Amaia Albizua

Amaia Albizua is a PhD candidate in the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals” (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Graduated in Environmental Sciences at the University of Salamanca. She has a MSc on Soils and Water Management at ETSEA (Technical School of Agricultural Engineering) of University of Lerida with a grant of Obra Social "la Caixa" and a MSc on Environmental Studies, specialty of Ecological Economics and Environmental Management at the University Autonomous of Barcelona. Experience in consultancy doing Environmental Impacts Studies and Environmental Education; at Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen (Scotland) as Biologist Assistant ; and in UNESCO Cluster Office in Accra (Ghana) as Consultant assisting in the implementation of the natural science activities relating to programs: Man and Biosphere (MAB), International Hydrology. Started in November 2011, her doctoral research focuses on the trade-offs of agrarian intensification on agrarian soil ecosystem services and human well-being with a focus on social perception and valuation of agrarian ecosystem services, social vulnerability to multiple stressors faced by rural livelihoods and the institutional role on shaping this vulnerability with a case study in Itoiz-Canal de Navarra. Her research interest includes political ecology (environmental justices regarding land and water dispossession), soil ecology, rural-metabolism, adaptation policy and participant research.