Serge Garcia
Serge Garcia
My research asks how economic analysis can help understand and govern socio-ecological systems. I am especially interested in how private decisions, ecosystem dynamics and public policy interact, and in the design of instruments that can reconcile environmental objectives with heterogeneous behaviours and incentives.
Research
Valuing ecosystems and natural capital
Economic valuation of ecosystem services and biodiversity, non-market preferences, and the role of natural capital in production and welfare.
Understanding behaviour and heterogeneity
Decisions by forest owners, managers, citizens and users; discrete choices, social interactions, risk, information and spatial heterogeneity.
Designing environmental policies and incentives
Payments for environmental services, contracts, conservation mechanisms and public policies for sustainable and multifunctional resource management.
Current scientific leadership & policy engagement
FAERE
President of the French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists since 2023.
OLEF & ARTEMIS
Scientific Director of the Observatory for the Economy of the Forest (OLEF) and member of the executive board of the interdisciplinary ARTEMIS programme.
PERCEVAL
Coordinator of the TETRAE project on the supply, social demand and valuation mechanisms for forest ecosystem services in Grand Est.
Forest diversification & ANSES
Co-leader of the INRAE collective scientific assessment on forest diversification and expert in socio-economic analysis at ANSES.
Selected recent publications
Toho Hien, Serge Garcia & Christophe Schwartz. DOI
Arnaud Dragicevic, Jean-Christophe Pereau & Serge Garcia. DOI
Mehdi Guelmamen, Serge Garcia & Alexandre Mayol. DOI
At a glance
43 peer-reviewed journal articles
25 h-index (Google Scholar, Aug. 2026)
11 completed PhD theses supervised or co-supervised
DR1 INRAE Research Director, since 2025