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Guest professor

• Guest Professor at the University of Stirling, Scotland, to teach the economic valuation part of the Postgraduate Module "Environmental Economics" (October 2017).
• Guest Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, to give the seminar "The role of economic valuation/ECBA in coastal and marine decision-making" as a part of the Postgraduate course "Project Evaluation and Environmental Valuation" (March 2016).
• Guest Professor at the University of Stirling, Scotland, to teach the economic valuation part of the Postgraduate Module "Environmental Economics" (October 2015).

Teaching innovation

Organization of conferences within the framework of the course "Environmental economics in tourist areas" at the Tourism Faculty:

• Annual conference on Fair Trade, given by the coordinator of educational activities of S'Altra Senalla, Mr. Carles Valentí, since the 2014-15 course.
• Conference "Balearic Sustainable Tourist Tax", given by the Director of the Tax Agency of the Balearic Islands, Mrs.M. Antònia Truyols (2016-17 course).
• Conferences "Tourism vs. climate change: an overview from an integrated risk management perspective" and "Coastal Integrated Management", given by Mrs. Ofelia Pérez, Director of the Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios de Zonas Costeras at the Universidad de Oriente, Cuba, and Mrs. Isabel Poveda, professor at the same centre, respectively (2015-16 course).
• Conference "Education for Development" given by Mrs. Aina Gayà and Mrs. Ruth Escribano of the Agency for Cooperation for Development and Solidairty of the UIB (2014-15 course).

Specialties

Journal articles

Torres, C.M; Hanley, N. (2017). Communicating research on the economic valuation of coastal and marine ecosystem services. Marine Policy, 75: 99-107.

Torres, C.M; Faccioli, M.; Riera, A. (2017). Waiting or acting now? The effect on willingness-to-pay of delivering inherent uncertainty information in choice experiments. Ecological Economics, 131: 231-240.

Faccioli, M.; Hanley, N.; Torres, C.M.; Riera, A. (2016). Do we care about sustainability? An analysis of time sensitivity of social preferences under environmental time-persistent effects. Journal of Environmental Management, 177: 356-364.

Faccioli, M.; Riera, A.; Torres, C.M. (2015). Valuing the recreational benefits of wetland adaptation to climate change: a trade-off between species’ abundance and diversity. Environmental Management, 55(3): 550-563.

Bujosa, A.; Riera, A.; Torres, C.M. (2015). Valuing tourism demand attributes to guide climate change adaptation measures efficiently: the case of the Spanish domestic travel market. Tourism Management, 47: 233-239.

Torres, C.M.; Colombo, S.; Hanley, N. (2014). Incorrectly accounting for taste heterogeneity in choice experiments: Implications for welfare measurement. Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales, 14 (2): 97-121.

Torres, C. M.; Hanley, N.; Riera, A. (2011). How wrong can you be? Implications of incorrect utility function specification for welfare measurement in choice experiments. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62: 111-121.

Torres, C. M.; Riera, A.; García, D. (2009). Are preferences for water quality different for second-home residents? Tourism Economics (The Business and Finance of Tourism and Recreation), 15 (3): 629-651.

Research stays

• Research stay at the University of Stirling, Scotland, by the end of 2017 (2 months).
• Research stay at the University of Stirling and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, within the framework of a Visiting Research Fellowship funded by the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology of Scotland between 2015 and 2016 (5 months).
• Research stay at the University of Stirling, Scotland, by the end of 2014 (2 months).
• Research stay at the University of Stirling, Scotland, within the framework of a Visiting Research Fellowship funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh between 2013 and 2014 (5 months).
• Research stay at the University of Stirling, Scotland, within the framework of a European Doctorate by the end of 2008 (3,5 months).

Academic positions

• Secretary of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Climate Change of the UIB (LINCC UIB) since December 2017.
• Secretary of the Applied Economics Department of the UIB between February 2016 and October 2017.

Others

• Coordinator of the Environmental Commission of the Jovellanos Building of the UIB from December 2016 to September 2017.
• Coordinator of the UNESCO/Sa Nostra Chair for Business Management and the Environment from 2010 to 2017.