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Department of Geography, History and History of Art


RIBAS PALOM, Anna

University Lecturer
Member of the Water, Territory and Sustainability Research Group
Member of the Environment Institute
Member of the Chair of Geography and Territorial Thinking
Co-Editor of Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica

Sant Julià de Ramis, 1965. She holds a Doctorate in Human Geography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Girona. Head of the Environment and Geographic Information Technologies Research Group. Her research lines focus on the socio-territorial aspect of water and its management, with particular emphasis on the risk of flooding and the planning and evaluation of water-related spaces.
Further information at: http://web2.udg.edu/aigua 

Publications
  • Ribas, A. (2007). Les inundacions a Girona. Girona: Institut d’Estudis Gironins
  • Ribas, A., and Saurí, D. (2006). "De la geografía de los riesgos a las geografías de la vulnerabilidad", Nogué, J., i Romero, J. (eds.), Las otras geografías. València: Tirant lo blanc, pp. 285-300
  • Pavón, D., Ribas, A., Serra, P., Saurí, D., and Breton, F. (2003). "Land use change and socio-environmental conflict in the Alt Empordà country (Catalonia, Spain)", Journal of Arid Environments, 54, pp.543-552  
  • Ribas, A., and Saurí, D. (eds.) (2002). Canvis socioambientals a l’Alt Empordà (950-2000). Natura i cultura en l’evolució recent del paisatge altempordanès. Girona: Càtedra de Geografia i Pensament Territorial i Institut de Medi Ambient de la Universitat de Girona
  • Ventura, M.,  Ribas, A., and Saurí, D. (2002). "Dos discursos antagónicos a la gestión integral de los ríos: el río antropocéntrico versus el río ecocéntrico", Estudios Geográficos. CSIC, pp.119-141
  • Saurí, D., Roset, D., Ribas, A., and Pujol, P. (2001). "The 'escalator effect' in flood policy: the case of the Costa Brava, Catalonia, Spain", Applied Geography,  21, pp.127-143
  • Saurí, D., Ribas, A., Breton, F., Llurdés, J. C., and Romagosa, F. (2000). "The Ecological Values of traditional Land Use in Low-lying Coastal Environments: The Example of the Aiguamolls de L´Empordà, Costa Brava", Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 43 (2), pp.277-290
Contact details
E-mail: anna.ribas@udg.edu
Office: 2nd floor
Tel: 972 41 87 17

Courses taught
Environmental Risks
Territory and Environmental Planning
Water, Society and Territory
Tools and Instruments for the Management of Water Resources.
Complex Systems, Public Policies and Environment