Igone Palacios-Agundez
IIgone Palacios-Agundez
Visiting scholar, Centre for Environmental Management, University of Nottingham
(September - December 2013)
Igone pursues her PhD linked to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in Biscay-Basque Country Sub-Global Assessment (Basque Country, northern Spain) at the Landscape, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability Research Group of the University of the Basque Country. She is working on scenario planning in Biscay province, on forest ecosystem services and on the territory dependence on outside the region ecosystems. She has graduated in Biology and has an MSc on Environment Agrobiology at the University of the Basque Country and another MSc on Environmental Management and Technology at the University of VIC, Barcelona. She has work in the private sector involved in environmental issues and also with NGOs promoting international cooperation for sustainability. Since 2008 she is responsible for the technical coordination of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in Biscay-Basque Country Sub-Global Assessment.
During her 3 months research stay at CEM she mapped the land uses/land covers for the year 2050 in each of the previously described Biscay scenarios, analyzed the main land use/land cover changes identifying the zones more likely to suffer changes and analyzed scenarios sustainability from the ecosystem services supply side by means of biocapacity and carbon storage and sequestration considering the high current ecosystem services demand.
Selected publications
Palacios-Agundez et al (2014). Integrating stakeholders' demands and scientific knowledge on ecosystem services in landscape planning. Landscape Ecology. [online]
Palacios-Agundez, I., Casado-Arzuaga, I., Madariaga I. & Onaindia M. (2013). The relevance of local participatory scenario planning for ecosystem management policies in the Basque Country, northern Spain. Ecology and Society 18(3): 7. [online]
Palacios-Agundez, I., Casado-Arzuaga, I., Rodríguez-Loinaz, G., Arana, X., Madariaga, I., Onaindia, M., 2013. Capitulo 32: Sistemas Socioecológicos de Bizkaia. En: Evaluación de los Ecosistemas del Milenio en España. [online]
Palacios, I., Casado-Arzuaga, I., Arana X. & Madariaga I. (2013). Millennium Ecosystem Assessment from the Basque country. Pages 19-33 In I. Ayestarán and M. Onaindia, editors. Sustainable development, ecological complexity and environmental values. Current Research Series 10, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, EEUU.
Martín-López, B., Iniesta-Arandia, I., García-Llorente, M., Palomo, I., Casado-Arzuaga, I., Garcia Del Olmo, D., Oteros-Rozas, E., Palacios-Agundez, I., Willaarts, B., González, J.A., Santos, F., Onaindia, M., Lopez-Santiago,C., Montes, C. (2012). Uncovering Ecosystem Service Bundles through Social Preferences. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38970. [online]
Casado-Arzuaga, I., Palacios-Agundez, I., Arana, X., Madariaga I. & Onaindia M. (2011-2012). Influencia de los factores socioeconómicos y culturales en la valoración de los servicios de los ecosistemas en el Cinturón Verde del Bilbao Metropolitano. Forum de Sostenibilidad 5: 73-91. [online
]Palacios, I. (2011). Los bosques del País Vasco y el cambio climático. Pages 23-33 in Hernando Bernal, Carlos Hugo Sierra, Miren Onaindia, Tirso A. González (Eds.). Bosques del mundo, cambio climático y amazonía. University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. [online]
Palacios, I., Casado-Arzuaga, I., Arana X. & Madariaga I. (2010). Escenarios de futuro en los socio-ecosistemas de Bizkaia en el marco de la Evaluación de los Ecosistemas del Milenio. Forum de Sostenibilidad 4: 47-64. [online]
Madariaga, I., Arana, X., Casado-Arzuaga, I. & Palacios I. (2010). Servicios de los ecosistemas del paisaje cultural de Bizkaia. Perspectiva histórica de la actividad forestal y minera. Forum de Sostenibilidad, 4: 33-46. [online]
Palacios, I., Casado-Arzuaga, I., Arana X., Madariaga I. & M. Onaindia. (2010). La Evaluación de los Ecosistemas del Milenio en Bizkaia: trabajando de lo local a lo global y viceversa. Pages 53-66 in N. Viota and M. Maraña editors. Servicios de los ecosistemas y bienestar humano. La contribución de la Evaluación de los Ecosistemas del Milenio. Ed. UNESCO Etxea, Bilbao, Spain. [online]
Madariaga, I., Arana, X., Casado-Arzuaga, I., Palacios-Agúndez, I.& Onaindia M. (2010). Evaluación de los Ecosistemas del Milenio en Bizkaia: Conocimiento compartido entre la comunidad científica, política, gestora y la sociedad civil. Pages 47-52 in N. Viota and M. Maraña editors. Servicios de los ecosistemas y bienestar humano. La contribución de la Evaluación de los Ecosistemas del Milenio. Ed. UNESCO Etxea, Bilbao, Spain.
Palacios, I., Casado-Arzuaga, I., Arana, X., Madariaga, I. & Onaindia M. (2010). Escenarios de futuro en Bizkaia. Sustrai, 93: 62-65.
Casado-Arzuaga, I., Palacios, I. & Onaindia, M. (2010). “El Cinturón Verde de Bilbao Metropolitano”. Sustrai, 91: 68-73.
Marcellesi, F. & Palacios, I. (2008). Integración de consideraciones de sostenibilidad en la cooperación para el desarrollo. Bilbao, Cuadernos Bakeaz, 88. [online]
Main projects
- Millennium Ecosystems Assessment in Biscay (2008-ongoing). County Council of Biscay.
- Millennium Ecosystems Assessment in the Basque Country (2011-ongoing). Basque Government.