Ana Isabel García Arias

Ana Isabel García Arias serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Sociology and Agricultural Policy at the University of Santiago de Compostela, teaching interdisciplinary courses across engineering, forestry, and territorial planning programs. Her instructional scope spans undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels with particular emphasis on rural socioeconomics and environmental policy implementation.

Her research expertise centers on:

• Agricultural and forest economics
• Socioeconomic rural development frameworks
• Environmental policy evaluation
• Landscape economic valuation
• Agro-food system analysis
• Wildfire damage economic assessment

As an active member of the Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Rural Development and Social Economy research group, she bridges theoretical economic models with practical applications in natural resource management and rural community sustainability.