Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo
Dr. Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco
Department
Environmental Governance
Function
Senior Researcher
Specialization
Ecological economics
Work areas
- Conservation and natural resources management
- Ecosystem services and society
- Ecological distribution conflicts
- Biodiversity and climate change
- Political ecology
Regional expertise
- Latin America
Vita
| since 01/2018 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Senior Researcher, Research Department "Environmental Governance" |
| 03/2014-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Department "Environmental Policy and Natural Resources Management" |
| 09/2009-12/2013 | Wageningen University. Water Resources Management Group, The Netherlands PhD Researcher: PES, peasants and power in Andean watersheds: Power relations and payment for environmental services projects in Colombia and Ecuador |
| 09/2006-06/2009 | Wageningen University, The Netherlands MSc in Environmental Sciences (Environmental Economics and Environmental Policy) |
| 07/2008-08/2008 | Wageningen University. Environmental Economics and Natural resources Group, The Netherlands Assistantship: Optimized strategies for risk assessment of industrial chemicals through integration of non-test and test information |
| 09/2007-04/2008 | Agricultural Economics Research Institute / Landbouw Economisch Instituut (LEI), The Netherlands Intern in the Programme water for food and ecosystems: Economic dimensions of water |
| 06/2002-06/2006 | Biological Resource Research Institute Alexander von Humboldt/ Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia Researcher |
| 09/1997-09/2003 | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Bachelor in Economics |
Awards
Alßan Programme - High level scholarships for young professionals and postgraduate students from Latin America
Refereed Publications
- Lehmann, Ina / Julia Grosinger / Steffen Bauer / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco / Katarzyna Negacz / Jonas Hein (2025)
Time in and for nature-based solutions: no quick fix solutions for complex ecological and social processes
in: Nature-Based Solutions, first published 26.01.2025 - Rodríguez-de-Francisco, Jean Carlo / Carlos del Cairo / Daniel Ortiz-Gallego / Juan Sebastian Velez-Triana / Tomás Vergara-Gutiérrez / Jonas Hein (2021)
Post-conflict transition and REDD+ in Colombia: Challenges to reducing deforestation in the Amazon
in: Forest Policy and Economics 127, article 102450 - Hein, Jonas / Carlos Del Cairo / Daniel Ortiz Gallego / Tomás Vergara Gutiérrez / Juan Sebastian Velez / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2020)
A political ecology of green territorialization: frontier expansion and conservation in the Colombian Amazon
in: Die Erde - Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 151 (1), 37-57 - Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco / Felix Weinsheimer / Alessandro Döhnert / Lukas Kleiner / Marjam Mayer / Julia Morawietz / Eric Philipp (2019)
Ecosystem-based adaptation projects: more than just adaptation: analysis of social benefits and costs in Colombia
in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 (21), 4248 - Rodríguez-de-Francisco, Jean Carlo / Bibiana Duarte-Abadía / Rutgerd Boelens (2019)
Payment for ecosystem services and the water-energy-food nexus: securing resource flows for the affluent?
in: Water 11 (6), article 1143 - Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2017)
PES hydro-social territories: deterritorialization and repatterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands
in: Rutgerd Boelens / Ben Crow / Jaime Hoogesteger / Flora Lu / Erik Swyngedouw/ Jeroen Vos (eds.), Hydrosocial territories and water equity: theory, governance, and sites of struggle, London: Routledge - Heldt, Sonja / Jean Carlo Rodríguez-de-Francisco / Ines Dombrowsky / Christian K. Feld / Daniel Karthe (2017)
Is the EU WFD suitable to support IWRM planning in non-European countries? Lessons learnt from the introduction of IWRM and River Basin Management in Mongolia
in: Environmental Science & Policy 75 (September), 28–37 - Kolinjivadi, Vijay / Gert Van Hecken / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco / Jérôme Pelenc / Nicolás Kosoy (2017)
As a lock to a key? Why science is more than just an instrument to pay for nature’s services
published on Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (online first) - Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2016)
PES hydrosocial territories: de-territorialization and re-patterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands
in: Water International 41 (1), 140-156 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2016)
Pago por servicios ambientales, ambientalismo de mercado y la indiferencia hacia el mundo campesino 109-132
in: Bibiana Duarte Abadía / Cristina Yacoub / Jaime Hoogesteger (eds), Gobernanza del agua: una mirada desde la ecologia politica y la justicia hidrica, Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala - Justicia Hidrica, 109-132 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2015)
Payment for environmental services: mobilising an epistemic community to construct dominant policy
in: Environmental Politics 24 (3), 481-500 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2014)
Payment for environmental services and power in the Chamachán Watershed, Ecuador
