MARIA LUZ LOUREIRO GARCIA

MARIA LUZ LOUREIRO GARCIA is a Professor in the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela. She is affiliated with the Interuniversity Research Center in Economics and Business for Society (ECOBAS) and leads the ECO-IURIS Legal-economic analysis group, while also collaborating with the ECOAGRASOC group focused on Agri-Food and Environmental Economics, Rural Development, and Social Economy.

Her research spans Environmental Economics, Climate Change, Energy Economics, and Tourism Economics, with a focus on public sentiment analysis, behavioral economics, and ecosystem services valuation. Recent work applies choice experiments and big data to assess preferences for nature-based solutions, clean energy adoption, and tourism demand dynamics.

Her publications (2011–2025) cover broad disciplines including Climate Change Mitigation, Energy Transition, Wildfire Economics, and Behavioral Analysis, with specific subfields such as sentiment analysis in Spain, gender roles in rural energy access, blue carbon valuation, wine consumer emotions, and policy evaluation for invasive species.