant body of research in the field of Environmental Science. Their expertise spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work frequently addresses core topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Urban Green Space and Health, and Environmental Philosophy and Ethics.

Recent publications by Unai Pascual highlight engagement with high-impact venues. Notable papers include:

  • Diverse values of nature for sustainability, 2023, Nature
  • Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism, 2021, Nature Sustainability

These contributions form part of a wider body of work published in various respected journals and platforms, including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, People and Nature, Nature Sustainability, and One Earth.

Unai Pascual collaborates regularly with a group of frequent coauthors. These include Patricia Balvanera, Bosco Lliso, Mike Christie, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, and Simone Athayde, each having numerous joint publications.

Their publication record emphasizes a blend of scientific inquiry with policy and societal relevance, reflecting involvement in multidisciplinary approaches to environmental challenges and sustainability governance.

Best Publications

  • Assessing nature's contributions to people

    Sandra Diaz;Unai Pascual;Marie Stenseke;Berta Martin-Lopez

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

    Sandra Díaz;Sebsebe Demissew;Julia Carabias;Carlos Joly

  • Valuing nature's contributions to people: the IPBES approach

    Unai Pascual;Unai Pascual;Patricia Balvanera;Sandra Díaz;György Pataki

  • Reconciling theory and practice: An alternative conceptual framework for understanding payments for environmental services☆

    Roldan Muradian;Esteve Corbera;Unai Pascual;Nicolás Kosoy

  • Bringing ecosystem services into economic decision-making: land use in the United Kingdom.

    Ian Jan Bateman;Amii R. Harwood;Georgina M. Mace;Robert T. Watson

  • Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm

    Joan Martínez-Alier;Unai Pascual;Franck-Dominique Vivien;Edwin Zaccai

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

  • Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment

    Nathalie van Vliet;Ole Mertz;Andreas Heinimann;Tobias Langanke

  • Utilizing and conserving agrobiodiversity in agricultural landscapes

    L.E. Jackson;U. Pascual;T. Hodgkin

  • Social Equity Matters in Payments for Ecosystem Services

    Unai Pascual;Jacob Wesley Phelps;Eneko Garmendia;Katrina Brown

  • Exploring the links between equity and efficiency in payments for environmental services: A conceptual approach

    Unai Pascual;Roldan Muradian;Luis C. Rodríguez;Anantha Duraiappah

  • Editorial overview: Relational values: what are they, and what’s the fuss about?

    Kai Ma Chan;Rachelle K Gould;Unai Pascual;Unai Pascual;Unai Pascual

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

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  • Global modeling of nature’s contributions to people

    Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer;Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer;Richard P. Sharp;Charlotte Weil;Elena M. Bennett

  • Cost-benefit analysis in the context of ecosystem services for human well-being: A multidisciplinary critique

    Giulia Wegner;Unai Pascual

  • Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism

    Unai Pascual;Unai Pascual;William M. Adams;William M. Adams;Sandra Myrna Díaz;Sandra Myrna Díaz;Sharachchandra Lele

  • Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification

    Laura Vang Rasmussen;Laura Vang Rasmussen;Brendan Coolsaet;Brendan Coolsaet;Adrian Martin;Ole Mertz

  • Disentangling the Pathways and Effects of Ecosystem Service Co-Production

    Ignacio Palomo;María R. Felipe-Lucia;María R. Felipe-Lucia;Elena M. Bennett;Berta Martín-López

  • Towards an ecosystem services approach that addresses social power relations

    Marta Berbés-Blázquez;José A González;Unai Pascual;Unai Pascual

  • Developing incentives and economic mechanisms for in situ biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes

    U. Pascual;Charles Perrings

  • Carbon outcomes of major land-cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications

    Alan D. Ziegler;Jacob Phelps;Jia Qi Yuen;Edward L. Webb

  • Agricultural intensification escalates future conservation costs

    Jacob Wesley Phelps;Luis Roman Carrasco;Edward L. Webb;Lian Pin Koh;Lian Pin Koh

  • Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change

    Hans Otto-Portner;Bob Scholes;John Agard;Emma Archer

  • Towards an indicator system to assess equitable management in protected areas

    N. Zafra-Calvo;N. Zafra-Calvo;U. Pascual;U. Pascual;U. Pascual;D. Brockington;Brendan Coolsaet

  • Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes: Saving Natural Capital without Losing Interest

    Charles Perrings;Louise Jackson;Kamal Bawa;Lijbert Brussaard

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Berta Martín-López
Berta Martín-López Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Stefanie Engel
Stefanie Engel Osnabrück University
Esteve Corbera
Esteve Corbera Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ignacio Palomo
Ignacio Palomo Grenoble Alpes University
Ian J. Bateman
Ian J. Bateman University of Exeter
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer Stanford University
Mette Termansen
Mette Termansen University of Copenhagen
Patricia Balvanera
Patricia Balvanera National Autonomous University of Mexico
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University

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