Óscar Carpintero

(Valladolid, 1972)

He holds a PhD in Economics (Extraordinary Award) and a degree in Economics and Business Administration (Extraordinary Award). He is a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Valladolid and a Postgraduate in Natural Resources and Environmental Economics from the University of Alcalá. He has been a “visiting researcher” at Duke University (United States) and the University of Montreal (Canada). His lines of research focus on the field of ecological economics, metabolism and environmental sustainability of the Spanish economy (and the real estate-financial bubble), climate change, trade and the environment, and energy and systems dynamics. Over the past few years he has written more than fifty works, including books such as The Metabolism of the Spanish Economy: Natural Resources and Ecological Footprint (1955-2000) (Lanzarote, César Manrique Foundation, 2005), The Bioeconomy of Georgescu-Roegen (Barcelona, Montesinos, 2006), and Between the Economy and Nature (Madrid, Los Libros de la Catarata, 1999). He has also published articles in international journals such as the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Environmental Science and Policy, Environmental Science and Technology, Ecological Indicators, Energy, or Research in Political Economy.

ResearcherID: Q-9065-2016

Contact

Mail: carpin@eco.uva.es

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Academic publications

García-García, P., Carpintero, Ó., Buendía, L. 2024. Just transitions to renewables in mining areas: Local system dynamics. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Volume 189, Part A, January 2024, 113934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113934
Carpintero, Ó., Frechoso, F., 2023. Energía, sostenibilidad y transición: nuevos desafíos y problemas pendientes. Arbor, 199(807), a687. https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2023.807001
Di Donato, M., Carpintero, Ó., 2021. Household Food Metabolism: Losses, Waste and Environmental Pressures of Food Consumption at the Regional Level in Spain. Foods, 10, 1166. https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/6/1166
Capellán-Pérez, I., De Blas, I., Nieto, J., Mediavilla, M., De Castro, C., Carpintero, Ó., Lobejón, L.F., Álvarez, D., Ferreras, N., Parrado, G., Frechoso, F., Duce, C., Miguel, L.J., 2021. Modelo MEDEAS. Papeles de Energía, Nº12 (febrero 2021). pp. 39 – 45. (PDF en castellano)
Nieto, J., Carpintero, Ó., Lobejón, L.F., Miguel, L.J., 2020. An ecological macroeconomics model: The energy transition in the EU. Energy Policy, 145, 111726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111726
Solé, J., Samsó, R., García-Ladona, E., García-Olivares, A., Ballabrera-Poy, J., Madurell, T., Turiel, A., Osychenko, O., Álvarez, D., Bardi, U., Baumann, M., Buchmann, K., Capellán-Pérez, Í., Černý, M., Carpintero, Ó., De Blas, I., De Castro, C., De Lathouwer, J-D., Duce, C., Eggler, L., Enríquez, J.M., Falsini, S., Feng, K., Ferreras, N., Frechoso, F., Hubacek, K., Jones, A., Kaclíková, R. Kerschner, C., Kimmich, C., Lobejón, L.F., Lomas, P.L., Martelloni, G., Mediavilla, M., Miguel, L.J., Natalini, D., Nieto, J., Nikolaev, A., Parrado, G., Papagianni, S., Perissi, I., Ploiner, C., Radulov, L., Rodrigo, P., Sun, L., Theofilidi, M., 2020. Modelling the renewable transition: Scenarios and pathways for a decarbonized future using pymedeas, a new open-source energy systems model. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 132, 110105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110105 (open access)
García-García, P., Carpintero, Ó., & Buendía, L., 2020. Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income. Energy Research & Social Science, 70, 101664.
Capellán-Pérez, I., Blas, I. de, Nieto, J., Castro, C. de, Miguel, L.J., Carpintero, Ó., Mediavilla, M., Lobejón, L.F., Ferreras-Alonso, N., Rodrigo, P., Frechoso, F., Álvarez-Antelo, D. (2020). MEDEAS: a new modeling framework integrating global biophysical and socioeconomic constraints. Energy Environ. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9EE02627D
Nieto, J., Carpintero, O., Miguel, L.J., Blas, I. de. (2020). Macroeconomic modelling under energy constraints: Global low carbon transition scenarios. Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111090
Santos-Martín, F., B. González García-Mon., J. A. González., I.Iniesta-Arandia, M. García-Llorente C. Montes, F. Ravera, C. A. López-Santiago, Ó. Carpintero, J. Benayas, y Berta Martín-López, (2019): Identifying past social-ecological thresholds to understand long-term temporal dynamics in Spain, Ecology and Society, 24 (2):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10734-240210
Nieto, J., Ó. Carpintero y L.J Miguel. (2018): Less than 2º: An Economic-Environmental Evaluation of the Paris Agreement. Ecological Economics, 146, pp. 69-84.
Carpintero, Ó., I. Murray y J. Bellver, (2016): The New Scramble for Africa: BRICS Strategies in a Multipolar World. Research in Political Economy, vol. 30B, pp. 191-226.
Di Donato, M., P. L. Lomas y Ó. Carpintero (2015): Metabolism and environmental impacts of household consumption: A review on the assessment, methodology and drivers. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 19, pp. 904-916.
Capellán, I., M. Mediavilla, C. de Castro, O. Carpintero y L.J. Miguel, (2015): More Growth? An unfeasible option to overcome critical energy constraints and climate change. Sustainability Science, 10, pp. 397-411.
Calvo G., A. Valero, A. Valero, y O. Carpintero. (2015): An exergoecological analysis of the mineral economy in Spain. Energy, 15, pp. 2-8.
Sastre, S., O. Carpintero y P.L. Lomas, (2015): Regional Material Flow Accounting and environmental pressures: the Spanish case. Environmental Science and Technology, 49 (4), pp. 2262-2269.
Capellán, I. M. Mediavilla, C. Castro, O. Carpintero y L.J. Miguel, (2014): Fossil fuel depletion and socio-economic scenarios: an integrated approach. Energy, 77, pp. 641-666.
Valero, A., O. Carpintero, A. Valero y G. Calvo, (2014): How to account for mineral depletion. The exergy and economic mineral balance of Spain as a case study. Ecological Indicators, 46, pp. 548-559.
De Castro, C., O. Carpintero, F. Frechoso, M. Mediavilla, L.J. Miguel (2014): A top-down approach to assess physical and ecological limits of biofuels. Energy, 64, pp. 506-512.
Carpintero, O. (2013): When Heterodoxy becomes Orthodoxy: Ecological Economics in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 72, nº 5, pp. 1287-1314.
Tapia Granados, J. A., y O. Carpintero, (2013): Economic aspects of climate change. Journal of Crop Improvement, 27: 6, pp. 693-734.
Tapia Granados, J.A., E.L Ionides, y O. Carpintero, (2012): Climate change and the world economy: short-run determinants of atmosfpheric CO2. Environmental Science and Policy 21, pp. 50-62.

