Salvador Pueyo

Transdisciplinary researcher, holding a PhD in biology from the Ecology Program of the UB. I carry out theoretical research trying to fill very diverse gaps in knowledge of relevance for the global ecosocial transition. Some highlights: the idiosyncratic theory of biodiversity (which some have tried to replace but not quite correctly); a vegetation-fire interaction model and corresponding climate change impact projections; the application of this model to the risk of an abrupt shift in Amazonia; a collaboration with Philip M. Fearnside giving scientific support to movements of resistance to tropical mega-dams; methodological innovations used to estimate the global carbon budget to limit warming to below 1.5 oC (see methods section in this paper); the outline of a new approach to economic modeling beyond growth, which anticipated the possibility of some global shocks that have actually occurred (see section 4.2 in this paper) and outlined alternatives; warnings, preceding ChatGPT, about possible implications of future AIs; an (extra-academic) attempt to promote a feed moratorium to confront the global food crisis; Margalefian-based reflections on ecological acceleration, conservation and degrowth. 

I headed the Climate Complexity Group at the former Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences (IC3), and I have also been a researcher in Brazilian Amazonia and Canada. I taught degrowth economics, together with Giorgos Kallis, in the last six editions of the Master's Degree in Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice at UAB. Now I am working at CREAF for a certain period of time, moving from the search of pieces of the puzzle for the global post-growth transition to putting together pieces for the transition in the case of Catalonia, trying to complement the related work carried out by some social movements.