A5001816873- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Heavy metals in environment
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
2016-2025
Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society
2016-2025
Bolin Centre for Climate Research
2020-2024
Stockholm University
2019-2024
National Observatory of Athens
2020-2024
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
2023-2024
University of Aveiro
2013-2023
University of Nairobi
2023
University of Tasmania
2023
Université Paris Cité
2019
Identification of flood-prone sites in urban environments is necessary, but there insufficient hydraulic information and time series data on surface runoff. To date, several attempts have been made to apply deep-learning models for flood hazard mapping areas. This study evaluated the capability convolutional neural network (NNETC) recurrent (NNETR) mapping. A flood-inundation inventory (including 295 flooded sites) was used as response variable 10 flood-affecting factors were considered...
Wetlands are multifunctional systems performing as nature-based solutions (NBS) for water management. This paper provides an overview of natural and constructed wetlands their potential to support the regulation hydrological fluxes quality. can modulate peak flows by storing runoff slowly releasing it over time, with positive impacts on soil moisture. They also change overall balance influencing evapotranspiration, infiltration, groundwater recharge. enhance resilience a catchment floods...
The pressing issue of global warming is particularly evident in urban areas, where thermal islands amplify the effect. Understanding land surface temperature (LST) changes crucial mitigating and adapting to effect heat islands, ultimately addressing broader challenge warming. This study estimates LST city Yazd, Iran, field high-resolution image data are scarce. assessed through parameters (indices) available from Landsat-8 satellite images for two contrasting seasons—winter summer 2019 2020,...
Urbanization and climate changes have direct impacts on ecosystems the services they provide to society, thus influencing human well-being health. Urban sprawl may conflict with ecosystem services, e.g. enhancing water-related stresses risks of, e.g., droughts floods, significant economic, environmental societal impacts. Such hydro-climatic extremes their are evident around world. East Africa is a region highly vulnerable populations frequent floods droughts. To achieve long-term sustainable...
Abstract Floods in urban environments often result loss of life and destruction property, with many negative socio-economic effects. However, the application most flood prediction models still remains challenging due to data scarcity. This creates a need develop novel hybridized based on historical events, using, e.g., metaheuristic optimization algorithms wavelet analysis. The examined this study (Wavelet-SVR-Bat Wavelet-SVR-GWO), designed as intelligent systems, consist support vector...
Flooding may damage important transportation infrastructures, such as roads, railways and bridges, which need to be well planned designed able withstand current possible future climate-driven increases in flood frequencies magnitudes. This study develops a novel approach predictive statistical modelling of the probability flooding at major road-stream intersection sites, where water, sediment debris can accumulate cause failure drainage facilities associated road damages. Two areas...
Ongoing urban expansion may degrade natural resources, ecosystems, and the services they provide to human societies, e.g., through land use water changes feedbacks. In order control minimize such negative impacts of urbanization, best practices for sustainable development must be identified, supported, reinforced. To accomplish this, assessment methods tools need consider couplings feedbacks between social ecological systems, as basis improving planning management development. Collaborative...
Urban green spaces (UGS) deliver a wide range of regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services (CES), relevant to support the achievement some United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., Goal 11: sustainable cities communities, 3: good health well-being). However, knowledge preferences uses UGS by urban dwellers is still lacking. This study assesses CES perceived different users in five distinct parks located Coimbra, Portugal: Manuel Braga (secular park), Botanical...
Nature-based solutions (NBS) can act as a valuable complement to conventional 'grey' infrastructure for stormwater management (e.g. dams and dikes) in reducing flood risks, these 'green' are perceived be more flexible multifunctional. However, achieve effective NBS, multi-actor approach developing appropriate measures specific sites is required, NBS occupy space than often overlap with private land. also necessitate multidisciplinary approach, maximise environmental, social economic...
Abstract Relatively few studies have so far investigated the hydrological impacts of urbanization in Mediterranean catchments, and particularly peri‐urban catchments experiencing relatively rapid large changes their land‐use mosaic. This study uses data‐based model simulations to investigate such impacts, with Ribeira dos Covões catchment Portugal as a concrete example. We distinguish from those climatic change on water flux partitioning connectivity over period 1958–2013. Decrease...
Abstract Human-induced urban growth and sprawl have implications for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that may not be included in conventional GHG accounting methods. Improved understanding of this issue requires use interactive, spatial-explicit social–ecological systems modeling. This paper develops a comprehensive approach to modeling from developments, considering Stockholm County, Sweden as case study. projections 2040 with system model yield overall greater than simple extrapolations...
Urbanization alters natural hydrological processes and enhances runoff, which affects flood hazard. Interest in nature-based solutions (NBS) for sustainable mitigation adaptation to urban floods is growing, but the magnitudes of NBS effects are still poorly investigated. This study explores potential hazard a small peri-urban catchment central Portugal, prone flash driven by urbanization short intense rainfall events typical Mediterranean region. Flood extent depth assessed manually coupling...