Bernie Bastien-Olvera

I’m an Assistant Professor of Interdsiciplinary Climate Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I am an Affiliated Scientist at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment in Milan, Italy, a National Geographic Explorer, a Beijer Young Scholar and Cofounder of Estudios Planeteando. I serve in the Council of the American Geophysical Union and I am a Scholar of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

I started my position at UNAM after a postdoctoral fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. I completed my PhD in Geography at UC Davis, where I was a Fulbright Student and a Fellow of the John Muir Institute of the Environment, obtaining the Kinsella Memorial Prize for my Ph.D. dissertation.

I study the interaction of ecosystems, economies, and climate to understand how climate change affects the unique and diverse ways people value nature.

Selected Publications

Bastien-Olvera, B.A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Brander, L.M. et al. Accounting for ocean impacts nearly doubles the social cost of carbon. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02533-5
Bastien-Olvera, B.A., et al. Unequal climate impacts on global values of natural capital. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06769-z
Bastien-Olvera, B. A., & Moore, F. C. (2022). Climate Impacts on Natural Capital: Consequences for the Social Cost of Carbon. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 14, 515-532. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-111820-020204
Bastien-Olvera, B. A., Granella, F. & Moore, F. C. (2022). Persistent effect of temperature on GDP identified from lower frequency temperature variability. Environmental Research Letters, 17(8), 084038. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac82c2