Manuel Marey-Perez

• Dr. in Forestry Engineering
• Professor (Full) at University of Santiago de Compostela

Selecting the best resin tapping method and stimulant paste in the resin tapping process is crucial. In timber-oriented rainy Atlantic pine forests of north-west Spain, the interest in resin tapping is raising but information on the best tapping methods and pastes is still lacking. In this study, an appropriate experimental design used on five repr...

This research aims to highlight the obstacles to green buildings and reveal the factors that can help in reducing these obstacles. It uses a qualitative approach and collects data from previous studies. The results highlight that the literature on green buildings mentions barriers and obstacles in different categories, including financial, governme...

Selecting the best resin tapping method and stimulant paste in the resin tapping process is crucial. In timber-oriented rainy Atlantic pine forests of north-west Spain, the interest in resin tapping is raising but information on the best tapping methods and pastes is still lacking. In this study, an appropriate experimental design used on five repr...

Wildfires have changed in recent decades. The catastrophic wildfires make it necessary to have accurate predictive models on a country scale to organize firefighting resources. In Mediterranean countries, the number of wildfires is quite high but they are mainly concentrated around summer months. Because of seasonality, there are territories where...

Background Wildfire is a major environmental threat worldwide and climate change is expected to increase its severity. Galicia has suffered high wildfire incidence during the last decades, most wildfires being from arson, in contrast with the low rate of natural wildfires. Aim This work aims to characterise the spatiotemporal dynamics of human-cau...

In the scientific literature, numerous different analyses have been reported on forest fires, in a constant effort to predict their behavior and occurrence. It is known that a variety of factors come together in these events: climatic, physiographic, socioeconomic and territorial, among others. However, although forest fires have a significant rela...

Since the adoption of European Union Council Directive 92/43 on the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora, some opposition has arisen among owners and managers of land affected by the directive. Some studies have indicated that some of this opposition has found expression in subsequent arson fires in these areas. This article an...

It is known that any environmental remediation process must be approached as a system and that the transport of materials is key to determining its sustainability. The aim of this work is to establish how far it was possible to transport plant material from a phytoextraction process in such a way that the environmental gain of the remediation proce...

With the aim of assessing the farmers’ situation in terms of the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and their relationship with the e-government (electronic government), a case study consisting of 34 face-to-face surveys between February and March 2020 in dairy farms in the region of Galicia (Spain) was conducted. From the cens...

La resiliencia se ha utilizado con frecuencia como indicador de medición de la capacidad de adaptación bajo diferentes enfoques según el campo de estudio. En áreas como el noroeste de España, una región con uno de los registros más severos de ocurrencia de incendios forestales en Europa occidental, los indicadores de resiliencia deben estar relacio...

With the objective of assessing the farmers’ situation regarding the use of the ICT and their relations with the electronic government, a case study consisting in the realization of 34 face-to-face surveys was conducted between February and March 2020 in dairy farms in the region of Galicia (Spain). The sample was selected according to one of the m...

The occurrence and intensity of forest fires is a phenomenon in which factors of various kinds converge, including climatic, physiographic, socioeconomic and territorial, among others. While the scientific literature has been stating that the causes of fires are related social conflict, other factors must also be considered for a more thorough anal...

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) grew from and is guided by smart manufacturing. The fourth industrial revolution’s I4.0 would induce radical changes and transformations in the everyday operations of businesses and people’s life. Due to these major changes impacting all sectors and industries worldwide, the sustainability of the new future systems and operation...

Resilience is not a particularly novel concept, but it has recently become frequently used as a measurement indicator of adaptation capacity under different approaches depending on the field of study. Ideally, for example, forest ecosystems would be resilient to wildfires, one of the most serious types of perturbation they are subjected to. In area...

This study presents a systematic review of 169 papers concerning the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) related to rural areas, specifically to dairy farms. The objective was to delve into the relationship between dairy farmers and the administrative authorities via e-government, comparing this area to another eight concerning the far...

