Urbano Fra Paleo

Prior to joining the University of Extremadura (Spain) as Full Professor of Human Geography, Urbano Fra Paleo was Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Research Associate at the University of Denver (USA). In addition, he is Research Associate of the Institute for Conflict Studies and Humanitarian Action. Urbano Fra Paleo is member of the UNDRR European Science and Technology Advisory Group (E-STAG), co-chair of the Task Force on Measuring Hazardous Events and Disasters, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and external expert to the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER), Member of the Academia Europaea, and of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, since 1997. Urbano Fra holds a PhD in Geography and a Diploma in Environmental Engineering, and is certified as Geomatics Specialist. His research interests lie in the study of disaster risk governance, with particular emphasis on governance patterns and processes, including the assessment of institutional frameworks. Among other publications, he has edited the volumes Building safer communities. Governance, spatial planning, and responses to natural hazards (IOS Press, 2009), Risk governance: The articulation of hazard, politics and ecology (Springer, 2015), and Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba: Food Security and Nature (Routledge, 2023) with Leonor Castiñeiras. He authored the Dictionary of Photogrammetry (Institut Cartografic de Catalunya, 2011).