History

The research group finds its origin in the team formed to develop/elaborate/prepare Atlas Social de las Mujeres Asturianas, published in 1994. It continued its activity with the projects Gran Atlas del Principado de Asturias, edited in 1996, and Atlas Geográfico de España, drawn up/developed/produced/elaborated at the beginning of the new century. Precisely with the name of this ambitious project financed with national and European funds, it obtained at that time the official recognition as a research structure following the first regulation of groups of the University of Oviedo; all under the direction of Gaspar Fernández Cuesta.

In 2012, the group was renewed with the new university regulations of research groups, expanded its lines of work, was renamed Análisis y Representación de los Paisajes Geográficos Españoles and created a knowledge transfer unit led by Felipe Fernández García: Observatorio del Territorio.

Once Gaspar Fernández Cuesta was retired, Felipe Fernández García took the direction. In this new period the team has grown again and incorporated researchers linked to prestigious entities of our university environment with whom work had already been developed: Arturo Colina Vuelta (INDUROT), José Antonio González Díaz (SERIDA y Fundación CTIC), Salvador Beato Bergua, José Luis Marino Alfonso and Miguel Ángel Poblete Piedrabuena (i-GE&SER). They have also joined Daniel Herrera Arenas and David Olay Varillas (Observatorio del Territorio), being part of the PDI of the University of Oviedo, and Alfonso Suárez Rodríguez, new pre-doctoral researcher of the state program FPU.

They have remained at the core of the team Felipe Fernández García, Luis Carlos Martínez Fernández, Carmen Rodríguez Pérez and Juan Sevilla Álvarez. In addition, they are regular collaborators Rubén Delgado Álvarez, Cristina Fernández Bustamante, Víctor Fernández Salinas, Nuria López Mielgo, Enrique Loredo Fernández, Benjamín Méndez García, Ícaro Obeso Muñiz, Pedro Plasencia Lozano and Héctor Rato Martín.

Juan Carlos Castañón Álvarez, Berta López Fernández, Amalia Maceda Rubio, Manuel Maurín Álvarez and our missed José Ramón Fernández Prieto "Pin" have also contributed to the activity of ARPE as members of the group at different times.