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Prof. Rubén Giménez-García
Universidad de Murcia (Spain)

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PREDOCTORAL RESEARCHER DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA

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Published: 25 May 2021
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In recent years, flooding has become one of the main natural disasters which poses the greatest risk, impact and bearing on the coastal areas of southeast peninsular Spain. Traditionally, the analysis of torrential precipitation events that cause floods has been predominant in the assessment of the factors that lead to this type of catastrophe. At present, despite considering this meteorological phenomenon as the trigger of river overflows, responsibility corresponding to the human factor in the perpetration of the risk of a natural disaster should not be forgotten. This study will ascertain the influence of urban and real estate development in increasing exposure to floods. In this sense, the pluviometric observations obtained in different precipitation events have been counted, mapped and analysed. Likewise, the evolution and development of the real estate portfolio is examined. The information obtained has been crossed with the digital cartography of flooded areas (National System of Flood Zones Cartography, SNCZI in spanish acronym). The main finding of the study shows that there seems to be unquestionable evidence to attribute a good part of the existing risk to the territorial transformation and to the continuous process of artificialization of the soil recently carried out.

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Rubén Giménez-García; Víctor Ruiz-Álvarez; Ramón García-Marín. Chronicle of a forecast flood: exposure and vulnerability on the southeast coast of Spain. 2021, 2021, 1 -22.

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Rubén Giménez-García, Víctor Ruiz-Álvarez, Ramón García-Marín. Chronicle of a forecast flood: exposure and vulnerability on the southeast coast of Spain. . 2021; 2021 ():1-22.

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Rubén Giménez-García; Víctor Ruiz-Álvarez; Ramón García-Marín. 2021. "Chronicle of a forecast flood: exposure and vulnerability on the southeast coast of Spain." 2021, no. : 1-22.

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Published: 04 September 2020 in Land
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Since the middle of the 20th century, irrigation in the southeast of Spain has displayed significant productive growth based on the intensive use of the scarce water resources in the area and the contribution of river flows from the hydrographic basin of the Tagus River to the hydrographic basin of the Segura River. Despite high levels of efficiency in the water use from the new irrigation systems, the water deficit has only intensified in recent years. The most dynamically irrigated areas (Campo de Cartagena, Valle del Guadalentín, Vega Alta del Segura and the southern coast of the Region of Murcia), were faced with a complex and trying future, resulting in numerous companies (agribusinesses) relocating to lease and acquire land in the northwest of Murcia to develop their intensive crops. The general objective of this article lies in the analysis of widespread landscape dynamics, and of agricultural dynamics in particular, in the rural environment of the northwest Region of Murcia (Spain). For this, an exhaustive analysis of the land cover and use transformations is carried out for the periods of time 1990–2000–2012–2018. The data studied come from the Corine Land Cover (CLC) project, carried out by the European Environment Agency (EEA). These spatial data are treated with geographical information systems (GISs) and represented by statistical and cartographic analyses and cross-tabulation matrices that indicate the dynamics of changes, loss and land gain. As the main result, we find that the areas occupied by new intensive irrigation on old rainfed farmland in the northwest Region of Murcia have increased in the last 30 years. Traditional irrigation is disappearing, and the environmental consequences (overexploitation of aquifers and decreased flows from natural sources), among others, are dire.

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Ramón García-Marín; Cayetano Espejo-Marín; Rubén Giménez-García; Víctor Ruiz-Álvarez. Transformations in the Agricultural and Scenic Landscapes in the Northwest of the Region of Murcia (Spain): Moving towards Long Awaited (Un)Sustainability. Land 2020, 9, 314 .

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Ramón García-Marín, Cayetano Espejo-Marín, Rubén Giménez-García, Víctor Ruiz-Álvarez. Transformations in the Agricultural and Scenic Landscapes in the Northwest of the Region of Murcia (Spain): Moving towards Long Awaited (Un)Sustainability. Land. 2020; 9 (9):314.

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Ramón García-Marín; Cayetano Espejo-Marín; Rubén Giménez-García; Víctor Ruiz-Álvarez. 2020. "Transformations in the Agricultural and Scenic Landscapes in the Northwest of the Region of Murcia (Spain): Moving towards Long Awaited (Un)Sustainability." Land 9, no. 9: 314.

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Published: 19 July 2018 in Urban Science
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The spatial pattern of the urban development recently experienced by large urban areas is significantly changing the traditional city model based on its compactness. It is generating new forms of urban organization that imply morphological, territorial, social, and functional changes. We analyzed the spatial impact generated by the construction of the Altorreal resort in the Murcia region and its effects on the local population (e.g. number of inhabitants). The results obtained highlight the importance of this resort in terms of space and population compared with other neighborhoods of the city.

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Rubén Giménez García; Ramón García Marín; José María Serrano Martínez; Manuel Pulido Fernández. Peri-Urban Dynamics in Murcia Region (SE Spain): The Successful Case of the Altorreal Complex. Urban Science 2018, 2, 60 .

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Rubén Giménez García, Ramón García Marín, José María Serrano Martínez, Manuel Pulido Fernández. Peri-Urban Dynamics in Murcia Region (SE Spain): The Successful Case of the Altorreal Complex. Urban Science. 2018; 2 (3):60.

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Rubén Giménez García; Ramón García Marín; José María Serrano Martínez; Manuel Pulido Fernández. 2018. "Peri-Urban Dynamics in Murcia Region (SE Spain): The Successful Case of the Altorreal Complex." Urban Science 2, no. 3: 60.