Guillermo Tardío

• PhD
• Researcher at Technical University of Madrid/Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland)

Manual teórico-práctico de la metodología de cálculo y justificación en el corto y en el largo plazo de las obras de bioingeniería del paisaje. Incluye los procesos de deterioro de la madera, los efectos de refuerzo de la vegetación y el trasvase de las funciones estabilizadoras entre la estructura de bioingeniería y la vegetación en desarrollo. La...

Wildfires have short- and long-term impacts on the geoenvironment, including the changes to biogeochemical and mechanical properties of soils, landfill stability, surface- and groundwater, air pollution, and vegetation. Climate change has increased the extent and severity of wildfires across the world. Simultaneously, anthropogenic activities—throu...

A Review of the Occurrence and Causes for Wildfires and Their Impacts on the Geoenvironment. Fire 2024, 7, 295. Abstract: Wildfires have short-and long-term impacts on the geoenvironment, including the changes to biogeochemical and mechanical properties of soils, landfill stability, surface-and groundwater, air pollution, and vegetation. Climate ch...

A methodology for designing nature-based solutions (NBS) and soil and water bioengi-neering (SWB) works is proposed which includes the main particularities of this type of intervention. The dynamic nature of NBS/SWB works, their most important changes and possible critical scenarios are reflected in the proposed methodology. A clear and practical t...

The world’s population is increasing, which is increasing the pressure to increase crop yields and produce more food to ensure global food security. This can only be accomplished through the use of science and technology in agriculture to improve the crop varieties capable of producing high yields and management of resources such as water and soil....

El índice topográfico de vegetación (ITV) permite seleccionar las zonas adecuadas para cada tipo de vegetación en función de sus necesidades de humedad y limitaciones de radiación. La estrategia planteada aumenta la eficacia de las labores de plantación y mejora las posibilidades de renaturalización de zonas muy poco vegetadas de ambientes áridos.

Eco-engineering has a crucial role in defining and achieving the sustainability credentials of a civil engineering project. Better eco-engineering practices would help better in reducing the adverse impacts on the environment and society, but also on the financial performance of the project. However, the assessment of the sustainability effects of...

Natural hazards remain recurrent processes that often disrupt the status quo of communities and put the future welfare of people at risk. In the Pyrenees, extreme events related to floods, rockfall, landslides or snow avalanches have recurrently affected transport corridors and human settlement. Coping with such impacts in future requires paradigm...

Soil and water bioengineering (SWB) is a discipline that combines technology with biology, making use of native plants and plant communities as construction material for erosion control in degraded environments. The term engineering refers to the use of technical and scientific data for constructive, stabilization and erosion control purposes and “...

Se propone una metodología de cálculo de las obras de bioingeniería, en la que se reflejan las principales particularidades de este tipo de intervenciones. La naturaleza dinámica de las obras de bioingeniería, sus cambios más importantes y los posibles escenarios críticos quedan recogidos en la metodología propuesta. Así mismo, las conexiones con l...

On the Canary Islands, during the 2007 (30 July-2 August) wildfire, about 18,000 hectares of forest were destroyed. After the event, to avoid erosion, a series of mixed check dams (wooden elements and stones with a core filled with forest residues) were built in the gullies created by the surface runoff. This first study aims to investigate the dif...

The main objective of ECOMED promoters was the development of a clear site analysis strategy and structure, identifying all different components to be included within the field work analysis. Particular attention was given to the fact that the main purpose on this task was to generate new design tools adapted to the Mediterranean bioengineering des...

El proyecto europeo ECOMED ha sido desarrollado durante los años 2017 y 2018. Su principal objetivo ha sido el apoyo al proceso de especialización del sector de la bioingeniería en el ámbito mediterráneo. Para ello se han desarrollado distintas herramientas teórico-prácticas y enfoques que permiten un mejor diseño, formación, toma de decisiones, an...

Soil loss and erosion is a major environmental problem in the Mediterranean. Soil and water bioengineering uses plants and/or parts of plants along with inert material to create solutions to fulfill soil conservation objectives combined with an ecological rehabilitation approach. The ECOMED project developed novel approaches and tools to specialize...

La bioingeniería del suelo y fluvial son un conjunto de técnicas basadas en la naturaleza (NBSs) cuyo objetivo es la mejora de la resiliencia de espacios con problemas de estabilidad y/o erosión. Estas técnicas están ganando fuerza dentro de las regiones mediterráneas. Las obras de bioingeniería tienen una naturaleza dinámica. Al principio, la nece...

