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Collaboration with GREENSEED to promote entrepreneurship and the bioeconomy in rural areas
The initiative aims to identify the main entry barriers, needs and success stories that may serve as inspiration for the design of future tools to support entrepreneurship and the bioeconomy…
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…
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 |
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| - | - | GuĂa de estudos da paisaxe urbana |
| Type | Year | Lines | Title and Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publication | 2025 | - | O relevo xeracional no sector agrario galego; retos e oportunidades 👤 Edelmiro López Iglesias, Francisco José Ónega López |
| Congress | 2025 | - | Diseño de un sistema de ayuda a la decisiĂłn para la aplicaciĂłn de polĂticas de gestiĂłn de tierras en Galicia 👤 Fernández-Villar, Guillermina, Ferreira Golpe, M., Guimarey Fernández, B., GarcĂa-Arias, A.I., Lopez-Iglesias, E., PĂ©rez-Fra, M. M., Corbelle, E. |
| Congress | 2025 | Action-research | A Decision Support System for the implementation of land management policies. Application to the new 'model settlements' in Galicia, NW Spain |
| Publication | 2025 | Land management | Informe anual sobre prezos e mobilidade da terra rĂşstica en Galicia 2024 |
| Congress | 2025 | - | Women New Entrants’ realities, motivations and perspectives towards farming entry: the case of Galician (Spain) agricultural sector 👤 Fernández Villar, Guillermina, Perez-Fra, Mar, Vázquez-Castro, Dolores, Corbelle Rico, Eduardo |