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Itxaso Ruiz

Rural adaptation efforts are key to effectively combatting the challenges posed by climate change. In the Mediterranean basin, this may be tackled through the implementation of Sustainable Land Management practices, which have a large capacity to effectively combat land degradation and desertification and are key to the overall strengthening of ecosystem services.

"Rural adaptation efforts are key to effectively combatting the challenges posed by climate change. In the Mediterranean basin, this may be tackled through the implementation of Sustainable Land Management practices, which have a large capacity to effectively combat land degradation and desertification and are key to the overall strengthening of ecosystem services."

Position:
Postdoctoral Researcher
Main Research Field:
Sustainable land management; Mediterranean; Adaptation; Rural and peri-urban
BC3 Research Line:
3. Research Line Terrestrial Ecosystems
Contact information:
Email address: itxaso.ruiz@bc3research.org
Contact phone: 94.401.46.90 Ext. 172
Scopus Author ID: 57207459360
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6250-3151

Short CV
Journal articles
Books & special editions
Book chapters
BC3 Working Papers & Policy Briefings

Short CV

Itxaso Ruiz graduated with a degree in Geological Sciences at the University of Barcelona and studied an international master in Marine Geosciences at the University of Bremen. She developed both her bachelor's and master's thesis in the field of paleoclimate (climate of the past) and got involved in several research projects at the University of Barcelona, the MARUM and AWI research centers, and the University of São Paulo.

For her PhD, she moved from developing paleoclimatic reconstructions to studying the present-day context of climate change in rural Mediterranean areas, under the PhD program “Quaternary: Environmental Change and Human Ecological Footprint” from the University of the Basque Country. During that time, she had the opportunity to collaborate on national and international projects of the UNCCD, FAO, and IHOBE organizations and the Nagaoka University of Technology.

Currently, she continues the work on integrated adaptation measures based on land management in rural areas. For this, she also explores the social and political frameworks where sustainable land management can be adopted, providing policy recommendations for effective implementation.

Journal Articles

2023
Pompeu, J., Ruiz, I., Ruano, A., Sanz, M.J. 2023. Sustainable land management for addressing soil conservation under climate change in Mediterranean landscapes: perspectives from the Mijares watershed. Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration. 8 (1) 41-54. DOI (10.1007/s41207-023-00355-5).
Ruiz, I., Pompeu, J., Ruano, A., Franco, P., Balbi, S., Sanz, M.J. 2023. Combined artificial intelligence, sustainable land management, and stakeholder engagement for integrated landscape management in Mediterranean watersheds. Environmental Science and Policy. 145. 217-227. DOI (10.1016/j.envsci.2023.04.011).
2022
Arto, I., Cazcarro, I., Garmendia, E., Ruiz, I., Sanz, M.J. 2022. A new accounting framework for assessing forest footprint of nations. Ecological Economics. 194. DOI (10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107337).
2020
Ruiz, I., Almagro, M., García de Jalón, S., Solà, M.d.M., Sanz, M.J. 2020. Assessment of sustainable land management practices in Mediterranean rural regions. Journal of Environmental Management. 276. DOI (10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111293).
Ruiz, I., Faria, S.H., Neumann, M.B. 2020. Climate change perception: Driving forces and their interactions. Environmental Science and Policy. 108. 112-120-120. DOI (10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.020).
Ruiz, I., Sanz-Sánchez, M.J. 2020. Effects of historical land-use change in the Mediterranean environment. Science of the Total Environment. 732. DOI (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139315).
2018
Ruiz, I., Pena, L. 2018. Neodymium and Strontium isotopes as source indicators for terrigenous sediments deposited in NE Brazil. Boletin Geologico y Minero. 129. (4) 633-646-646. DOI (10.21701/bolgeomin.129.4.003).

Books and Specials

2017
M.J. Sanz, J. de Vente, J.-L. Chotte, M. Bernoux, G. Kust, I. Ruiz, M. Almagro, J.-A. Alloza, R. Vallejo, V. Castillo, A. Hebel, and M. Akhtar-Schuster. 2017 Sustainable Land Management contribution to successful land-based climate change adaptation and mitigation. A Report of the Science-Policy Interface. Bonn, Germany. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). 178. ISBN 978-92-95110-96-0 .

Book chapters

2022
Itxaso Ruiz, María José Sanz. 2022 Sustainable Land Management for Rural Adaptation in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Watersheds. In: Springer, Cham. In: Climate Change in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region . Springer, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-78565-9.

BC3 Working Papers & Policy Briefings

2022
[PB2022-02] Gestión integrada del territorio en la cuenca del río Mijares Itxaso Ruiz, Antonio Ruano, João Pompeu and María J. Sanz
2021
[2021-01] Land use and land cover databases for Mediterranean landscape analysis at the watershed scale João Pompeu, Itxaso Ruiz, Antonio Ruano, Hugo Bendini and María José Sanz
2019
[PB 2019 – 02] Why sustainable land management? the case of the Mediterranean basin Ruiz,I., Sanz, M.J.
2017
[2017-02] Drivers of climate change opinion Itxaso Ruiz, Sérgio Henrique Faria and Marc B. Neumann