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The University of Santiago de Compostela
The University of Santiago de Compostela
The
University of Santiago de Compostela has a history of more
than 500 years. It was founded in 1495 by Lope Gómez de Marzoa, and it
is one of the oldest universities in Spain.
It has three campuses, two in Santiago de Compostela and one in Lugo, with more than 30,000 students. There are 30 centers, including schools and research institutes, 80 departments and all make a whole offer of 80 programs in all disciplines.
The academy comprises 2,200 professors who belong to 300 research groups, some of them with a strong international impact.
The campus of Lugo is devoted to the research and study of the rural areas and farming. The School of Engineering has about 3,000 students, 250 professors and 9 programs in agriculture and animal husbandry, civil engineering and surveying. The Department of Agricultural Engineering is one of the biggest departments of the university.
It has three campuses, two in Santiago de Compostela and one in Lugo, with more than 30,000 students. There are 30 centers, including schools and research institutes, 80 departments and all make a whole offer of 80 programs in all disciplines.
The academy comprises 2,200 professors who belong to 300 research groups, some of them with a strong international impact.
The campus of Lugo is devoted to the research and study of the rural areas and farming. The School of Engineering has about 3,000 students, 250 professors and 9 programs in agriculture and animal husbandry, civil engineering and surveying. The Department of Agricultural Engineering is one of the biggest departments of the university.
The LaboraTe [Land Laboratory]
The
land laboratory started in 1995 with a focus on doing research in land
consolidation as the single instrument for rural land policy and land
management for more than fifty years.
Land consolidation seeks to rearrange property rights to improve the efficiency of agricutural production, generating a new parcel pattern according to criteria based on soil and physical conditions. This micro-scale approach, based on land parcels as an unit of analysis, led to identify the need of adopting and integrating this scale of analysis with other scales, particularly spatial planning, in order to be more effective. The demand of local and regional administrations, and businesses, of more complex instruments in order to make their policies more efficient helped to broaden the scope of research and to amplify the fields of research.
Land consolidation seeks to rearrange property rights to improve the efficiency of agricutural production, generating a new parcel pattern according to criteria based on soil and physical conditions. This micro-scale approach, based on land parcels as an unit of analysis, led to identify the need of adopting and integrating this scale of analysis with other scales, particularly spatial planning, in order to be more effective. The demand of local and regional administrations, and businesses, of more complex instruments in order to make their policies more efficient helped to broaden the scope of research and to amplify the fields of research.