José Afonso Teixeira (joafteix@fcsh.unl.pt) is a Geographer and Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH (Department of Geography and Regional Planning). He is a member of CICS.NOVA - Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences (Research Group - Socio-Spatial Modeling and Planning). He coordinates the master program in Territorial Management. His research and publication interests are focused on Economic Geography and Regional Planning and Development. He currently develops consultancy work for the Public Administration and private firms, especially in Urban Retail Planning.

Research Interests:

Economic and Social Geography; Geography of Commerce and Services; Urban Retail Planning; Regional Planning and Development.

Main Projects:

• 1/10/2018- 30/09/2021 – FÉNIX - Regeneração Urbana Liderada Pelo Comércio e as Novas Formas de Governança  / PHOENIX-Retail-Led Urban Regeneration and the New Forms of Governance Projeto PTDC/GES-URB/31878/2017financiated by FCT, under orientation of Prof. Doctor Herculano Cachinho. [A FCSH é entidade parceira];
• 1/01/2010-1/01/2013 – CBNet - Redes Transfronteiriças de Relações entre Empresas: Norte de Portugal-Galiza e Alentejo-Extremadura /(CbNet)- Inter-Firm Cross-Border Networks in North of Portugal-Galicia and Alentejo-Extremadura. Projecto PTDC/CS-GEO/100409/2008, financiated by FCT, under orientation of Profª. Doctor Iva Miranda Pires, https://www.fct.pt/apoios/projectos/consulta/vglobal_projecto.phtml.en?idProjecto=100409&idElemConcurso=2775;
• 2004-2008 -  IBERMINT  - A Integração dos mercados ibéricos, um processo dependente e territorialmente diferenciado?" (IBERMINT) / "Iberian Market Integration -a dependent and territorially differentiated process?". Projecto POCTI/GEO/48477/2002, financiated by FCT, under orientation of Profª. Doctor Iva Miranda Pires;
• 1992-1994 - "Terciarização e mudanças espaciais. Reestruturação do comércio e serviços pessoais em Portugal" (Coord. Professora Doutora Teresa Barata Salgueiro); PCSH/C/GEO/140/91;
• 1988-1990 -"Terciarização e inovação social. Reestruturação organizativa e recomposição dos mercados de trabalho em diferentes contextos geográficos" (Coord. Professor Doutor João Ferrão); PMCT/GEO/410/87 (1988-90).

• Teixeira, José Afonso; Pombeiro, António (2018), “The role of Science Parks in territorial dynamics of innovation. The case of Madan Park (Almada, Portugal)” in Proceedings of the XLIV Meeting of Regional Science and the V Valencian Conference of Regional Science, Valência (Espanha): Asociación Española y Valenciana de Ciencia Regional, 19p. (ISBN: 978-84-09-05604-0);
• Teixeira, José Afonso, "Relacionamento e integração entre duas cidades de fronteira. Uma reflexão sobre a prática de cross border shopping em Elvas-Badajoz". In J. M. T. Santamaria e I. Pires (dir.), Fronteras en la investigación peninsular: temáticas y enfoques contemporáneos, Santiago de Compostela: Univ. Santiago Compostela, 2016, pp. 125-140. (ISBN 978-84-16954-16-2);
• Tomé, Ricardo, Teixeira, José Afonso, Pereira, Margarida, "(Re)organisation of Public Service Networks in Portugal from the Perspective of Territorial Resilience and Cohesion". In T. Noronha e H. Pinto (ed.), Innovation for Resilience. Faro: CIEO/Univ.Algarve, 2016, pp. 45-76. (ISBN: 978-989-8472-90-8);
• Teixeira, José Afonso, “Os Serviços” in Medeiros, Carlos Alberto (dir.) Geografia de Portugal, vol. 3 – Actividades Económicas e Espaço Geográfico, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2005, pp. 230-263. (ISBN 972-42-3657-9);
• Teixeira, José Afonso; Pires, Iva, "Entreprises de services dans le contexte des aires urbaines : le cas des entreprises espagnoles dans l’Aire Urbaine de Lisbonne" in Monnoyer, Marie-Christine ; Ternaux, Patrick, Mondialisation des Services. Innovation et dynamiques territoriales. Paris: L´Harmattan, 2007, pp. 221-242. (ISBN 978-2-296-04634-4).