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Dr. Julia Touza is a Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in Environmental Economics at the University of York's Department of Environment and Geography. With over two decades of academic experience, she joined York in 2001 as a Research Assistant and progressed through roles including Lecturer (2013), Senior Lecturer (2013-2020), and Reader (2020-present). She holds a Marie Curie Research Fellowship and has held visiting positions at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ (Germany) and Arizona State University.
Her interdisciplinary research integrates economics with environmental systems, focusing on:
- Dynamic optimization of natural resource management
- Economic drivers of biological invasions and global environmental change
- Strategic cooperation in environmental governance
- Wildfire economics and forest disturbance analysis
- Cost-efficiency of conservation policies
- Stakeholder participation frameworks
She has secured £5M+ in competitive grants including:
- NERC Landscape Decisions Programme (2019-2020)
- NERC-AHRC-Newton Fund for Colombian Páramos sustainability (2018-2021)
- NERC-DFID-ESRC coastal ecosystem insurance (2017-2019)
- BBSRC-US collaboration on infectious diseases (2014-2017)
Honors include the prestigious Marie Curie Research Fellowship. She teaches undergraduate/postgraduate courses in Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development, and Natural Resource Management, and supervises dissertation projects.
