Researching environmental governance processes in the areas of climate change and the conservation of biodiversity, from international to national and local levels.
We examine the political, social, behavioural and ecological conditions that enhance or undermine the success of climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and sustainable land-use management policies and projects, with special emphasis on justice, poverty and wellbeing considerations, in both urban and rural contexts.
We are interested in examining how effective and socially just policy framings (e.g. ecosystem services, nature-based solutions) and instruments for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable management of ecosystems actuarlly are.
We wish to disentangle which factors (e.g. culture, history, institutions, behaviour) mediate the design and effectiveness of such policies and instruments.
Un índice de vulnerabilidad socio-ambiental para apoyar en el diseño de nuevas políticas de desarrollo rural en España
How do payments for ecosystem services affect conservation motivations and land-use behaviour? How do local institutions, including land tenure and collective action, moderate the effect of payments on motivations and forest cover?
The INTERLACE project aims to empower and equip European and CELAC cities to effectively restore and rehabilitate (peri)urban ecosystems towards more liveable, resilient and inclusive cities. The ...
En España, el cambio climático presenta importantes desafíos, riesgos e impactos que exigen la adaptación y mitigación. Las soluciones basadas en la naturaleza (SBN) son clave para enfrentar estos desafíos debido a su capacidad para proporcionar múltiples beneficios ecológicos, sociales y económicos. Sin embargo, aún no se dispone de un sistema nacional de catalogación de las SBN que contemple las particularidades del territorio, lo que dificulta la implementación del PNACC. Por tanto, el proyecto E:SBN propone la creación de un sistema de identificación, clasificación y catalogación de las SBN en España, que promueva la planificación coherente y maximice su eficacia.
CONDJUST is an ambitious five year project that seeks to contribute to a new field of enquiry: Conservation Data Justice. It tackles novel topics in Data Justice and apply them to the remote sensing, models and data used to create global maps of conservation priorities; it explores the epistemic communities producing these maps, their policy reach and the governance of this research in the conservation community.
Severe droughts reduce river navigability and isolate communities in the Brazilian Amazon. The most recent drought, in 2023, afflicted more than half a million people in the Brazilian Amazon basin, making it one of the most severe droughts ever recorded. The drought was accompanied by enormous fish kills and the deaths of hundreds of river dolphins, all caused by extremely high air and water temperatures and low water levels in large areas. Tens of thousands of remote rural settlers along rivers were completely cut off from urban hubs and adjacent towns for weeks or months.
How do communities work together to adapt to sea-level rise? Do the collective actions they initiate and engage in produce fair outcomes?
Local and global approaches to sustainable territory management in the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve, Morocco
Research, innovation and social responsibility framed around the concept of telecoupling.
Spearheading heritization procedures for conserving and supporting pastoral ICCAs in Mwanda-Marungu, Taita hills, Kenya
Identifying the socio-ecological dynamics of agroecosystems, agrobiodiversity and anthropised landscapes of the Mediterranean
Exploring the possibilities of a paradigmatic pastoral common of Montenegro and its natural and cultural ‘heritage’ values
Studying the performance of Hispano-Moroccan pastoral commons and their natural and cultural ‘heritage’ values
Communal governance systems for the sustainability of cultural land use practices securing biodiversity
Understanding the role of cultural expressions, arts and multimedia in upholding transformations in water-related conflicts
Investigating the effectiveness of community-based conservation through a co-enquiry approach
Developing and analysing the implementation of a REDD+ pilot project in Tanzania
Synthesizing the effects of agricultural intensification on ecosystem services and poverty alleviation.
Parsing out debates over ecosystem services and poverty
Analyzing the implementation of habitat banking in Spain and the UK, and controversies over this policy at EU level.
Investigating the effects of REDD+ policies and pilot projects on forest governance, livelihoods and conflict
Advancing co-management research through a systematic review and case study research, the dissertation shows that co-management can indeed deliver positive social and ecological outcomes and it highlights the importance of social equity and social diversity in delivering such outcomes.
In-depth ethnographical description and eco-anthropological analysis of the customary-based management system of pastoral resources among the Wahehe, agropastoral group of Iringa region, Tanzania
The effects of roads on indigenous people’s well-being and use of natural resources. A natural experiment in lowland Bolivia
A longitudinal study to examine how market exposure and modernization affect the well-being of a highly autarkic population, the Tsimane' in the Bolivian Amazon
Advancing insights in tradeoffs and synergies between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem service values for improved integrated biodiversity policy
The main goal of this project was to map and assess ecosystem services in the Province of Barcelona and integrate them in the existing decision-support tool SITxell (Territorial Information System for the Open Spaces Network of the Barcelona Province)
The project will research and develop a ‘living heritage’ approach to conservation, promoting the ‘protection through use’ of upland environments and adjacent rural areas.
The project aims to improve the understanding of the commons in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona to contribute to better promote collaboration between local governments and community-led ...
The research explores how a female-led collective of sheep farmers in Tuscany adapts to ecological and structural changes by promoting coexistence with wolves through livestock guarding dogs. Using feminist political ecology, it examines gendered experiences of change and the farmers’ identities as pastoralists and nature stewards. It also analyzes their alliance with conservation NGOs, highlighting the complexities of collaboration and the transformative dynamics involving wolves, guarding dogs, and wolf-dog hybrids in fostering coexistence.
