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Curriculum vitae

Serge Garcia · Senior Researcher in Economics · INRAE · BETA, Nancy

Current positions

  • Senior Researcher in Economics (DR1), INRAE, member of BETA in Nancy.
  • President, FAERE — French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, since 2023.
  • Expert in socio-economic analysis, ANSES, since 2022.
  • Scientific Director, Observatory for the Economy of the Forest (OLEF), since 2020.
  • Executive Board member, ARTEMIS interdisciplinary programme on forest socio-ecological systems.
  • Associate Editor, Annals of Forest Science, since 2025.

Previous positions

  • 2018–2022 · Deputy Director, BETA.
  • 2013–2017 · Director, Laboratory of Forest Economics (LEF).
  • 2005–2017 · Research Scientist / Senior Researcher, INRA–LEF, Nancy.
  • 2002–2005 · Contract Researcher, ENGREF, Montpellier.
  • 2001–2002 · Postdoctoral Researcher, CIRANO, Montreal.
  • 2000–2001 · Teaching and Research Fellow, Toulouse I University.

Education and qualifications

  • 2024 · Qualification for Full Professor positions, French CNU, Section 05 — Economics.
  • 2011 · Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR), Toulouse I Capitole University.
  • 2001 · PhD in Economics, Toulouse I University.
  • 1999 · European Diploma in Advanced Quantitative Economics (DEEQA), Toulouse I University.
  • 1996 · Postgraduate diploma in Environmental, Natural Resource, Energy and Agricultural Economics, Toulouse I University.

Research profile

  • 43 articles in peer-reviewed journals since 2001.
  • h-index 25 and i10-index 36 (Google Scholar, Aug. 2026).
  • 11 completed PhD theses supervised or co-supervised.
  • Research interests: environmental and natural resource economics, microeconomics, applied econometrics, forests, ecosystem services, biodiversity and water.

Contact

BETA — AgroParisTech / INRAE
14 rue Girardet, 54000 Nancy, France
serge.garcia@inrae.fr

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