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Social scientist, graduated at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil. 2007) and MSc in in Spatial Planning and Urbanism at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (IST/ULisboa. 2022). Currently PhD research fellow in Territorial Engineering at CiTUA - Centre for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture/IST investigating community-based approaches towards sustainable management of forests, under supervision of Professor Maria do Rosário Partidário. Experience as a consultant (2007-2024) in socio-territorial studies, community development plans, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Social and Environmental Impact Assessments (ESIA) and Due Diligence focused on community and social risk management for projects financed by the IFC/World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) based on Social and Environmental Performance Standards. Research in community-based approaches, Social Innovation Lab (SILab), Social Network Analysis (SNA), governance in socio-ecological systems (SES), and transformative approaches in natural resource management (NRM).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Guilherme Saad Ximenes
Date of birth
1982/03/06
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Saad, G.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6218-46E5-E552
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5554-0846

Email addresses

  • guilherme.saad@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/09 - 2026/09
Ongoing
 Programa Doutoral em Engenharia do Território e Planeamento Territorial (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/09 - 2022/09
Concluded
 Mestrado em Ordenamento do Território e Urbanismo - MOTU (Mestrado)
Major in Gestão do Território
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Social Network Analysis (SNA) and adaptive co-management to forest fires in Portugal: A case study of the Serra de Monchique, Algarve" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002 - 2007
Concluded
 Faculdade de Ciências Sociais (Graduado)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
 15
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/10/01 - 2027/09/30 Transition-oriented policies and transformative governance: na integrated approach in spatial planning through biodiversity valuing
UI/BD/154630/2023
10.54499/UI/BD/154630/2023
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/03 - 2024/03 BRIDGE - bringing science and local communities for forest fire risk reduction
PCIF/AGT/0072/2019
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/02 - 2022/05 TRUST - social innovation sTRategies for sUSTainability transitions
PTDC/GES-AMB/28591/2017
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2026/03/01 Centro for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture
UIDB/05703/2020
10.54499/UIDB/05703/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2023/03 - 2024/05 TRAGOF - Transformative Governance in Forest Territories for Fire Risk Reduction
CiTUA R&D Unit, ref. 10.54499/UIDB/05703/2020, with financial support from FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC)
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Partidario, Maria; Marques, Afonso; Soares, Ana; Felenchak, Anastasiya ; Antunes, Carla Rolo; Sousa e Silva, Delta; Saad, G.; et al. BRIDGE - Unir a Ciência e as Comunidades Locais para a Redução do Risco de Incêndios Florestais. Portugal. 2024.
Conference abstract
  1. Dias, Joana; Saad, G.; Soares, Ana; Partidario, Maria; Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Martins, Rute; Monteiro, Margarida. "Monchique's Social Innovation Laboratory - a space for dialogue and knowledge sharing to foster community-led disaster risk reduction in fire-prone areas". Paper presented in 16th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), Bern, 2024.
  2. Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Bernardo, Maria de Fátima Campos; Dias, Joana; Batista e Silva, Jorge; Soares, Ana; Bárbara, Martins; Saad, G.; et al. Corresponding author: Loupa Ramos, Isabel. "School children's risk perception and preparedeness: exploring wildfire risk in Portugal". Paper presented in 28th International Conference Association People-Environment Studies, Barcelona, 2024.
  3. Guilherme Saad; Joana Dias; Maria Partidário; Margarida B. Monteiro; Ana Soares; Lina Rojas; Nuno David. "Transformative Governance in Forest Territories for Fire Risk Reduction (TRAGOF)". 2024.
    10.5281/ZENODO.12546406
  4. Saad, G.; Dias, Joana; Partidario, Maria; Monteiro, Margarida; Soares, Ana; Rojas, Lina; David, Nuno. Corresponding author: Saad, G.. "Transformative Governance of Forest Territories for Fire Risk Reduction: Case study of Serra do Caldeirão, Portugal". Paper presented in 31st APDR Congress: Regional Innovation Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, Leiria, 2024.
  5. Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Bernardo, Maria de Fátima Campos; Dias, Joana; Batista e Silva, Jorge; Soares, Ana; Martins, Bárbara; Saad, G.; et al. "A valorização da escola na redução do risco de incêndio em Portugal". Paper presented in XXXI Colóquio da AFIRSE Portugal. Aprendizagem, Diversidade e Equidade: A Investigação em Educação, Lisboa, 2024.
