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The student Kelly Sierra Quiroz receives a special mention award Lluis Casassas i Simó from the Catalan Society of Geography

The student in the Master’s degree in Spatial Planning: Information, Tools and Methods, Kelly Sierra Quiroz, has been awarded with the Special Mention Award Lluis Casassas i Simo of the Catalan Society of Geography for the year 2015. The work is entitled “Valoración de la calidad visual del paisaje en la Península de Paria, Estado de Sucre, Venezuela”. This research project derived from its Final Master’s project which was supervised by Dr. M. Yolanda Perez Albert.

The award was given at the awards ceremony of the St. George Institute of Catalan Studies, which took place on 22 April 2015.

The summary of this project is:

The landscape today is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary concept that explores various studies. In this case, an analysis of the landscape from its visual approach to the Paria peninsula (Venezuela), which has pristine natural areas, maritime ecosystems, important tropical forests and endemic protected three areas that cover around the45% of its surface. These areas are threatened by the development of an industrial gas industry complex in its surroundings. The objective of this research is to assess the visual quality of current and prospective peninsula with more than two contrasting scenarios to determine the impact of this complex landscape. The study was based on the integration of multi-evaluation techniques (EMC) with GIS (ArcGis) in a model of visual quality, the results for both scenarios posed five broad categories, from very low to very high visual quality. The results raise interesting conclusions repercussions both in the industrial complex in the Paria Peninsula and in the application of quality methodologies in the tropical landscape