Spain

Latitude: 
40.00
Longitude: 
-4.00
Region Related Areas: 
Europe, Western Europe, Southern Europe
GeoNames ID: 
2 510 769

"Practising Nature: A Phenomenological Rethinking of Environmentality in Natural Protected Areas in Ecuador and Spain"

Examining three natural protected areas in Ecuador and Spain, Cortes-Vazquez and Ruiz-Ballesteros offer a more nuanced understanding of the connection between different regulatory regimes and the formation of environmental subjects, using a phenomenological approach that places more emphasis on the agency of the people subjected to conservation.

"Socio-Ecological Transformation from Rural into a Residential Landscape in the Matadepera Village (Barcelona Metropolitan Region), 1956-2008"

In this study the authors offer an analysis of the socio-ecological transformation of Matadepera, a wealthy suburb of metropolitan Barcelona that evolved out of a rural village inhabited by poor peasants who farmed rain-fed cropland and managed the forest.