Daniela Alexandra Teixeira da Costa Ribeiro, PhD
+386 1 4706 549
daniela.ribeiro@zrc-sazu.si
Education
- B. Sc. in Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, 2007.
- M. Sc. in Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2011.
- Ph. D. student, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in Environmental Protection, University of Ljubljana, 2017.
Research interests
Research fields
Environmental protection, sustainable development, land use dynamics, landscape sustainability, landscape ecology, ecosystem services, landscape management.
Selected presentations and lectures
- Landscape (un)sustainability: Contextualizing the problem in Slovenia and Europe. 11th IALE World Congress, Nairobi, 2023
- Sustainable landscape management: Dynamic changes and societal processes. IGU Paris 2022: Time for geographers, Paris, 2022
- Land use in karst landscapes: A case study of Bela Krajina. IGU Thematic Conference Transformation of Traditional Cultural Landscapes, Koper, 2019
Other activities
- Member of the Ecosystem Services Partnership – ESP
- Member of Steering Committee of the Land Use and Cover Change Commission of the International Geographical Union (2020-2024)- Member of the International Association for Landscape Ecology – IALE.
- Member of the Interdisciplinary group on Ecosystem Services – INTERECOS ZRC SAZU.
- Member of the Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Society for Vegetation Ecology – EADSV
- Member of Order of Engineers (regulatory and licensing body for the engineer profession in Portugal).
Selected publications
- Polajnar Horvat, K., Ribeiro, D. 2023: Urban Public Spaces as Restorative Environments: The Case of Ljubljana. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 20-3.
- Zorn, M., Breg Valjavec, M., Ribeiro, D. 2021: Landscape Changes Due to Lignite Mining – A Case Study of the Town of Šoštanj and its Surroundings. Kronika 69-3.
- Ribeiro, D., Zorn, M. 2021: Sustainability and Slovenian karst landscapes: evaluation of a low karst plain. Sustainability 13-4.
- Ellis Burnet, J., Ribeiro, D., Liu, A. W. 2021: Transition and transformation of a rural landscape: abandonment and rewilding. Sustainability 13-9.
- Ribeiro, D. 2020: Bela Krajina - Sustainability in a karst landscape. CAPACities 5. Založba ZRC.
- Ribeiro, D., Razpotnik Visković, N., Čarni, A. 2020: Landscape dynamics at borderlands: analysing land use changes from Southern Slovenia. Open geosciences 12-1.
- Gabrovec, M., Kumer, P., Ribeiro, D., Šmid Hribar, M. 2020: Land use in Slovenia. In: Perko D., Ciglič R., Zorn M. (eds) The Geography of Slovenia. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham
- Smrekar, A., Polajnar Horvat, K., Ribeiro, D. 2020: Slovenia's protected areas. In: Perko D., Ciglič R., Zorn M. (eds) The Geography of Slovenia. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham
- Polajnar Horvat, K., Ribeiro, D. 2019: Challenges in tourism sector: How European tourism destinations are dealing with overtourism. Geografski Vestnik 91-1.
- Ribeiro, D., Šmid Hribar, M. 2019: Assessment of land-use changes and their impacts on ecosystem services in two Slovenian rural landscapes. Acta Geographica Slovenica 59-2.
Selected projects
Geography of Slovenia - national research programme (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2021)
SELINA - Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decisIons about NAtural capital (research project • July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2027)
SHARED GREEN DEAL - Social sciences & Humanities for Achieving a Responsible, Equitable and Desirable GREEN DEAL (research project • February 1, 2022 - February 28, 2027)
NatGuidES - Identification, assessment and mapping of ecosystem services in valuable nature conservation areas in Slovenia (target research project • October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2023)
Sustainable landscape management: From science to action (postdoctoral research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021)
SELINA - Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decisIons about NAtural capital (research project • July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2027)
SHARED GREEN DEAL - Social sciences & Humanities for Achieving a Responsible, Equitable and Desirable GREEN DEAL (research project • February 1, 2022 - February 28, 2027)
NatGuidES - Identification, assessment and mapping of ecosystem services in valuable nature conservation areas in Slovenia (target research project • October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2023)
Sustainable landscape management: From science to action (postdoctoral research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021)