Carlos Dionisio PÉREZ BLANCO

I am Associate Professor at Universidad de Salamanca and Research Associate at the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici. I am Principal Investigator of the TALANOA-WATER (total budget: EUR 2 500 000), IRENE (EUR 300 000) and ATACC (EUR 136 000) projects. I am a successful awardee of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie, the AXA Research Fund and Ikerbasque fellowships. Overall, I have successfully applied to competitive calls worth over EUR 4.1 million during the past 5 years, including one Program for the Attraction of Scientific Talent (EUR 500 000) and 2 Climate-KIC Sustainable Land Use calls. I lead a group of 8 researchers at USAL and I am coordinator of Water Future's Economic Instruments of Water Security Working Group, an international network of 25 renowned scientists co-developing the pioneering Global Water Assessment. I have published extensively in major international peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journals with impact factor, including top-field journals such as Nature Sustainability. All these achievements have been matured in the 7 years since I completed my PhD, which received the highest possible distinctions (summa cum laude and PhD Extraordinary Award 2016).

Publications:

Palomo-Hierro, S., Loch, A., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., 2022. Improving water markets in Spain: Lesson drawing from the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. [ 2022 ] Agric. Water Manag. 259, 107224.

Sapino, F., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gutiérrez-Martín, C., García-Prats, A., Pulido-Velazquez, M., 2022. Influence of crop-water production functions on the expected performance of water pricing policies in irrigated agriculture. [ 2022 ] Agric. Water Manag. 259,

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Loch, A., Ward, F., Perry, C., Adamson, D., 2021. Agricultural water saving through technologies: a zombie idea. [ 2021 ] Environ. Res. Lett. 16, 114032.

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gutiérrez-Martín, C., Gil-García, L., Montilla-López, N.M., 2021. Microeconomic Ensemble Modeling to Inform Robust Adaptation to Water Scarcity in Irrigated Agriculture [ 2021 ] Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 147 (7), 04021038

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gil-García, L., Saiz-Santiago, P., 2021. An actionable hydroeconomic Decision Support System for the assessment of water reallocations in irrigated agriculture. A study of minimum environmental flows in the Douro River Basin, Spain [ 2021 ] Journal of Environmental Management 298, 113432

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., González-López, H., Hrast-Essenfelder, A., 2021. Beyond piecewise methods: Modular integrated hydroeconomic modeling to assess the impacts of adaptation policies in irrigated agriculture [ 2021 ] Environmental Modelling and Software, 132, 104943

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Essenfelder, A., Perry, C., 2020. Irrigation Technology and Water Conservation: A Review of the Theory and Evidence [ 2020 ]
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 14(2), 216-239

Loch, A., Adamson, D., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Carmody, E., Felbab-Brown, V., 2020. Assessing institutions, ineffective penalties and grand theft water [ 2020 ] Nature Sustainability, 3(12), 1012-1018

Parrado, R., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gutiérrez, C., Gil, L., 2020. To charge or to cap in agricultural water management. Insights from modular iterative  modeling for the assessment of two-way micro-macro-economic links [ 2020 ] Science of the Total Environment, 742, 140526

Loch, A., Santato, S., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Mysiak, J., 2020. Measuring the Transaction Costs of Historical Shifts to Informal Drought Management Institutions in Italy. [ 2020 ] Water 12, 1866.

Sapino, F., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gutiérrez-Martín, C., Frontuto, V., 2020. An ensemble experiment of mathematical programming models to assess socio-economic effects of agricultural water pricing reform in the Piedmont Region, Italy [ 2020 ] Journal of Environmental Management 267, 110645.

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Essenfelder, A.H., Gutiérrez-Martín, C., 2020. A tale of two rivers: Integratedhydro-economic modeling for the evaluation of trading opportunities and return flowexternalities in inter-basin agricultural water markets[ 2020 ] Journal of Hydrology 584, 124676.

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Standardi, G., 2019. Farm waters run deep: a coupled positive multi-attribute utility programming and computable general  equilibrium model to assess the economy-wide impacts of water buyback. [ 2019 ] Agric. Water Manag. 213, 336–351.

