Experience & Competences

Experience


  • Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Regional Science Policy & Practice (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802)

  • SADF’s Regional Co-operation Research Programme Director (http://sadf.eu/new/);

  • Coordinator of the Group for Nature Conservation and Management at the Azores University, in Angra, Portugal (www.ggcn.uac.pt/en/);

  • Member of the Research Centre for Applied Economics of the Atlantic based in Ponta Delgada (www.ceeapla.uac.pt);

  • Coordinator of the Master on the Management of Nature Conservation (www.ggcn.uac.pt/mgcn_eng/index2.html);

  • Co-Coordinator of the PhD on Interdisciplinary Management of the Landscape (joint PhD with the University of Évora and the Technical University of Lisbon) (http://www.icaam.uevora.pt/ensino/doutoramentos/PhD-on-Interdisciplinary-Landscape-Management);

  • Lecturer on: economics (undergraduate); regional and urban economics (undergraduate, master and doctorate programmes), environmental economics (master), cost-benefit analysis (master) and agricultural economics (undergraduate) (www.uac.pt);

  • More than ten year experience in cooperation projects with Cape-Vert, Angola, East Timor and São Tomé e Principe

  • Research group, involving around ten researchers undertake studies on regional sustainable development, integrated water management, marine resources’ economics, agricultural economics and cost-benefit analysis (www.angra.uac.pt/ggcn/en/index.html);

  • Director Executive of the Regional Science Association International (www.regionalscience.org);

  • President of the Azores Association for Science and Development (www.acda.pt);

  • Was President of the Portuguese Association for Regional Development (www.apdr.pt);

  • Was Member of the European Organizing Committee (EOC) (ersa.org);

  • Was Director of a daily newspaper a União 2000-2007

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