Alicia Tenza Peral

Alicia Tenza-Peral is an environmental social scientist with a background in agroecology and rural development. Her research focuses on the study of human well-being, traditional local knowledge, sustainability and resilience of rural areas and how these factors are affected by socio-economic and environmental changes at local, regional and global scales. Using a transdisciplinary approach that combines social research with simulation tools, her research aims to guide public policies that support rural development, improve human well-being and sustain ecosystem services in agricultural systems. Her research career has been developed in Spain (BS 2008, MSc 2010, PhD 2017, Postdoc 2018-22), Mexico (Visiting Scholar 2009, Associate Researcher 2014-17), and the USA (Visiting Scholar 2011, Postdoc Fellow 2019). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) in Spain, associated to the European project RESILIENT RULES, which aims to quantify institutional diversity in agricultural systems at a global scale and to assess the relationship between institutional diversity and long-term resilience.