Research Overview
My coupled human-natural systems research in Spain is oriented around the interaction between land use/cover change and wildfire. This research has concentrated on a study area in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, to the west of the city of Madrid.

With colleagues I have examined statistical methods to investigate human impacts on both land use/cover change (Millington et al. 2007) and wildfire risk (Romero-Calcerrada et al. 2008).

My PhD research resulted in the construction of a spatially-explicit simulation model that combined agent-based, vegetation state-and-transition, and cellular automata approaches to directly consider the interaction between human land management decision-making and landscape vegetation dynamics. Papers resulting from this research are 'in press' and in preparation.

Read blog posts on my PhD and related research