Specialist in the study of rural systems and landscapes, heritage landscapes and peri-urban agriculture (National Publications Prize of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, 1987), and in land-use planning, landscape and nature conservation policies in Spain and Latin America. Co-author of the book Landscapes of Madrid. Nature and rural areas (Region of Madrid Urban Planning Award, 2000) and co-director and author of the Atlas de los Paisajes de España (Ministry of the Environment, 2003; Spanish Geographical Society Research Award, 2004). Editor and author of the book Landscape heritage. Nansa and Peñarrubia Valleyas part of the Botín Foundation’s Heritage and Territory Programme (Hispania Nostra Award 2014 for the “best landscape intervention”).

He is currently President of EUROPARC-Spain (a technical-professional forum that brings together all the public administrations with competence in protected natural areas), Director since 2009 of the magazine Ciudad y Territorio. Estudios Territoriales (Indexed in Scopus, Spanish Ministry of Development) and member of the drafting committee and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the National Plan for Cultural Landscapes (2012, Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport). He has been President of the Spanish Association of Geography (2005-2009) and of the Spanish Committee of the International Geographical Union.

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Research Group Paisaje y Territorio en España y en América Latina (PAYTEMAL).

Main research themes: Agrosystems, forest landscapes: dynamics and processes related to forest uses and agro-livestock landscapes (pollards of Fraxinus angustifolia, mediterranean hedgerows, cork oak and juniper formations in the Madrid region, etc.); Landscape and heritage. Knowledge of landscapes, their functioning and dynamics; Landscapes and agrosystems in Costa Rica.

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Research Group: Paisaje Cultural (GIPC)

Lines of research: Landscape analysis and spatial planning, heritage landscapes of civil engineering, management of river space and its natural resources, environmental and landscape values of urban areas.

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Lecturer in the area of Regional Geographical Analysis. Department of Geography of the Autónoma University of Madrid

Research Group: PAYTEMAL (Paisaje y Territorio en España, Europa Mediterránea y América Latina

Lines of research: Reconstruction of the history of forest landscapes, focusing on heritage aspects (evolution of ownership, public and communal forests, etc.), management and use, and landscape dynamics, understood fundamentally as a human construction.

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Architect specialised in Urbanism, Planning and Environment (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2007). Double PhD in Geography and Urban Studies (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France). Professional experience in spatial planning and urban design, in studios in Spain and France.

Investigadora postdoc en el Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF, Alemania, grupo de trabajo “Land Use Decisions in the Spatial and System Context” de Annette Piorr) y en el Institut National de la Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE, UR-Ecodéveloppement en Avignon, equipo de Claude Napoléone).

Lines of research: analysis of the functional and landscape dynamics of peri-urban agriculture in the Mediterranean and related land-use planning, with a view to developing institutional decision support tools for spatial and urban planning of sustainable food systems (i.e. Food Planning).

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Lines of research: joint analysis of territory and heritage, with special attention to industrial (mining) and agricultural heritage, cultural landscapes (mainly mining landscapes and vineyard landscapes) and urban spaces and sustainability.

Research Group (Director): Territorial Development of Castilla-La Mancha (DETER) in which various topics on Castilla-La Mancha have been addressed, such as the Functional Urban Areas (FUAS) and regional polycentrism, together with the Agricultural Cultural Landscapes, at the present time.

Director of theCentro de Estudios Territoriales Iberoamericanos (CETI) of the University of Castilla-La Mancha based at the Albacete Campus (Faculty of Humanities) and researchers at all campuses of the regional university.

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Lines of research: study of agricultural landscapes, water management, environmental conservation, territorial development, the territorial value of agri-food certifications, and the phenomena of depopulation and depopulation

Member of the Centro de Estudios Territoriales Iberoamericanos (CETI), of the research group DETER (Territorial Development of Castilla-La Mancha) and of the Red Iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo territorial y gobernanza (REDETEG) which brings together professors from Brazilian, Argentinean, Portuguese and Spanish universities.

Evaluator of Research Projects within the activities of the ANEP (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva); of various national and international scientific journals, including, among others, the Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, Cuadernos Geográficos, Cuadernos de Turismo, Miscellanea Geographica, Scripta Nova, etc.

