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Senior Economist, Colombia
Rocío del Pilar Moreno Sánchez has been working for 15 years on issues related with the role of economic incentives, local resource users, and institutions for biodiversity conservation. She has conducted specific research on topics such as opportunity cost and economic valuation studies for payments for environmental services initiatives, adaptive capacity of resource-dependent communities at marine protected areas, economic valuation of protected areas, co-management of common-pool resources and conditional-transfer programs, among others. Rocio´s work has been published in several books and scientific journals such as World Development, Environment and Development Economics, Ecological Economics, Biodiversity Conservation and Gaceta Ecológica. She received her Masters of Science in Environmental and resource economics (Universidad de los Andes-University of Maryland) and her Masters of Science in Agricultural, Environment and Development Economics (Ohio State University).
