SiCC MEMBERS
Luis del Romero Renau (Ph.D) Coordinator
Department of Geography, University of Valencia
Assistant Professor
Ph.D at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2008)
Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia (2010)
Visiting professor and researcher at the Laval University and Quebec University in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and Freiburg University (Germany).
Research interests:
- Environmental, urban and social conflicts in cities and metropolitan areas
- Metropolitan governance
- Rural crisis and depopulation
- Study of Shrinking regions
- Water governance and conflicts related to water
- Environmental Assessment
Last publications:
Del Romero, L. ,2012, Cohesión y exclusión social en la ciudad . In Sorribes, J. (Ed.): La ciudad. Economía, espacio, sociedad y medio ambiente . Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
Del Romero, L. ,2012, Ciudadanía, malestar urbano y derecho a la ciudad. In Sorribes, J. (Ed.): La ciudad. Economía, espacio, sociedad y medio ambiente . Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
Del Romero, L. ,2012, Ecología urbana. In Sorribes, J. (Ed.): La ciudad. Economía, espacio, sociedad y medio ambiente . Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
Del Romero, L. and Trudelle, C., 2012, Le Conte de deux cités : Analyse comparative des conflits urbains de Montréal et Valence, 1995–2010. Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien. Vol 56, pp.58-79
Del Romero, L. and Trudelle, C., 2011,Mega -Events and urban conflicts in Valencia, Spain: Contesting the new urban modernity. Urban Studies Review, Vol 1, 2011.
Antonio Valera Lozano (Ph.D)
Instituto Interuniversitario de Desarrollo Local.
University of Valencia
Research fellow from the Spanish National
Research Council (CSIC). Master's degree in Soil
Science and Agricultural Chemistry in 2005. Ph.D. degree from the University of
Valencia in 2011. Antonio has 10 years of experience in GIS analysis in the
Land Planning Department of the Desertification Research Center – CIDE
(CSIC-UV-GV). Relevant experience in: detection and analysis of land use-cover
changes, soil sampling and mapping, design and application of environmental
indicators, identification and location of urban conflicts.
Research interests:
- Urban conflicts
- Land
use/cover changes
- Urbanization and land degradation
- Environmental planning
- Environmental
and urban GIS.
Last publications:
Del Romero, L. & Valera, A. (2012). Unmapped
spaces: the challenges of spatial planning in abandoned spaces in Teruel
province, Spain. CEDDAR. Book in press.
Valera, A., Añó & Sánchez, J. (2012). Half
a century (1956-2005) of urban growth and soil loss in the Spanish
Mediterranean coastal area: the metropolitan area of Alacant-Elx. Documents d’Anàlisi Geografica, article in press.
Valera, A. (2011): Land use-cover dynamics and environmental sustainability in the
metropolitan areas of the Comunitat Valenciana (Spain). Ph D. Thesis.
Faculty of Biologics, University of València.
Valera, A.; Añó, C. & Sánchez, J. (2011). Urban
growth (1956-2006) and soil degradation by soil sealing in the municipality of
Valencia. Anales de Geografía de la
Universidad Complutense. 31 (2): 177-191.
Josep Sorribes i Monrabal (Ph.D.)
Instituto Interuniversitario de Desarrollo Local and Department of Applied Economics (University of Valencia)
Professor
Coordinator of the Aula i Ciutat research group
Director of the European Documentation Center of the University of Valencia.
Research interests:
- Regional and urban economy
- Metropolitan areas
- Local administration
- Valencia and its metropolitan region
Last publications:
Sorribes, J., 2012, (Ed.): La ciudad. Economía, espacio, sociedad y medio ambiente . Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
Sorribes, J., 2011, (Dir.): València, una ciutat manifestament millorable. Valencia: Els llibres del temps
Sorribes, J. and Rausell, P., 2011,: ¿Compite Valencia?. IIDL: Valencia.
Josep Sorribes i Monrabal (Ph.D.)
Instituto Interuniversitario de Desarrollo Local and Department of Applied Economics (University of Valencia)
Professor
Coordinator of the Aula i Ciutat research group
Director of the European Documentation Center of the University of Valencia.
Research interests:
- Regional and urban economy
- Metropolitan areas
- Local administration
- Valencia and its metropolitan region
Last publications:
Sorribes, J., 2012, (Ed.): La ciudad. Economía, espacio, sociedad y medio ambiente . Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
Sorribes, J., 2011, (Dir.): València, una ciutat manifestament millorable. Valencia: Els llibres del temps
Sorribes, J. and Rausell, P., 2011,: ¿Compite Valencia?. IIDL: Valencia.
Catherine Trudelle (Ph.D)
Département de géographie
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Professor
Coordinator of the Canada Research Chair in Socioterritorial Conflicts and Local Governance
Professor and researcher at the Département de géographie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal
(UQAM) and Fulbright Fellow. Ph.D. in Spatial Planning and Regional development of the Laval University.
Research interests:
- Conflict activity in the city
- Protest movements
- Problems of Spatial Planning
- Social movements
- Quantitative methods in geography
Last publications:
Last publications:
Del Romero, L. and Trudelle, C., 2012, Le Conte de deux cités : Analyse comparative des conflits urbains de Montréal et Valence, 1995–2010. Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien. Vol 56, pp.58-79
Del Romero, L. and Trudelle, C., 2011,Mega -Events and urban conflicts in Valencia, Spain: Contesting the new urban modernity. Urban Studies Review, Vol 1, 2011.
Quintal, Magalie et TRUDELLE, Catherine (Accepté). Les associations
locales dans la vallée du Ziz (Maroc) : vers une nouvelle
gouvernance territoriale. Économie Rurale : Agricultures, Alimentations et Territoires (http://economierurale.revues.org/).
Mathieu Pelletier (Ph.D.)
Postdoctoral Researcher (INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Société, Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Coordinator of the Observatoire de Conflits Urbains et Périurbains
Research interests:
- Urban dynamics
- Urban conflicts
- Sociospatial statistical analysis
- Decission processes in urban and spatial planning
Last publications:
PELLETIER, Mathieu, JOERIN, Florent and VILLENEUVE, Paul (Submitted, 2011,)
Effect of local contexts on the dynamics of conflict activity. Cybergeo.
PELLETIER, Mathieu et JOERIN, Florent (2011). L’analyse spatiale:
pour une meilleure compréhension des conflits urbains. In O. Walser, T.
Laurent, F. Joerin, M. Schuler, S. Joost, B. Debarbieux et H. Dao. Les SIG au service du développement territorial. Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, Suisse.
External collaborators
Joan Carles Martori i Cañas (Ph.D.)
Professor, Departament d'Economia i Empresa
Universitat de Vic
Research interests:
- Migrant and residential segregation
- Quantitative methods of spatial segregation
- Urban GIS and geo-statistics
Jacobo Abellán Bordallo (Doctoral student)
Ph.D. student, Autonomous University of Madrid. Master in Political Science, University of Valencia
Research interests:
- Protest movements
- Urban protests
- Grassroot movements
Students
Sergio Arturo Hernández Miranda, Student at the Master in Local Development (IIDL)