Iva Miranda Pires is an associate professor at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She holds a degree in Geography, from Universidade de Coimbra and a PhD in Human Geography, from Universidade de Lisboa. She teaches at the Sociology Department and coordinates the master and the PhD programs in Human Ecology. She is the President of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE). Her main scientific areas of research are human ecology and sustainable development and social and economic geography.

Research Interests:

Human and economic geography. Human ecology. Sustainable development. Food waste.

Main Projects:

• 2016-2019: "With Nature to Mutual Understanding", project Coordinator:  Lipka - skolske zarizeni pro environmentalni vzdelavani Brno, prispevkova organizasse, Czech Republic, Financed by Erasmus+ KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices. 2016-1-CZ01-KA204-024071 (31. 12. 2016 to 29. 6. 2019);
• 2016-2018: "Hacer las Europas: identidades, europeización, proyección exterior y relato nacional español en el proceso de integración europea", Proyecto HAR2015-64429-C2-1-P (MINECO/FEDER). Coordenação: Luis Domínguez Castro, Universidade de Vigo;
• 2010-2013: "RENCOSTAL, Regulações e Conflitos ambientais devidos à erosão costeira, Regulations and environmental conflicts due to coastal erosion", PTDC/CS-SOC/103202/2008, FCSH/LNEC (01-02-2010 a 09-08-2013);
• 2012: "PERDA, Projecto de Estudo e Reflexão sobre o Desperdício Alimentar", Prémio Ideias Verdes 2011, Fundação Expresso e Águas Luso (Janeiro a Dezembro de 2012, coordenação de Iva Pires, Sofia Vaz e Pedro Silva).

• Pires, Iva (2018) Desperdício Alimentar. Série Ensaios, nº86. Lisboa: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos;
• Bruckmeier, Karl; Pires, Iva (2018) Innovation as transformation – integrating the socio-ecological perspectives of resilience and sustainability, in Pinto, H.; Noronha, T.; Vaz, E. (Ed.) Resilience and Regional Dynamics: an International Approach to a New Research Agenda, cap 11, pp. 209-232. Regional Science Series. Switzerland: Spinger International. ISBN 978-3-319-95134-8; ISBN 978-3-319-95135-5 (e-Book);
• Horta, Marise; Cabral, Inês; Pires, Iva; Bachi, Laura; Luz, Ana; Fernandes, Geraldo; Drumond e Carvalho-Ribeiro, Maria (2018). Assessing Urban Ecosystem Services: Different Methodological Approaches Applied in Brazil, Germany, and Portugal. In I. Rosa, J. Lopes, R. Ribeiro, & A. Mendes (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Methods and Tools for Assessing Cultural Landscape Adaptation (pp. 183-220). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-4186-8.ch008;
• Pires, Iva (2017) Dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio aos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável: Das expetativas aos resultados, in Amado Ortiz, Maria José Aparício Meza e Ronaldo Alvim (Org.) Ecología humana contemporánea: apuntes y visiones en la complejidad del desarrollo, pp.59-86. San Lorenzo, Paraguay: FCA, UNA. ISBN 978-99967-831-4-2;
• Pires, Iva (2016) Structural Conditions to Overcome the Dilemma of Collective Action, in Magalhães, P., Steffen, W., Bosselmann, K., Aragão, A., Soromenho-Marques, V. (Ed.) SOS Treaty, The Safe Operating Space Treaty, A New Approach to Managing Our Use of the Earth System, pp. 246-261. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers. ISBN-13:978-1-4438-8903-2, ISBN-10:1-4438-8903-2.