Dr Paola Ovando-Pol

Paola is an environmental economist whose research expertise and interest focus on  economic valuation of ecosystem services and natural capital, and their integration into ecosystem accounting and economic decision analysis frameworks, and the development of integrated economic and environmental models to better understand land use and management decisions, and the trade-offs and synergies in the provision of private and public good and services involved.

Paola Ovando-Pol

James Hutton Institute
Errol Road
Dundee
Scotland
DD2 5DA

Antimicrobial resistance: bringing Scottish expertise together to find the solutions

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global, immediate and ongoing concern to human health. AMR occurs when microbes become resistant to clinical or veterinary drugs that are used to treat disease, and this has major consequences on how microbial diseases are managed and therefore how antimicrobial compounds are used.