Author Biography
Lúcia Fernandes is recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship (SFRH/BPD/79933/2011) supported by Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (Portugal). Lúcia de Oliveira Fernandes holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She concluded a Master of Social Sciences, specialized in Environmental Policies, at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has conducted research and published in interdisiciplinary journals. She currently works in a post-doc joint project between SOCIUS-Research Centre in Economic and Organizational Sociology, University of Lisbon, and CES-Center for Social Sciences, University of Coimbra. The project addresses environment, health and citizens mobilization in Transition experiences in Portugal and other sustainability experiences. Other research topics relate to environmental conflicts in Portugal. She co-coordinated the project
EJ atlas Portugal, and co-coordinates the project
PaeM-Portugal: Environment on the move.
