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Applications Open for the 9th Edition of the Rafael Crecente Awards
Organized annually since 2017 by the University of Santiago de Compostela through the Institute of Agricultural Biodiversity and Rural Development (IBADER) and the Land Lab (LaboraTe), the a…
Registration open for the Master’s Degree in Landscape Engineering, Green Infrastructure, and Rural Transition
This is a 60-ECTS master’s degree lasting one academic year, designed to be compatible with professional activities. Its hybrid format combines online and on-site teaching, with an approxima…
LaboraTe LaboraTe helps drive the Alliance for a Resilient Rural Territory to promote territorial planning and generational renewal in agriculture
The event also served to present the Alliance for a Resilient Rural Territory, an open collaboration network aimed at continuing the work carried out in recent months within the framework of…
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | - | Organización del XI international congress on project engineering |
| 2007 | - | Our common european cultural lanscape heritage |
| 2007 | - | Evaluación ambiental y propuesta de gestión de la zona de ragadío del Val de Lemos 👥 Rafael Crecente Maseda, Pablo Ramil Rego |
| 2007 | - | Cartografía en relación con montes vecinales en mano común |
| 2007 | - | Actividades de apoyo y asesoramiento en la formulación del Plan de Emergencia Municipal (PEMU) 👥 Rafael Crecente Maseda, Inés Santé Riveira, Jaime Caldeiro Pérez, David Miranda Barrós, Miguel Cordero Souto, Manuel Pérez Gómez |
| Type | Year | Lines | Title and Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publication | 2018 | - | Productivismo y abandono: dos caras de la transición forestal en Galicia (España), 1966-2009 👤 Eduardo José Corbelle Rico, José María Tubío Sánchez |
| Publication | 2018 | Spatial planning | Mercados de suelo informal en las fronteras urbano-rurales El caso de Loja 👤 Verónica Muñoz Sotomayor, José María Tubío Sánchez, Verónica Morales-Ramos |
| Congress | 2018 | - | Propiedad, tierra y valor: Nociones sobre gestión territorial 👤 José María Tubío Sánchez, David Miranda Barrós |
| Publication | 2018 | - | Effective natural handicap criteria application for productive and sustainable agricultural land-use management in Lithuania |
| Publication | 2018 | - | Land Use Changes in Iberian Peninsula 1990–2012 👤 David Fernández Nogueira, Eduardo Corbelle Rico |








