Francisco Javier
Martínez Vega
Redes sociales
I have been a geographer and scientific researcher for the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) since 1989. I am the head of the research group Multiscale Geographic Analysis of Global Change (https://iegd.csic.es/es/org-structure/analisis-geografico-multiescalar-cambio-global), which has just renewed its seal of excellence in the last external evaluation of CSIC groups. I am a Spectro-radiometry and Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, SpecLab member (https://iegd.csic.es/es/laboratorios-iegd).
My scientific interest is articulated around 4 lines of research using Geographic Information Technologies. My main line of research is the study of the effectiveness and sustainability of terrestrial, coastal, and marine protected areas and their environments, considering a transversal approach that considers the environmental, economic, social, and governance dimensions.
The analysis of land use and land cover is my permanent and transversal line of research, focused on land use mapping, change detection, and simulation of future scenarios. I analyze the ecological and socioeconomic impacts caused by land use changes that have occurred and are expected in the future.
In the line of forest fires, I have analyzed the human risk of occurrence, I have assessed the landscape in the context of ecological vulnerability, and I have collaborated in the study of the impact of land use changes that occurred and are expected to occur on the probability of occurrence of forest fires.
Finally, I am interested in sustainability assessment. At the local level, I have led the design and implementation of Agenda 21 in several counties in the province of Cuenca, both in the scientific phase of environmental audit and in the participatory phase of development of local action plans. At the European level, I worked in the SUSTAINMED project.
I was an associate professor in the Geography Department of the University of Alcalá between 1989 and 2000. I was vice-president of the Spanish Association of Remote Sensing and the Geographic Information Technologies group (Spanish Association of Geographers) president.
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Martínez-Vega, J. 2022. Effectiveness of Protected Areas in Conserving Biodiversity: A Worldwide Review. Strategies for Sustainability. Springer, Cham. 128 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94297-7
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Martínez-Vega, J. 2019. Sostenibilidad y áreas protegidas en España. Naturaleza, población y economía. CSIC-Los libros de la Catarata. Colección Divulgación nº 29. https://editorial.csic.es/publicaciones/libros/13264/0/sostenibilidad-y-areas-protegidas-en-espana-natura.html
Navas González, A., Hewitt, R.J., Martínez-Vega, J. 2024. Green Infrastructure Mapping in Almeria Province (Spain) Using Geographical Information Systems and Multi-Criteria Evaluation. Land 13(11), 1916. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13111916
Martínez-Vega, J, Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D. 2022. Protected Area Effectiveness in the Scientific Literature: A Decade-Long Bibliometric Analysis. Land 11(6), 924. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060924
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Martínez-Vega J. 2022. Ecological effectiveness of marine protected areas across the globe in the scientific literature. In: C. Sheppard (Ed.) Advances in Marine Biology 92, Academic Press, chapter 3: 129-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2022.07.002
Martínez-Vega. J., Mili, S., Gallardo, M. 2022. Modelling Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Mediterranean Agricultural Ecosystems. In: G. Vlontzos, Y. Ampatzidis, B. Manos, P.M. Pardalos (Eds.) Modeling for Sustainable Management in Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Routledge-CRC Press, pp. 40-73. ISBN 9780367186678. https://doi.org/10.1201%2F9780429197529-3
Vilar, L., Herrera, S., Tafur-García, E., Yebra, M., Martínez-Vega, J., Echavarría, P., Martín, M.P. 2021. Modelling wildfire occurrence at regional scale from Land Use/Cover and climate change scenarios. Environmental Modelling & Software 145: 105200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105200
Salvo Tierra, A.E., Pereña Ortiz, J., Cortes-Molino, A., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Martínez-Vega, J. 2020. Modelo de evaluación de la efectividad, continuidad y conectividad del sistema de áreas protegidas costeras mediante el análisis de su flora y vegetación. Botanica Complutensis 44:73-95. https://doi.org/10.5209/bocm.73021
Martínez-Vega, J, Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Fernández-Latorre, F.M., Ibarra, P., Echeverría, M., Echavarría, P. 2020. Proposal of a System for Assessment of the Sustainability of Municipalities (SASMU) Included in the Spanish Network of National Parks and Their Surroundings. Geosciences 2020, 10: 298; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10080298
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Sebastiao, J., Salvo Tierra, A.E., Martínez-Vega J. 2019. Effect of protected areas in reducing land development across geographic and climate conditions of a rapidly developing country, Spain. Land Degradation & Development 2019: 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3286
Vilar, L., Garrido, J., Echavarría, P., Martínez-Vega, J., Martín M. P. 2019. Comparative analysis of CORINE and climate change initiative land cover maps in Europe: Implications for wildfire occurrence estimation at regional and local scales. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 78: 102-117 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2019.01.019
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Martínez-Vega J. 2019. Analysing subtle threats to conservation: A nineteen-year assessment of fragmentation and isolation of Spanish protected areas. Landscape and Urban Planning 185: 107–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.01.012
