Olivia Rendon is a Research Fellow in environmental economics and conservation and her research has focused on protected areas, ecosystem services, water conservation, economic valuation and equity issues. She is a member of the International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE) and the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation. In BASE, Olivia co-leads the progress of the common case study approach, develops the Leeds City Region case study and contributes to the generalization and upscaling of case study results.