in: Human Organization 73 (4), 351-362 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Jessica Budds (2014)
Payments for environmental services and control over conservation of natural resources: the role of public and private sectors in the conservation of the Nima watershed, Colombia
in: Ecological Economics 117 (September), 295-302 - Boelens, Rutgerd / Jaime Dinge Hoogesteger-van-Dijk / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2014)
Commoditizing water territories: the clash between Andean water rights cultures and payment for environmental services policies
in: Capitalism Nature Socialism 25 (3), 84-102 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Jessica Budds / Rutgerd Boelens (2013)
Payment for environmental services and unequal resource control in Pimampiro, Ecuador
in: Society and Natural Resources 26 (10), 1217-1233 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2013)
PES, peasants and power in Andean watersheds : power relations and payment for environmental services in Colombia and Ecuador
Wageningen, Univ., Diss. - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2012)
Injusticia hídrica y pagos por servicios ambientales: mirando detrás del telón en Pimampiro, Ecuador
in: Edgar Isch / Rutgerd Boelens / Francisco Peña, (eds.), Agua, injusticia y conflictos,Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Non-refereed Publications
- Aleksandrova, Mariya / Aparajita Banerjee / Marcelo Inacio da Cunha / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco / Michael Brüntrup / Daniele Malerba (2024)
Fostering justice across the Rio Conventions: emerging levers for cooperation and coordination
(Policy Brief 31/2024) - Bolduc, Nathalie / Fabrizio Bott / Michael Brüntrup / Koen Dekeyser / Ines Dombrowsky / Jean-Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2022)
Food Security
in: The European Green Deal and the war in Ukraine. Addressing crises in the short and long term, Brussels: European Think Tank Group, 13-15 - Iacobuţă, Gabriela Ileana / Alexia Faus Onbargi et al. (2022)
The European Green Deal and the war in Ukraine: addressing crises in the short and long term
Brussels: European Think Tanks Group (July 2022) - Bauer, Steffen / Marie-Jeanne Kurdziel / Gabriela Iacobuta / Clara Brandi / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Delphine Deryng / Jonas Hanshom / Niklas Höhne / Sybrig Smit / Srinivasa Srigiri (2021)
Working together to achieve the Paris climate goals and sustainable development: international climate cooperation and the role of developing countries and emerging economies
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - Bauer, Steffen / Marie-Jeanne Kurdziel / Gabriela Iacobuta / Clara Brandi / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Delphine Deryng / Jonas Hanshom / Niklas Höhne / Sybrig Smit / Srinivasa Srigiri (2021)
Gemeinsam Paris-Ziele und nachhaltige Entwicklung erreichen: Internationale Klimakooperation und die Rolle der Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - Lehmann, Ina / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Anna Spenceley (2021)
COVID-19 und Naturschutz: Strategien zur Krisenbewältigung für Mensch und Natur
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 2/2021) - Lehmann, Ina / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Anna Spenceley (2021)
COVID-19 and conservation: crisis response strategies that benefit people and nature
(Briefing Paper 8/2021) - Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2020)
Jetzt oder nie: Herausforderungen des globalen Biodiversitätsschutzes
in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ), 11/2020, 4-10 - Dombrowsky, Ines / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco / Mirja Schoderer / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj (2018)
The devil is in the detail: administrative and fiscal challenges in implementing River Basin Management in Mongolia
(Briefing Paper 17/2018) - Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Ines Dombrowsky / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj (2018)
River Basin Authorities (RBAs) and institutional interactions
in: Jürgen Hofmann / D. Battogtokh (eds.), Kharaa-Yeröö River Basin Atlas, 2nd ed., Ulaanbaatar, Berlin, 238-244 - Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Ines Dombrowsky / Ariunaa Lkhagvadorj (2018)
The Mongolian legal framework for water policy
in: Jürgen Hofmann / D. Battogtokh (eds.), Kharaa-Yeröö River Basin Atlas, 2nd ed., Ulaanbaatar, Berlin, 232-236 - Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Annabelle Houdret / Ines Dombrowsky (2017)
Flussgebietsmanagement voranbringen: rechtliche, finanzielle und politische Dimensionen in der Mongolei
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 8/2017) - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Annabelle Houdret / Ines Dombrowsky (2017)
Proceeding with River Basin Management: legal, financial and political dimensions in Mongolia
(Briefing Paper 6/2017) - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2016)
Payments for ecosystem services and the water-energy-food nexus
(Two Pager 4/2016) - Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodríguez / Katharina Stepping (2016)
Why we need more and better biodiversity aid
(Briefing Paper 13/2016) - Hein, Jonas / Karen Meijer / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2015)
What is the potential for a climate, forest and community friendly REDD+ in Paris?
