Over the last twenty years
she has developed her research and teaching
activity within the environmental field,
environmental education and sustainable
development.
She has worked as a UNESCO
consultant concerning environment issues,
environmental education and sustainable
development.
Member of the Board of
Directors of Scientist for the Environment (CIMA)
Analyst Member of the
Institute of Transnational Studies (INET).
Member of the Women
Researchers and Technologists
(AMIT) and the International Network of
Writers for the Earth (RIET).
Chairholder of the
International Postgraduate Degree in
Environmental Education and Sustainable
Development of the International Network of
Higher Degree in Environmental Education at the
National Distance Education University, Spain.
Director of the ECOARTE
Project, which aims towards the integration of
Science, Art and Environment.
Special Advisor to the
Earth Charter Initiative International.
Research: -
Director of the EDUCAMDES Research Group, of the
National Distance Education University (UNED),
Spain.
Research
topics:
- Environmental Education,
Sustainable Development and Globalization.
- Women and Environment: a
social and educational approach.
- Science, Art and
Environment: towards an integrated and
transdisciplinary approach.
- Systems, complexity and
the new environmental paradigm: towards a
transdisciplinary and integrated learning
model.
Projects:
- Various research
projects have been carried out under her
direction, of which six were ordered by UNESCO,
two by the General Directorate of Environment (MOPU),
and one by the Nature Conservation Institute (ICONA),
which gave as a result the document “Basis for
an Environmental Education Strategy” (Spain’s
first Public Administration document on the
issue).
Doctorate thesis:
- Five doctorate thesis
directed. All of them were qualified with “cum
laude” and three of them received an Honours
Degree (PhD with distinction).
Publications:
Her work is focused on
environment issues, sustainable development and
environmental education. As well as many
articles in specialised magazines, she has
published sixteen books, five of them sponsored
by UNESCO, with the following titles:
- Mujer y medio
ambiente: los caminos de la visibilidad.
[Women and
Environment: the path for visibility]
(Coord.) (2007) Madrid. Los libros de la
Catarata
- El desarrollo
sostenible: su dimensión ambiental y educativa.
[Sustainable Development: environmental and
educational dimensions]
(2006) Madrid. Pearson/UNESCO
- Ciencia, Arte y
medio Ambiente.
[Science, Art and Environment]
(Coord.)(2002)
Madrid. Mundi-Prensa
-
Globalización, Crisis ambiental
y Educación
[Globalization,
Environmental
Crisis
and
Education]
(coord.). Madrid. Ministerio
de Educación y Cultura. 2002.
-
El enfoque sistémico: su dimensión educativa.
[The
systemic approach: educational dimensions]
Madrid. Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia. 2002.
-
Cambiar es posible.
[Change is
possible] Madrid.
Universitas, sponsored by UNESCO. 2001
-
Los desafíos ambientales: reflexiones y
propuestas para un futuro sostenible.
[Environment’s
challenges: reflections and proposals for a
sustainable future]
(coord.). Madrid. Universitas, sponsored by
UNESCO. 1999.
-
El análisis interdisciplinario
de la problemática ambiental
[An
interdisciplinary analysis
of the
environmental problem]
(2 vols.)
(coordinated with R. Lara).
Madrid, Fundación Universidad-Empresa, sponsored
by UNESCO and PNUMA. 1997.
-
La interpretación de la problemática ambiental:
enfoques básicos. [Interpreting
the environmental problem: basic approaches]
(2 vols.) (Coordinated with R. Lara). Madrid,
Fundación Universidad-Empresa, sponsored by
UNESCO and PNUMA.1997.
-
La Educación Ambiental: bases éticas,
conceptuales y metodológicas.
[Environmental Education: ethical, conceptual
and methodological basis]
First Edition Madrid, Universitas, 1995. Co-
edited by UNESCO/Universitas, 1998.
-
Bases para una Estrategia Española de Educación
Ambiental.
[Basis
for a Spanish Environmental Education Strategy]
Madrid. ICONA. 1993.
-
Juegos de Educación Ambiental.
[Environmental Education Games]
Madrid. ICONA. 1988.
- Educación
y Medio Ambiente.
[Education
and Environment] Madrid.
UNED. 1986.
-
Educación Ambiental.
[Environmental Education]
Madrid. Anaya. 1985. (First book on
environmental education).
As for her artistic work,
since the seventies she has published:
- Bienvenido,
Juan. [Welcome, John]
Barcelona.
Ediciones Graó. 2006
-
Ellas, las invisibles.
[Women, the Invisible] Madrid.
Ediciones Algaba. 2003
-Ecoarte.
[ECOART] Alicante. Caja de Ahorros
del Mediterráneo. 2001
-
Microcosmos. [Microcosms] Sevilla.
Diputación de Sevilla. 2000
-
Libertad no conozco. [Freedom, I know not]
Madrid. Ediciones Torremozas. 1991
-
Yo no sé. [I don’t know]
La Coruña. Ediciones Nordes. 1975
Collaboration in
books:
- Collaboration in
twenty
books, published in national and international
media, amongst which, the most recent is
Innovation, education and communications for
sustainable development, Frankfurt, Peter
Lang Eds. 2006.
Participation in Congresses, Courses,
Seminars...