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Carolina Yacamán Ochoa is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography at the UAM.

Research group. PAYTEMAL. Paisaje y Territorio en España, Europa Mediterránea y América Latina (UAM).

Lines of research: recovery of co-evolutionary relations between the urban and rural domains, integrating the study of sustainable agri-food systems, collective action and social innovation. Another important field of research is the analysis and design of policies for the conservation, management and planning of agricultural areas.

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Degree in Geography and History (1994). PhD in Philosophy and Letters (2007). Master in Landscape and Territorial Management (1996).

Specialisation in climate and biogeography of the Central Cantabrian Mountains, Cantabrian forest landscapes, forest dynamics associated to Fraxinus and Juniperus in the Madrid region; as well as glaciers in the Svalbard archipelago (Norway). He is part of the CIEMAT-coordinated research team working on issues related to climate modelling and urban planning. He coordinates the GEOCLIMA Research Group of the Department of Geography of the UAM.

Research interests: Forest Landscapes, Glacial Geomorphology, Territorial Planning, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Climate Modelling.

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Research topics: resilience and territorial sustainability and food systems, agrobiodiversity models, landscape, sustainability and justice of smallholders and farmers, agrobiodiversity, etc.

He develops projects in Latin America, the United States of America and Europe (especially Spain), Africa and South and Southeast Asia.

Geographer and naturalist, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid since 1998,
worked as an environmental consultant (1992-2006) prior to joining the
university on a full-time basis. His research is currently focused on
in the analysis, characterisation and conservation of biodiversity in river areas
urban areas, livestock trails and extensive livestock farming landscapes. He has participated in
19 research projects, 6 from the National R&D Plan and two funded by the European Union.
European Union, as well as in more than 30 research projects of particular relevance in
companies or in the administration. References can be found on their
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Graduate in Geography and History from the UAM (1995) and Master in Landscape, Territory and Environmental Resources. Analysis and Management (1997). D. in Geography in 2003, with a thesis entitled “Conservación de la naturaleza y territorio en Chile. El Parque Nacional de Torres del Paine y su área de influencia socioeconómica” (UAM, 2003, director: Rafael Mata Olmo).

Research Group: PAYTEMAL (Paisaje y Territorio en España, Europa Mediterránea y América Latina)

He has extensive professional experience in the field of spatial planning, having been awarded in 2015 the 1st Prize for Urban and Spatial Planning of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, for the work “Study and strategy for the landscape of Trujillo and its Land. Guidelines for the Municipal Management Plan”.

His scientific production is mainly related to the research line on rural systems and landscapes, heritage landscapes and peri-urban agriculture, in which he participates under the direction of Rafael Mata Olmo.

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Lines of research: Multifunctional and territorialised agri-food systems (SAMUTER); agricultural and rural multifunctionality; landscapes, cultural landscapes; Unesco territorial heritage programmes; extensive livestock farming pastures and protected natural areas.

She has directed and participated in numerous R&D&I projects on these topics and has a large number of publications. His current research focuses on the study of agri-food systems and their contribution to territorial development, with a particular emphasis on the role of agriculture in the provision of heritage and landscape assets.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Spanish Geographers and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Landscape Group.

She is a member of ICOMOS-Spain and has been a member of its Board of Directors.

She has advised on many landscape nominations for the Unesco World Heritage List, including “The vineyard landscapes of La Rioja Alavesa”, “Ribera Sacra” and “Cultural landscapes of the olive grove in Andalusia”.

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Research Group: Geography and Regional and Urban Development HUM- 177.

Lines of research: Multifunctional and territorialised agri-food systems, territorial models of innovation, local production systems and territorial development.

She has participated in 12 research projects, all obtained in competitive public calls, with European, US, state and regional funds (DG XIV European Commission -III EU Framework Programme; Commission of the European Communities-DG Fisheries – Research Unit, DG XXII European Commission and Department of Education USA, Plan Estatal I+D+i and IEA). It has also participated in 6 research contracts with public and private companies and regional organisations. Her research and work has received various mentions.

