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Pascale Combes Motel

Professeur des Universités, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

Pascale Combes Motel has been a full Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, Université Clermont Auvergne, since 1999. She obtained a degree in agricultural engineering in 1988 and her PhD in economics in 1992. Before being appointed Associate Professor at the University of Caen Basse Normandie in 1993, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Economics at Université Laval (Québec, Canada).
Teaching
Pascale Combes Motel supervises two tracks of the Master's degree taught at the School of Economics: the "Développement durable" track (Sustainable development) with Professor Sonia Schwartz and the English-taught track "Development Economics" with Professor J-L. Combes. She is the local co-director of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree GLODEP (Global Development Policy), which welcomed its first cohort of students in 2018.

She teaches in French and English from Bachelor to Master's level: macroeconomics, macro-dynamics, optimisation for economists, environmental and natural resource economics, and the economics of sustainable development.

Research
Pascale Combes Motel is affiliated with the LEO (Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans). Her research interests relate to the economics of sustainable development, tropical deforestation, energy transition, and protected areas. She has recently published in Environment and Development Economics, World Development, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Economic Modelling, Ecological Economics, and Environment and Resource Economics. She currently supervises 6 PhD students. She has co-organized conferences on the Environment and Natural Resources Management in Developing and Transition Economies since 2010. She serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Forest Economics and International Economics.

Experience

  • –present
    Professeur des Universités à l'Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Clermont Auvergne

Education

  • 1992 
    Université Clermont Auvergne, Sciences économiques