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SAÚL TORRES ORTEGA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Business Administration Department UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
email: saul.torres {at} unican.es phone: +34 942 20 22 30

BACKGROUND

Ph. Doctor at University of Cantabria. Environmental Economics.
Tesis: New problems in engineering projects evaluation. Assessment of the vulnerability and risk perception in environmental cost-benefit analysis. (link)

Msc in Civil Engineering at University of Cantabria

Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) at University of Cantabria

Specialist course on Maritime Business and Applied Logistics. University of Cantabria

TEACHING

• Environmental Economics - Civil Engineering Degree
• Project and Public services Assessment - Civil Engineering Master Degree
• Economy and Business Administration - Energetics and Mineral Resources Engineering Degree Notes
• Management, Business and Law - Mining Engineering Master Degree
 
• Economic instruments applied to Environment - Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) at MiriadaX (link).

RESEARCH

Associated Researcher at Instituto de Hidráulica de Cantabria (link). Climate Change and Maritime Weather Group.

Interest areas

• Research on environmental economics and cost-benefit analysis
• Research on climate change, coastal and maritime economics and risk management

Publications

• A Proposed Methodology for Prioritizing Project Effects to Include in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Resilience, Vulnerability and Risk Perception. Torres-Ortega, S., Hanley, N., Díaz-Simal, P. Sustainability. ISSN: . Vol. 6, 11. (2014). pp. 7945-7966. (link)

• El análisis coste-beneficio aplicado al medioambiente: repaso metodológico, críticas y problemática asociada. Torres-Ortega, S., Díaz-Simal, P. Vozes dos Vales. ISSN: 2238-6424. Vol. 6. (2014) (link)

• Contributions towards climate change vulnerability and resilience from institutional economics. Díaz Simal, P., Torres Ortega, S. Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales. ISSN: 1578-0732. Vol. 11,1. (2011). pp. 143-160. (link)

R+D+i Projects

• “Towards a greater maritime-rail integration: Recommendations, methodologies and case studies”. CEDEX, 2007-2009.

• "Sustainable Management of Cantabrian Anchovy: Local Strategies for Global Development (GESAC-CONSERVA)". Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, 2013.

• "Brines Recovery Strategies". Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, 2014.

• "Marine Investment for the Blue Economy (MARIBE)". European Commission H2020, 2014. (link)

Other works

• “Acercamiento a la situación de la actividad ferroviaria en el transporte de mercancías. Estudio del caso de Cantabria y sus perspectivas de futuro”. Final Degree Project, 2007.

• “Estudio y análisis económico de la implantación de terminales de conexión marítimo-ferroviaria”. Pre-doctoral study. 2012.

LINKS

• Linkedin (link)
• ResearchGate (link)
• GoogleScholar (link)

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