Parnership for analysis of masive spatial data on social, economic and enviromental sustainablity

ECOBAS (Economics and Business Administration for Society) is an Interuniversity Research Center composed of researchers and professors from the three universities of Galicia, a thriving region in the northwest of Spain. The center specializes in sustainability in a broad sense, which covers not only the economic but also the environmental and social scopes, approached from the field of social science, mainly Economics and Business. ECOBAS currently has a total of 121 affiliated researchers, along with 30 postdoctoral and predoctoral researchers. Their scientific activity spans critical fields such as climate change, climate mitigation and resilience, economic inequality, health, and innovative policy development.

My main project is the following: Microspatial Socioeconomic Analysis: Urban and Rural Neighborhoods as Economic, Sociological, Sanitary, and Ecological Contexts

Starting from Spain, this project will develop a detailed geographic database and use it to investigate various economic, social, and environmental issues. Millions of data records covering all urban properties and rural parcels in Spain will be used, and this information will be combined with additional sources of demographic, fiscal, health, and environmental data. An innovative database will be created to analyze socioeconomic phenomena at the neighborhood level. The project will harmonize data across several territorial typologies and will aggregate the data from the neighborhood level to the city or rural area, the metropolitan area, the region, and the national level. 

The analysis of official data and satellite data will allow us to map in detail crops, urban land uses, forests and green spaces, living conditions, and other critical issues regarding sustainability. That information can be used to build typologies and indicators, as well as for causal analysis.