Juan F. Velasco-Muñoz, is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Almería, Spain. He is a member of the research group "Environmental and Natural Resources Economics". His research is focused on the sustainable management of resources, especially natural resources, socio-economic valuation of ecosystem services, and development of circular economy systems. Dr. Velasco-Muñoz has numerous publications on these topics in peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters, and contributions to conferences. In addition, he is the editor of several scientific monographs, he directs several doctoral theses on resource management and circular economy and he has been Guest Editor of the Special Issue Sustainability journal ‘Environmental Economics. Contributions to Sustainability of Agricultural Ecosystems’.