![]() Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination. After joining with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the confederation of the Crown of Aragon, Barcelona, which continued to be the capital of the Principality of Catalonia, became the most important city in the Crown of Aragon and the main economic and administrative centre of the Crown, only to be overtaken by Valencia, wrested from Arab domination by the Catalans, shortly before the dynastic union between the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1492. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres (1,680 feet) high.įounded as a Roman city, in the Middle Ages Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid, and Milan. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. ![]() Key wordsīiocultural diversity Conservation Global change Ethnoecology Local ecological knowledge local indicators climate change.Barcelona ( / ˌ b ɑːr s ə ˈ l oʊ n ə/ BAR-sə- LOH-nə, Catalan:, Spanish: ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. My current areas of research include 1) local indicators of climate change impacts, 2) public participation in the documentation of local knowledge, 3) the adaptive nature of local environmental knowledge, 4) Indigenous peoples and cultural change, and 5) local participation in biodiversity conservation. ![]() ![]() My research draws on insights from anthropology and the behavioural sciences to work at multiple levels- from the views of villagers in developing nations to those of policy-makers in industrial nations. I use a multidisciplinary perspective (working with ecologists, economists, psychologists, agronomists, archaeologists, and computer scientists) and empirical data to analyse 1) the effects of global change on rural livelihoods and local environments and 2) social responses to environmental changes. My research encompasses the interdisciplinary study of the dynamic relations among peoples, biota, and environments. She is elected member of the National Academy of Science of the United States (2021). She is co-author the Global Report of the Intergovernmental Science and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Her current ERC-funded project (LICCI) studies local perceptions of climate change impacts. She directs the Laboratory of Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems in a Global World, a research group that analyzes the impacts of global change on various socio-ecosystems. Her research focuses on Indigenous and local knowledge systems, particularly in relation to the natural environment, and on the relevance of these knowledge systems to understand and deal with the climate and environmental crises. Victoria Reyes-García (PhD in Anthropology, 2001, Florida University) is ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA) de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB).
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