Investigadora Principal (IP): Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, Instituto Franklin-UAH ana.recarte@institutofranklin.net

• Enrique Alonso García. Miembro del grupo desde 2003. Desde su nombramiento como consejero de Estado permanente en 2006, colabora solo ocasional y excepcionalmente.
• Alejandro Lago Candeira
• Amaya Sánchez Sánchez
• Ana Tejedor Arceredillo
• Carlos Javier Durá Alemañ
• Claudia Alonso Recarte
• Ignacio Congost Cano
• Isabel López Noriega
• Jane Ziegler
• Jason Benford
• Julia Kendlbacher
• Luisa Molinero
• Nazaret Pérez García
• Pilar López de la Osa Escribano
• Ree Brennin
• Gloria Fernández

CASE STUDIES SERIES. (Serie de Estudios de Caso) 
Each year, the research group prepares one or two case studies on any of the following fields of research: environmental philosophy and ethics in the U.S., environmental culture, environmental history, transatlantic environmental relations between the U.S. and the EU, nature writing and environmental literature, ecocriticism, biodiversity in North America, or environmental policy, institutions, and law and regulation.

• Duration: 2001
• Project funded by the Friends of Thoreau Foundation
• Lead researcher: Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche
• Number of researchers: 7

Marine Biodiversity: International Policies of the U.S. and the European Union

• Duration: 2005-2007
• Project funded by the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge through public contest
• Lead researchers: Alejandro Lago Candeira and Ana Tejedor Arceredillo
• Number of researchers: 4

Arctic Beluga Whale Research, Husbandry and Management in Wild And Captive Environments

• Duration: 2005-2007
• Project funded by The City of Arts and Sciences of the Government of the Valencian Community
• Lead researcher: Ree Brennin
• Number of researchers: 6

Internalization in the U.S. and Asian markets of the Spanish companies specialized in environmental service provision

• Duration: 2005-2006
• Project funded by the European Social Fund and the Economic Development Agency of the Castilla y Leon regional government
• Lead researcher: Enrique Alonso García
• Number of researchers: 52

Water recycling: legal, political, economical, and technical aspects. Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Project

• Duration: 2005-2010
• Project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
• Lead researchers: Enrique Alonso García (until July 2006); and Alejandro Lago Candeira
• Number of researchers: 4 from the Friends of Thoreau group, and over 100 universities and institutions

Regulating Liabilities In The International Trade Of Food And Gmo: Towards An International Food Safety System Reutilization Of Water: Technical, Economic, Policy And Legal Aspects.

• Project funded by the Real Colegio Complutense, established at Harvard University under its Advanced Research Groups Program 
• Lead researcher: Arturo Anadón (profesor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 
• This program was part of a larger collaboration composed by six Spanish and North American universities: Complutense, Granada, Rey Juan Carlos, Illes Balears, Harvard, and Yale
• Part of the results, those related to GMO trade (genetically modified organisms), were published in the 2009 European Food and Feed Law Review

Comparative US and EU Animal Welfare Law & Policy

• Duration: 2009
• Project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Friends of Thoreau Foundation 
• Lead researcher: Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche
• Number of researchers: 2

Comparative US And EU Animal Welfare Law & Policy

• Duration: 2009
• Project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture; the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla - La Mancha; ANCOPORC Association; and the Friends of Thoreau Foundation
• Lead researcher: Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche
• Number of researchers: 2

Writers of The Adirondacks

• Duration: 2008-2009
• Project funded by Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Lead researchers: Ana Antón Pacheco and Claudia Alonso Recarte
• Number of researchers: 2

Towards GLOBal Infrastructures for Supporting Biodiversity research (GLOBIS-B)

• Duration: 2015-2018
• Project H2020, funded by the European Commission 
• Lead researchers: José Antonio Gurpegui, Juan Junoy and Enrique Alonso
• Number of researchers: 4
• As an introduction for the Ibero-American community, the following article was published in the Revista de Privacidad y Derecho Digital nº 3 (April 2016) in Open Access. CC-BY License: Enrique Alonso García, “Legal interoperability and other legal problems arising from the handling of "scientific data" as "big data" by web services and infrastructures of the knowledge economy: the example of biodiversity data”

1. American Environmental Ethics and Philosophy

Research in this area is focuses on the ethical and philosophical aspects of American nature conservation as well as the ethical treatment of environmental and animal rights problems.

