Joana Almeida is ASSISTANT PROFESSOR at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she has been teaching: Urban and Regional Planning; Urban Planning; Planning Methodologies; Urban Projects and Real Estate Appraisal; Strategic Planning and Urban Governance; Real Estate Development, Appraisal and Management; Projects and Procurement; and Decision Theory and Management. She holds a PhD in Territorial Engineering (2013) (Title: “Tourism versus territory collaborative conflict management: The Troia-Melides Coast, Portugal”), a MSc in Regional and Urban Planning (2004), and graduation in Territorial Engineering from IST (1997). She holds a Postgraduate course in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, from the Faculty of Law at the New University of Lisbon. She is a RESEARCH MEMBER of CiTUA - Centre for innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture. Her recent RESEARCH PROJECTS include: i) “Percom – Equity and efficiency in the urbanisation process: a land readjustment execution model” and "MetroGov3C - Governance in Lisbon Metropolitan Area in a context of conflict, competition and cooperation", funded by the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology (FCT). ii) As principal investigator, "Tur&Bairros: Tourism & transformation of historic neighbourhoods. The Alfama Case Study" and "LxLAB - Monitoring tourism for a sustainable development of historic centres", funded by the Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability; iii) "TuriBEAT: Platform for monitoring tourism in Historic Neighbourhoods", funded by IST and Thales. Some RECENT PUBLICATIONS: a) Almeida J., Nunes da Silva F., Costa C. (2018) “Collaborative approach for tourism conflict management: a Portuguese case study”, Land Use Policy, volume 75, pages 166-179; b) Almeida J., Antunes Ferreira J., Condessa B., Tomé R., “Improving land readjustment practice. Application of management models to Portugal”, European Planning Studies, Volume 26, Issue 7, pages 1431-1449; c) Almeida, J., Nunes da Silva, F., Costa, C. (2017) "A framework for conflict analysis in spatial planning for tourism". Tourism Management Perspectives, Vol. 24, pp. 94-106; d) Almeida J., Nunes da Silva, F., (2018) "Different Understandings of 'Public Interest' as a Source of Conflict: Portuguese Spatial Planning and Practice", in Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning, Routledge. Finally, her CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS are: Negotiation and conflict management in spatial planning; Urban governance; Tourism impacts; Quality of life.