Full Professor of Regional Geography at the University of Alicante (Spain). Jorge Olcina Cantos was speaker at the International Year of the Planet (2008), declared by UNESCO. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters between 2009 and 2013. He has international recognition as a researcher in geographical topics of spatial planning, natural risks, applied climatology, climate change, and the theory of geography. He has more than two hundred publications, including articles, book chapters, and books (JCR and Scopus). He is a member of the Editorial Board of various scientific journals on geographical and environmental topics. He has collaborated with European and Latin American universities. He has been the President of the Spanish Association of Geography (2017-2021). He has been the Commissioner of the Generalitat Valenciana for the Vega Renhace Plan (2019-2023). Currently, he is the Director of the « Climate Change-Aguas de Alicante Cátedra » at the University of Alicante.

References

• Rode, S., Ribas Palom, A., Saurí, D. & Olcina Cantos, J. (2022), “Adapter les territoires au risque d’inondation en France et en Espagne : vers de nouvelles pratiques d’aménagement des zones inondables?”, Annales de géographie, 743, 44-71. https://doi.org/10.3917/ag.743.0044
• Oliva Cañizares, A,; Olcina Cantos, J. (2023), “Floods and Emergency Management: Elaboration of Integral Flood Maps Based on Emergency Calls (112)—Episode of September 2019 (Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante, Spain)”, Water, 15(1):2. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15010002
• Sánchez-Almodóvar E, Olcina-Cantos J, Martí-Talavera J, Prieto-Cerdán A, Padilla-Blanco A. (2023), “Floods and Adaptation to Climate Change in Tourist Areas: Management Experiences on the Coast of the Province of Alicante (Spain)”, Water 15(4):807. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15040807
• De la Vara, A., Cabos, W., Gutiérrez, C., Olcina, J., Matamoros, A., Pastor, F., Khodayar, S., Ferrando, M. (2024), “Climate change impacts on the tourism sector of the Spanish Mediterranean coast: Medium-term projections for a climate services tool”, Climate Services, Volume 34,100466, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100466.
• Oliva Cañizares, A.; Olcina Cantos, J. (2024), “Historical Floods and Territorial Planning: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Lost after the Santa Teresa Flood (1879) in the Segura Basin (Spain)”, Land. 13(1):28. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13010028

Additionnal content
30minutos con Jorge Olcina (©El pódcast de Amalia López Acera, 03/2024).

Keywords
Geography, spatial planning, natural risk, climate change, water planning