Amaia Albizua

Biography

"Amaia Albizua is graduated in Environmental Sciences at the University of Salamanca. She has a MSc on Soils and Water Management at ETSEA (Technical School of Agricultural Engineering) of University of Lerida with a grant of Obra Social ""la Caixa"". She carried out soils mapping in Arkaute Area, Salburua Wetland, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Alava), at scale E 1:6000 and made an analytic characterization of soils in an area where attenuation of nitrates are evidenced in the underground water and located in the line of circulation of underground flows. She has a MSc on Environmental Studies, specialty of Ecological Economics and Environmental Management at the University Autonomous of Barcelona. She developed a research study called: A values-based approach to vulnerability and adaptation to Climate Change. Applying Q Methodology in the Ebro Delta. It was developed under the EC 7th Framework Programme's within the project Climate Change, Hydro-conflicts and Human Security (CLICO). She has been working at Aialur, S.L. in Amurrio (Alava) doing Environmental Impacts Studies; at Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen (Scotland) as Biologist Assistant with a Leonardo grant given by Confebask; at Pagoa Consultores Ambientales in Vitoria-Gasteiz doing Environmental Education and Environmental Impact Studies and in UNESCO Cluster Office in Accra (Ghana) as Consultant with a grant of Basque Country Government and UNESCO Etxea, assisting in the implementation of the natural science activities relating to programs: Man and Biosphere (MAB), International Hydrology Programme (IHP), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), Basic Science Programme"

Research Interest

Soil and water management and their related policies within climate change adaptation processes