Research questions

My research interests include but are not limited to: ecosystem services, disaster risk management, environmental sustainability, smart sustainable cities, geographical information systems, land change models and remote sensing.

Urbanization has been proving itself as an important problem with severe impacts in environment and population health and life quality. Understanding studying this phenomenon can help policy makers and land planners to take better decisions. To address this topic I have been developing and applying land change models.

More recently, I have been studying ecosystem services and the way of incorporating biophysical and economic information into decision making both in terrestrial and marine environments. My major research questions are the following:

1. How to identify, quantify and map ecosystem services?

2. How to represent the status and change of multiple ecosystem services?

3. How to represent the impact of management decisions on ecosystem services?