Pedro Pinto Santos


Biography

PhD in Territory, Risk and Public Policies from the Universities of Aveiro, Coimbra and Lisbon, Master of Geosciences at the University of Coimbra and a degree in Physical Geography from the University of Lisbon. From 2011 to 2016 he was Junior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC) in the projects "Intermunicipal Risk Management Plan for the Coimbra Region", "MOLINES - Modelling floods in estuaries. From the hazard to the critical management" and "Disaster - GIS database on hydro-geomorphologic in Portugal: a tool for environmental management and emergency planning". Currently, he is a researcher in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa) in the project "FORLAND - Disastrous floods and landslides in Portugal: driving forces and applications for land use planning". His research interests focus on resilience, risk assessment and risk management, with particular interest in flood risk.


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Tavares, Alexandre Oliveira; Barros, José Leandro; Santos, Pedro Pinto; Mendes, José Manuel (2018), A new approach for social vulnerability in mainland Portugal área for risk mitigation, in Haugen, S.; Barros, A.; Gulijk, C. v.; Kongsvik, T.; Vinnem, J (org.), Safety & Reliability. Safe Societies in a Changing World. London: Taylor & Francis, 1719-1726

Article in Scientific journal

Barros, José; Tavares, Alexandre; Monteiro, Mário; Santos, Pedro (2018), "Peri-Urbanization and Rurbanization in Leiria City: the Importance of a Planning Framework", Sustainability, 10, 7, 2501

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Article in Scientific journal

Tavares, A. O.; Barros, J. L.; Mendes, J. M.; Santos, P.P.; Pereira, S. (2018), "Decennial comparison of changes in social vulnerability: a municipal analysis in support of risk management", International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31, 679-690

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