Department: Ciencias Humanas

Area: Physical Geography

Research group: Erosión, Usos del Suelo y Ordenación del Territorio

Email: jose.arnaez@unirioja.es

Doctor by the Universidad de La Laguna with the thesis Formas y procesos de erosión en la evolución de vertientes de la sierra de la Demanda 1986. Supervised by Dr. José María García Ruiz.

José Arnáez is Professor (Catedrático) of Physical Geography at the University of La Rioja (Spain) and Director of EUSOT research group (Erosion, Land Uses and Land Management). He has taught at the universities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Zaragoza and La Rioja (graduate, master and PhD). His research activity has focused, especially, on subjects related to soil erosion, environmental hydrology, land management, environmental consequences of agricultural abandonment and rural development.