Dr. Jorge Dresdner Cid Principal Investigator: RP5 – Socioeconomic Sustainability

Email: jdresne@udec.cl
Principal Investigator: RP5 – Socioeconomic Sustainability
Investigador Principal: RP5 – Socioeconomic Sustainability

Biography

Dr. Jorge Dresdner Cid holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, as well as a MSc and a PhD in Economics from University of Uppsala, Sweden (1989). Currently, he is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad de Concepción, Chile. He is also the principal researcher of the "Socioeconomic Sustainability" line at INCAR. Additionally, he is a senior researcher in the international network Environment for Development. Dr. Jorge Dresdner Cid serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Marine Resource Economics, an international specialized publication focusing on marine research from an economic perspective. Dr. Dresdner Cid's research areas include Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics, as well as Labor Economics. He has conducted studies on various topics, such as the socioeconomic impacts of aquaculture in remote coastal regions of Chile, the cost implications of Caligus treatments in salmon production, the effect of the ISA crisis on international salmon prices, and the economic behavior of mussel seed collectors, among others. Currently, he is working on a project focused on designing policies to promote small-scale aquaculture in Chile.

Academic Titles and Degrees

  • 1989 Doctor en Economía, Universidad de Uppsala, Suecia.

  • 1983 Master En Ciencias Sociales (Economía), Universidad de Uppsala, Suecia.

  • 1977 Licenciado (Filosofie Kandidat) en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Uppsala, Suecia.

  • Latest Publications

  • Albers H.J., C. Chávez, J. Dresdner, Y. Figueroa, and M. Leiva (accepted). "Marine Resource Projects for Rural Economic Development Policies in Chile: Marine User Rights and Disruption Costs", Environment and Development Economics.

  • Chávez, Carlos, Jorge Dresdner, Nuria González, Mauricio Leiva. (2025). Applying and assessing the aquaculture performance indicators (APIs): Evidence from three aquaculture production systems in Chile. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/13657305.2025.2455396 (2025).
  • Salazar, Leonardo, Jorge Dresdner, Yanina Figueroa, Andrea Araya and Elizabeth Palta (2024) “Sustainability of Seaweed Supply and Price Dynamics in the Chinese Hydrocolloid Industry”, Aquaculture Economics & Management (accepted)
  • Carlos Chávez, Jorge Dresdner, Nuria González, and Mauricio Leiva. (2023). “Assessing the Aquaculture Performance Indicators (APIs). Evidence from Aquaculture Production Systems in Chile.” Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series, September 2023, EfD DP 23-14: 1-35.
  • Troell, M., B. Costa-Pierce, S. Stead, R.S. Cottrell, C. Brugere, A. Farmery, D.Little, Å. Strand, R. Pullin, D. Soto, M. Beveridge, K. Salie, J. Dresdner, P. Moraes-Valenti, J.Blanchard, P. James, R.Yossa, E. Allison, C. Devaney and U. Barg (2023). “Perspectives on aquaculture’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals for improved human and planetary health”. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 54 (2): 251-342 https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.12946
  • Cojocaru, Andrea, Yaqin Liu, Martin Smith, Wisdom Akpalu, Carlos Chávez, Madan Dey, Jorge Dresdner, Viktoria Kahui, Ruth Pincinato, and Nhuong Tran (2022) “The “Seafood” System: Aquatic Foods, Food Security, and the Global South”, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 16(2):306-326 https://doi.org/10.1086/721032
  • Salazar, Leonardo and Jorge Dresdner (2022) “Do Chilean imports lead prices in the EU mussel market?”, Aquaculture Economics & Management https://doi.org/10.1080/13657305.2022.2089771
  • Albers, Heidi, Marjorie Baquedano, Carlos Chávez, Jorge Dresdner, and Kelly Yubini (2022). “Opportunities and challenges for small-scale aquaculture: The stakeholders’ perspective in Los Lagos Region-Chile”, International Journal of Agricultural and Natural Resources, 48(3): 47 -69, http://dx.doi.org/10.7764/ijanr.v48i3.2316.
  • Dresdner Jorge (2022). “The Economics of Fishing” Marine Resource Economics 37(1):109-110, https://doi.org/10.1086/716855.
  • Albers H.J., C. Chávez, J. Dresdner, Y. Figueroa, and M. Leiva (2021). “Low Propensity to Move and Marine Resource-Based
  • Livelihood Choices for Coastal Communities in Southern Chile”, Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series September 2021, EfD DP 21-11, https://efdinitiative.org/publications/low-propensity-move-and-marine-resource-based-livelihood-choices-coastal-communities
  • Albers, Jo, Carlos Chávez, Jorge Dresdner, Mauricio Leiva (2021). “Prospects for small-scale aquaculture in Chile: User Rights and Locations”, Marine Resource Economics 36 (4): https://doi.org/10.1086/715548
  • Cárdenas-Retamal, Roberto, Jorge Dresdner-Cid, Adams Ceballos-Concha (2021)”Impact assessment of salmon farming on income distribution in remote coastal areas: The Chilean case”. Food Policy, 101, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102078
  • Chávez, Carlos, Jorge Dresdner, Nuria González, Mauricio Leiva, Miguel Quiroga (2021) “The Performance of Shared Fish Stock Fisheries under Varying Institutional and Socioeconomic Conditions: Evidence from the South Eastern Pacific Anchoveta Fishery”. Marine Policy 125 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104262
  • Salazar, Leonardo and Jorge Dresdner (2021) “Market integration and price leadership: The U.S. Atlantic salmon market”, Aquaculture Economics & Management, 25(3): 245-259, doi: 10.1080/13657305.2020.1843562

