Dr. Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras
Curriculum Vitae
Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras (Dr. rer. nat.) is trained in landscape ecology (Aarhus and Helsinki universities), landscape planning and environmental sciences (UMH University, Spain). During last years, he has combined quantitative approaches coming from ecology (e.g. functional and process-based) and social-ecology (e.g. participatory methods) to explain human-nature relationships in the form of predictive and explanatory models (e.g. structural equation models). He has focused on how land use and environment interactions predict variation on biodiversity and vegetation-mediated ecosystem services in cultural and coastal landscapes and, how people values and perceptions relate to the landscape. He has a growing interest in the use of place-based approaches to explain social-ecological systems for improvement of all forms of nature conservation.Outside academia, he has worked for several landscape planning, nature conservation and international cooperation projects within EU-LEADER program (ADIMAN) and environmental planning start-up consultancy (Ecomimesis). He obtained his PhD in Oldenburg University (Germany) in landscape ecology and ecosystem services and he collaborates, since 2016, as research fellow and lecturer in landscape planning and nature conservation in the Institute for Environmental Planning of Hanover. In 2019, he joined, as researcher, the chair of social-ecological interactions in agricultural systems in Göttingen to coordinate the work package about “Framing inclusive conservation” within the ENVISION project.
Research Specialisations
- Integration of nature conservation and ecosystem service approach for landscape planning
- Sustainability of socio-ecological systems and cultural landscapes
- Applied vegetation- and landscape-ecology for the landscape planning
- Sustainable Coastal Land Management: Trade-offs in vegetation-mediated Ecosystem Services (COMTESS-project)
Miguel currently coordinates a work package about “Framing Inclusive Conservation” within the project ERA-Net Horizon 2020 funded project ENVISION: “An inclusive approach to assessing integrative scenarios and visions for protected area management”. Find more here: https://inclusive-conservation.org/