Research team FNCA
Agustín Cuello
Agustín Cuello Gijón.Teacher, graduate in Educational Psychology, and Master in Environmental Education and Integrated River Management. PhD from the University of Seville. He has developed his professional work at the school and at the Cádiz Provincial Council, where he has retired as Head of the Environmental Education Service. He has worked in school teaching and teacher training. His technical work has focused on the design and development of environmental education equipment and the design and management of educational programs. He has also participated in land use projects, interpretive equipment, and environmental dissemination. He is the author of numerous articles and papers on science education, environmental education, and educational resource design. His investigative facet is carried out in the educational field; treatment of rivers, the landscape, the city and the territory as didactic resources.
Amparo Sereno
Amparo Sereno. Born in Mata de Alcántara (Cáceres), on January 28, 1972, since 2010 she has dual nationality (Spanish and Portuguese). She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Extremadura and, as an Erasmus student, she completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon where she presented her thesis on international waters, whose case study was the Spanish-Portuguese basins. Currently she is a professor at the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Lisbon (ISCAL) and a researcher at the Observatory of Foreign Relations (OBSERVARE) of the Autonomous University of Lisbon. In addition to her academic and teaching activities, she was an advisor to the Secretary of State for the Environment (Portugal) and a lawyer at the Holding Aguas de Portugal (AdP)
Ana Barreira
Ana Barreira. Law graduate (Complutense University, 1990). She holds two Master of Laws degrees: in Environmental Law from London University (1993) and in International Legal Studies from New York University (1996). She is founding member of the Spanish non-profit organization, IIDMA, where since its foundation she has mainly developed her professional activity in several fields of environmental law and policy. Since 2005 She is the attorney for Oceana Europe, an international NGO specialized in the protection of the marine environment. She has worked in projects related to environmental law and policy as well as on projects on legal drafting in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, México, Portugal, Republic of Montenegro, Republic of Serbia and Slovakia. She has participated in international negotiations. She has experience in water laws legal drafting, international river basins and in the WFD and the MSFD. She has participated in projects founded by the EU as Life+ and contracts awarded by the European Commission as one to analyse the transposition of the WFD into Spanish Law or the legal status of River Basin Management Plans under Spanish Law. She has coordinated teams up to 15 persons in projects funded by EC.
Ane Zabaleta
Ane Zabaleta works at the Geodynamics Department, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) and has a PhD in Sciences (2008) and Geology degree (2001) by the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. She is a researcher at the Hydrogeology and Environment Group at the UPV/EHU. She has developed her research activity mostly in the field of surface hydrology in catchments at different scales in the Basque Country, including suspended sediments dynamics and associated pollutants. She has taken part in research projects related to climate change focusing on trend analysis of observed data and hydrological modelling of future climatic and land use scenarios at catchment scale. The river-aquifer interaction in alluvial systems is one of its present research topics. Her research production has been published in international journals as Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Environmental Quality, Land Use Policy, Geomorphology or Catena.
Eva García
Eva Garcia-Balaguer. Geographer, graduated from the University of Barcelona (1987) and post-graduated from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in environmental and planning management (1987-1989) and local administration (IDHEAP, 1988). She has extensive experience in the field of planning and the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of public policies, team organization and public participation. She has held positions of responsibility: business management, coordination and project management. She has professional experience in matters related to the evaluation of Structural Funds and transversal policies of the European Union. She is member of the Experts Committee on the Evaluation of Rural Development Programs of the EU until 2008. She has also professional experience on Strategic planning, management of natural resources and design of program implementation in active participation of stakeholder in water and river domains. Foundress of the Evaluation Group of Policies (GAP, 1996) and subsequently Gap-Recursos (2001), a consulting office dedicated to provide consulting services relating to External evaluations and Planning and Monitoring Policies. She is currently part of the technical staff of the Environmental Resources Foundation (CRANA) and has responsibilities on the water area since June 2006.