Maria Cifre Sabater

Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (UOC) / mcifresa@uoc.edu

Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Rambla de Poblenou 156, 08018 Barcelona

mcifresa@uoc.edu

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Maria Cifre Sabater 

Full time researcher · UOC

Presentation

Maria Cifre-Sabater holds a Social and Cultural Anthropology degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She obtained a PhD in Environmental Anthropology awarded by the University of Kent (England) with her thesis entitled “Changing forests in a changing Mediterranean island: forests, fires and heritagisation of the landscape in Serra de Tramuntana, Mallorca” (2020). Her doctoral work was funded by the “50th Anniversary Scholarship” of the University of Kent. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the CareNet group of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).

She has ten years of research experience, particularly focused on the social, historical, and environmental spheres of wildfires, the social impacts of natural protected areas and the transformations of cultural landscapes. These research interests have also been pursued in her professional activity through the design, coordination, and leadership of applied research projects in interdisciplinary teams, covering topics such as wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface, community forest management, cultural landscape conservation and heritagisation, and circular economy networks in rural areas, among others. She currently works on European projects contributing to the adaptation of regions to climate change, promoting prevention, preparation and response strategies that are inclusive, diverse and collaborative to climate-change related disasters such as wildfires, heat waves, and floods.

Cifre-Sabater has carried out a research stay at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla, 2017) and at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Mallorca, 2017). She has also participated in numerous national and international scientific conferences and seminars and has experience imparting university seminars at graduate and postgraduate courses.

Research interests

  • Wildfires
  • Disasters
  • Climate change
  • Cultural landscapes

PROJECTS

FIREPRIME

European Program for Wildfire-Prepared Communities

European Commission, DG ECHO (European Civil Protection Authority)
Competitius

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Maria Cifre Sabater, Miriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez

Actiu

The RESIST Project

Testing Adaptation Solutions to Key Climate Challenges

European Commission
Competitius

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Maria Cifre Sabater, Miriam Arenas

Finalitzat

EduFire Toolkit

Educational Toolkit for secondary schools in wildfires within a climate change scenario

Comisión Europea
Competitius

Maria Cifre Sabater, Miriam Arenas, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

WUICOM-BCN

Fire Resilient Interface Communities of Barcelona project

Competitius

Miriam Arenas, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Maria Cifre Sabater, Álvaro Poo

Actiu