MSc in Environmental Science, University of Gothenburg (2003); PhD in Energy & Environment from Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers (2008); Post Doc at the Environmental Economics Unit and the Gothenburg Center for Globalization  & Development (GCGD), University of Gothenburg (2009-2011); Visiting researcher at Tropical Agricultural Research & Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica, and Department of Environmental Earth System Science (EESS), Stanford University, USA (2020-2012).

My primary reasearch interest is global land use and land use change, with emphasis on tropical deforestation, REDD+, and biofuels. Current research topics include: the impact of increased demand for biofuels on food prices and poverty; policy for implementing REDD+, especially Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES); carbon footprints of agricultural products linked to land use change and land use change emissions embodied in international trade.

 

Persson, U. M., Henders, S., & Cederberg, C. (2014). A method for calculating a land‐use change carbon footprint (LUC‐CFP) for agricultural commodities–applications to Brazilian beef and soy, Indonesian palm oil. Global Change Biology 

 

Martin Persson, U., & Alpízar, F. (2013). Conditional cash transfers and payments for environmental services—a conceptual framework for explaining and judging differences in outcomes. World Development, 43, 124-137

 

Nordén, A., Persson, U. M., & Alpizar, F. (2013). 8 Incentives, impacts and behavioural issues in the context of payment for ecosystem services programmes. Globalization and Development: Rethinking Interventions and Governance, 102, 147