A conversation with Dania Abdul Malak, PhD

Director of the European Topic Centre on Spatial Analysis and Synthesis (ETC-UMA)

Dania Abdul Malak is ENSERES coordinator and a senior environmental researcher of the European Topic Centre at the University of Malaga (ETC-UMA). She has over 15 years’ experience in environmental assessment and management. Her research focuses on setting transferable guidelines to apply ecosystem-based management to nature conservation and biodiversity protection at regional scales, including the Mediterranean and Europe. Her work, documented in scientific papers and a number of international and regional technical reports and books, supports the evidence behind the implementation of different Global, European and Mediterranean Directives such as the EU MSFD, the EU MSP, the EU Habitat Directive, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Coastal and Marine Environment in the Mediterranean, as well as the Ramsar and the Carpathian Conventions.