Ph.D. - Agricultural Economics
University of Bonn - 2017
Elías Cisneros
Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Sustainability
Elías Cisneros is an environmental economist studying the causes and consequences of land-use change, deforestation, and conflict. He combines remotely sensed data with market and political shocks to investigate human behavior and the transformation of landscapes.
Professional Preparation
M.S. - Economics
University of Freiburg - 2011
University of Freiburg - 2011
Research Areas
Environmental Economics and Policy; Agricultural Economics; Development Economics; Conflict EconomicsPublications
Mapping ex ante risks of COVID‐19 in Indonesia using a Bayesian geostatistical model on airport network data 2022 - Journal Article
Impacts of conservation incentives in protected areas: The case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil 2022 - Journal Article
Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil 2020 - Journal Article
Palm Oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia 2020 - Working Paper
Selection biases and spillovers from collective conservation incentives in the Peruvian Amazon 2019 - Journal Article
Building Adaptive Capacity in Changing Social-Ecological Systems: Integrating Knowledge in Communal Land-Use Planning in the Peruvian Amazon 2018 - Journal Article
Awards
Friends of ZEF Prize for the best dissertation at ZEF of the years 2014–2017 - Friends of ZEF [2018]
T.W. Schultz Award for Best Oral Contributed Paper - Agricultural & Applied Economics Association [2015]
BMZ/GIZ Public Policy Award - BMZ and GIZ [2013]
Appointments
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Göttingen [2018–2023]
University of Göttingen, Department of Economics Postdoctoral researcher, 2018 – 2023
University of Göttingen [2018–2023]
University of Göttingen, Department of Economics Postdoctoral researcher, 2018 – 2023
Research Associate
University of Bonn [2015–2017]
Institute for Food and Resource Economics
University of Bonn [2015–2017]
Institute for Food and Resource Economics
Projects
From human to planetary health: Global land-use impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
2021/10–2023/10 Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship: “From human to planetary health: Global land-use impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic”, 2021–2024.Affiliations
Research Affiliate
2021/03–2023/07Research Affiliate, Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
Research Affiliate
2018/04–2023/10Research Affiliate, Collaborative Research Centre 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia), University of Göttingen