Lidia Esther Romero Martín

Lidia Esther Romero Martín is a geographer, researcher and teacher in the field of physical geography, at the Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG) and at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, as a collaborating professor. She is a member of the Research Group Geography, Geographic Information Technologies and Environment (GEOTIGMA).

She has a Degree in Geography and History from the University of La Laguna, and a PhD in Geography from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Her main research interests are included in some branches of physical geography such as geomorphology, climatology and hydrogeography as well as in cross-cutting themes that cover the relationship between society and the environment, such as the geography of risks and the geography of cultural landscapes.

The objectives of his research include the analysis of the environmental consequences of global change, such as those caused by tourism development in beach-dune ecosystems of the Canary Islands and especially in cultivated slope systems as a result of agricultural abandonment and other processes of change.

His most recent research work includes the analysis of the loss of heritage value of terraced cultural landscapes in island territories, their quality for conservation and ecosystem services (environmental supply and regulation and cultural leisure) offered by their conservation as measures of adaptation to climate change and in the horizon of the SDGs.

• Change land use
• Agricultural abandonment
• Erosion
• Natural hazards and climate change
• Terrace farming heritage