Dr. Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras

Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras is trained in landscape ecology at the Universities of Aarhus and Helsinki, as well as in landscape planning and environmental sciences at UMH University, Spain. He has worked for several projects in the fields of landscape planning, nature conservation and international cooperation in the framework of the EU-LEADER programme (ADIMAN) and the foundation consultancy for environmental planning (Ecomimesis). After receiving his PhD in landscape ecology and ecosystem services at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, he has been working as a research associate and lecturer for landscape planning and nature conservation at the Institute for Environmental Planning in Hanover. In 2019 he joined the Göttingen section of Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems as a researcher to coordinate the work package "Framing inclusive conservation" within the ENVISION project.

In his research, Dr. Cebrián-Piqueras combines quantitative approaches from ecology (e.g. functional and process-based) and social ecology (e.g. participative methods) to explain human-environment relationships in the form of models (e.g. structural equation models). He examines human perceptions of landscapes, and how land use and environmental interactions predict biodiversity and vegetation-related ecosystem services in cultural and coastal landscapes. One of his foci is on site-specific and systemic approaches to improve nature conservation.

• Integration of the nature conservation and ecosystem services concept into landscape planning
• Sustainability of social-ecological systems and cultural landscapes
• Applied vegetation and landscape ecology for landscape planning
• Sustainable coastal land management: Trade-offs in vegetation-mediated ecosystem services (COMTESS project)

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