(Briefing Paper 3/2015) - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2014)
Warum es bei Zahlungen für Ökosystemdienstleistungen auf Macht ankommt
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 11/2014) - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2014)
Why power matters in Payments for Environmental Services (PES)
(Briefing Paper 9/2014) - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2008)
Preconditions for the establishment of a payment for Environmental services in the Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia
MSc thesis: Economics and Natural Resource Group, Wageningen Univ. - Hernández, Sara / Felipe Murtinho / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2004)
Diseño de instrumentos de política para la conservación y uso sostenible de la biodiversidad en sistemas productivos ganaderos en la cuenca del río La Vieja, quindío y norte del Valle del Cauca
Bogotá: Instituto Alexander von Humboldt. Cooperación técnica entre el proyecto “Conservación y uso sostenible de la biodiversidad en los Andes Colombianos” y el proyecto “Enfoques silvopastoriles integrados para el manejo de ecosistemas"; Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial
Opinion Pieces
- Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2025)
Why we need to fight right-wing populism to save our glaciers!
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 19 March 2025 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Clarlo (2025)
A lifeline for biodiversity: why rich countries must cancel debt to save nature
published on blogs.idos-research.de, 24.02.2025 - Hein, Jonas / Marcelo Inacio da Cunha / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2024)
Schutzgebiete allein können Artensterben nicht verhindern
published on www.klimareporter.de, 22.05.2024 - Hein, Jonas / Marcelo Inacio Da Cunha / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2024)
Why protected areas alone are not enough to prevent the loss of biodiversity
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 21 May 2024 - Schoderer , Mirja / Jean-Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2023)
Why focusing on individual action alone is not enough
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 22 March 2023 - Hein, Jonas / Jean Carlo Rodriguez-de-Francisco / Chiara Gärtner (2023)
Die Rechte indigener Gruppen und lokaler Gemeinschaften stärken und den Verlust der Artenvielfalt stoppen
published on 17ziele.de, 26.01.2023 - Hein, Jonas / Jean Carlo Rodriguez (2022)
(Green) capitalism will not save biodiversity!
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 5 December 2022 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2021)
Why the new global biodiversity targets should embrace rights-based conservation
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 11 October 2021 - Rodríguez, Jean Carlo / Ina Lehmann (2021)
To save biodiversity, transform the economy
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 17 May 2021 - Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer (2021)
Why development cooperation needs to treat water as more than a commodity
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 22 March 2021 - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Ina Lehmann (2020)
Nature cannot save us if we do not stop harming it
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 18 May 2020 - Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodriguez (2019)
Biodiversity is good for you!
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 20 May 2019) - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer (2019)
Privatisation Risks Leaving People Behind
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 18 March 2019) - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer / Carmen Richerzhagen (2018)
Water Security and Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 22 March 2018 - Hein, Jonas / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2016)
Carbon and biodiversity offsetting: A way towards sustainable development?
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 21 March 2016) - Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2008)
Identificación de incentivos inadecuados y barreras de mercado en materia de biodiversidad a nivel nacional y subnacional
Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, GEF, UNEP, Corporación Andina de Fomento
Projects
- BIOdiversity and ecosystem protection driven by Environmental JUSTice (BIO-JUST)
- Klimalog: Climate-resilient and nature-compatible sustainable development through socially just transformation (Klimalog III)
- Research Team Colombia - Environmental Justice Implications of Protected Areas: Evidence from Misiguay Forests, Colombia
- Klimalog: Research and dialogue for a just and SDG-compatible implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement ("Klimalog II")
- Global Sustainable Development Report - Scientific contributions and outreach activities
- Klimalog: Research for a climate-smart and just transformation
- Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia – Model Region Mongolia (MoMo III)
- The social dimension of ecosystem-based adaption to climate change in Colombia
- Implementing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Incentive structures and policy instruments
Highlight
Why we need to fight right-wing populism to save our glaciers!
Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo (2025)
The Current Column of 19 March 2025