Mili, S., Martínez-Vega J. 2019. Accounting for Regional Heterogeneity of Agricultural Sustainability in Spain. Sustainability 2019, 11(2): 299; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020299
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Ibarra, P., Echeverría, M., Martínez-Vega, J. 2019. Perceptions, attitudes and values of two key stakeholders on the oldest and newest Spanish national parks. Environment, Development and Sustainability 21(2): 1053-1073 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-017-0051-5
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, D., Martínez-Vega J., Echavarría, P. 2019. A twenty year GIS-based assessment of environmental sustainability of land use changes in and around protected areas of a fast developing country: Spain. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 74: 169–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.08.006
FUTUREGREEN: Simulation and detection of future land use and land cover changes in degraded areas for national Green Infrastructure. PID2023-152776OB-C21. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Sept 2024-Dic 2027) PI: Javier Martínez-Vega. 72.375 €
Itinerarios CICERÓN Adaptation of cities to climate change - the role of urban and peri-urban natural areas. CSIC, Fundación General CSIC (Nov 2023-Apr 2024). IP: Richard J. Hewitt and Paola Ovando. 9.000 €. https://www.cchs.csic.es/es/event/itinerarios-ciceron-coloquio-ciceron-csic-adaptacion-ciudades-cambio-climatico
Pai-ST: Landscapes of the future in Soria and Teruel provinces. 2023-PUNED-0014. UNED. (Jul 2023-Jul 2024). PI: Marta Gallardo. 9.700 €
LUC4FIRE: Estimating forest fire occurrence under land cover/use change scenarios CSO2015-73407-JIN. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Feb. 2017- Ene 2020). PI: Lara Vilar. 115.000 €. http://proyectos.cchs.csic.es/luc4fire/project_overview
SOSTPARK: Analysis of the sustainability of protected areas in Spain. Implications for the integral sustainability of the territory CSO2014-54611-JIN. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Oct 2015-Oct 2018). PI: David Rodríguez Rodríguez. 160.000 €. http://proyectos.cchs.csic.es/sostpark/inicio
DISESGLOB: Design of a methodology for monitoring and evaluating the overall sustainability of National Parks and the influence on predicted land use-land cover changes CSO2013-42421-P. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. (Ene 2014-Jun 2017). PI: Javier Martínez-Vega. 25.410 €. http://proyectos.cchs.csic.es/disesglob/
RESEARCH CONTRACT: Comparative study on agricultural guidance legislation and rural development. Ref. 1998380, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (Dirección General de Desarrollo Rural), 36.060 € (Jun-Nov 1998). PI: Javier Martínez-Vega
RESULTADO: Law 45/2007, of December 13, 2007, for the sustainable development of the rural environment https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2007-21493 and Royal Decree 1336/2011, of October 3, 2011, which regulates the territorial contract as an instrument to promote the sustainable development of the rural environment https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2011-15567. This territorial contract is a variant of the “Territorial Agreements” (article 4 of our Draft Bill), basic instruments for rural development.
RESEARCH CONTRACT: Proposal for elaboration of the Natural Resources Management Plan for the “Carrizales y Sotos de Aranjuez” SPA. Ref. 2000817, Comunidad de Madrid, 24.040 €, (Sept-Dic 2000), PI: Javier Martínez-Vega
RESULT: definitive management instrument: the Management Plan (Decree 104/2014, of September 3, of the Governing Council) declaring the Site of Community Importance “Vegas, Cuestas y Páramos del Sureste de Madrid" a Special Area of Conservation and approving its Management Plan and that of the “Carrizales y Sotos de Aranjuez” y “Cortados y Cantiles de los ríos Jarama y Manzanares” SPAs. Confronting: http://www.comunidad.madrid/servicios/urbanismo-medio-ambiente/espacios-protegidos-red-natura-2000
RESEARCH CONTRACT: Study and Cartography of the Preserved Mountains of the Madrid Region. Ref. 2001245, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación del Territorio (Comunidad de Madrid), 75.126 €, Apr-Nov 2001, PI: Javier Martínez-Vega
RESULT: The resulting map (scale 1:5,000) is part of the Cartographic Annex of Law 16/1995, of May 4, 1995, Forestry and Nature Protection of the Madrid Region. https://idem.comunidad.madrid/catalogocartografia/srv/spa/catalog.search#/metadata/spacm_mpreser
Currently, this cartographic product can be downloaded from the cartography catalog Madrid Region:
RESEARCH CONTRACT: Delimitation of Sites of Community Importance (SCIs) in the Community of Madrid. Ref. y 2002x979. Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación del Territorio (Comunidad de Madrid), 72.070 €, Nov 2002-Nov 2003, PI: Javier Martínez-Vega
RESULT: The resulting map (scale 1:5,000) is used by the managers of the Community of Madrid for planning and management tasks of these protected areas, belonging to the Natura 2000 Network, the largest network in the world. It is part of the Data Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid, IDEM:
https://idem.comunidad.madrid/catalogocartografia/srv/spa/catalog.search#/metadata/spacm_zec
Download from:
RESEARCH CONTRACT: Landscape Plan for the Pyrenees-Monte Perdido World Heritage Area Ref. RB84093. INTERREG POCTEFA 2016-2019 European Program. Diputación General de Aragón, Departamento de Desarrollo Rural y Sostenibilidad, 13.915 €, Oct 2018-Ene 2019. PI: Paloma Ibarra Benlloch
RESULT: The results of this proposal are included in the 2018-2028 Management Plan for the Franco-Spanish Pyrenees-Monte Perdido Site, inscribed on the World Heritage List in Dec 1997.
Datos tomados de la base de datos ConCiencia