Environmental crisis and rural transformations

This line of research seeks to examine how environmental crises, such as climate change, soil degradation, or biodiversity loss, affect rural communities and their ways of life.

Additionally, it analyzes the responses of these communities to these crises, as well as the ways in which they adapt to and resist environmental changes.
Research in this field aims to understand the complex interactions between environmental, economic, social, and cultural dynamics in rural contexts, providing an integrated view of the relationship between environmental crisis and the transformation of rural life.

The following members of CRITS conduct research within this line of inquiry:

• Oriol Beltran: conservation anthropology
• Camila del Mármol: political ecology and rural change
• Ferran Estrada: transhumance and natural heritage
• Raúl Márquez: regulation of access to natural resources
• Irene Sabaté: social movements
• Cristina Larrea: environmental crisis and health
• Diana Mata: rural mobilities
• Ismael Vaccaro: political ecology
• Xavier Roigé: ethnological heritage and museology

Projects framed within this line of research:

Rural Resistances: socio-ecological crisis, territorial development, and alternative futures in the Pyrenees (RERURP). PI: Camila del Mármol and Federica Ravera. Research team: Oriol Beltran, Ferran Estrada, and Ismael Vaccaro.

Prometheus: Summer solstice fire festivals in the Pyrenees (PROMETHEUS). PI: Xavier Roigé and Sofia Isús. Research team: Mireia Guil.