Marcel Llavero-Pasquina

Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Based in

Spain
Europe

Marcel Llavero-Pasquina is a postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB working across the fields of ecological economics and political ecology where he coordinate the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (ejatlas.org). Llavero-Pasquina holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge. Llavero-Pasquina is an interdisciplinary researcher applying the basic principles of biological regulation, evolution and ecology to study how socioeconomic systems govern the extraction and distribution of natural resources. In his work, he also explores how identities, ontologies, and discourses emerge from and relate to “social metabolism”, the way in which economies extract, distribute, transform, and dispose of energy, materials and waste. In practice, he is motivated to study and advocate for environmental justice in the energy transition, in particular looking at the role of fossil fuel companies in driving environmental injustice and obstructing climate action.

Llavero-Pasquina’s articles generally combine quantitative large dataset analysis, and material and energy flow analysis with qualitative case studies to analyse the economic drivers and sociopolitical responses to environmental conflicts. This mixed methods approach allows us to understand global processes and how they manifest differentially across scales in specific contexts and locations to identify levers of change and systemic transformation opportunities.

Llavero-Pasquina has been involved for a decade in climate justice movements, and his research continues to support global campaigns and organisations striving to keep fossil fuels in the ground and holding fossil fuel companies accountable.