Francisco Estrada Porrua
Professor
Environmental Economics
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)
India
Biography
Francisco Estrada is a researcher at the Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He also works in the Climate Change research group at the Center for Atmospheric Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His PhD work centered on developing a new global Stochastic Integrated Assessment Model. He obtained a MSc on Risk Management from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He was a contributing author for the Working Group II of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report and he has been selected as expert reviewer for the Working Group II contribution for the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report. He has participated and coordinated research projects on the assessment of the potential impacts of climate change in agriculture, the economics of climate change and also on the generation of regional climate change scenarios. Expertise Time-series econometrics, integrated assessment modeling, climate change scenarios and uncertainty. Education 2015: PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2010: MSc Risk Management, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), México. 1999: B. Economics, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico.
Research Interest
Environmental Economics
Publications
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Estrada Porrua F, Botzen WJW, Tol RSJ. Economic losses from US hurricanes consistent with an influence from climate change. Nature Geoscience. 2015;8:880-884. Available from, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2560
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Estrada Porrua F. A contribution to the study of the economic causes and consequences of climate change:: An interdisciplinary approach. 2015. 533 p.
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Anthoff D, Estrada F, Tol RSJ. Shutting down the thermohaline circulation. American Economic Review. 2016;106(5):602-606. Available from, DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161102
