Contact:

Forest Research Centre (CIFOR)

National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (INIA)

Ctra. La Coruña, km 7.5

E-28040 Madrid (SPAIN)

 

Tel: (+34) 913 473 900; Fax: (+34) 913 572 293

e-mail: msolinho -at- inia.es

 

  Mario Soliño (INIA Research Fellow)

 

Mario is PhD in Applied Economics (University of Vigo, 2006). Mario has been post-doctoral research fellow at the IPP-CCHS-CSIC (Institute for Public Goods and Policies, Centre of Human and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council, 2008) and at the ECSEN-UPM (Research Group "Economics for a Sustainable Environment”, Technical University of Madrid, 2008-2009). He has participated in several research projects funded by national as well as by private companies and leads fundamental research in environmental valuation.

 

He has been at the National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology (INIA) since 2009, where he is currently Research Fellow at the Forest Research Centre (CIFOR). His research areas fall within the fields of forest economics and environmental economics: environmental valuation and sustainable management of natural resources. His work has been presented at 12 Spanish conferences and 11 international conferences on Environmental Economics, Forestry, Agricultural Economics, and Economic Policy. He is author of several publications, including articles in peer-reviewed journals, 3 books, 7 chapters in edited volumes; and is required as referee for several journals. Since September 2009 he is coordinator of the Work Group on Forest Economics (Spanish Society for Forest Sciences, SECF).


Selected Publications:


[1] Soliño, M. (2003). "New Forest-Environmental Policies in Rural Areas included in Natural Network 2000: An Application to the Iberian Atlantic Region" (In Spanish). Investigación Agraria: Sistemas y Recursos Forestales, 12(3): 57-72. (JCR Impact factor 2003: n.d.; Journal included in Science Citations Index)

 

[2] Soliño, M., Vázquez, M.X., Prada, A. (2009). “Social Demand for Electricity from Forest Biomass in Spain: Does Payment Periodicity Affect the Willingness to Pay?”. Energy Policy, 37(2): 531-540. (JCR Impact factor 2007: 1.901; Ranking #3/52 in ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; #11/64 in ENERGY & FUELS; #48/159 in ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES)

 

[3] Soliño, M., Prada, A., Vázquez, M.X. (2009). “Green Electricity Externalities: Forest Biomass in an Atlantic European Region”. Biomass and Bioenergy, 33(3): 407-414 . (JCR Impact factor 2007: 1.779; Ranking #14/64 in ENERGY & FUELS; #2/9 in AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; #81/138 in BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY)

 

[4] Soliño, M., Farizo, B.A., Campos, P. (2009). The Influence of Home-Site Factors on Residents’ Willingness to Pay: An Application for Power Generation from Scrubland in Galicia, Spain”. Energy Policy, 37(10): 4055-4065. (JCR Impact factor 2007: 1.901; Ranking #3/52 in ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; #11/64 in ENERGY & FUELS; #48/159 in ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES)

 

[5] Álvarez-Díaz, M., Caballero-Miguez, G., Soliño, M. (2010). “The Institutional Determinants of CO2 Emissions: A Computational Modelling Approach Using Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Programming”. Environmetrics, DOI: 10.1002/env.1025. (JCR Impact factor 2007: 0.778; Ranking #45/91 in STATISTICS & PROBABILITY; #37/74 in MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS; #125/159 in ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES)

 

[6] Soliño, M., Vázquez, M.X., Prada, A. (2010). “Designing a Forest-Energetic Policy to Reduce Forest Fires in Galicia (Spain): A Contingent Valuation Application”. Journal of Forest Economics, forthcoming. (JCR Impact factor 2007: 0.759; Ranking #80/191 in ECONOMICS; #20/39 in FORESTRY)

 

[7] Soliño, M. (2010). "External Benefits of Biomass-e in Spain: An Economic Valuation". Bioresource Technology, forthcoming. (JCR Impact factor 2008: 4.453; Ranking #2/67 in ENERGY & FUELS; #1/9 in AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; #17/143 in BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY)

   

Ongoing papers:

 

[1] Soliño, M., Vázquez, M.X., Prada, A. (2008). Testing for Consistency in Choice Experiments: Implications for Social Welfare Estimates”. under review.

 

[2] Rodríguez, M., Soliño, M. (2009). "Another Look at CO2 Emissions Modelling: The Role of Energy Source Mix in OECD Countries". under review.

 

[3] Soliño, M., Vázquez, M.X., Prada, A. (2010). “ The Payment Timeframe in Choice Experiments: Implications for Social Welfare Analysis”. Preliminary version presented at the 5th Spanish Forestry Congress.