Parrado, R., Pérez-Blanco,C.D., Gutiérrez,C., Standardi,G., 2019. Micro-macro feedback links of agricultural water management: Insights from a coupled  iterative positive Multi-Attribute Utility Programming and Computable General Equilibrium model [ 2019 ] J. Hydrol. 569, 291–309.

Rey, D., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Escriva-Bou, A., Girard, C., Veldkamp, T.I.E., 201. Role of economic instruments in water allocation reform: lessons from  Europe. [ 2019 ] Int. J. Water Resour. Dev. 35(2), 206-239

Essenfelder, A., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Mayer, A., 2018. Rationalizing Systems Analysis for the Evaluation of Adaptation Strategies in Complex Human-  Water Systems [ 2018 ] Earth's Future, 6(9), 1181-1206.

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gutiérrez-Martín, C., 2017. Buy me a river: Use of multi-attribute non-linear utility functions to address overcompensation in  agricultural water buyback [ 2017 ] Agricultural Water Management, 190, 6-20.

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Koks, E., Calliari, E., Mysiak, J., 2017. Economic impacts of irrigationconstrained agriculture in the lower Po basin [ 2017 ] Water  Economics and Policy, 3(4).

 Gómez, C.M., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Adamson, D., Loch, A., 2017. Managing water scarcity at a river basin scale with economic instruments [ 2017 ]  Water Economics and Policy, 3(4).

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Standardi, G., Mysiak, J., Parrado, R., Gutiérrez-Martín, C., 2016. Incremental water charging in agriculture. A case study of the  Regione Emilia Romagna in Italy. [ 2016 ] Environmental Modelling and Software, 78, 202-215.

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Delacámara, G., Gómez, C.M., 2016. Revealing the willingness to pay for income insurance in agriculture [ 2016 ] J. Risk Res. 19,  873–893.

Mysiak, J., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., 2016. Partnerships for disaster risk insurance in the EU [ 2016 ] Nat Hazards and Earth System Sciences 16,  2403–2419.

Santato, S., Mysiak, J., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., 2016. The Water Abstraction License Regime in Italy: A Case for Reform? [ 2016 ] Water 8, 1–15.

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Delacámara, G., Gómez, C.M., 2015. Water charging and water saving in agriculture. Insights from a Revealed Preference Model in a  Mediterranean basin [ 2015 ] Environmental Modelling and Software, 69, 90-100.

Surminski, S. Aerts, J.C.J.H., Botzen, W.J.W., Hudson, P., Mysiak, J., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., 2015. Reflections on the current debate on how to link flood  insurance and disaster risk reduction in the European Union [ 2015 ] Natural Hazards, 79(3), 1451-1479.

Gómez, C.M., Pérez-Blanco, 2014. Simple Myths and Basic Maths About Greening Irrigation [ 2014 ] Water Resources Management 28(12), 4035-4044  Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gómez, C.M., 2014. Insuring water: a practical risk management option in water-scarce and drought prone regions? [ 2014 ] Water Policy 16(2), 244-263.

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Thaler, T., 2014. An input-output assessment of water productivity in the Castile and León Region (Spain) [ 2014 ] Water 6(9),  929-944

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gómez, C.M., 2014. Drought management plans and water availability in agriculture. A risk assessment model for a Southern  European Basin [ 2014 ] Weather and Climate Extremes 4, 11-18

 Gómez, C.M., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Batalla, R.J., 2014. Tradeoffs in river restoration: Flushing flows vs. hydropower generation in the Lower Ebro River,  Spain [ 2014 ] Journal of Hydrology 518(A), 130-139

Pérez-Blanco, C.D., Gómez, C.M., 2013. Designing optimum insurance schemes to reduce water overexploitation during drought events: a case study  of La Campiña, Guadalquivir River Basin, Spain [ 2013 ] J. Environ. Econ. Policy 2, 1–15.

Gómez, C.M., Pérez-Blanco, C.D., 2012. Do drought management plans reduce drought risk? A risk assessment model for a Mediterranean river basin [  2012 ] Ecol. Econ. 76, 42–48 Pérez-Blanco, C.D., 2012.