JP (Joao) Carvalho Nunes, PhD

I study the link between hydrological processes, soil erosion and water contamination, and land  and water management; i.e., socio-hydrological systems. I specialize in analyzing how disturbances – short-term, high-magnitude disturbances such as wildfires or severe droughts; or longer-term climatic and land-use changes – affect socio-hydrological impacts as a whole. I am particularly interested on how land management can exacerbate or mitigate negative impacts, especially through nature-based solutions.

My main tool is hydrological modelling, coupled with field and satellite data for robustness, and with climate and land-use models for scenario assessment. Mos of my work has been done in the Mediterranean, but I also have some experience with China, Indonesia and northern Europe. I increasingly link my models with socio-economic research about land and water management processes, from farms to water resource use, aiming to account for both the biophysical and socioeconomic components of global change in land and water management.

• International Soil and Water Conservation Research (1-1-2019/31-12-2099)
  Membership of the ISWCR editorial board. ISWCR is an international, open access journal listed in the SCI.
• Portuguese Water Resources Association (1-1-2018/31-12-2099)
  Member of the Specialized Commission on Water, Agriculture and Forests. This is a group of Portuguese experts from academia and the agriculture sector, tasked with organizing scientific and technical dissemination activities on these topics.
• University of Lisbon (1-1-2026/31-12-2099)
  Collaborate with researchers from cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon) in ongoing research projects about Mediterranean hydrology and soils.