Books

Carpintero, Ó., Nieto, J., 2023. Economy as an open system, en Padilla Rosa, Emilio; Ramos-Martín, Jesús (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological Economics, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA. USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 151-156.
Carpintero, Ó., Nieto, J., 2023. Spaceship Earth, en Padilla Rosa, Emilio; Ramos-Martín, Jesús (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological Economics, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA. USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 482-486.
Carpintero, Ó., 2022. Las contribuciones de Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen al pensamiento económico del siglo XX. en: L. Arenas, J.M. Naredo y J. Riechmann (eds.), (2022): Bioeconomía para el siglo XXI. Madrid: Los libros de la Catarata-FUHEM ecosocial, pp. 29-42.
Carpintero, Ó. (2020). Economía para la sostenibilidad. Enríquez, J.M., Miguel, L.J., Duce, C. (Ed.) Repensar la sostenibilidad. (pp 245-266.) Madrid: UNED.
Carpintero, Ó. (Director), (2015): El metabolismo económico regional español. Madrid, FUHEM.
Riechmann, J., Ó. Carpintero y A. Matarán, (coords.), (2014): Los inciertos pasos desde aquí hasta allá: alternativas socioecológicas y transiciones poscapitalistas. Granada: Ediciones de la Universidad de Granada.
Naredo, J.M., Carpintero, O., Frías, J., A. Saa y J.M. Gascó (2009): El agua virtual y la huella hidrológica de la Comunidad de Madrid. Canal de Isabel II, Cuadernos de I+D+I.
Álvarez Cantalapiedra, S. y O. Carpintero (eds) (2009): Economía ecológica: reflexiones y perspectivas. Madrid, CBA y CIP-Ecosocial.
Naredo, J.M., Carpintero, O., y C. Marcos (2008): Patrimonio inmobiliario y balance nacional de la economía española (1995-2007). FUNCAS, Madrid, Colección Estudios.
Georgescu-Roegen, (2007): Ensayos bioeconómicos. Madrid, Los Libros de la Catarata. Edición y traducción de Óscar Carpintero.
Carpintero , O. (2006): La Bioeconomía de Georgescu-Roegen. Montesinos, Barcelona. (Prólogo de Joan Martínez Alier).
Naredo, J.M., Carpintero , O., y C. Marcos, (2005): Patrimonio inmobiliario y balance nacional de la economía española (1991-2004). FUNCAS, Madrid, Colección Ensayos.
Carpintero , O. (2005): El metabolismo de la economía española: Recursos naturales y huella ecológica (1955-2000). Fundación César Manrique, Madrid. (Prólogo de J.M. Naredo).
Naredo, J.M., Carpintero, O. (2002): El balance nacional de la economía española (1984-2000). FUNCAS, Madrid, Colección Estudios.
Carpintero, O. (1999): Entre la economía y la naturaleza. Los Libros de la Catarata, Madrid.