Presenting Scholars:
Daniel Balsalobre Lorente (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) “THE INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY ON ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION”
José M. Cantos-Cantos (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) “THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY ON A SUSTAINABLE TOURISM INDUSTRY”
Short Bios:
At the academic and research level, Daniel Balsalobre is an expert in public finance, energy economics, economic growth and environment, tourism, and innovation and globalization. In recent years I have published more than 100 studies in journals and book chapters of reputed prestige and international scientific impact, including Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Resources Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Energies, and Journal of Public Affairs, among others. Prof Daniel Balsalobre currently serves as editor-in-chief of Evaluation Review (SAGE) and associate editor at Heliyon (Elsevier), Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer). I am also a guest editor for Renewable Energy (Elsevier), Utilities Policy (Elsevier), Energy Sources Part B (Taylor), Sustainability (MDPI), and Energies (MDPI), among others; also being an expert reviewer of more than 200 articles for highly indexed journals and handbooks. As a result of his academic career, he currently accumulates more than 7800 citations in google scholar and H-index 43. He has entered the International Ranking, elaborated by Standford University. Prof Balsalobre has been included in Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2022.
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After passing through the Spanish Public Administration carrying out fiscal decentralization tasks to the recently created territorial level of the Autonomous Communities, Dr. José M. Cantos obtained a PhD in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid with an empirical study on the application of production functions and health demand. Until 2005, he has worked on the adaptation of fiscal federalism to the new Spanish State that arises from the political constitution of 1978, with publications and technical reports. At a later stage, he has worked on tax competition and other aspects of international income tax, as well as other corruption issues. In recent years, he has published papers on energy and the environment, and is currently working on methodological adaptation of Hidalgo and Haussmann's general model of economic complexity to small rural geographic units.
