Dr. Maria Garcia Martin

Function

Postdoc

Land Change Science

Land-use systems

Contact

maria.garcia-martin(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

Birmensdorf Bi HV E 11

WEITERFÜHRENDE INFORMATIONEN

Projekte

Noise and Greenspaces

Can people in urban regions recover from stress in green spaces or is there too much noise? Researchers from WSL and Empa explore the audio-visual requirements green spaces have to meet to enable noise-exposed people to recover from stress.

Publikationen

Wissenschaftliche Artikel Peer-reviewt

Fagerholm, N., Garcia-Martin, M., Torralba, M., Bieling, C. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Public participation geographical information systems (PPGIS): Participatory research methods for sustainability ‐ toolkit #1. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives on Science and Society 31(1):46-48, https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.31.1.1

Torralba, M.*, Garcia-Martin, M.*(shared first co-authorship), Bieling, C. & Plieninger, T. (2022). Participatory research methods for sustainability. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives on Science and Society 31(1):1-1, https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.31.1.1

Guo, T., García-Martín, M. & Plieninger, T. (2021). Recognizing indigenous farming practices for sustainability: a narrative analysis of key elements and drivers in a Chinese dryland terrace system. Ecosystems and People. 17:1, 279-291, https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.1930169

García-Martín, M., Torralba, C., Quintas-Soriano, C., Kahl, J. & Plieninger, T. (2021). Linking food systems and landscape sustainability in the Mediterranean region. Landscape Ecology 36: 2259–2275.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01168-5

García-Martín, M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Torralba, C., Wolpert, F. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Landscape change in Europe. In Tomas Weith (Ed) Sustainable Land Management in an European Context: A Co-designed Approach. Springer ISBN 978-3-030-50841-8

Hewitt, R.J., Pera, F.A., García-Martín, M., Gaudry-Sada, K.H., Hernández-Jiménez, V. & Bieling C. (2020). Mapping Adolescents’ Sense of Place and Perceptions of Change in an Urban–Rural Transition Area. Environmental Management 65: 334–354. doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01249-5

Fagerholm, N., Martín-López, B., Torralba, M., Oteros-Rozas, E., Lechner, AM., Bieling, C., Stahl Olafsson, A., Albert, C., Raymond, CM., Garcia-Martin, M., Gulsrud, N. & Plieninger, T. (2020). Perceived contributions of multifunctional landscapes to human well‐being: Evidence from 13 European sites. People and Nature 2(1): 217-234. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10067. Contribution: study design, data analysis and writing.

Hanspach, J., Haider, J., Oteros-Rozas, E., Stahl Olafsson, A., Gulsrud, N., Raymond, C.M., Torralba, M., Martín-López, B., Bieling, C., García-Martín, M., Albert, C., Beery, TH., Fagerholm, N., Díaz-Reviriego, I., Drews-Shambroom, A. & Plieninger T. (2020). Biocultural approaches to sustainability: A systematic review of the scientific literature. People Nat. 2: 643– 659. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10120Biocultural.

Torralba, M., García-Martín, M., Quintas-Soriano, C., Wolpert, F. & Plieninger, T. (2019). Implementation of social-ecological management approaches in biosphere reserves in the Mediterranean Basin. In Reed, M.G. and Price, M.F. (Eds) UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. Supporting Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability and Society. Routledge, London. Chapter 22, 16 pages. DOI doi.org/10.4324/9780429428746 / eBook ISBN 9780429428746

García-Martín, M., Plieninger, T. & Bieling, C. (2018). Dimensions of landscape stewardship across Europe: landscape values, place attachment, awareness, and self-responsibility. Sustainability 10(1): 263. doi.org/10.3390/su10010263

Kizos, T., Plieninger, T., Iosifides, T., García-Martín, M., Girod, G., Karro, K., Palang, H., Printsmann, A., Shaw, B., Nagy & J., Budniok, M.A. (2018). Responding to landscape change: stakeholder participation and social capital in five European landscapes. Land 7(1): 14. doi.org/10.3390/land7010014

Mann, C., García Martín, M., Raymond, C.M., Shaw, B.J. & Plieninger, T. (2018). The potential for integrated landscape management to fulfil Europe’s commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals. Landscape and Urban Planning 177: 75-82. doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.04.017

Bürgi, M., Bieling, C., Hackwitz, K., Kizos, T., Lieskovský, J., García-Martín, M., McCarthy, S., Müller, M., Palang, H., Plieninger, T. & Printsmann, A. (2017). Processes and driving forces in changing cultural landscapes across Europe. Landscape Ecology 32(11): 2097–2112. doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0513-z

Garcia-Martin, M., Fagerholm, N., Bieling, C., Gounaridis, D., Kizos, T., Printsmann, A., Müller, M., Lieskovský, J. & Plieninger, T. (2017). Participatory mapping of landscape values in a Pan-European perspective. Landscape Ecology 32: 2133-2150. doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0531-x

Shaw, B., Draux, H., Martin, J., García-Martín, M. & Bieling, C., (2017). Contributions of citizen science to landscape democracy: Potentials and challenges of current approaches. Landscape Research 42(8): 831-844. doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2017.1385750

García-Martín, M., Bieling, C., Hart, A. & Plieninger, T. (2016). Integrated landscape initiatives in Europe: Multi-sector collaboration in multi-functional landscapes. Land Use Policy 58: 43-53. doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.07.001

Background and Research Interests

My background is in human geography and I identify myself as a landscape sustainability scientist. I am interested in the broad field of human-landscape interactions with a focus on societal transitions towards landscape sustainability. To this aim I conduct transdisciplinary and participatory research both at a place-based and at a European level.

My three main lines of research focus on:

Integrated landscape management approaches
The interactions between people and their local landscapes and how this connects to their wellbeing and to cultivating landscape stewardship
Combining food systems and landscape research to identify pathways towards agricultural sustainability

At the WSL I am currently collaborating on the SNF funded projects:

- Restorative potential of green spaces in noise-polluted environments - RESTORE

- What is Sustainable Intensification? Operationalizing Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Pathways in Europe - SIPATH.