Oman is an oil-dependent state like other GCC states. In such regions, particularly Oman, the construction industry is booming and is currently the largest employer for the private sector's Omani workforce. Moreover, Oman intends to diversify its economy to limit its dependency on oil to promote sustainability, as there is a possibility for future...

This paper introduces area-level Poisson mixed models with temporal and SAR(1) spatially correlated random effects. Small area predictors of the proportions and counts of a dichotomic variable are derived from the new models and the corresponding mean squared errors are estimated by parametric bootstrap. The paper illustrates the introduced methodo...

Many Middle Eastern countries have experienced lots of economic development over the last two decades. Virtually all sectors of the economy have seen astronomical growth over this period. One area that has seen massive growth is the construction industry. With such growth, this sector has seen many challenges. Construction delay is one of the main...

COVID-19 is a global pandemic that changed the global economic perspective. The ongoing pandemic is indeed the major cause of project delays in the Middle East. A severe impact is being taken place in all industries. Therefore, this research covers the construction industry of Oman, the Impact of COVID-19 on the construction industry; the global im...

Sustainability is regarded as one of the main goals of human activities and development processes, which plays a vital role in construction projects. It can be defined as an approach that is mainly used for stabilizing economic, social, and environmental aspects (Rosen, 2012). People must focus on achieving sustainability during operations for the...

As sociedades divididas non avanzan. O eucalipto ten sido o argumento para enfrentar a poboación entre partidarios e detractores. En palabras dun vello xestor forestal “do eucalipto sólo fala mal o que non o ten”. En palabras dun activista ambiental “hai que queimalos e arrincalos todos ata que non quede ningún”. Este traballo ten como único obxect...

Every country in the globe endeavours to achieve sustainable growth in its various industries. The construction industry has an enormous contribution to the economy primarily in the developing countries experiencing urgent demands to grow and expand their infrastructure. While this expansion is taking place through projects, it is so substantial to...

In the past one and a half decades, Oman and most of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have experienced tremendous economic growth and the construction sector is one of the primary beneficiaries that all GCC countries have embarked on major infrastructural development. Oman is currently the leading country in the GCC region in terms of i...

Wildfires are considered one of the main causes of forest destruction. In recent years, the number of forest fires and burned area in Mediterranean regions have increased. This problem particularly affects Galicia (north-west of Spain). Conventional modelling of the number of forest fires in small areas may have a high error. For this reason, four...

Society's participation in decisions regarding land planning and management is essential for reaching viable and long-lasting solutions. The success of forest plans depends on the involvement of different stakeholders. In turn, stakeholder involvement depends on the representativity achieved in public participation in the development of the plan. T...

When studying the empirical phenomenon of wildfires, we can distinguish between the occurrence at a specific location and time and the burnt area measured. This study proposes using structured additive regression models based on zero-one-inflated beta distribution for studying wildfire occurrence and burnt area simultaneously. Beta distribution affords...

Aim of study: To develop a methodology to obtain knowledge in public participation processes. Area of study: Fonsagrada-Os Ancares (Spain), region located in the northern Iberian Peninsula. Material and methods: This study proposes a new method for generating questionnaire survey in participative forest plan with four stages. The validation of this...

Gestión integral y uso múltiple del territorio son conceptos cada vez más presentes en la ordenación forestal, y en las distintas figuras de ordenación territorial y planeamiento sectorial. En España, hasta la fecha, la normativa e instrumentos de ordenación territorial, de concepción sesgadamente urbanística, han resultado muy poco aplicables a lo...

Los incendios forestales son el principal problema ambiental de Galicia, pero también son un problema económico (176 millones de euros destinados en la campaña de incendios del 2016) y social. Hasta la actualidad la Administración Forestal ha confiado el éxito en la lucha contra incendios a un ingente instrumento de extinción, obviando la realidad,...

