Federico Demaria

Senior lecturer

Scopus Author ID: 36542203100

Researcher ID: W-8441-2019

Knowledge area: Economia Aplicada

I am a Serra Hunter Associate Professor in Ecological Economics and Political Ecology at the University of Barcelona (UB). My main research interest is understanding interactions between society, the environment, and the economy. In particular, my research aims to inform theory on how these interactions are shaped, politicized, and contested. I have been a visiting scholar at research centers in India, China, USA, UK, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, Italy, and Argentina. I have consolidated experience in international and national competitive research projects. For instance, I have been the deputy coordinator of the ERC project EnvJustice (led by Prof. Joan Martinez-Alier), which mapped and analyzed the social conflicts between the environment and the economy (2016-2021; 2 million €). Currently, I am the Principal Investigator at UB of the project 'Towards a sustainable well-being economy: integrated policies and transformative indicators' (ToBe) funded by Horizon Europe (2023-2026; 3 Million € in total, 536.000 € for UB). I am also PI of the project 'WASTECARE' funded by the Municipality of Barcelona (2022-2024; 60.000 €), and two Caixa Inphinit Fellowships (120.000 € each; 2019-2023 & 2020-2024). Last, I am the Co-PI with Dan O'Neill of the project, coordinated by UB, 'Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability' (MAPS) funded by Horizon Europe (2024-2028; €5M). Overall, I have published more than 30 articles in highly ranked journals in socio-environmental sciences like Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Change, and Sustainability Science, 40 book chapters, as well as edited seven special issues and two successful books: Degrowth (Routledge, 2014) and Pluriverse (2019). Moreover, I am co-author of the book "The case for degrowth" (Polity Press, 2020), and author of "The political ecology of informal waste recyclers in India" (Oxford University Press, 2023). My publications regularly get translated into other languages, most notably Degrowth (2014), into more than 10. I am an editor for the journal of Sustainability Science (Impact factor 2021: 7.196; Q1 in 7 disciplines), which offers insights into interactions within and between nature and the rest of human society and the complex mechanisms that sustain both. I am a member of the Editorial Board of Ecological Economics (Impact factor 2022: 6.78; Q1 in Economics and Econometrics, as well as in Environmental Science), a journal concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature's household" (ecosystems) and "humanity's household" (the economy). I am also an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC; WG III: Mitigation of Climate Change). I have given over 200 talks and presentations in more than 30 countries, mainly at scientific conferences and for the general public and policymakers, including at the House of Commons, Oxford University, and the European Commission. I am also active on academic social networks with personal profiles at Academia.edu and ResearchGate (with more than 150.000 views each). Lastly, aiming to ensure a wide outreach of my research, I regularly publish English, Spanish, French, and Italian press articles in newspapers like The Guardian, The Ecologist, The Conversation, Open Democracy, and Mediapart (France). In 2023, the International Society for Ecological Economics awarded me the Bina Agarwal Prize for Young Scholars in Ecological Economics in recognition of the substantial and original contributions I have made in mapping environmental justice and conflicts, studying the ecological economics of waste management in the Global South; engaging with post-development that implies both an ecological and cultural critique of development; and building an ecological macroeconomics for degrowth - info

Research group: Economic History and Development (Industry, Business, Sustainability)

Teaching Innovation Groups: Grup d'Innovació Docent en Història Econòmica, Política i Social

Contact Information
Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy and World Economy
Edifici Principal, Torre 2 - 4a planta Diagonal, 690

federico.demaria(a)ub.edu

Academic training

Ecological economics . Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona . 13/06/2017 . (Ph.D.)

Environmental Sciences (Political ecology and Ecological Economics) . Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona . 15/09/2009 . (Official Master)

Political economy: Economics, Markets and Institutions . University of Bologna (Italy) . 01/06/2007 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

International Baccalaureate Degree (Major in economics, history and environmental studies) . United World College of the Adriatic . 01/07/2003 . (Specialized Training)

Teaching imparted (last 5 years)

Global Political Ecology (University Master's Degree) - Internacionalización - Universidad de Barcelona.

Desenvolupament Sostenible: Economia, Ecologia i Societat (Bachelor's degree) - Administración y Dirección de Empresas(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.

Sustainability and Development (University Master's Degree) - Historia Económica - Universidad de Barcelona.