She has held academic responsibilities in the coordination of several official university master’s degrees (Erasmus Mundus in Marine Spatial Planning -Universities of Venice, Azores and Seville-; Territorial Management. Instruments and Intervention Techniques, University of Seville).

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Lines of research: heritage and cultural landscapes, historic cities and social geography.

Geography and Rural and Urban Development Research Group.

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He is currently Director of the Heritage Research Institute of the UEx. He has also been Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Rural Development since the 2006-07 academic year. He was Director of the Department of Art and Territorial Sciences at the University of Extremadura from 2008 to 2016 and, on the other hand, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Autonomous Body of National Parks (2012-2016).

He is a principal researcher at the Rural and Local Development Study Group. (Sistema Extremeño de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, SECTI) sice 2004.

Lines of research: rural development, demography, heritage landscapes and tourism.

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With a degree in Technical Architecture from the University of Granada, a degree in Humanities from the University of Cordoba and a PhD in Geography from the University of Seville, he is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Seville.

Research Group: GDRU (HUM-177

main lines of research: suburbanisation processes, social and urban geography, as well as heritage and landscapes of cultural interest.

He teaches on the Geography and Territorial Planning degree, as well as on the University of Seville’s official master’s degree in Territorial Management. Intervention Instruments and Techniques. His professional career has been linked for more than twenty years to the fields of urban planning and heritage; in the former as a technician in urban and regional planning in various municipalities; and, in the latter, as a technical advisor in the Technical Office for the Management of the Special Plan for the Protection of the Archaeological Site of Medina Azahara. He is a member of the Spanish National Committee of Icomos.

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Inter-university research group of excellence: Estructuras y Sistemas Territoriales (HUM 396).

Its lines of research are related to digital processing of satellite images, quantitative estimation of precipitation from remotely sensed images, digital image classification and, from June 2020, territorialised agricultural systems.

He completed his PhD (2012) and undergraduate studies (2002) at the University of Murcia and has been a lecturer and researcher at three Ecuadorian universities (UNESUM, University of Cuenca and Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja) and three Spanish universities (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, University of Seville and University of Almería).

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Scopus Author ID: 55815878800

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He teaches in the department of Economic Geography at the Universidad Técnica de Aquisgrán (RWTH Aachen) Germany.

Main courses. Major Seminar on Economic Geography (WS/SS), Map Interpretation Exercise (WS), Conference on Tourism Geography (WS), Conference on the Promotion of Rural Areas (WS), Conference on Geostatistics (WS), ect.

Research interests: Rural geography, Development of rural areas in Europe, Regional development in Latin America, Research on geographical innovation and diffusion.

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Lines of research: landscape, functioning, changes and problems of the dehesa, difficulties and potential of the commercialisation of quality products, agrotourism, renewable energies and their territorial impact, rural development, migratory movements and population and rural depopulation.

has published more than seventy papers in books and scientific and popular science journals, as well as participating in numerous scientific conferences and symposia. Participation, either as Principal Investigator or as collaborator, in Research Projects related to the aforementioned lines should also be noted.

Research Group: GEDERUL (Grupo de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Rural y Local Espacios de Frontera – Study Group on Rural and Local Development in Border Areas)

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Research Group: AREA Regional Analysis: Andalusian Economy. SEJ217.

Research areas/topics: Agri-food Industry, Value Chain, Olive Oil. Utrera Road km 1, 41013 Sevilla

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PhD in Geography and lecturer in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Seville. His teaching and research orientation is broad and heterogeneous, as befits his multidisciplinary background.

Research group. Territorial Structures and Systems (HUM396)

Lines of research: mainly in the fields of cultural geography, landscape and environment. He has also carried out research on tourism, rural heritage, urban and metropolitan spaces, consumer society and geographic education.

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Juan Ignacio Plaza Gutiérrez (Palencia, 1959) is, since January 2007, Professor of Regional Geographical Analysis in the Department of Geography at the University of Salamanca.

TEIDE research group (“Territorio, Innovación y Desarrollo”), a research group recognised by the University of Salamanca.

