Pablo Dominguez

I combine 6 years of BSc training in Environmental Biology at the UAM (Madrid) and AMU (Marseille), with a PhD in Ethnology at the EHESS (Paris) and the UAB (Barcelona) about social-environmental relations in Berber/Amazigh mobile pastoralists of the High Atlas Mountains with a specialization on the commons (sustainable community-based governances of natural resources and the environment). After a passage through the Center of Bio-Cultural Diversity and the School of Anthropology and Conservation of UKc (Canterbury), I became senior researcher at the French CNRS, based at the Eco-Anthropology Laboratory in the Museum of Humankind (Paris), and a linked researcher of the UAB (Barcelona).

Today I work comparatively between different mountain societies, to identify trends in community-based governance systems in terms of environmental conservation, social values, cultural heritage, economic potentials and resilience (see COSUST). I particularly focus in the Mediterranean region (special issue on Biocultural Diversity of the Mediterranean), with most of my work concentrating in Spain (see Human Ecology), Morocco (see Environmental Values & Economic contribution of pastoral commons) and the Balkans (see Ecología Política), but also in East Africa (see Range and Forage Science, COSUST & PARKS). See also the physical and online exhibition about Mediterranean mountain pastoral commons in the 21st century.

I research ‘about’ these communal systems but also ‘in favor’ of their positive socio-ecological values. This takes me often to interact with civic society organizations, public bodies, international agencies and different stakeholders and decision-makers in a continuous effort to favor knowledge transfer and advice for its practical application. More information at the PICCAHers blog.