Eduardo Corbelle Rico is Senior Lecturer in the department of Agroforestry Engineering at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he is also part of the research group, Territorio, Biodiversidad (TE-BIO). He is a member of the Science, nature and society section of the Consello da Cultura Galega and USC representative in the Steering Committee of the EU - Support Facility for Agricultural Innovation.

His main lines of research revolve around the study of land systems and their uses, in the context of socio-ecological transition, also being interested in the changes experienced in the forest masses of northwestern Spain.

He is currently participating as principal researcher in the project "A new cross-disciplinary framework for studying the landscape over the long term" (CROSSLAND, KA201-2019-007), in the framework of the Erasmus + program. He also participates as a researcher in other competitive activities, such as: "CO-producing Nature-based solutions and restored Ecosystems: transdisciplinary neXus for Urban Sustainability (CONEXUS); or "Sustainable Hub to Engage into Rural Policies with Actors" (SHERPA).

Among his most notable publications are:

• Corbelle-Rico, E., Sánchez-Fernández, P., López-Iglesias, E., LagoPeñas, S., Da-Rocha, J.-M. (2022). Putting land to work: An evaluation of the economic effects of recultivating abandoned farmland. Land Use Policy 112, 105808.
• Fernández Nogueira, D.; Corbelle Rico, Eduardo. (2018). Land use changes in Iberian Peninsula 1990-2012. Land 7(3), 99.
• Corbelle-Rico, E; Van Butsic; María José Enríquez García; Volker C. Radeloff. (2015). Technology or policy? Drivers of land cover change in northwestern Spain before and after the accession to European Economic Community. Land Use Policy 45, pp.18-25.
• Corbelle Rico, E.; Rafael Crecente Maseda. (2014). Evaluating IRENA indicator “Risk of Farmland Abandonment” on a low spatial scale level; the case of Galicia (Spain). Land Use Policy 38, pp.9-15.
• Corbelle Rico, E.; Rafael Crecente Maseda; Inés Santé Riveira. (2012). Multi-scale assessment and spatial modelling of agricultural land abandonment in a European peripheral region: Galicia (Spain), 1956-2004. Land Use Policy 29-3, pp.493-501.