Seedling size is a very important issue when producing plants for restoration projects. Scientific evidence on the appropriate size for drylands is contradictory. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of seedling size during first establishment by conducting a short term greenhouse experiment with Pinus canariensis containerized se...

Soil and water bioengineering techniques rely on biological knowledge to build geotechnical and hydraulic structures and to secure unstable slopes and banks. Whole plants or their parts are used as construction materials to secure unstable sites, in combination with other (dead) construction material. Thus, soil bioengineering does not replace trad...

The main objective of ECOMED promoters was the development of a clear site analysis strategy and structure, identifying all different components to be included within the field work analysis. Particular attention was given to the fact that the main purpose on this task was to generate new design tools adapted to the Mediterranean bioengineering des...

Soil and water bioengineering is a technology that encourages scientists and practitioners to combine their knowledge and skills in the management of ecosystems with a common goal to maximize benefits to both man and the natural environment. It involves techniques that use plants as living building materials, for: (i) natural hazard control (e.g.,...

The potential of bamboo in erosion control and slope stabilization has been proven worldwide. Bamboos are being used as living plants as well as construction material in different soil bioengineering techniques in many countries. The soil and water bioengineering approach is combined with bamboo traits and mechanical properties. The existing accumu...

Mediterranean coastal regions contain large high density urban populations and support diverse ecosystems. However, many of the countries in the region are being negatively affected by climate change in terms of increased flooding and erosion as the coasts fall below normal high-tide levels, as well as the increase in the number and landslide occur...

The Mediterranean ecoregion is prone to soil loss and degradation; serious problems to the human well-being. The ECOMED project promotes eco-friendly methods to mitigate such problems by generating material and tools on soil bioengineering specific for the ecoregion. Specifically, the know-how transfer within the sector is being reinforced, existin...

Vegetation has the potential to reinforce the soil through the mechanical and hydrological effects of the roots. Increased soil strength would contribute towards reducing the risks of mass wasting on slopes in terms of erosion and shallow landslides. The investigations of the vegetation effects in the past have been usually restricted to either mec...

Climate change means that fire damage and torrential rains are major issues in many parts of the world, stripping watercourses and their ability to attenuate flow in ponds and weirs. Soil bioengineering methods integrate civil engineering techniques with natural materials to obtain fast, effective and economic methods of protecting, restoring and m...

The soil and water bioengineering sector is gaining presence into the riverbank and slope stabilization works and projects. This situation is also true for the Mediterranean ecoregion case. The bioengineering sector particularities can be classified as either general for the whole sector or particular for the Mediterranean ecoregion case. Within th...

The aim of the project discussed in this paper is is to perform geological, climatic and hydrological studies, to design actions focused on solving the problems of instability of one of the slopes of Eresma River when crossing the town of Coca (Segovia, Spain). Studies revealed the necessity to act mainly at the base of the slope, protecting it fro...

Asymmetric root distribution pattern on steep terrain is analysed by combining GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) image analysis with a theoretical root distribution model and is verified with field investigation data. Root distribution and morphology of a mature deciduous tree were analysed in terms of the plant’s anchorage needs in an asymmetric load...

The mixed check dams were conceived in late 2007, during actions to control the onset of erosion processes in Teide National Park subsequent to a forest fire. A simplified scheme of these mixed check dams consists of a structure of horizontal and vertical wooden elements creating a core that is filled with fine branches and forest residues. Besides...

Asymmetric root distribution pattern on steep terrain is analysed by combining GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) image analysis with a theoretical root distribution model and is verified with field investigation data. Root distribution and morphology of a mature deciduous tree were analysed in terms of the plant’s anchorage needs in an asymmetric load...

Eco-engineering techniques involve the use of both plants and inert materials where, in the latter, non-treated wood is usually present. The two different elements will both evolve with time and change their mechanical properties differently. On one hand, the wood will degrade decreasing its effective cross sectional area with time. On the other ha...

During 30 and 31 July and 1 and 2 August 2007, the Canarian several towns were affected by a huge forest fire that burned down a remarkable part of the forests of Pinus canariensis. The total surface burned was over 18,000 ha. The mixture dykes were conceived in early 2008, during actions to control the onset of erosion processes in Teide National...

Most of riverbank stability analysis do not account for a suitable match between the main governing factors of this process: erosion, groundwater flow and slope stability analysis. In this article a methodological scheme is proposed in which the former parameters are included for a correct prediction of riverbank evolution with time. The proposed m...