Ecosystem services as a language to talk about sustainability

Prof. Paula Antunes

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Paula Antunes has a degree in Environmental Engineering (5 years) and a PhD in Environmental Systems from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she has been a lecturer since 1982. She teaches Environmental Management, Corporate Environmental Management, Ecological Economics and Sustainability Science both in MSc and PhD programs (Environmental Engineering MSc Program, European Master in System Dynamics and Environment PhD Program). She was the Head of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering in the period 2006-2009 and the Director of CENSE – Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research in the period 2007 - 2013. Her research interests are focused in ecological economics with an emphasis in sustainability assessment, system dynamics modelling, environmental management and methods and tools for stakeholder engagement in environmental planning and decision support. She is Associate Editor of Ecological Economics and has been Vice-President of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) between 2006-2009 and has served in the board of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) (2002-2004). She was a member of the Portuguese Council for Sustainable Development between 2009-2011 and of the Scientific Council for Natural Resources and the Environment of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2010 – 2013).