Laura Calvet-Mir

Dr Laura Calvet Mir has a PhD in environmental sciences (UAB, 2011), master’s in ecological economics (UAB, 2007) and degree in environmental sciences (UAB, 2006).

Her research has mainly focused on urban and rural agriculture, agroecological transitions and biocultural diversity in a context of global change, with particular attention to climate change. In the study of local socio-ecological systems, she has combined ethnographic approaches with quantitative methods such as statistics and social network analysis.

Her main research interests are agrobiodiversity, agroecology, ecosystem services, ethnoecology, political ecology and traditional ecological knowledge.

Since 2014, she has been the coordinator of the postgraduate programme in local agroecological revitalisation at the UAB and since 2017, part of the SGR Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) at the UOC. Since June 2022, she has been part of the Urban Sustainability team, focusing on food systems.