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Dra. Marcela Jaime Torres

Adjunct Researcher

Biography

Marcela Jaime Torres is an associate professor in the School of Management and Business (Escuela de Administración y Negocios (EAN)) at the University of Concepcion. Her research is focused on behavioral aspects of natural resource management, particularly, on water and energy conservation, waste management and aquaculture. She has written on urban air pollution due to burning of wood, and on the behavior of small producers in the agriculture and aquaculture sectors. She also has research interests in social capital and subjective well-being, sustainable energy transitions, the effects of the interaction between environmental policies, and individuals’ responses to both monetary and non-monetary incentives. She currently serves as center director of the Environment for Development Initiative in Chile (NENRE EfD-Chile) and as co-lead of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI). She is affiliated at the Sustainable Management of Coastal Marine Resources program (EfD-CMaR) collaborative research program, and Women in Environmental Economics for Development (WinEED). Furthermore, she has served as an economist consultant for the Subsecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SUBPESCA) and the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Chile.

Degrees and Academic Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2015). MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Concepción, Chile (2006). BA in Economics, National University of Colombia (2001)

Selected Projects

  • Extending data collection of an RCT in Delhi schools to examine cumulative and persistent effects of technological and behavioral strategies to mitigate the effects of air pollution on children. Funded by: International Growth Centre, London School of Economics. March
  • 2026. Associated researcher. Research program in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE EfD-Chile). Funded by: University of Concepción. April
  • 2025. Principal researcher. Examining the Potential of Air Purifiers and Behavioural Interventions in Mitigating the Impact of Air Pollution on Children in the Global South. Funded by: Environment for Development Initiative (EfD). January
  • 2024 - December
  • 2025. Associated researcher. Market and social sustainability of aquaculture: Communities' and consumers' perceptions of the farmed seafood industry. Funded by: Environment for Development Initiative (EfD). January
  • 2022 - December
  • 2024. Associated researcher. Environmental efficiency spillover and externalities of aquaculture farms: Analyses of key aquaculture industries in Vietnam and Chile. Environment for Development Initiative (EfD). January
  • 2022 - December
  • 2024. Associated researcher. Sustainable energy transitions: Learning from the experience of global North-South interactions FOVI210017. Funded by: ANID (Chile). December
  • 2021 - December
  • 2022. Principal researcher. Low carbon transitions and gender equity in the global south. Funded by: International Development Research Center (IDRC). October
  • 2023. Associated researcher. Evaluating environmental policies. The impacts of stove programs in urban households of Central-Southern Chile. Funded by: Environment for Development Initiative (EfD). January
  • 2020 - December
  • 2021. Associated researcher.