Mountain Environments: Changes and Impacts: Natural Landscapes and Human Adaptations to Diversity

About Estela Nadal-RomeroJosé ArnáezJosé M. García-RuizJuan Ignacio López- MorenoTeodoro Lasanta

José M. García-Ruiz (Zaragoza Spain 1949) is Research Professor (retired) of the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology. He was Head of the University College of La Rioja (1982-1984) Head of the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (1988-90) and President of the Spanish Society of Geomorphology (1994-1996). His main focuses of interest have been the consequences of land-use changes and human activity on soil erosion runoff generation fluvial dynamics and the evolution of water resources at different spatial and temporal scales. Landscape changes and geomorphic processes in relation to deforestation in the subalpine belt have been also a main focus of research along with glacial evolution in the European mountains particularly in the Pyrenees and the Iberian Range during deglaciation and the Holocene.José Arnáez (Haro Spain 1957) is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of La Rioja (Spain) and Director of EUSOT (Erosion Land Uses and Land Management) research group. He was Rector of the University of La Rioja (2012-2016) and Executive Director of the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) (2017-2020). His research activity has focused especially on topics related to soil erosion environmental hydrology land management environmental consequences of agricultural abandonment in mountain areas and rural development. The research activity has been financed by different projects (European national and regional) and the results have been published in national and international scientific journals. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica (Geographical Research Letters).Teodoro Lasanta (Villamediana de Iregua La Rioja Spain 1959) is Research Professor of the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology. His researchaims to analyze the interrelations between society and the physical environment in rural areas with special emphasis on the Mediterranean mid-mountains (Pyrenees and Iberian Range). In the last few years he has been trying to offer a functional and sustainable perspective of land management in fragile and marginal areas such as the Mediterranean mountains with special attention to the role of public policies (support to extensive livestock shrub clearing reforestation...) in order to provide land managers with models oriented to a balanced use of resources in time and space.Estela Nadal-Romero (Zaragoza Spain 1981) is Tenured Scientist of the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology. Her research has been devoted to the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge derived from geomorphology hydrology climatology pedology and ecology for the study of Mediterranean mountain areas. Her initial research was concerned with the studyof geomorphological and hydrological processes in humid badlands using a combined approach of field and laboratory experiments. She has diversified her hydrological and geomorphological research by incorporating the study of different land uses and land covers land abandonment and afforested sites. She is actively involved in several international research and policy networks. Currently she is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Pirineos. Juan Ignacio López-Moreno (Zaragoza Spain 1974) is Doctor of Geography and Scientific Researcher of the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology. His research focuses on the evolution of climate snow and glaciers in alpine and arctic areas their response to global change and the impact of a changing cryosphere on hydrology and landscape evolution.