Case study "The Animal Rights Movement in the United States", by Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche. November 2002

Case study "Farming in the Elkhorn Slough Watershed, Environmental Justice & the Hispanic Community", by Jason Benford (supervised by Enrique Alonso García & Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche). April 2004

Case study "Native Americans and Natural Resources: Black Mesa", by Jane Ziegler (supervised by Enrique Alonso García). December 2005.

2. US Environmental History

US Environmental History tries to expand the ordinary frame of historic investigation to rebuild the vision of the past from the analysis not only of the human-based facts but also of the natural world with which human life was deeply connected. US Environmental History is a research area completely settled in the United States in the recent past decades.

Case study "Historical Whaling in New England", by Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche. April 2002

Case study "Pigs in New York City: A Study on 19th Century Urban Sanitation", by Enrique Alonso & Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche (with the contribution on American Literature by Claudia Alonso, January 2008.

3. Environmental and Nature Literature
The most classic version of the environmental literature is that of philosophic-literary essays in which the author, through the observation of nature, reaches deep thoughts about what nature can teach us and about the tight relationship between humanity and its environment. It also implies an emotional healing process through the relationship of the outer natural environment and the inside world of the author who interiorizes the small details through which the natural world shows its meaning and beauty. This literary genre has a long tradition in North America and it also provides a very useful tool to raise public awareness and to expand environmental concern through the description and analysis of hypothetical or real cases having as background situations of natural disasters, environmental injustice and racism, or ecological activism. During the last decades, the world of literature and that of environmental studies have driven in the US to give birth to a new literary criticism school, ecocriticism, devoted to the representation of nature in literary works. Ecocriticism constitutes a new field that breaks up with the traditional separation between science and the arts. Friends of Thoreau was at the origin of promoting the interest of Ecocriticism at the Institute, even leading to the creation of an ad hoc research group (GIECO). Friends of Thoreau has nevertheless maintained its line of work in in the field of Nature Writing and American Literature.

Case study "Adirondack Writing and the Wilderness Aesthetic", by Claudia Alonso Recarte. April 2010. 

4. North American Biodiversity
The variety of ecosystems, species, and landscapes that astonished, first the natives and then the Europeans, when both explored and settled the continent, ended up contributing to the consolidation of essential elements of the cultural identity of North Americans (from the cosmology of Native Americans and its current revival to the well known “frontier spirit”, among many other features). The richness of biodiversity keeps raising problems when managing its conservation and sustainable use, that is why research of its scientific, technical, social and economic models (of planning and management of the natural environment) is so necessary. Once more, most of the approaches and techniques used nowadays all over the world are of US origin.

Case study "The Sea Otter Recovery Plan", by Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche. April 2004.

Case study "The Meaning of Salmon in the Northwest: A Historical, Scientific and Sociological Study", by Luisa Molinero. April 2005.

Case study "Agriculture and Conservation: Community-Supported Agriculture & Other Alternatives", by Enrique Alonso and Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche. January 2007.

5. Environmental Institutions, Law, and Policy
The environmental public policies assumed today by all modern constitutional governments were born in the US especially after the 70s. The configuration of the sectoral environmental policies (water quality management, air pollution control, toxic substances supervision or hazardous wastes regulation…) and the transversal techniques required for their implementation (environmental impact statement, environmental auditing, ecological crime police enforcement…) together with environmental law and the institutions on which that public action rests (the Environmental Protection Agency –EPA-, the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service…), all of them North American in origin, have been cloned by the European Union and other countries. That is why the comparative study of environmental institutions, law and policy is fundamental tool for the better understanding not only of our own public institutions but also of the private or nongovernmental sector (organization of the civil society through NGOs and corporate environmental policies). The focus is also placed in the uses of command and control systems versus incentive-based mechanisms or the creation of markets for environmental services or emissions trading systems

Case study "The Boston Harbor Project", by Enrique Alonso García & Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche. January 2005.

