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 an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon (IGOT-ULisboa). His research interests focus on resilience, risk assessment and risk management, with particular interest in flood risk.


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Santos, Pedro Pinto; Pereira, Susana; Rocha, Jorge; Reis, Eusébio; Santos, Mónica; Oliveira, Sérgio Cruz; Garcia, Ricardo A. C.; Melo, Raquel; Zêzere, José Luís (2022), "The role of susceptibility, exposure and vulnerability as drivers of flood disaster risk at the parish level", Environmental Earth Sciences, 81, 19

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Article in Scientific journal

Santos, Pedro Pinto; Pereira, Susana; Zêzere, José Luís; Tavares, Alexandre Oliveira; Reis, Eusébio; Garcia, Ricardo A.C.; Oliveira, Sérgio Cruz (2020), "A comprehensive approach to understanding flood risk drivers at the municipal level", Journal of Environmental Management, 260, 110127

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