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The Northwestern Iberian Peninsula and the Demographic Challenge: diagnosis and proposals for rural areas
On April 16, the “Report on Ruralities of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula: Structural Diagnosis and Strategic Framework for Action” was published. This report provides a territorial and s…
Coordinated regulatory frameworks and land mobilisation among the priority challenges for a more resilient rural areas in Galicia
This Tuesday, the mobilisation and active management of the agricultural and forestry landscape was the focus at IBADER, where one of the working sessions of the Forum Resilient Rural T…
Phd thesis analyzes Green Infrastructure as a driver of territorial transformation
Rocío Losada Iglesias from Land Lab has just defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), focusing on the role of the Green Infrastructure as a strategic t…
Research areas

Green infrastructure and ecosystem services
Green infrastructure is a management framework of special interest to the age group. Currently with particular interest in deepening the planning of specific ecosystem services or the social dimension of green infrastructure.
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Geodata science
The large volume of proprietary data produced by the laboratory gives us an advantage when modeling, simulating, and reinterpreting the dynamics present in research projects. This is complemented by the development of new proprietary tools and infrastructure geared towards spatial information processing.
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Spatial planning and territorial transition
It includes, among others, activities related to territorial organization and planning, with special interest in the rural environment or the monitoring of resources for the formulation of rural transition strategies.
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Active land use management
A line of work that integrates the analysis of land-use dynamics and the land market with innovation in property governance for land mobilization, aiming to diagnose and improve the territorial base of agricultural activities and to attract and guide new managers toward underutilized plots.
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Participatory action research
Participatory action research is a cross-cutting pillar of the Land Lab. It is applied as a methodological principle that promotes research acting as a driver of change, rooted in the territory and connected to the people who inhabit it.
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Food systems and generational renewal in agriculture
With points of contact with other activity of the group, for example related to the abandonment of the agrarian or the transition territorial, this line focuses on strategies towards food systems resilient and support to the relief xeneracional in agriculture.
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| End date | Lines | Title and Researchers |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | - | Sistema de información geográfica del cabo Fisterra para su gestión paisajística |
| 2010 | - | Introdución ós GIS con ArcGIS (2ª edición) 👥 Rafael Crecente Maseda, Miguel Cordero Souto |
| 2010 | - | Realización de un estudio topográfico de la Muralla Romana de Lugo mediante tecnología escáner láser 👥 Rafael Crecente Maseda, Inés Santé Riveira, David Miranda Barrós, Miguel Cordero Souto, Beatriz Guimarey Fernández |
| 2010 | - | Implementación, seguimento e control do Plan director de turismo da Terra Chá 👥 Rafael Crecente Maseda |
| 2010 | - | Sistema de información del agua en la provincia de Lugo para el plan de saneamiento de Galicia 👥 Rafael Crecente Maseda, Jaime Caldeiro Pérez, Manuel Pérez Gómez, David Miranda Barrós, Nieves Pérez Rodríguez |
| Type | Year | Lines | Title and Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congress | 2015 | Land management | A mobilidade de terras en Galicia e a súa gobernanza, un xogo de escalímetro 👤 Enríquez García, María José, Corbelle Rico, Eduardo, Francisco José Ónega López, Crecente Maseda, Rafael |
| Congress | 2015 | - | Emprego das novas tecnoloxías para facilitar o acceso do alumnado a un Máster da USC |
| Publication | 2015 | Land management | Terra e Territorio na Galiza: o movemento que agocha o inmóvil |
| Publication | 2015 | - | Bell Beaker pottery from Galicia (NW Spain): Archaeometric characterization and provenance study of some representative sites |
| Publication | 2015 | - | Evolution of legal criteria for the identification and zoning of rural settlements in Galicia, NW Spain |