Case study "Oil spill Prevention and Response: the U.S. Institutional System in the Coast of California", by Ana Tejedor & Larry Spinosa (supervised by Enrique Alonso García). May 2006.

Case study "Native Americans and Natural Resources: Black Mesa", by Jane Ziegler (supervised by Enrique Alonso García). December 2005.

Case study "Cape Cod Off-Shore Wind Park: The Multivariate Nature of Energy Policy Issues", by Enrique Alonso & Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche. May 2007.

Case study "Landscape Protection Policies: The Case of Vermont", by Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche & Enrique Alonso. July 2009.

Case study "The Conference of the Parties: The Role of the United States in Effectively Mitigating Climate Change post-Copenhagen", by Danielle Boland Brown (supervised by Enrique Alonso Garcia; editing, Ana Recarte). December 2010.

6. Animal Studies

Case study "Prosimians in the US; ex situ Institutions: the Duke Lemur Center as an Example of Animal Welfare Science and its Contribution to Biodiversity Conservation", by Gloria Fernández Lázaro (supervised by Enrique Alonso and Ana Recarte). May 2012.

Case study "The vivisection controversy in America", by Claudia Alonso Recarte. April 2014.

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Executive Program on Transnational Environmental Services for executive directors of 20 companies in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y Leó

• 2005-2006
• Organized by the Friends of Thoreau program in  collaboration with professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, and the Graduate Business School of the Monterey Institute of International Studies of California

Summer Course "Comparative US-EU Energy Policy in a Global Context"

• 2006 and 2009
• Gipuzkoa Provincial Council

1^st International Workshop on Beluga Whale Research, Animal Breeding and Management in the Wild and Captive Environments

• March 9^th-11^th, 2007
• Co-organized with l'Oceanogràfic of the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia

Meeting- Colloquium with Mr. Bruce Hamilton, Deputy Executive Director of the Sierra Club

• April 22^nd, 2010
• Foundation for Research on Law and Business (FIDE)

Conference "El Piano en el Jazz." Mr. Lewis Porter, Rutgers University in Newark (United States)

