I am an economist at Naturalis, focusing on the interactions between economic activities and biodiversity. I am interested in how industrial activities—especially those related to natural resource extraction—impact biodiversity and in modelling the availability of ecosystem services for economic production. My work develops biodiversity-related risk indicators to support sustainable financial decision-making and to inform biodiversity conservation, by integrating ecological data, financial data, and geolocated information on physical assets.
Keywords
Biodiversity Conservation, Global Biodiversity Framework, Natural Capital, Natural Resources, Financial Decision-Making
Researchinterest
My current research develops methods to assess the biodiversity loss risk of the mining sector on a global scale, and to attribute this risk to mining companies. It integrates information from remote sensing, biodiversity data, and ownership data to reduce information asymmetries regarding the risks posed by mining operations to biodiversity. I am also working on methods to estimate spatially explicit trends in natural capital availability.
Currenttopics
A selection of the topics I am working on currently.
BIOFIN-EU Unlock finance to protect and restore biodiversity
THRIVE Toolset for Hierarchical Reporting and Insightful Validation of Ecosystems
Keypublications
- Boucher, C., Le Lann, W., Matton, S., & Tokpavi, S. (2024). Are ESG ratings informative to forecast idiosyncratic risk?. Finance, I35-XLIV.