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Elena Górriz Mifsud
Head of group
PROGRAM / Bioeconomy, health and governance
LINE / Socioeconomics and Governance of Rural Systems
PhD by the Universities of Lleida (Spain) and Padova (Italy), Forest Engineer fby the Technical University of Valencia. M.Sc. Economics by the University of Barcelona. She also studied in Freiburg (Germany), did her master thesis in Argentina and traineeship in Finland.
In 2008 she started working at EFIMED (Mediterranean office of the European Forest Institute). Since 2009 she has participated in R+D+I projects related to the forest socio-economics.
Her main lines of research are the analysis of socioeconomic instruments for rural development and bioeconomy:
- Design and implementation of sustainable economic instruments for environmental externalities (paying special attention to Payments for Environmental Services);
- Social capital for cooperation in forest management and use (social innovation, associationism);
- Forest ecosystem services offer (costs, motivations for forest management); and
- Value chains of non-wood forest products (economic analysis and governance).
In 2008 she started working at EFIMED (Mediterranean office of the European Forest Institute). Since 2009 she has participated in R+D+I projects related to the forest socio-economics.
Her main lines of research are the analysis of socioeconomic instruments for rural development and bioeconomy:
- Design and implementation of sustainable economic instruments for environmental externalities (paying special attention to Payments for Environmental Services);
- Social capital for cooperation in forest management and use (social innovation, associationism);
- Forest ecosystem services offer (costs, motivations for forest management); and
- Value chains of non-wood forest products (economic analysis and governance).
Keywords
BioeconomyForest economyGovernancePayment for environmental servicesNon-timber forest products (Mushrooms, truffles, PAM, cork, pine nuts, etc.)Ecosystem servicesLatest Publications
- Górriz-Mifsud, E., Darnay, S., Rovellada Ballesteros, M. (2025). Bridging wine and forestry sectors to reduce wildfires: Wine actors’ perceptions, their role in risk reduction and externality labelling. Trees Forests and People
- Frei, T., Espelta, J.M., Górriz-Mifsud, E., Hampe, A., Lefèvre, F., Martín-Forés, I., Winkel, G. (2024). Can natural forest expansion contribute to Europe’s restoration policy agenda? An interdisciplinary assessment. Ambio
- Górriz-Mifsud, E., Secco, L., Da Re, R., Pisani, E., Bonet, J.A. (2023). Cognitive social capital and local forest governance: community ethnomycology grounding a mushroom picking permit design. Forest Systems
- Rovira, M., Garay, Ll., Górriz-Mifsud, E., Bonet, J.A. (2022). Territorial Marketing Based on Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs) to Enhance Sustainable Tourism in Rural Areas: A Literature Review. Forests
- Marini Govigli V., Rois-Díaz, M., Den Herder, M., Bryce, R., Tuomasjukka, D., Górriz-Mifsud, E. (2022). The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives. Environmental Policy and Governance