  • Dresdner J. 2019. Impact Assessment of Capital-Intensive Salmon Farming on Income Distribution in Remote Coastal Areas: The Chilean Case. North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE), Biannual Meeting. 22-24 de mayo, Dalhausie, Canada.

  • Dresdner J. 2019. Sustainability through diversification: marine resource-based activities as livelihood alternatives for coastal communities in southern Chile. EfD Environment for Development Initiative, 13th Annual Meeting. 22-25 de noviembre, Bogota, Colombia.
  • Soto D., León-Muñoz J., Dresdner J., Luengo C., Tapia F.J., Garreaud R. 2018. Assessment of vulnerability to climate change in salmon farming (fattening) in southern Chile. XXXVIII Congreso Nacional de Ciencias del Mar. 14-18 de mayo, Valdivia, Chile.
  • Dresdner J., Chávez C., Quiroga M., Jiménez D., Artacho P., Tello A. 2018. The Impact of Caligus Treatments on Unit Costs of Heterogeneous Salmon Farms in Chile. Encuentro Anual de la Sociedad de Economía de Chile (SECHI). 7 de septiembre, Valparaíso, Chile.
  • Dresdner J. 2018. Some distributional consequences of collective rights in artisanal fisheries. World Congress of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (WCERE20198). 28 de junio, Gothenburg, Suecia.
  • Figueroa Y., Dresdner J. 2018. Environmental externalities in mussel production. When congestion matters. Annual Meeting of Environment for Development Initiative (EfD). 30- 31 de octubre, Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • Gómez W., Dresdner J., Jara M. 2017. Some distributional consequences of collective rights in artisanal fisheries. IX Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Chilena de Estudios Regionales (SOCHER), 26-29 de septiembre, Chillán, Chile.
  • Dresdner J. 2017. A working look from the regions. IX Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Chilena de Estudios Regionales (SOCHER), 26-29 de septiembre, Chillán, Chile.
  • Dresdner J. 2017. Small scale aquaculture as a livelihood alternative with marine conservation benefits in coastal communities in Chile. Research proposal. 11th Environment for Development (EfD) Annual Meeting. 28 de octubre, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia.
  • Dresdner J. 2017. Collective catch shares and ex-vessel price determination: Bilateral Monopoly Bargaining in the Chilean Artisanal Austral Hake Fishery 11th Environment for Development (EfD) Annual Meeting. 28 de octubre, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia.
  • Dresdner J. 2017. Vulnerability of militilide cultivation employment in the Los Lagos Region to the HAB. III Seminario de Investigación Aplicada en Mitilicultura, INTEMITE. 14 de junio, Castro, Chile.
  • Salazar C., Dresdner J. 2017. The impact of collective use rights on share contracts. The case of the Extractive Artisanal Regime (RAE) in the Chilean hake fisheries IX Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Chilena de Estudios Regionales (SOCHER), 26-29 de septiembre, Chillán, Chile.
  • Dresdner J., Chávez C., Quiroga J., Jiménez D., Artacho P., Tello A. 2017. IX Annual Meeting of Chilean Society of Regional Studies (SOCHER). The Impact of Caligus Treatments on Unit Costs of Heterogeneous Salmon Farms in Chile. IX Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Chilena de Estudios Regionales (SOCHER), 26-29 de septiembre, Chillán, Chile.
  • Soto D., León-Muñoz J., Dresdner J. 2017. Desarrollo de una matriz de vulnerabilidad del sector salmonicultor ante el cambio climático.Taller sobre vulnerabilidad al cambio climático de la salmonicultura INCAR en colaboración con INTESAL, CORFO, 14 de septiembre, Puerto Montt, Chile.
