June 1, 2020

Effects of historical land use change on the Mediterranean environment

BC3 researchers Itxaso Ruiz and María José Sanz, published in the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment, the effects of local land use practices (present and past) in the Mediterranean Basin have contributed to intensify desertification, landscape degradation, loss of biodiversity and climate change, among others.
June 1, 2020

BC3 article: Effects of historical land-use change in the Mediterranean environment

During the Holocene (last ~11,700 years), societies have continuously modified the landscape of the Mediterranean Basin through changes in land-use, exerting extraordinary pressures onto the environment and adding variability to the climate. Despite its importance to current land management, knowledge of how past land-use practices have impacted the regional climate of the Basin remains largely in the scientific sphere.
May 28, 2020

The International Spring University rescheduled to May 2021

The ARIES team regrets to announce that due to the global crisis deriving from the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) International Spring University (ISU) on Ecosystem Services Modelling will not be able to take place and have been postponed until May 2021.
May 26, 2020

Voces del Cambio: Coronavirus y Cambio Climático, ¿qué tienen en común?

María José Sanz, directora científica de BC3, participa en el tercer episodio de "Voces de Cambio" de la revista Retema sobre el coronavirus y el cambio climático
May 22, 2020

“Eta orain, zer”: La gestión de la emergencia climática

María José Sanz, junto a Antxon Allabe y Fernando Valladares, han reflexionado sobre la gestión de la emergencia climática en la jornada "eta orain, zer"

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