• October 30^th, 2009
• School of Creative Music, Madrid

• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, "The Animal Rights Movement in the United States: Some Thoughts About a New Ethics". Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos (REDEN), Núm.21-22. 2001
• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, "Early Development of Wilderness Ideology in American Culture. Thoreau and His Contribution to Contemporary Wilderness Philosophy". Reseach paper. Enero 2002
• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche. "El Movimiento Social Derechos de los Animales en EEUU", Revista ASI (American Studies Interlink). Mayo 2002.
• Diana Villanueva, "Alison H.Deming's Visit to the IUEN", Revista ASI (American Studies Interlink). Mayo 2002.
• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, Introduction to the Animal Rights Movement in the United States. Tesina máster Universidad de Alcalá. Julio 2002.
• Diana Villanueva, Gary Snyder´s Ecology of Family. Tesina máster Universidad de Alcalá. Julio 2002.
• Julia Kendlbacher, Strategies of North American Environmental Organizations and Their Impact on Politics and the Business Community. Master thesis, Amerika Institut Ludwig-Maximilians, Universität München. Sept. 2002.
• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, "The U.S. National Park System; the National Park Service; National Parks". Research paper. Sept. 2002.
• Enrique Alonso García, "El Conocimiento y la Aplicación del Derecho Ambiental, un Ejemplo Práctico: las Areas Protegidas Marinas, en Especial, las Areas Protegidas en Mar Abierto", en Desarrollo Sostenible y Protección del Medio Ambiente,Luis Piñar Mañas (Director), ed. Civitas. 2002.
• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, "Las ONGs Ambientales Norteamericanas". Research paper. Ene. 2003.
• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, "Relaciones España-EEUU: La Bomba de Palomares", Axarquia, Revista del Levante Almeriense, núm.8. 2003.
• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, "El Plan de Recuperación de la Nutria Marina de California: Ejemplo de Actuación de Conservación Sobre un Mar Territorial con Múltiples Usos e Intereses", Revista de Ecología Costera, Baja California, Vol.38, núm.4. Dic.2003.
• Enrique Alonso García, "Ayudas Económicas para la Protección del Medio Ambiente", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Enrique Alonso García, "Concepto de Medio Ambiente Como Objeto del Derecho: el Ámbito del Derecho Ambiental", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Enrique Alonso García, "Derecho de la Competencia y Medio Ambiente", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Enrique Alonso García, "Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006
• Enrique Alonso García, "Ética Ambiental y Derecho", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Enrique Alonso García, "Inspecciones Ambientales", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Enrique Alonso García, "Instrumentos Públicos para la Protección Ambiental, Caracterización General", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Enrique Alonso García, "Residuos Industriales y Especiales", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Enrique Alonso García, "Traslado de Residuos", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Enrique Alonso García y Pilar López de la Osa Escribano, "Conservación ex situ: Jardines Botánicos, Bancos de Germo-Plasma, y Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Carlos Javier Durá Alemañ, "Reservas Naturales Privadas. La Custodia del Territorio", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Alejandro Lago Candeira, "Comercio Internacional y Medio Ambiente", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Alejandro Lago Candeira, "Conferencias de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo: Estocolmo, Río, Johannesburgo", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Alejandro Lago Candeira, "Convenios Internacionales Sobre la Protección de la Naturaleza y la Biodiversidad", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Alejandro Lago Candeira, "Derecho Internacional del Medio Ambiente; Perspectiva General", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Alejandro Lago Candeira, "Paisaje; Protección", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Isabel López Noriega, "Contaminación Transfronteriza Atmosférica", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Isabel López Noriega, "Espacio Exterior", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Isabel López Noriega, "Sustancias y Preparados Peligrosos", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche y Enrique Alonso García, "Animales, Teoría General y, En Especial, Régimen de los Domésticos", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Amaya Sánchez Sánchez, "Desertificación", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Amaya Sánchez Sánchez, "Agricultura, Ganadería y Medio Ambiente", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Amaya Sánchez Sánchez, "Espacios Naturales Protegidos", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Francisco Silva Castaño y Enrique Alonso García, "Prevención de Riesgos y Accidentes Ambientales: las Directivas SEVESO", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Ana Tejedor Arceredillo y Mercedes Ortíz García, "Áreas Marinas Protegidas", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Ana Tejedor Arceredillo, "Convenios Internacionales Sobre Protección del Medio Marino", Diccionario de Derecho Ambiental, Enrique Alonso García y Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Directores), ed. IUSTEL. 2006.
