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Benedita Milheiro Santos
Benedita Milheiro Santos
Senior Researcher
Center for Climate Change and Transformation
About
About:
- 2021 - MSc. Energy Efficiency 4.0 & Climate Emergency
- 2016 - Dr. Geography, Territorial Planning & Environmental Management
- 2009 - MSc. Geography, Territorial Planning & Environmental Management
- 2006 - Lic. Physical Geography, Territorial Planning
Interests:
- Cryosphere; Snow paramenters
- Mountain Environments
- Climate Change Risks & Impacts
- Climate Change Mitigations & Adaptations
- Communities’ Resilience
- Energy Communities and Cooperatives
- Energy Poverty and Local Policies
- Positive Energy Districts (PED)
- Smart Cities
- Nature-Based Solutions
- Sustainable Mobility
- Urban Air Quality, Urban Heat Islands
- EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment
- Energy Efficiency
- Passive Architecture
- Urban waste management
- Urban water management
- Products Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Decarbonization / GHG Protocol
Latest Projects:
- 2023 - European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) - looks into Climate risks, vulnerabilities, impact-chains and EU policies which are analyzed at European level; it aims to leverage police makers into better informed decisions in Climate Change Adaptations;
- 2021-2022 - AlpSnow project - we look into snow parameters: albedo, snow grain size, Snow coverage fraction, SWE... through satellite imagery;
- 2020-2021 - Huella Covid project - aimed to analyze the impact of Covid-19 in the energy consumption and carbon footprint of 4 Chilean cities during and after lockdown measures.