CESNOVA

Researcher

PhD Full members

Francisco Paulo Viana Lima da Costa

Contacto: francisco.costa@fcsh.unl.pt

Academic qualification

2009 - Advanced Studies in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies. Title awarded by the University of Lisbon, the New University of Lisbon and the Technical University of Lisbon within the Doctoral Program called Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies.

2008 - PhD in Industrial, labor and organizational Sociology  - Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Dissertation: Globalização, Diversidade e Cidades Criativas. O contributo da imigração para as Cidades. O caso de Lisboa.

2003 - Master in Sociological History - Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Dissertation: Fronteiras da identidade. O caso dos macaenses em Portugal e em Macau.

1996 - Degree in Sociology - Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Affiliation

Researcher of CESNOVA

Member of the European Network of Excellence IMISCOE –  International Migration, Integration & Social Cohesion

Member of the international network METROPOLIS.

Areas of research

Migration

Climate change

Urban sustainability

Additional information

For the past fifteen years he is been working in the field of migrations and institutional change. He is now studying environmental transformations brought about by climate change and impacts on migratory dynamics. He is currently the leader of CLIMIGRA project – Climate change, land use and migration: building multilevel and multidisciplinary heuristic model to help preventing future migratory dynamics. CLIMIGRA project is an interdisciplinary group under way within a protocol between FCSH/UNL and Portuguese Meteorological Institute. The CLIMIGRA has researchers from FCSH/UNL, from Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere, Portuguese Superior Institute of Agriculture (ISA) and the University of Azores.

Projects

• Global Warming and New Migratory Flows

• Walk to school

• Climigra project

• Global Warming and New Migratory Flows

• IMISCOE research group (Environmental migrants in a world of environmental transformations: Debating the relations between environment, climate change and migration)

• State, school and diversity: capacity building, universality and procedural fairness

Publications

• Being your own boss. Entrepreneurship as a lever for migration?

• Environment, climate change and migratory Dynamics: Environmental causes and types of environmental migrants: a heuristic typology

• Fronteiras da Identidade: Macaenses em Portugal e em Macau

• Globalização, diversidade e novas classes criativas em Lisboa - Economia etnocultural e a emergência de um sistema de produção etnocultural

• Globalização, diversidade e novas classes criativas em Lisboa - Economia etnocultural e a emergência de um sistema de produção etnocultural

• Globalization, Ethnocultural Economy and Inclusion in Lisbon

• Historical Evidence for Climate Driven Migrations in Portuguese Fishing Community

• Imigração e diversidade cultural na cidade de Lisboa: a emergência de um mercado etnocultural e a produção de imagens urbanas

• Migrações e políticas de habitação em Lisboa: da primeira globalização ao século XXI

• Migrations and Environmental Transformations in the Anthropocene. A heuristic typology

• Should participation be seen as a common good? Local institutional capabilities for sustainable mobility

• Walking to school? Building local institutional capabilities for sustainable mobility in Lisbon. Top-down and bottom-up structures of civic participation in local administration

30 de Abril 2013