I explore the impacts of land management on soil and ecosystem properties. As a María de Maeztu PhD Fellow at ICTA-UAB (2018-2022), I investigated the potential utility of agricultural land abandonment as an environmental policy tool for ecological restoration globally.
Themes
Land-atmosphere processes, Land change trade-offs for ecosystem services and biodiversity , Land management systems
Watch this poetic TEDxGeneva talk in which Stephen Bell brings historical insights of global farmland abandonment, zooms in to studying this process in Spain, and argues about the importance of changing the focus from post-factum abandonment to proactive retirement of lands.