Center for Demographic,
Urban and Environmental Studies (CEDUA),
El Colegio de México, Mexico City

Research Interests

Environmental / Ecological Economic Valuation, Ecological Economics of Water and Agriculture, Industrial Ecology, Input-Output economics, Economic Theory
 

Work Experience and Education

Carlos, an ecological economist, is professor for urban studies  at El Colegio de Mexico’s CEDUA. Carlos’ recent research explores urban water with a modeling approach based on input-output economics linking the valuation mechanisms of price and cost to the physical dimension of infrastructure producing urban water, to the ecological conditions for sustainable use, and to the technological structure of the urban economy. Carlos’ teaching activities include courses in Ecological Economics, Political Economy, Political Ecology and Nature and Society, for both the masters and the doctorate programs on urban studies at CEDUA. Carlos’ collaboration with the BioMaterialities project is based on a socioeconomic analysis of different production technologies in agriculture. The analysis combines the methodologies of social accounting and social-LCA to understand the similarities and differences of agricultural technologies, not only in terms of the input structure and its ecological impacts, but also including an assessment on how communities are articulated through labor requirements and income generation.

Selected Publications

● Domínguez, J., and López-Morales, C. (2023). Agua y ciudades. El Colegio de México AC.
● López-Morales, C., Valdés-Ibarra, M and Dávila-Flores, A. 2023. “Sobre la distribución del ingreso en siete regiones mexicanas: un enfoque de contabilidad social”, En Schteingart, M., Salazar, C., & Sobrino, J. (2023). Desigualdades territoriales: Miradas Cruzadas. El Colegio de Mexico AC.
● Amaya, M., Baran, A., Lopez-Morales, C., & Little, J. C. (2021). A coupled hydrologic-economic modeling framework for scenario analysis. Frontiers in Water, 3, 681553.
● López-Morales, C (2019), Metabolismo y Sustentabilidad Urbana. En Zambrano, L. y Medina, S. (Eds), Las ciudades de México: retos para el desarrollo sostenible, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. https://susmai.unam.mx/node/95
● Cazcarro, I., López‐Morales, C. A., & Duchin, F. (2019). The global economic costs of substituting dietary protein from fish with meat, grains and legumes, and dairy. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 23(5), 1159-1171.
● López-Morales, C. A., & Rodríguez-Tapia, L. (2019). On the economic analysis of wastewater treatment and reuse for designing strategies for water sustainability: Lessons from the Mexico Valley Basin. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 140, 1-12.
● López-Morales, C. (2018), El estado del agua en Mexico, retos, oportunidades y perspectivas. En Pacheco-Vega, R., Taboada, F., y Denzin, C. (Eds), El agua en México. Actores, sectores y paradigmas para una transformación social-ecológica. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Proyecto Regional Transformación Social-Ecológica.