  • Quiñones R., Dresdner J., León-Muñoz J. 2017. Identificación de actores clave para el desarrollo del sector, jerarquización de brechas y desafíos para el desarrollo de la acuicultura nacional. Taller en la Región del Biobío para la elaboración de la Política Nacional de Acuicultura en Chile, Sala Gobernación Provincial de Concepción, 13 de noviembre, Concepción, Chile.
  • Neudorfer P., Jorge Dresdner. 2013. Do Migration Costs Change with Personal Characteristics of the Migrants?. Congreso de Economía Internacional, Dresdner Facultad de Economía, Universidad de La Habana. 14 - 15 de mayo, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Dresdner J. 2012. The Effects of the El Niño Phenomenon on Fishing Effort Location in the Chilean-Transzonal Jack Mackerel Fishery. Environment for Development Sixth Annual Meeting, 26-29 de octubre, Costa Rica.
  • Dresdner J. 2012. ¿Existe Rigidez en e l Ajuste del Empleo en Chile?. Encuentro Anual de la Sociedad de Economía de Chile (SECHI), Campus Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, 27-28 de septiembre, Viña del mar, Chile.
  • Dresdner J. 2012. Survival of micro-enterprises: Does public seed financing work? Cuarto Encuentro Anual de la Sociedad Chilena de Estudios Regionales (SOCHER), 9 y Universidad Católica del Norte. 10 de agosto, Coquimbo, Chile.
  • Neudorfer P., Jorge Dresdner. 2012. Do Migration Costs Change with Personal Characteristics of the Migrants?. II Seminario Estrategias de Desarrollo, Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República. 20-21 de junio, Montevideo, Uruguay.
  • Peña J., Dresdner J., Vásquez F., Valderrama M. 2012. The Effects of the El Niño Phenomenon on Fishing Effort Location in the Chilean-Transzonal Jack Mackerel Fishery March 2012: Taller en Economía Ambiental y de Recursos Naturales, Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Termas de Catillo, 22- 24 marzo, Catillo, Chile.
  • Dresdner J. 2011. Non-compliance with regulations in artisanal fisheries: Do morality, legitimacy and social pressure matter? Joint Meeting Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES). 10-12 noviembre, Santiago, Chile.
  • Dresdner J. 2011 Do morality, legitimacy and social pressure matter?. Environment for Development Fifth Annual Meeting, “Non-compliance with regulations in artisanal fisheries. 27-30 de octubre, Tanzania.
  • Dresdner J. 2011. Non-compliance with regulations in artisanal fisheries: Do morality, legitimacy and social pressure matter: European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Annual Meeting, 30 de junio, Rome, Italia.
  • Dresdner J. et al, 2010. Do Rigidities Exist in the Adjustment of Employment in Chile? Workshop on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Labor Markets, Central Bank of Chile, 19 de noviembre, Santiago, Chile.
  • Neudorfer P., Dresdner J. 2010. Do migration costs change with personal characteristics of the migrants? Encuentro Anual de la Sociedad Chilena de Estudios Regionales, 02 de septiembre, Talca, Chile
  • Dresdner J., Quiroga M., Riquelme J., Salazar L., Zurita G. 2010. ¿Existe Rigidez en el Ajuste del Empleo en Chile? Encuentro Anual de la Sociedad de Economía de Chile, 02 de septiembre, Talca, Chile.
  • Dresdner J. 2010. Salario Mínimo e Impacto en la Distribución del Ingreso Seminario Internacional “Estrategias de Desarrollo. Universidad de la República. 26-27 abril, Montevideo, Uruguay.

