SCALABLE
Team
#Gender #Sustainability #Social-EcologicalResilience #BioculturalDiversity
Principal Investigator
Cristina Quintas Soriano
Marie Curie researcher with a focus on feminist approaches, sustainability sciences and social-ecological system analysis. Fascinated to better understand how people relate and interact with nature.
Coordinator
Antonio J Castro
Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services and Sustainability at the University of Almeria and PI of the SocioECOS laboratory, and Affiliated Faculty at the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University.
Web: SociECOS Lab
PhD student
Irene Otamendi Urroz
Reserarch interest on biocultural diversity, emotions and human-nature connectedness.
​
PhD thesis:
Socio-ecological pathways and intergenerational perspectives for conservation of biocultural diversity linked to Spanish agroecosystems (on-going)
Co-advisor: Antonio J Castro
Bachelor student
Silvia López Moreno
Reserarch interest on rural revitalization, biocultural diversity and human well-being.
​
Master thesis:
Biocultural diversity in the Mediterranean Basin: a systematic review of the literature (on-going)
Co-advisor: Antonio J Castro
​
​
Master student
Bele Luisa Buchholz-Knipping
Reserarch interest on rural revitalization and development and human well-being.
​
Master thesis: Intergenerational transmission and preservation of Traditional Agroecological Knowledge (TAeK) in a context of outmigration from rural areas in south-eastern Spain (June, 2023)
​
Co-advisor: Berta Martín-López
Master student
Ana Isabel Latorre Andrés
Reserarch interest on rural revitalization and development and human well-being.
​
Master thesis:
Future scenarios for the conservation of biocultural practrices in Abrucena (Feburary, 2023)
​
Co-advisor: María D. López-Rodríguez
Master student
Caterina Recalde
Reserarch interest on rural revitalization, agroecology, rural development and human well-being.
​
Master thesis: Activities for rural innovations and human well-being contributions: a case study in Amócita, Almería
(June, 2022)
​
Co-advisor: Juan M. Requena-Mullor
Master student
Carmen López-Zayas
Reserarch interest on rural revitalization and human-nature reconnectedness.
​
Master thesis: Assessing human-nature connectedness in southern rural Spain and implications for rural depopulation
(February, 2022)
​
Co-advisor: Antonio J. Castro
​
​