Research projects

La protección de un espacio "natural" con cualquiera de las fórmulas previstas en la normativa vigente (parque nacional, parque natural, reserva natural, monumento nacional, paisaje protegido, zona húmeda, zona de especial protección para las aves, lugar de interés comunitario, etc.) proyecta sobre el mismo, un tipo particular de intervención política basada en un modelo específico de patrimonialización cultural de la naturaleza. Si este tipo de intervención transforma la naturaleza en algo más o menos “natural” es una pregunta recurrente entre vecinos, visitantes,...

The implementation of reforms in decentralized healthcare systems raises a number of particularly complex challenges, especially when those reforms refer to the definition of eligibility criteria of those systems. Since the General Health Law (LGS) was passed in 1986, and until the entry into force of the General Public Health Act (33/ 2011) in January 2012, the Spanish National Health System (SNS) experienced a gradual expansion of its range of coverage, to include almost all of the resident population of Spain. The approval of the RD 16/2012 in April 2012 constituted...

The main goal of this project is to contribute to the understanding of the valorisation of knowledge at the Spanish public research sector and science-industry linkages, by identifying the population of Spanish academic inventors, defined broadly as those researchers affiliated to Spanish universities and public research centers that...