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STUDY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Department of Geography, Urban Studies and Land Planning- University of Cantabria (Spain)


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The research group STUDY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (GIMENA) from the University of Cantabria welcomes you to its website. Here you will find information on its main lines of research, projects, publications and other activities as well as links to download some of these materials.

 

GIMENA group focuses its work on the complex set of interactions that occur between the processes that shape the natural environment and the various types of human activities. Although included in the field of Social Sciences, the group is developing a cross-cutting work that exceeds the limits of classical academic disciplines and that is performed from both fundamental and applied aproaches.

 

The group has a long history in both basic (climatology, natural hazards, forest fires, environmental issues) and applied research (territorial planning, cooperation for development) endorsed by the participation in around fifty R&D national and international projets.

 

UNESCO codes: 2505 (250501, 250503, 250504, 250507), 5401 (540101, 540103)

 


RESEARCH RESOURCES

 

The group is integrated in the Department of Geography, Urban Studies and Land Planning of the University of Cantabria. It uses its own resources or those belonging to the Department or University. Among others, we can highlight the following:

 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY LABORATORY with the appropriate equipment to cover the common needs of the major fields of Physical Geography: geomorphology, sedimentology, biogeography, soils, meteorology and climatology.

 

MAPPING AND COMPUTER LABORATORY with the equipment needed to cover the standard job requirements in different fields of geography, data processing and production of documents (mapping, GIS, image processing and exploitation of climatic and hydrological data, etc.).

 

MAP LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND ORTOPHOTOS managed by the Department of Geography, Urban Studies and Land Planning. The available collection covers the entire Northern Peninsula and is the most comprehensive in the region.

 

PERIODICALS LIBRARY managed by the Department of Geography, Urban Studies and Land Planning of the University of Cantabria with more than a hundred titles of Spanish and international scientific journals specialized in Geography.

 

CONTACT

Grupo de Estudio y Gestión del Medio Natural (GIMENA)

Departamento de Geografía, Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio

Universidad de Cantabria

Avda de los Castros sn

39005 Santander- Spain

Office:

Phone: (+34) 942201770

Fax: (+34) 942201783


Development and
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of this website: Virginia Carracedo Martin (virginia.carracedo@unican.es)