  • Guided Thesis

  • Tesis de Postgrado

  • 1. Juan Carlos Rosas; Abril, 2013, Magíster en Economía de Recursos Naturales y del Medio Ambiente Universidad de Concepción, “Efecto Del Capital Social En El Desempeño Económico De Las Organizaciones Con AMERBs
  • 2. Sophia Espinoza; Marzo, 2013: Magíster en Economía de Recursos Naturales y del Medio Ambiente Universidad de Concepción, “Why don’t Brazil nut harvesters comply with hunting regulations? The case of the Manuripi National Wildlife Reserve” (Tesis guiada en colaboración con Carlos Chávez).
  • 3. Carlos Castillo “Catch Quota Assignment for the Sardine and Anchovies Artisanal Fisheries in the Bíobio Region in Chile, using a Multicriteria Programming Model” (in spanish), Master thesis in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Universidad de Concepción, 2010
  • 4. Pablo Neudorfer “Do People with High Levels of Human Capital have a Higher Propensity to Emigrate Long Distances?” (in spanish), Master thesis in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Universidad de Concepción, 2010
  • 5. Carlos Sanhueza “Wage Convergence in Chile’s Regions i the Period 1994 -2003” (in spanish). Master thesis in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Universidad de Concepción, 2009
  • 6. Catherine Martínez “Rio Baker 1 Project: Is it a Real Opportunity for the Economic Take-Off of the Aysén Region?” (in spanish), Master thesis in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Universidad de Concepción, 2008
  • 7. Grethel Zurita “Does Wage Discrimination exist against the Mapuche in Chile?” (in spanish), Master thesis in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Universidad de Concepción, 2007
  • 8. Leonardo Salazar “The Effect of the Minimum Real Wage on the Short and Long Run Dynamics of the Average Nominal Wages in Chile” (in spanish), Master thesis in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Universidad de Concepción, 2007
  • 9. Angie Hernández “Estimation of the Impact of Fishery Regulations on the Fishing Trip Duration in the Industrial Pelagic Fleet in the Bíobio Region in Chile” (in spanish), Master thesis in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Universidad de Concepción, 2006.

  • Projects

  • 2024-2028 Co-investigador. Project “Surveillance, alert and response system (SVAR) to reduce the use of antimicrobials in Chilean salmon farming”, Join project with Universidad de Chile, Universidad de O´Higgins, Sernapesca, funded by the International Centre For Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS), Denmark.

  • 2012-2024 Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research (INCAR) (Centro FONDAP) – Investigador principal: Linea de investigación: Sustentabilidad Socioeconómica, ANID.
  • 2022-2024 Co-Investigador. Project MS 1161, Environment for Development.Initiative. Assessing global aquaculture production systems, Research Nucleus in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics NENRE, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
  • 2021-2023 Co-Investigador. Market and social sustainability of aquaculture: Communities’ and consumers’ perceptions of the farmed seafood industry. Project MS 1161, Environmnet for Development, Assessing global aquaculture production systems, Research Nucleus in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics NENRE, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. , Research Nucleus in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics NENRE, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
  • 2021-2023 Co-investigador. Environmental efficiency spillover and externalities of aquaculture farms: Analyses of key aquaculture industries in Vietnam and Chile. Financiado por la Agencia de Cooperación y desarrollo de Suecia (SIDA).