RESEARCHER PROFILE

Benjamín Leiva

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Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

Sustainable Development and Environmental PolicySustainability and Ecological Systems AnalysisEnergy, Environment, Economic GrowthEnergy, Environment, and Transportation PoliciesGlobal Energy and Sustainability Research

Benjamín Leiva works in Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Global Energy and Sustainability Research. Recorded institutional associations include Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.

30Publications
256Citations
8H-index

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. How will renewable energy development goals affect energy poverty in Guatemala?

    2021 · 68 citations

  2. Shade and Agronomic Intensification in Coffee Agroforestry Systems: Trade-Off or Synergy?

    2021 · 43 citations

  3. Food, energy, and water nexus research in Guatemala – A systematic literature review

    2021 · 25 citations

  4. Natural resource rent allocation, government quality, and concession design: The case of copper in Chile

    2020 · 22 citations

  5. Shade versus intensification: Trade-off or synergy for profitability in coffee agroforestry systems?

    2023 · 21 citations

  6. Welcoming uncertainty: A probabilistic approach to measure sustainability

    2016 · 12 citations

  7. Energy and economic growth in the USA two decades later: Replication and reanalysis

    2018 · 12 citations

  8. Opportunities and spatial hotspots for irrigation expansion in Guatemala to support development goals in the food-energy-water nexus

    2022 · 11 citations

  9. Valuing water service reliability and in-home water storage: A hedonic price model from Guatemala

    2023 · 6 citations

  10. Changes in the economics of coffee production between 2008 and 2019: a tale of two Central American countries

    2024 · 6 citations

  11. ¿Apropiación privada de renta de recursos naturales? El caso del cobre en Chile

    2016 · 5 citations

  12. A framework to consider energy transfers within growth theory

    2019 · 5 citations

  13. THE ENERGY AND GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT CAUSALITY NEXUS IN LATIN AMERICA 1900-2010

    2019 · 5 citations

  14. On the rules of life and Kleiber's law: the macroscopic relationship between materials and energy

    2022 · 5 citations

  15. Addressing context-specific energy modelling risks and dynamics in low- and middle-income countries

    2026 · 5 citations

  16. Tourist preferences for cleaner mobility: A contingent valuation of electric rickshaws in Guatemala

    2025 · 2 citations

  17. Why Are Prices Proportional to Embodied Energies?

    2019 · 1 citations

  18. Why the energy transition is not enough

    2021 · 1 citations

  19. Apropiaci\'on privada de renta de recursos naturales? El caso del cobre en Chile

    2018 · 1 citations

  20. Why the energy transition is not enough

    2020 · 1 citations

  21. Mind the gap: the economic problem as an interplay among desires, matter, and energy

    2017 · 0 citations

  22. A theoretical framework to consider energy transfers within growth theory

    2018 · 0 citations

  23. A Theoretical Framework to Study the Economic Importance of Energy

    2018 · 0 citations

  24. Energy's place in economic theory

    2019 · 0 citations

  25. A New Input-Output Table Built from Neoclassical Analysis that Considers Economic Rent

    2021 · 0 citations

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