Organización Económica Internacional (Bachelor's degree) - Economía(1) - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Ecological economics

Ecological macroeconomics

Degrowth

Environmental justice

Political ecology

Participation in Projects (last 6 years)

Towards a sustainable wellbeing economy: integrated policies and transformative indicators (ToBe) . 2023 - 2026 . Ref.101094211 . Unió Europea . PI: Federico Demaria Griffone; Daniel Walton o'Neill

Measuring what matters: Improving usability and accessibility of policy frameworks and indicators for multidimensional well-being through collaboration (MERGE) . 2024 - 2026 . Ref.101132524 . Unió Europea . PI: Daniel Walton o'Neill; Federico Demaria Griffone

Circular grassroots innovations for sustainable and inclusive urban transitions . 2023 - 2026 . Ref.PCI2023-145949-2 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Federico Demaria Griffone

WASTECARE: repensar en colectivo los cuidados, dentro y fuera del hogar, relacionados conlos residuos en Barcelona . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.22S09411-001 . Ajuntament de Barcelona . PI: Federico Demaria

Why has sustainable development failed to ensure a good life for all within planetary boundaries? . 2020 - 2023 . Ref.INPhINIT-2020-03 . Fundació Caixa de Pensions 'La Caixa' . PI: Federico Demaria

Relevant publications (Journal Publications and Other publications - last 6 years)

Scheidel, A., Del Bene, D. Liu, J., Navas, G.; Mingorria, S.; Demaria, F.; Avila, S.; Roy, B.; Ertor, I.; Temper, L.; Martinez-Alier, J. (2020). Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 63, p. 102104 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0959-3780

Akbulut, B.; Demaria, F.; Gerber, JF; Martinez Alier, J. (2019). Who promotes sustainability? Five Theses on the Relationships Between the Degrowth and the Environmental Justice Movements. Ecological Economics, 165, p. 106418 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106418 . ISSN: 0921-8009

Kallis, G.; Paulson, S.; D'Alisa, G.; Demaria, F. (2020). The Case for Degrowth . In This book has been published by Cambridge-based publisher Polity Press, which is considered to have similar standards to Oxford University Press. For example, The Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) ranked the publisher Polity Press as A. The Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE) ranked Polity Press as a B-publishers (good international publishers). According to Rankings SPI, Polity Press ranks 109, and Icaria Editorial 51. This book has been translated into Korean, Japanese, Spanish, German, and Italian. Soon it will also be published into French, Slovenian and Greek. In Spain, the book has been published by Icaria Editorial, which is a top publisher in social sciences. . (pp. 140) . Polity Press . ISBN: 978-1-509-53562-0 .

Kothari, A.; Salleh, A.; Escobar, A.; Demaria, F.; Acosta, A. (eds.) (2019). Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary . (pp. 464) . Columbia University Press . ISBN: 978-81-937329-8-4 . Download PDF (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/pluriverse/9788193732984)

Demaria, F. (2023). The political ecology of informal waste recyclers in India . (pp. 224) . Oxford University Press . ISBN: 9780192869050 . https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-political-ecology-of-informal-waste-recyclers-in-india-9780192869050?cc=us&lang=en

Conferences and Participations in Congresses (last 6 years)

Demaria, F.; Vico, D. (2022). How waste pickers in the global South are being sidelined: A network analysis. (Presentation of communication) . European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE; Pisa 2022) . Pisa . ITALY

Demaria, F. (2021). How we can manage an economy without growth?. (Invited conference) . European Commission DG Research & Innovation 'Knowledge Talks' on Ecological and Social Transition Policy . EUROPEAN UNION

Demaria, F. (2019). Thinking beyond 2030: Food for thought. (Invited conference) . Directors' meeting of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) . Córdoba . SPAIN

Demaria, F. (2018). Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability. (Invited conference) . Seminar on Well-being beyond GDP growth? . Brussels . BELGIUM

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports (last 6 years)

Brototi Roy . (2021) . The political ecology of coal in India (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Marta Music . (2023) . Towards a Pluriverse of Systemic Alternatives: Decolonial feminist perspectives (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Erandi Maldonado Villalpando . (2024) . Innovación de base y coproducción de conocimientos en alternativas al desarrollo: el caso de la educación y la autonomía territorial Zapatista.
(Ph.D. Thesis) . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).