  6. Dias, Joana; Guilherme Saad; Soares, Ana; Partidário, M.; Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Martins, Rute; Monteiro, Margarida. Corresponding author: Martins, Rute. "Monchique’s Innovation Laboratory: Space for Dialogue and Knowledge Sharing to Foster Community-led Disaster Risk Reduction in fire-prone areas". Paper presented in 16th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), Bern, 2024.
    Accepted
  7. Maria Rosario Partidario; Margarida B. Monteiro; Dias, Joana; Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Teresa Fidélis; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Catarina Madeira; et al. "TRUST - social innovation sTRategies for sUSTainability transitions". Paper presented in ISIRC 2023 - 15th International Social Innovation Research Conference, Guimarães, 2023.
    Accepted
  8. Margarida B. Monteiro; Maria Rosario Partidario; Dias, Joana; Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Teresa Fidélis; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Catarina Madeira; et al. "Potential of social innovation strategies to drive sustainability transitions". Paper presented in International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2023, Utrecht, 2023.
    Accepted
  9. Lopes dos Santos, G.; Margarida B. Monteiro; Saad, G.. Corresponding author: Margarida B. Monteiro. "The Network of Olympic Actors: Placing Hosts and Local Communities within the Governance of the World’s Biggest Sports Event". Paper presented in 35th AESOP Annual Congress, Lodz, 2023.
    Published
  10. Saad, G.; Maria Rosario Partidario. Corresponding author: Maria Rosario Partidario. "Social Network Analysis (SNA) and adaptive co-management to forest fires: a case study of Serra de Monchique, Portugal". Paper presented in 8th International Wildland Fire Conference, Porto, 2023.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.7785739
  11. Partidario, Maria; Dias, Joana; Saad, G.; Soares, Ana Paula; Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Martins, Rute; Margarida B. Monteiro. "Monchique's Innovation Laboratory - a space for dialogue and knowledge sharing to foster community-based disaster risk reduction in forest-prone areas". Paper presented in 8th International Wildland Fire Conference, Porto, 2023.
  12. Margarida B. Monteiro; Dias, Joana; Catarina Madeira; Teresa Fidélis; Maria Rosario Partidario; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Rivera, María; Guilherme Saad. "Experimenting social innovation for transformative change: comparison between six Portuguese initiatives". Paper presented in 12th International Sustainability Transitions Conference on Mainstreaming Sustainability transitions: From research towards impact, Karlsruhe, 2021.
    Published
  13. Partidario, Maria; Margarida B. Monteiro; Dias, Joana; Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Teresa Fidélis; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Madeira, Catarina; Rivera Méndez, María; Saad, G.. Corresponding author: Margarida B. Monteiro. "Experimenting social innovation for transformative change: insights from six Portuguese initiatives". Paper presented in 2th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Karlsruhe, 2021.
Conference paper
  1. Maria Rosario Partidario; Guilherme Ximenes; Margarida Monteiro; Rute Martins; Isabel Loupa Ramos; Joana Dias; Maria de Belém Freitas; et al. "BRIDGE – a participatory-action research project for community engagement in forest fire risk prevention". Paper presented in Conferência, 2022.
    Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9
  2. Saad, G.; Partidário, M.. "Análise da rede de atores na co-gestão adaptativa aos incêndios florestais em Portugal: estudo de caso de Monchique". Paper presented in e-book, 2022.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Dias, Joana; Saad, G.; Soares, Ana; Partidario, Maria; Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Martins, Rute; Monteiro, Margarida. "Monchique's Innovation Laboratory - A Space for Dialogue and Knowledge Sharing to Foster Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction". Fire (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7010001.
    10.3390/fire7010001
  2. Maria Partidário; Guilherme Saad; Margarida B. Monteiro; Joana Dias; Rute Martins; Isabel Loupa Ramos; Henrique Ribeiro; et al. "Using Participatory Mapping to Foster Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Forest Fire-Prone Areas: The Case of Monchique in Portugal". (2022): https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/records/_NF7DwV7A-IrtdhvAaH-sWJ24wkmTTAkyyHG.
    10.3390/fire5050146
Manual
  1. Dias, Joana; Saad, G.; Soares, Ana; Partidario, Maria. Roadmap do Laboratório de Inovação (InnoLab) do BRIDGE. 2024.
    10.5281/zenodo.11187402
  2. Saad, G.; Dias, Joana; Partidario, Maria. Mapeamento participativo de riscos e vulnerabilidade aos incêndios florestais (Guia Orientativo). 2024.
    10.5281/zenodo.10777823
  3. Dias, Joana; Loupa Ramos, Isabel; Martins, Rute; Saad, G.; Partidario, Maria. Guião de atividades desenvolvidas na escola em Monchique. 2022.
    https://zenodo.org/records/10888252
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Guilherme Saad Ximenes. "Social Network Analysis (SNA) and adaptive co-management to forest fires in Portugal: A case study of the Serra de Monchique, Algarve". Master, 2022. https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/records/wQ46yit0QgTg4vDjwM6y92V38c2iGRwg5C7m.
Activities

