Diana Pascual Sánchez

Biography

"I am Forest Engineering by the University of Lleida (2005). My work experience started in the field of engineering and consultancy, developing hydrological, floodability and impact assessment studies, and also as consultant to the Water Catalan Agency in the Plan for the maintenance and improvement of rivers and in the Plans for rivers areas. Since 2009 I have worked as a technician in CREAF, assessing the effects of global change on water availability and forest ecosystems. I have been co-coordinator in the project Adaptations to climatic change in water use (ACCUA) and worked at the European project CLICO (FP7), evaluating the relationship between climatic change, human security and water conflicts. Nowadays, I am involved in FP7 BeWater project and share the technical coordination of LIFE MEDACC project (Adapting the Mediterranean to climate change), where we are tuning eco-hydrological and forest models to assess climate and global change impacts on water and forests at basin level, and testing different forest management models at forest pilot plots."

Research Interest

"Global change, Integral water management Global change, modelización hidrológica, Water in terrestrial ecosystems Evaluation of territorial vulnerabilities to global change, Adaptation strategies design, Application of geographic information systems (GIS)"