Nicolas Kosoy
Associate Professor
McGill School of Environment
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Nicolas is interested in the interface of climate, energy and land-use governance, including the analysis of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). He also does research on alternative economic models and plural values as it characterizes degrowth research. He has undertaken fieldwork in Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, Kenya, Uganda, Lao PDR, and Thailand and I am starting new research projects in other Latin American, Asian and African countries. He teaches courses that address a wide range of topics and debates in the area of ecological economics, political ecology and global environmental policy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at McGill University since 2010.
Research Interest
Professor Kosoy is interested in how human beings make decisions that concerns us and our surrounding environment for long term satisfaction of our needs and those of future generations.
Publications
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Payments for environmental services in watersheds: insights from a comparative study of three cases in Central America Authors Nicolas Kosoy, Miguel Martinez-Tuna, Roldan Muradian, Joan Martinez-Alier
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Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism Authors Nicolás Kosoy, Esteve Corbera
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Reconciling theory and practice: An alternative conceptual framework for understanding payments for environmental services Authors Roldan Muradian, Esteve Corbera, Unai Pascual, Nicolás Kosoy, Peter H May