- Lecturer in more than
180 national and international Congresses and
meetings, among which are the following:
- Courses and conferences
which took place at the Frascati-Rome European
Centre of Education (Italy); at the
Latin-American Faculty of Environmental Sciences
at La Plata (Argentina); at the Lülea University
(Sweden); at the Institute for International
Relations of The Havana (Cuba); at the
Universities of Guadalajara (Mexico); Mar del
Plata (Argentina); San Salvador (El Salvador);
at the Bolivarian University of Chile and Osorno
University, among others.
- Director of three
courses on Environment and Environmental
Education at the Menéndez Pelayo International
University.
- Lecturer at the I Series
of Conferences on Complexity and Pedagogy
Models, organized by Madrid’s UNESCO Centre.
Madrid, June 2008.
- Co-director and lecturer
at the International Seminar “Science and art
through global change”, organized by the
International University of Andalucía. Sevilla,
January 2008.
- Lecturer at the I Ibero
Meeting of the Earth Charter Initiative for
Sustainable Development organized by the
Fundación Valores, in Madrid, November 2007.
- Lecturer at the III
International Congress “Utopia and projects for
a better world”, organized by the Fundación
Valores and celebrated in Madrid, June 2007
- Lecturer at the Meeting
organized by the Earth Charter Initiative
International about “Education for sustainable
development in Latin America”, celebrated in
Costa Rica, October 2006.
- Member of the
International Scientific Committee for the 3rd
Environmental Education Congress (3 WEEC),
celebrated in Torino (Italy), October 2005.
- Lecturer at the II
International Seminar on “Complex Theory”,
organized by the Philosophy Institute of Havana
(Cuba), January 2004.
- Lecturer at the
International Symposium “Education and
Sustainability”, which took place in Almonte (Huelva-
España), March 2003, under the frame of the
Andalusia Board.
- Director and Lecturer of
the International Seminar “Imagining a new
globalization: science, art and environment”,
Alicante (Spain), October 2002.
- Organiser and Lecturer
of the International Seminary “Imagine a new
globalization: science, art and environment”,
which took place in Alicante (Spain), in October
2002.
- Director and Lecturer of
the International Seminary “The environment in
the globalization society: ecological and social
aspects”, organised by the Menéndez Pelayo
International University in Santander (Spain),
in September 2001.
- Lecturer at the
International Congress “Challenges of the new
century”, organised by UNEAC, and which took
place in The Havana (Cuba), in April 2001.
- Lecturer at the
“International Meeting of Experts on
Environmental Education: new proposals for
action”, organised by UNESCO and the Council of
Galicia (Spain) in Santiago de Compostela, in
November 2000.
- Lecturer at the
International Congress “From the children to the
city: participatory planning and social context
in Italy and Europe” (“Dai bambini alla citta:
progettazione partecipata e contesto sociale in
Italia e in Europa”), which took place in Fano
(Italy), in May 2000.
- Director and Lecturer of
the Hispanic-Cuban Work-Shop on Environment and
Sustainable Tourism, organised by the Council of
Seville and the UNESCO Chair on Environmental
Education in 1999.
- Director and Lecturer of
the Work-Shop on Environmental Education which
took place in Thessalonica (Greece), organised
by UNESCO in 1997, under the frame of the
International Congress on “Environment and
Society: Education and Public Conscience for
Sustainability”.
- Coordinator of the
international Forum on Literature and Ecology,
Mollina (Málaga), February, 1993 and organized
by the Social Affairs Ministry.
- Lecturer at the UNESCO
SYMPOSIUM "Reshaping Education for Sustainable
Development", under the frame of the World
Congress for Education and Communication on
Environment and Development, which took place in
Toronto (Canada), in October 1992.
- Lecturer at the Earth
Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, during the
United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development. Participation in the drafting of
the “Treaty on Environmental Education for
sustainable societies and global
responsibility”, which was subscribed during
this meeting.
- Invited as Expert at the
UNESCO-UNEP International Congress on
Environmental Education and Training, organised
by UNESCO in Moscow (URSS) in August 1987.
Consultancy:
- She has been a
consultant, concerning environment,
environmental education and sustainable
development, for the Ministerial Cabinet of
Public Works and Urban Planning, for the General
Directorate of Environment; for the Commission
of the V Centenary of the City of Alicante; for
the Programme “Ibiza: a garden in the sea”.
Member of the Group of Experts at UNESCO/MEC to
include the Environmental Education in the
Spanish system of education. Member of the
Technical Team of the Organisation of
Iberoamerican States (O.E.I.) to introduce
Environmental Education in South America. Member
of the Jury for the Joaquín Costa Environmental
Journalism Prizes and for the Mediterranean
Prizes on Environment. Consultant at UNESCO to
direct, in 2000, an international research on
the environment, environmental education and
sustainable development. Consultant at UNESCO on
technical assistance for the International
Conference on Environmental Education, fostered
by this organism in 2000, in Santiago de
Compostela. Collaborator and producer of several
television programmes on the environment,
environmental education and sustainable
development. Scientific Consultant for the
Environmental Programme “Habitat Guardians”, of
the Spanish Television and Autonomous Community
of Madrid (RTVE/CAM); Member of the Editorial
Committee of the following magazines “Polis”
(Bolivarian University of Chile); “Medio
Ambiente y Comportamiento Humano” (“The
Environment and Human Behaviour”, International
Magazine of Environmental Psychology, La Laguna
University); “Revista Internacional de
Sostenibilidad, Tecnología y Humanismo”
(Universidad Politécnica of Barcelona, UNESCO
Chair on Sustainability); and “Eduga” (Revista
Galega do Ensino, Education and Organization
University Councile, Xunta de Galicia).
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