La diversificación de productos y servicios en el monte es una de las claves para el desarrollo rural. En este sentido, el aprovechamiento ganadero del monte (in situ en pastoreo o como productor de alimento para el ganado) supuso, supone y supondrá uno de los elementos con mayores posibilidades de implantación en Galicia. Se analiza, desde una per...

Wildfires are one of the main environmental problems facing societies today, and in the case of Galicia (northwest Spain), they are the main cause of forest destruction. This paper used binary structured additive regression (STAR) for modelling the occurrence of wildfires in Galicia. Binary STAR models are a recent contribution to the classical log...

In the present communication the advantages and disadvantages of implementing a Local Network or Microgeodetic Network, with enough precision for the project management on civil engineering works, are analyzed. We study the materialization of a network that covers an area 12 km long and 5 km wide, in A Coruña (Galicia), supported by two survey poin...

Wildfires are one of the main causes of forest destruction, especially in Galicia (north-west Spain), where the area burned by forest fires in spring and summer is quite high. This work uses two semiparametric time-series models to describe and predict the weekly burned area in a year: autoregressive moving average (ARMA) modelling after smoothing,...

Studies on causes and dynamics of wildfires make an important contribution to environmental. In the north of Spain, Galicia is one of the areas in which wildfires are the main cause of forest destruction. The main aim of this work is to model geographical and environmental effects on the risk of wildfires in Galicia using flexible regression techni...

Social participation in decision-making on land-use management and planning is essential to achieve viable and lasting solutions. Particularly, a joint action by all sectors involved in the development of a tactical and strategic program of natural resources planning, allowing for a consensus final document in which solutions are formulated to the...

This work intended to investigate the relationship between the factors of failure of projects and quality management from the point of view of the Project Manager. A census of all project managers who are registered in the professional networks are performed first LinkedIn, Xing and Viadeo. They were classified in terms of geographical coverage and...

The implementation in the current EU milk quota system over the period 1992-2015, accompanied the whole process of restructuring of this sector in Galicia. In this paper the results of a comparative analysis of the productive development of the sector in the different territories (municipalities) are presented over the period 1994-2014. This has be...

In the present communication we analyze many engineering firms, with different dimension and location. We analyze few parameters of each company, deepening in the computer systems used as support for project management. In a basic stage were studied small and local engineering companies, with a single workplace (office), immature and with very limi...

Adjunto me permito enviar a Ud. arbitrajes del trabajo titulado " La planificación forestal participada como base de la gobernanza rural " , para que acoja las sugerencias y recomendaciones que se expresan. Su manuscrito está aceptado para ser publicado en Bosque, pero debe hacer correcciones de acuerdo con los arbitrajes. Una vez aprobada la nueva...

The number of fires in forest areas of Galicia (northwest of Spain) during the summer period is quite high. Local authorities are interested in analyzing the factors that explain this phenomenon. Poisson regression models are good tools for describing and predicting the number of fires per forest areas. This work employs area-level Poisson mixed mo...

The number of fires in forest areas of Galicia (north-west of Spain) during the summer period is quite high. Local authorities are interested in analyzing the factors that explain this phenomenon. Poisson regression models are good tools for describing and predicting the number of fires per forest areas. This work employs area-level Poisson mixed m...

Communal forests or Montes Vecinales en Mano Común (MVMC) are a type of private collective land in Galicia (northwest Spain) representing approximately one-third of its forest land. There has been a series of changes in MVMC ownership and management throughout the 20th century. Uncertainty about ownership, changes in population and the presence of...

In this chapter we discuss current challenges to the development of Decision Support Systems (DSS) that may increase the efficiency and the effectiveness of industrial forests management scheduling. We highlight the need for automation of industrial forest strategic, tactical and operational management planning processes within DSS – computerized t...

Stakeholder participation in decisions related to forest planning is essential to get long- lasting and viable solutions. Nowadays, public participation is necessary to reach consensus in natural resource management and in citizen governance of land. It is a key element in a forest planning on a strategic level. However, only the first steps are be...