Lines of research: study of natural landscapes and their dynamics, especially in mountain areas; the evolution and changes of rural areas, with special attention to the problems of depopulation; border areas and models of territorial organisation and their evolution; regional development, territorial policies and the regional policy of the European Union; as well as subjects related to heritage and territory.

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He teaches at the University of Valladolid on the Geography and Territorial Planning Degree.

Research Group (Coordinator): Rural World.

Preferential lines of attention in his research work: rural spaces, agricultural activity, landscape and territorial heritage.

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It belongs to the research group. Rural world

The main lines of research in which he has worked are: Space, dynamics and rural development. Rural environment.

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He teaches at the University of Valladolid on the Geography and Territorial Planning Degree.

Research Group: Rural World.

Preferential lines of attention in his research work: livestock farming landscapes in the northwest Iberian Peninsula.

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Lines of Research: Local Development; Women and Work; Rural Women; Rural Landscapes; Cultural Landscapes; Heritage Landscapes.

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Recognised Research Group: Rural World.

Lines of research: alternative economic practices, urban food policies and alternative food networks.

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She teaches at the University of León.

Research group: INVESTER (Investigaciones sobre el Territorio) of the University of León. Consolidated group, code 45.

The lines of research on which she has worked are: Rural development, Tourism and territory

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He teaches at the University of Burgos.

Recognised Research Group: Rural World.
Lines of research: analysis of the transformation of rural areas, renewable energies, agricultural landscape.

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He teaches at the University of Valladolid.

The main lines of research in which he works are: rural geography and rural environment, industrial heritage, new settlers, local development and rural development.

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He teaches at the University of Burgos.

Research groupGEOTER (Geographical Studies and Territorial Analysis)

Lines of research: Rural spaces, socio-economic dynamics and rural development. Landscape and territorial heritage. @mail: mmar@ubu.es

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He teaches at the University of Salamanca.

Online Observatory of the Spanish Brand in Europe (OMEU) research group.

The line of research in which he works is Didactics of Landscape.

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He teaches at the University of Salamanca.

Research GroupTerritorio, Innovación y Desarrollo (TEIDE)

The lines of research in which he works are: Economic Geography. Industrial geography, agri-food quality and distinctive signs. Geographical indications and designations of origin, Territorial development in rural areas producing quality foodstuffs, Institutional configuration and governance of agri-food value chains, Guidelines for industrial location in rural areas.

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She has been teaching, researching and managing at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea since 1992, where she is a University Lecturer in the Area of Human Geography and Coordinator of the degree course in Geografía y Ordenación del Territorio.

Consolidated Research Group inPatrimonio y Paisajes Culturales (GIPyPAC) of the Basque University System and of the R&D&I Associated Unit of the State Agency of the C.S.I.C. Grupo de Estudios del Mundo Rural.

Lines of research: analysis of depopulation processes; cultural landscapes, heritage, tourism and rural development; dynamics of rural spaces and mountain areas; Geographic Information Systems and land occupation.

She has been Principal Investigator of 5 projects in competitive calls (2 of the National Plan) and 7 contracts with public administrations and companies and has participated in 16 other funded projects. She has been representative of the UPV/EHU in UNISCAPE and member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Geography Association (2015-2019).

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lines of research: 1) “The study of the location, production and use of water resources in the Canary Islands”. 2) “Thematic cartography of the Canary Islands”. 3) “The characterisation of the rural areas of the Canary Islands archipelago”. 4) “The Canarian demographic “model”. 5) “Resources and territorial development in the Canary Islands, Spain and some developing countries”. 6) “Agricultural landscapes and heritage landscapes in the Canary Islands”.

He co-directed the University Master’s Degree in Local Development (1997-1998), financed by the European Social Fund and the town councils of the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He coordinated the edition of the Geography of the Canary Islands (1984-1992), and was also responsible for the preparation of several chapters.

He has published several books and book chapters and numerous research articles in national and international impact journals, and has participated in and directed numerous competitive research projects funded by public and private institutions. Desde 2004 dirige el grupo de investigación Población, Economía y Territorio, PET.

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Researcher ID: N-8825-2018