Dr. Maria Piquer-Rodríguez
- Name
- Dr. Maria Piquer-Rodríguez
| Status | Researcher |  |
| maria.piquer-rodriguez@geo.hu-berlin.de | ||
| Office location | Rudower Chaussee 16, Room 2'218a | |
| Phone | +49 (0)30 2093-6870 | |
| Fax | +49 (0)30 2093-6848 | |
| Postal address | Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany |
About me
I am an environmental scientist by training but very much feeling as a land-use scientist with interests in geopolitics, socio-environmental conflicts in dynamic landscapes and sustainability.
I study the territorial divergences of trans-national eco-regions in South America and the socio-economic factors that may explain differences in their human-natural systems. I am also interested in understanding the forces of land-use change in agricultural frontiers and how economic, conservation, or zoning policies can influence them now or in the future.
I coordinate the GLP Working Group LASELS (Socio-Ecological Land Systems of Latin America) link
#socio-ecological land systems, #borders, #frontiers, #governance, #impacts, #trade-offs
Current Project
- Understanding differences in land systems and their social-ecological impacts within and across ecoregions in South America (website)
Curriculum Vitae
| 12/2019 - 11/2021 |
Geo.X Postdoctoral Researcher, Food for Justice Lab (LAI, FU Berlin) and Earth Observation Lab (HU Berlin) Germany |
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11/2017-10/2019 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Regional Ecology (National University Tucuman-CONICET) Argentina |
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04/2017-10/2017 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Conservation Biogeography Lab (HU Berlin) Germany |
| 05/2011-03/3017 | Doctoral Researcher, Conservation Biogeography Lab (HU Berlin) Germany |
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11/2010-04/2011 |
Research Assistant, Conservation Biogeography Lab (HU Berlin) Germany |
| 01/2008-11/2009 |
Spatial Analyst, Urban Research Center, Univ. Western Sydney, Australia |
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2004-2006 |
Msc. Geo-Information, Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
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1998-2003 |
Bachelor Environmental Sciences, University Almeria, Spain |
Selected Publications
M. Piquer-Rodriguez, M. Baumann, V. Butsic, H.I. Gasparri, G. Gavier-Pizarro, J.N. Volante, D. Muller, T. Kuemmerle. The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina. In: Land use policy, (79), pp. 57–67, 2018.
M. Piquer-Rodriguez, V. Butsic, P. Gartner, L. Macchi, M. Baumann, G. Pizarro Gavier, J. N. Volante, N. I. Gasparri, T. Kuemmerle. Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions. In: Applied Geography, (91), pp. 111–122, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.01.004
M. Piquer-Rodriguez, S. Torella, G. Gavier-Pizarro, J. Volante, D. Somma, R. Ginzburg, T. Kuemmerle. Effects of past and future land conversions on forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco. In: Landscape Ecology, (30), 5, pp. 817–833, 2015.
A full list of all publications is available at Research Gate