JORGE HERMOSILLA PLA

JORGE HERMOSILLA PLA is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Geography and History, Universitat de València. His academic work is centered on regional geographical analysis, with a focus on territorial dynamics, landscape, and heritage. He is a member of the research group ESTEPA (Studies of Territory, Landscape and Heritage), contributing to interdisciplinary studies on spatial development and cultural landscapes.

His research interests include regional development, landscape evolution, heritage studies, and geographical planning. These areas reflect his long-standing engagement with both endogenous and exogenous factors shaping regional territories, particularly in the context of the Turia region and Buñol basin.

The research group ESTEPA supports collaborative projects on territory and heritage, where he contributes expertise in geographical analysis and regional planning. His academic career is rooted in the Spanish geographical tradition, emphasizing empirical fieldwork and spatial interpretation.

He earned his doctoral degree from the Universitat de València with a thesis titled El camp de Turia y la hoya de Buñol: desarrollo endógeno e influencias exógenas (1993), supervised by Dr. Juan Piqueras Haba. This foundational work explored the interplay between local development processes and external influences in a specific Mediterranean context.

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