Members

Coordinator:

Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Technique in Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo).
Professor in the Master’s program in Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.

Academic interests: Integrated assessment and monitoring of Desertification/Land Degradation at various scales, for sustainable land management and land management. Specialist in integrated resource survey, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, including drone photogrammetry. Member of the Board of Directors of the Observatory of Land Degradation and Desertification and Coordinator at the Rio Blanco Basin Pilot Site.

Co-coordinator:

Academic interests: Her research contributes to the knowledge of drylands, especially the integrated assessment of desertification as a complex environmental problem. She has a special interest in the implementation of local development processes with endogenous resources of the territory and participatory approaches, which allow the recovery of degraded environments. Its themes are implemented through Territorial Planning processes.

Academic interests: my research focuses on the planning and management of green spaces and peri-urban and remote natural areas including recreation and tourism in nature. Likewise, I study nature-society interactions incorporating knowledge from different disciplines such as Human Geography, Environmental or Integrated Geography, Environmental Psychology, Environmental Sociology. My studies include the construction of space as the sense of belonging, perceptions, attitudes and socio-environmental values. Some of the tools I use to carry out my studies are surveys and interviews complemented with BIG-DATA and new ICT tools to then analyse the information in an integrated way using Geographic Information Systems -GIS or GIS- and spatial statistical analysis as well as qualitative analysis including Sentiment Analysis or Sentiment Analysis.

Academic interests: Socio-ecological systems of wetlands, native forests and dryland ecosystem services, in contexts of land degradation processes and global change. Multiscale approach to human-nature relations, with special interest in the internalization of these links in public policies of territorial planning and sustainable development. Conservation and management of ecosystems. Specialization in geographic information systems, remote sensing and use of drones for the integral survey of the territory.
Part of the Group of Experts on Wetlands convened by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Nation and the Ad-hoc Biophysical Group of the National Observatory of Land Degradation and Desertification.
Professor in the Master’s program in Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and in the Master of Conservation Biology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Academic interests: Land use planning in the urban-rural interface of drylands: perception of socio-environmental risk associated with urban expansion and adaptation strategies of local actors. The case of the foothills of Mendoza.

Fellows

Head of practical work in the chair of Geographic Information Systems of the Degree in Logistics, at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.

My line of work focuses on the analysis of land use conflicts and market impact in areas of urban expansion in the context of land degradation in the urban-rural interface of the Metropolitan Area of Mendoza.

Researchers external to IADIZA

Academic Interests: Analysis of ecosystem services in complex natural and irrigated dryland systems applied to land management, with emphasis on competition between urban and rural land uses, from an agricultural perspective. Study of plant biodiversity in natural and cultivated areas.

Effective Professor in the chair of ‘Water Resources Planning’ at the Civil Engineering bacherlor’s program at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCuyo).
Effective Professor in the chair ‘Environmental Regulation of Physical Space’ at the Master in Environmental Engineering program at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCuyo).

Academic interests: water planning and administration, political management of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, local development, processes and mitigation, teaching, research in environment, water, land and production.

Support staff collaborating with the group

Agricultural Engineer Mariano Cony	Senior Professional
Agricultural Engineer Oscar Estévez	Senior Professional
Gualberto Zalazar	Adjunct Professional
Technician Fabián Díaz	Senior Technician

I am a biologist; my studies have focused on the group of mammals always within the framework of research on ecology and conservation. For the last 10 years I have been in charge of the management of Ñacuñan Biosphere Reserve – IADIZA, CONICET. In it operates a biological station where various investigations are carried out on the biodiversity of the Monte Desert. In addition, I actively participate in planning, management and conservation projects of protected areas in the province of Mendoza. I am a member of the Argentine Network of Biosphere Reserves and I have participated in several seminars in Ibero-America on the conservation of this type of UNESCO reserves.

Affiliates who collaborate with the group

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