I am an interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Food and Resource Economics. My background is in environmental sciences (BSc), forest and nature management (MSc) and I hold a PhD degree in environmental management.

My research interests include participatory approaches, ethnobotany, indigenous and local ecological knowledge, knowledge co-production, use of ICT, citizen science, and civil society actions for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

My current line of research focuses on socio-economic aspects related to agroforestry systems, gender dynamics and access to natural resources, use of ICT, sustainable coffee production and climate change.

I have assisted the teaching of the MSc course ‘Biocultural Diversity’ at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I have been a guest lecturer at the MSc courses ‘Applied Ethnobotany’, ‘Tropical Botany’, ‘Rural livelihoods and natural resource governance’ and ‘Interdisciplinary Research Planning’ at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science. I would like to teach about ‘Participatory research and development’.

I have instructed local research assistants to collect plant specimens and conduct questionnaire surveys. I have trained people in rural environments to monitor biodiversity and forest management and conservation.

I do not receive remuneration from any external party

PROFILE
I am an interdisciplinary researcher; my line of work focuses on Ethnobotany and integrating local knowledge related to natural resources in research and development. I have extensive fieldwork experience from the Global South using ethnobotanical field methods. I am experienced in teaching at the University, and training people in rural environments to monitor biodiversity and forest management and conservation. I have professional knowledge in statistical analysis, GIS, and I have written numerous scientific and informative articles. I speak English, Spanish, Basque and Italian fluently and have basic knowledge of Danish and Greek. I am a dynamic and sociable person, and I want to focus my research on environmental projects of direct positive action in society.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2014 - 17
PhD fellowship in Environmental Management. University of Copenhagen (KU), Faculty of Science, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Section for Global Development.
I studied the ethnobotanical knowledge of local communities in Cambodia and Vietnam and their integration into forest monitoring projects.
2011-13
MSc in Forest and Nature Management (120 ECTS). University of Copenhagen (KU)
Thesis in ethnobotanical knowledge of wild edible plants in Guatemala
2006-10
BSc in Environmental Science (300 ECTS). University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), (2008-2009) in the Universitá degli studi di Trieste (Italy)
Birth date: 09.02.1988
Contact information:
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Research profiles:
orcid.org/0000-0002-7746-3922
www.researchgate.net/profile/Nerea_Turreira-Garcia
Curriculum Vitae of Nerea Turreira García
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WORK EXPERIENCE
2018-
Postdoc in agricultural systems. University of Copenhagen (KU). Projects: 1) Breedcafs, Horizon 2020: A socioeconomic study of new coffee varieties grown in agroforestry systems in Central America, Cameroon and Vietnam (http://www.breedcafs.eu/). 2) WeFoCos, Nordic Climate Foundation C7047: Improved business through seasonal forecasting for coffee in Vietnam
2017
Guest lecturer. MSc courses ‘Applied Ethnobotany’ and ‘Interdisciplinary Research Planning’. University of Copenhagen (KU), Faculty of Science
2016
Assistant professor. Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB): MSc course ‘Biocultural Diversity’
2013 - 15
Guest lecturer. MSc courses ‘Applied Ethnobotany’, ‘Tropical Botany’, and ‘Rural livelihoods and natural resource governance’. University of Copenhagen (KU), Faculty of Science
2012
Student research assistant. Soil sample processing. University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science
2011
Research assistant. Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Animal Ecology department, Wageningen, The Netherlands
2010
Environmental technician. Consultora de Recursos Naturales S.L., Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
2019-2020
Main supervisor and co-supervisor of two MSc student thesis on local knowledge of shade trees in coffee agroforestry systems, and on coffee value chain
2019-
Board member of Hearth, an emerging not-for-profit independent research organisation
2016- 2017
PhD committee member representing the Section for Global Development at the Department for Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
2015-2016
Training on scientific biodiversity monitoring with indigenous peoples, Vietnam
2015-2016
Series of workshops on forest conservation with indigenous peoples, in various communities in Cambodia
2015-2016
Student co-supervision of two BSc students and one MSc student on ethnobotanical studies in Cambodia
2014-
Oral and poster presentations at international conferences at Wageningen University, Society for Economic Botany, Society for Tropical Ecology, International Society of Ethnobiology, and ICREA
2013
Workshop on value of ethnobotanical knowledge at the primary school of Río Negro, Guatemala

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