• Paula Alonso Recarte, "1st International Workshop on Beluga Whale Research, Husbandry, and Management in Wild and Captive Enrvironments". 2007. Research paper.
• Enrique Alonso García, "La Ley de Responsabilidad Medioambiental a Vista de Pájaro desde el Prisma de la Comparación del Sistema Europeo con el Norteamericano", en Comentarios a la Ley de Responsabilidad Medioambiental (Ley 26/2007, de 23 de octubre), Lozano Cutanda Ed., Editorial Civitas. 2008
• Fernando González Botija, Miguel A. Recuerda, Pedro Díaz Peralta, Anselmo Martínez Cañellas, Lucía Roda Ghisleri, Alejandro Lago Candeira, Enrique Alonso García, Maria Rosa Martínez-Larrañaga, y Arturo Anadón, "Legal Regulation of Risk Analysis and Genetically Modified Foods", en European Food and Feed Law núm.4. 2009
• Alejandro Lago Candeira, Anselmo Martínez Cañellas, Miguel A. Recuerda, Enrique Alonso García, Fernando González Botija, Pedro Díaz Peralta, Lucía Rhoda Ghisleri, Maria Rosa Martínez Larrañaga, y Arturo Anadón, "GMOs and Resolution of Conflicts Under the WTO", en European and Feed Law, núm.4, 2009
• Anselmo Martínez Cañellas, Miguel A. Recuerda, Pedro Díaz Peralta, Fernando González Botija, Lucía Roda Ghisleri, Alejandro Lago Candeira, Enrique Alonso García, Maria Rosa Martínez-Larrañaga, y Arturo Anadón, "How GMO Administrative Regulations Affect the Private Balance between Seller and Buyer", en European Food and Feed Law, núm.4, 2009 
• Miguel A. Recuerda, Enrique Alonso García, Fernando González Botija, Pedro Díaz Peralta, Anselmo Martínez Cañellas, Alejandro Lago Candeira, Lucía Roda Ghisleri, Maria Rosa Martínez-Larrañaga, y Arturo Anadón, "Legal Regulation of Risk Analysis and Genetically Modified Foods", en European Food and Feed Law, núm.4, 2009
• Enrique Alonso García, "Introduction to International Environmental Law: Handbook with Cases and Materials for American Lawyers", Friends of Thoreau Program Series, núm.1, Ed. URJC-Friends of Thoreau, 2a. ed, 2009, ISBN: 84 95541 05 X
• Enrique Alonso García, y Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, "La Diversidad de Fundamentos de las Distintas Normas que Constituyen el Derecho del Bienestar Animal: La Ciencia Aplicada del Bienestar Animal y las Restantes Ciencias Cognitivas, los Paradigmas Filosóficos y Éticos del Bienestar Animal y los Movimientos Sociales con los que Dicha Ciencia Convive". Documento de la Ponencia Marco del Primer Encuentro Internacional sobre Protección y Bienestar Animal en la Producción Pecuaria. Talavera de la Reina, 12-13 de mayo, 2009.Ver Documento
• Lucía Roda Ghisleri, Arturo Anadón, Miguel A. Recuerda, Pedro Díaz Peralta, Fernando González Botija, Anselmo Martínez Cañellas, Alejandro Lago Candeira, Enrique Alonso García, y Maria Rosa Martínez-Larrañaga, "Risk Analysis and GM Foods: Scientific Risk Assessment", en European Food and Feel Law núm.4, 2009
• Enrique Alonso García y Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, Curso Máster de Medio Ambiente y Conservación de la Naturaleza en EEUU, 1a Parte: Historia Ambiental de EEUU, Tema 1: "De los Orígenes a la Guerra Civil", curso 2010-2011
• Enrique Alonso García y Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, Curso Máster de Medio Ambiente y Conservación de la Naturaleza en EEUU, 1a Parte: Historia Ambiental de los EEUU, Tema 2: "Finales del Siglo XIX a la Actualidad", curso 2010-2011
• Enrique Alonso García y Ana Recarte Vicente-Arche, "La Técnica Normativa En EEUU, en Particular la Elaboración de las Leyes", en La Técnica Normativa: una Necesidad para la Realización de la Justicia, Pablo García Mexía y Jaime Rodríguez Arana (directores), CEU Ediciones, 2010
• Enrique Alonso García, "La Reciente e Inminente Legislación Sobre Conservación y Uso Sostenible de la Biodiversidad del Medio Marino, ¿Celebración o Reto?", en Ambienta, núm.94, marzo 2011
• Alejandro Lago Candeira, "El Exito de una Ardua y Compleja Negociación: el Protocolo de Nagoya", en Ambienta, núm.94, marzo 2011
• Isabel López Noriega, en Toby Hodkin et al, "Biodiversidad Agrícola, Seguridad Alimentaria y Cambio Climático", en Ambienta, núm.94, marzo 2011
• Enrique Alonso García, "Bienestar de los Animales Como Seres Sensibles-Sintientes", en Los Principios Jurídicos del Derecho Administrativo, Juan Alfonso Santamaría Pastor ed. Ed. Dickinson, 2011
• Pilar López de la Osa Escribano, "Bienestar Animal en Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios como Instituciones de Conservaciónex situ. Estudio Comparado entre EEUU y Europa". Tesis Doctoral En Estudios Norteamericanos, Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá, abril 2011