2010 Doctor en Política y Adminstración Pública, The Ohio State University, Estados Unidos.

2008 MS.c. en Economía del Medio Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales,Michigan State University, Estados Unidos

2005 Ingeniero en Ciencias Agrícolas y Manejo de Recursos Naturales, EARTH University, Costa Rica.

Artículos académicos

Gortaire Díaz, D., Vanegas Redondo, W., Carvajal Cañarte, E., Ortega Pacheco, D., Santos Ordoñez, A. (2020) Análisis de sostenibilidad socioeconómica, productiva y ambiental de productores agroecológicos a pequeña escala en Manabí-Ecuador: Caso de estudio Membrillal. Journal of Science and Research: Revista Ciencia E Investigación, 5(2), pp. 40 – 65.

Ortega-Pacheco, D.V., Keeler, A. G., Jiang, S. (2019) “Climate change mitigation policy in Ecuador: Effects of land-use competition and transaction costs,” Land Use Policy, Volume 81, pp. 302-310

Beitl, C. M., Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, P., Bravo, M., Ortega-Pacheco, D., Bird, K. (2019) “New valuation for defying degradation: Visualizing mangrove forest dynamics and local stewardship with remote sensing in coastal Ecuador”, Geoforum, Volume 98, pp. 123-132.

Ortega-Pacheco, D.V. (2014) “Environmental crisis, climate change and geopolitics.” Special issue coordinator: Línea Sur 3(7).

Ortega-Pacheco, D. V., Lupi, F., Kaplowitz, M. D. (2009) “Payment for Environmental Services: Estimating Demand Within a Tropical Watershed.” Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 1(2), pp. 189–202.

Participación en conferencias académicas

Ortega-Pacheco, D. V., Keeler, A. (2010) “Measuring Transaction Costs of Land-based Climate Change Mitigation Policy in Developing Countries. Advances in Transaction Cost Measurement for Environmental and Natural Resources Policy. Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section -IBES Track Session. AAEA, CAES, & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 25 to 27, Denver, CO, USA.

Actas de conferencias académicas

Ortega-Pacheco, D. V., Silva, A., López, A., Espinel, R., Inclán, D., Mendoza-Jiménez, M.J. (2018) “Hacia una bioeconomía sostenible: un enfoque desde Ecuador.” En 4to. Congreso Internacional de Ciencia, Tecnología E Innovación Para La Sociedad. Memoria Académica. pp.175-186, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Ortega-Pacheco, D. V., Jiang, S., Keeler, A., Sohngen, B., & Southgate, D. (2009) “Climate policy: Spatial explicit heterogeneity matters – the case of tropical deforestation at Northwestern Ecuador.” En IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6(5), 152009.

Libros y Capítulos de Libros

Ortega-Pacheco, D.V., Mendoza-Jimenez, M.J. , Herrera. P. (2018) “Mangrove Conservation Policies in the Gulf of Guayaquil”. En W. Leal Filho, Barbir J., Preziosi R. (Eds.), Handbook of Climate Change and Biodiversity, Climate Change Management, Switzerland: Springer.

Ortega-Pacheco, D. V., Silva, A., López, A., Espinel , R., Inclán, D., Mendoza-Jiménez, M.J. (2018) “Towards a sustainable bioeconomy: initial lessons from Ecuador.” En Leal Filho, W; Borges de Lima, I.; Pociovalisteanu, D y Paulo Brito (Eds.), Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy: Principles, Challenges and Perspectives, Switzerland: Springer.

Ortega-Pacheco, D. V., Manzano-Torres, I. (2010) “Institutional change and climate change policies in Ecuador”. En M. Mehling, A. Merrill, K. Upston-Hooper (Eds.), Implementing the Clean Development Mechanism: Legal and Institutional Challenges, (pp. 185-205). Berlin, Germany: Lexxion.

Kaplowitz, M. D., Ortega-Pacheco, D. V., Lupi, F. (2008) “Payment for environmental services and other institutions for protecting drinking water in eastern Costa Rica” En N. Mercuro & S. Batie (Eds.), Alternative Institutional Structures: Evolution and Impact (pp. 380–401). London, UK: Routledge Press.