Emil Ivanov
Emil joined the Centre for Environmental Management (CEM) in April 2011 after nearly 10 years of extensive international experiences in education and work. He graduated from Sofia University (Bulgaria) in 2002, following a five-year University course in Ecology. His education continued with a Master of Environmental Management at the Free University of Amsterdam, the then specialised in Land Use Planning at Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and in GIS and Remote Sensing applications for environmental management at the Mediterranean Agronomic Instituteof Chania, (Greece) as a second MSc degree.
His work experience started with a two-year project (June 2006 – May 2008, ECONET-COHAST, funded by INTERREG IIIB programme) for coastal habitats assessment and conservation in Crete (Greece) as a researcher at MAICh (www.maich.gr). From July 2008 thorough to March 2011 he worked at the ETC-LUSI (http://sia.eionet.europa.eu/) first at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and then at the University of Malaga on developing European Ecosystem Accounts, a programme of the European Environmental Agency (www.eea.europa.eu). In addition he participated in two FP7 research projects, namely EnviroGRIDS for developing integrated environmental scenarios (www.envirogrids.net) and in PEGASO for developing costal ecosystem accounts.
At CEM his main subject of work was the application of the ecosystem accounting model for the countries of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, including North Africa, Middle-east and South Europe (a work package part of PEGASO: People for Ecosystem-based Governance in Assessing Sustainable Development of Ocean and Coast (EU FP7 Collaborative Project, 2010 – 2014, www.pegasoproject.eu). The Mediterranean application follows the progress on the European ecosystem accounting model led by the EEA and supported by the ETC-SIA (former ETC-LUSI). The ecosystem accounts aim to ensemble and provide evidence for more informed planning of coastal ecosystem protection and sustainable development in a wide geographical perspective. He continues to be a PhD candidate in the School of Geography.
Selected publications
Breton, F., Ivanov, E., Iglesias-Campos, A. and J. Arévalo (2009): “Methodologies to build up tools to measure coastal sustainable development in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In: MEDCOAST 09, The Ninth International Conference On The Mediterranean Coastal Environment, Sochi, Russia, 10-14 November 2009, Volume I, Chapter "Tools and Instruments for ICM" p. 55-66.
Breton, F.; Ivanov, E.D.; Sauri, D.; Trujillo-Martínez A.J. and A. Mangin (2009): “Impacts of water treatment on marine ecosystems: a tentative approach for Barcelona”. In: Three days International workshop on Impact of large coastal Mediterranean cities on marine ecosystems, IFREMER, ASRT, NIOF, CIESM, MEDPOL. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, 10-12 February 2009.
Ivanov, E., W. van der Knaap and I. Manakos (2009): Conservation of coastal habitats in Mediterranean areas; A combined analytical framework for case studies. In ´Naturbanization: New identities and processes for rural-natural areas´ Prados (ed) Taylor & Fransis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-49000-9.
Ivanov, E., J.M. Rey Benayas and I. Manakos (2007): Remote sensing evaluation of afforestation versus natural re-vegetation on abandoned crop-lands in Central Spain. 27th EARSEL Symposium Bolzano, Proceedings.
Knaap, W. van der and E. Ivanov (2005): Integrated Environmental Planning in European Coastal Regions. Congress proceedings: AESOP 2005 “The Dream of a Greater Europe”, Vienna.Contact details: Emil is a PhD student in the, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Email: emildiv@gmail.com