Short title: The public participation in strategic planning. A review Public participation in decision making related to strategic planning is essential to understand and solve problems in society. In this sense, the participation of society has become a necessity for organizations, both public and private, in order to improve the quality of strate...

This paper aims to investigate the opinion of agricultural engineers about their education, identify EHEA-based educational needs for a successful future, and depict the current situation of the labor market for graduate agricultural engineers as well as the professional prospects for undergraduate students. The chosen sample of Agricultural Engine...

This paper aims to investigate the opinion of agricultural engineers about their education, identify EHEA-based educational needs for a successful future, and depict the current situation of the labor market for graduate agricultural engineers as well as the professional prospects for undergraduate students. The chosen sample of Agricultural Engine...

Society's participation in decisions regarding land planning and management is essential to reach viable and long-lasting solutions in forest management. We analyzed the participation of communal land owners to better understand their attitudes towards the management of this property. Glaser and Strauss' Grounded Theory (1967) was used to build kno...

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Ungulate-vehicle collisions pose a serious traffic safety hazard in the North of Spain. The understanding of underlying temporal and spatial structure of these non-random events is imperative to develop appropriate mitigation measures. This study analyses the temporal, spatial and spatiotemporal patterns of car crashes involving wild boar and roe d...

In recent years the wind energy has received a major boost, and its location is determined by the availability and quality of the resource. Galicia plays an important role due to the abundance of the resource and its mountainous terrain. However, wind farms are accompanied by negative effects, being the less assessed the socio-economic impacts on t...

Dentro del debate sobre la gestión forestal sostenible y el desarrollo rural, los propietarios forestales inviduales reciben especial atención dado que, como gestores casi exclusivos en numerosas regiones forestales del mundo, desempeñan un papel clave a la hora de integrar de forma equilibrada la diversidad de usos y funciones del monte en las pol...

Knowledge of fire behaviour is of key importance in forest management. In the present study, we analysed the spatial structure of forest fire with spatial point pattern analysis and inference techniques recently developed in the Spatstat package of R. Wildfires have been the primary threat to Galician forests in recent years. The district of Fonsag...

This study aims to analyze the current situation of Galician cattle farms in terms of their productive, social and economic characteristics and territorial location. It is based on a survey conducted in four areas, two with high and two of low agricultural productivity and on the establishment of a classification by hierarchical clusters method and...

Short title: Surveillance system of wildfires in Galicia The objective of this study is to evaluate the fixed surveillance system for detecting forest fires in Galicia by drawing a map of visible surface vs. shaded areas. The result is compared to the historical positioning of fire for the 1999-2008 period by obtaining the relationship between dens...

The aim of this paper is to determine whether training level affects the safe use of pesti-cides amongst pesticide applicators of Galician greenhouse farms (Spain). The rela-tionship between pesticide applicator training and safe use of pesticides was statisti-cally analyzed using non-parametric tests. Results did not reveal any relationship be-twe...

Dentro del debate público internacional, científico y político, en materia de gestión forestal sostenible y desarrollo rural, los denominados "non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners" (propietarios NIPF) reciben especial atención puesto que, como gestores casi exclusivos en numerosas regiones forestales del mundo, han jugado, juegan y jugarán u...

As managers almost exclusive in many worldwide forestry regions, non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners come to play a key role in balanced integrating the variety of forest uses and functions in policies for promoting and revitalising rural areas. In Galicia, a region in the Spanish Northwest, over 67.5% of forestland and 80% of woodland is m...

The academic congresses are a regular activity at universities and rare is the department,institute or research group at a particular time does not have to act as an organizer. Ourproposal focuses on applying the methodology and experience gained during the MasterProject Management Officer at the University of Santiago de Compostela to the manageme...

The management of natural resources can be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective in order to achieve sustainable development. There are regional differences in practical approaches to biodiversity conflict management because the social, political and economic characteristics of a culture influence the type of conflicts and the response to...