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2014/08 - 2019/09 Researcher of socio-economic and socio-territorial studies. Sustainable development plans, studies of vulnerable social groups, stakeholders engagement and socio-spatial analysis with Georeferenced Information Systems - GIS (QGIS). Socio-economic analysis for environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) and social audit (due diligence) for the assessment and management of social risks on projects financed by IFC and IIC/IDB. Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2019 - 2019 Technical coordination - socio-territorial studies of the traditional quilombola communities (CRQs) affected by the Industrial Complex Brumadinho, Brumadinho Bio Company - Goiás/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2019 - 2019 Socio-economic study of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Barro Alto Industrial Complex, Anglo American Company - Goiás/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2017 - 2019 Technical Coordination - Sustainability Projects (Corporate Shared Value for Sustainable - CSV) of the Delfina Wind Farm Complex, Enel Green Power Company - Campo Formoso, Bahia/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2018 - 2018 Technical coordination - socio-economic study of the communities located in risk areas (dambreak) of the Dam Sossego, Vale do Rio Doce Company (CVRD) - Canaã dos Carajás, Pará/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2018 - 2018 Technical coordination - socio-economic and socio-territorial of the Quilombola Community (CRQ) Pontal da Barra - Barra dos Coqueiros, Sergipe/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2018 - 2018 Socio-economic study of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Porto do Sergipe Thermoelectric Complex, Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe Company (CELSE) - Sergipe/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2018 - 2018 Elaboration of the Environmental Education Programme (PEA) of the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) of the Port Complex Pontal do Paraná, 3P Company - Pontal do Sul, Paraná/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2018 - 2018 Social Audit (Due Diligence) and Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) for compliance with Equator Principles of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the Moinhos de Vento Wind Farm Complex, Echoenergia Company - Sento Sé, Bahia/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2017 - 2017 Technical coordination - socioeconomic research of families affected by the LT 500kV and Connecting Bay, Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe (CELSE) - Sergipe/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2017 - 2017 Socio-economic and socio-territorial studies of the mining community Cipoeiro affected by Ouro Gurupi Mining Project, MCT Company - Centro Novo, Maranhão/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2017 - 2017 Elaboration of the Social Communication Programme (PCS) of the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) of the Thermoelectric Complex Porto do Sergipe, Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe (CELSE Company) - Sergipe/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2017 - 2017 Social Audit (Due Diligence) and Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) for compliance with Equator Principles of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the Bitiquara Wind Farm Complex, Echoenergia Company - Itarema, Ceará/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2016 - 2017 Social Audit (Due Diligence) and Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) for compliance with Equator Principles of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the Ventos do Araripe III Wind Farm Complex, Casa dos Ventos Company - Piauí e Pernambuco/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2016 - 2016 Socio-economic and socio-territorial studies of the mining communities Queixo Dantas and Bicas affected by Delfina Wind Farm Complex, Enerl Green Power Company - Campo Formoso, Bahia/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2016 - 2016 Socio-economic study of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Waste Landfill Caieiras, CTVA Essencis Company - Caieiras, São Paulo/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2015 - 2015 Socio-economic study of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Industrial Waste Landfill CSA, Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) - Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2015 - 2015 Technical coordination - study for the feasibility of urban infrastructure for the construction of the real estate project, Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN Company) - Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2015 - 2015 Elaboration of the Social Communication Programme (PCS) of the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) of the Delta 3 Wind Farm Complex, Ômega Energia Company - Barreirinhas, Maranhão/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2007/08 - 2014/08 Socioeconomic and socio-territorial studies, Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), social research with quantitative and qualitative methodologies, participatory diagnoses, social communication, stakeholder’s engagement, local sustainable development projects, socio-educational workshops and environmental education. AMPLA Projects and Services in Environment, Brazil
2014 - 2014 Socio-economic study of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Mining Project Argilito, São Martinho Company - Iracemápolis, São Paulo/BR Sosyal - Socio-environmental Projects, Brazil
2013 - 2013 Technical coordination - socio-economic research of the communities affected by the Alto Sertão III Wind Farm Complex and extension of the access routes to the Alto Sertão II Wind Farm Complex, Renova Company - Bahia/BR AMPLA Projects and Services in Environment, Brazil
2013 - 2013 Technical coordination - socio-economic study of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Fotovoltaic Solar Plant of Caetité, Renova Company - Caetité, Bahia/BR AMPLA Projects and Services in Environment, Brazil
2013 - 2013 Socio-economic study of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Waste Landfill CPTR Marituba, Revita Company - Marituba, Pará/BR AMPLA Projects and Services in Environment, Brazil
2012 - 2012 Socioeconomic study of the Socio-environmental Risk Assessment Report (RARS) of the Itabuna Waste Landfill, Solvi Group Company - Itabuna e Ilhés, Bahia/BR AMPLA Projects and Services in Environment, Brazil
Distinctions

Other distinction

2022 Academic Merit Diploma 2022 - Master Degree in Territorial Management and Urban Studies
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 Academic Merit Diploma 2021 - Master Degree in Territorial Management and Urban Studies
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal