CETRAD invites
As part of CETRAD’s PhD Programme, Development, Societies and Territories, CETRAD is organizing a Doctoral Conference on the theme: Regional Science: Research gaps and opportunities for PhD students.
Next January 25, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in auditorium B0.02 of the UTAD Laboratory Complex.
The Doctoral Conference will offer the contribution of two editor-in-chiefs of reference scientific journals contributing to the international advances in the state of the art on the regional sciences and on the regional development research:
José Cadima Ribeiro (Editor-in-Chief of Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais (RPER))
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho (Editor-in-Chief of Regional Science Policy & Practice)
Programme:
9:30 – 9:45h Opening session
9:45 – 11:00h Presentations: José Cadima Ribeiro & Tomaz Dentinho
11:00 –11:15 Coffee break
11:15–12:30 Open discussion, facilitated by the Conference Chair LÃvia Madureira
The doctoral conference is freely open to all participants, no registration is needed
Biographic notes
José Cadima Ribeiro is Full Professor of the Economics Department of the School of Economics and Management (EEG) of the University of Minho (UMinho) since February 18, 1999. He completed his Aggregation Examinations in the Disciplinary Group of Economics at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho on the 16th and 17th of November 1994. He has a Doctorate in Economic and Business Sciences (specialising in Economic and Social Development and Public Economics) from the University of Minho, since July 1989. He has a degree in Economics from the Instituto Superior de Economia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (currently, University of Lisbon), since August 1980.
Tomás Ponce Dentinho has a Degree in economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (1975-1980); Three years of the Agronomy course and two years of the Course in Landscape Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon (1976-1979); Master in economics, specializing in regional economics, from the Higher Institute of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon (1985-1987). PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1990-1994). Postgraduate studies in Environmental Economics from the Harvard Institute for International Development (1999). Professor at the University of the Azores since 1987. Research themes include regional economics, urbanism, operational research, environment and agriculture.
LÃvia Madureira associate professor with habilitation at the UTAD (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro) and senior researcher at CETRAD (Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies). She got her Ph.D. in environmental and land economics in 2003, with research that has combined different non-market economic valuation methods to value rural landscape attributes aiming at contributing to innovative solutions for sustainable rural development by incorporating public preferences in land use policy design and evaluation. She is an interdisciplinary researcher by background and experience, skilled with both quantitative and qualitative methods, including mixed methods combining both. Her current research topics are innovation and sustainability studies, with numerous applications to understand the individual and deliberative decision-making processes of farmers, consumers, policy-makers, and citizens toward sustainable options and how to foster sustainable development processes and sustainability transitions at the territorial scale.
