Daniela Alexandra Teixeira da Costa Ribeiro, PhD
Research Associate, Assistant Professor
+386 1 4706 549
daniela.ribeiro@zrc-sazu.si
Research interests
Research fields
Environmental protection, sustainable development, land use dynamics, landscape sustainability, landscape ecology, ecosystem services, landscape management.
Selected presentations and lectures
- Landscape (un)sustainability: Contextualizing the problem in Slovenia and Europe. 11th IALE World Congress, Nairobi, 2023
- Sustainable landscape management: Dynamic changes and societal processes. IGU Paris 2022: Time for geographers, Paris, 2022
- Land use in karst landscapes: A case study of Bela Krajina. IGU Thematic Conference Transformation of Traditional Cultural Landscapes, Koper, 2019
Other activities
- Member of the Ecosystem Services Partnership – ESP
- Member of Steering Committee of the Land Use and Cover Change Commission of the International Geographical Union (2020-2024)- Member of the International Association for Landscape Ecology – IALE.
- Member of the Interdisciplinary group on Ecosystem Services – INTERECOS ZRC SAZU.
- Member of the Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Society for Vegetation Ecology – EADSV
- Member of Order of Engineers (regulatory and licensing body for the engineer profession in Portugal).
Selected publications
- Polajnar Horvat, K., Ribeiro, D. 2023: Urban Public Spaces as Restorative Environments: The Case of Ljubljana. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 20-3.
- Zorn, M., Breg Valjavec, M., Ribeiro, D. 2021: Landscape Changes Due to Lignite Mining – A Case Study of the Town of Šoštanj and its Surroundings. Kronika 69-3.
- Ribeiro, D., Zorn, M. 2021: Sustainability and Slovenian karst landscapes: evaluation of a low karst plain. Sustainability 13-4.
- Ellis Burnet, J., Ribeiro, D., Liu, A. W. 2021: Transition and transformation of a rural landscape: abandonment and rewilding. Sustainability 13-9.
- Ribeiro, D. 2020: Bela Krajina - Sustainability in a karst landscape. CAPACities 5. Založba ZRC.
- Ribeiro, D., Razpotnik Visković, N., Čarni, A. 2020: Landscape dynamics at borderlands: analysing land use changes from Southern Slovenia. Open geosciences 12-1.
- Gabrovec, M., Kumer, P., Ribeiro, D., Šmid Hribar, M. 2020: Land use in Slovenia. In: Perko D., Ciglič R., Zorn M. (eds) The Geography of Slovenia. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham
- Smrekar, A., Polajnar Horvat, K., Ribeiro, D. 2020: Slovenia's protected areas. In: Perko D., Ciglič R., Zorn M. (eds) The Geography of Slovenia. World Regional Geography Book Series. Springer, Cham
- Polajnar Horvat, K., Ribeiro, D. 2019: Challenges in tourism sector: How European tourism destinations are dealing with overtourism. Geografski Vestnik 91-1.
- Ribeiro, D., Šmid Hribar, M. 2019: Assessment of land-use changes and their impacts on ecosystem services in two Slovenian rural landscapes. Acta Geographica Slovenica 59-2.
Selected projects
Geography of Slovenia - national research programme (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2021)
SELINA - Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decisIons about NAtural capital (research project • July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2027)
SHARED GREEN DEAL - Social sciences & Humanities for Achieving a Responsible, Equitable and Desirable GREEN DEAL (research project • February 1, 2022 - February 28, 2027)
NatGuidES - Identification, assessment and mapping of ecosystem services in valuable nature conservation areas in Slovenia (target research project • October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2023)
Sustainable landscape management: From science to action (postdoctoral research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021)
SELINA - Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decisIons about NAtural capital (research project • July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2027)
SHARED GREEN DEAL - Social sciences & Humanities for Achieving a Responsible, Equitable and Desirable GREEN DEAL (research project • February 1, 2022 - February 28, 2027)
NatGuidES - Identification, assessment and mapping of ecosystem services in valuable nature conservation areas in Slovenia (target research project • October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2023)
Sustainable landscape management: From science to action (postdoctoral research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021)
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- B. Sc. in Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, 2007.
- M. Sc. in Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2011.
- Ph. D. student, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in Environmental Protection, University of Ljubljana, 2017.