Curriculum Vitae
Miguel Costa do Carmo
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Miguel Costa do Carmo
Citation names
- Carmo, Miguel
- Carmo, Miguel Costa
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F714-EF0C-F454
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4784-5997
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=3sj5XJAAAAAJ
Email addresses
- miguelcarmo@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
- miguelccarmo@gmail.com (Professional)
Addresses
- Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA FCSH, Av. Berna, 26 C , 1069-061, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/miguel-carmo/ (Scholar)
- https://projetos.dhlab.fcsh.unl.pt/s/fireuses_en/page/welcome (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
- Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Forestry
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Climatic Research
- Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
- Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Soil Science
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
| Creole and Pidgin, Portuguese-based (Other) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2013/04/01 - 2018/11/21
Concluded
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Doctoral Programme in Agriculture Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Soil and Agriculture in 20th Century Portugal: An environmental, historical and epistemological problem (Solo e Agricultura
no Século XX Português: Um problema ambiental, histórico e epistemológico)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved with Distinction by unanimity |
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2006/10/01 - 2009/06/19
Concluded
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Master in Land-use Management (Gestão do Território) (Mestrado)
Major in Environment and Natural Resources (Ambiente e Recursos Naturais)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Land use and topography influences on wildfires occurrence in the northern Portugal (Influência do uso do solo e topografia
na ocorrência de incêndios rurais no Norte de Portugal)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Final average of 17 (0-20) |
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1998/09/12 - 2005/05/10
Concluded
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Environmental Engineering degree (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Modeling sediment transport in coastal environments (Modelação do Transporte de Sedimentos em Ambientes Costeiros)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Final average of 15 (0-20) |
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2003/09/01 - 2004/02/17
Concluded
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ERASMUS Mobility Program (Outros)
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Spain
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2021/04/01 - 2024/03/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal |
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal | ||
| 2019/07/01 - 2021/03/31 | Researcher (Research) | Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
| Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal | ||
| 2013/04/01 - 2018/11/21 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal | ||
| 2012/08/01 - 2013/01/30 | Researcher (Research) | Terraprima, Serviços Ambientais Lda (Environmental and Agricultural Services), Portugal |
| 2007/03/02 - 2008/02/04 | Science and Technology Management | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2011/08/01 - 2018/03/30 | Non-profit organization coordination | Non-profit organization Chão-de-Gente (chaodegente.wix.com/chaodegente), Portugal |
| 2011/11/15 - 2012/07/15 | NGDO contract | VIDA - Voluntariado Internacional para o Desenvolvimento Africano (NGDO, International Volunteering for African Development), Portugal |
| 2009/09/15 - 2010/02/01 | Private company contract | Impacto, Projectos e Estudos Ambientais (www.impacto.co.mz) led by Mia Couto., Mozambique |
| 2009/08/10 - 2009/09/15 | Voluntary work | Congregation of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters, Mozambique |
| Congregation of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters, Mozambique | ||
| 2008/02/28 - 2009/05/30 | Semi-public company contract | Lisboa-e-Nova, Energy and Environment Agency of Lisbon (www.lisboaenova.org), Portugal |
| 2005/11/01 - 2006/02/18 | Private company contract - gardener | VerVida, Lda, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/04/01 - 2024/03/31 | Planting fire, banning fire: The disputed historical grounds of large wildfires in Portugal, 1950-2020
UIDB/04209/2020
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2013/04/01 - 2017/03/31 | Soil and Agriculture in 20th Century Portugal: An environmental, historical and epistemological problem
SFRH/BD/90106/2012
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2022/01/17 - 2025/01/16 | FIREUSES | Burning landscapes: A political and environmental history of the large wildfires in Portugal (1950-2020)
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2019/07/01 - 2021/03/31 | FIRESTORM - Meteorology and Fire Storms Behavior.
Research Fellow
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Aerodinâmica Industrial, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2016/11/01 - 2019/12/31 | Amílcar Cabral, from Political History to Politics of Memory (Amílcar Cabral, da História Política às Políticas da Memória)
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2007/03/02 - 2008/02/04 | FPF - Recuperação de Áreas Ardidas (Recovery of Burnt Areas)
Other
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, Portugal
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Fundo Florestal Permanente (IFADAP/INGA)
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Book review |
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| Conference abstract |
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| Conference paper |
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| Conference poster |
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| Dictionary entry |
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| Journal article |
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| Magazine article |
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| Newspaper article |
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| Online resource |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/08/24 | The burning landscapes of Monchique: in search of a people's history of extreme fires in the mountains of southern Portugal | Mountains and Plains: 12th European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference
University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
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| 2023/06/28 | Pyrostories: New Historical Insights from Portuguese Literature | Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
Sorbonne Université, Faculte des Lettres (Paris, France)
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| 2023/06/03 | The strange case of white rice in Maranhão: the plantation and its contraries from a long-term transatlantic perspective | Environmental Impact of the Portuguese Empire
King's College London (Francisco Bethencourt) (United Kingdom)
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| 2023/05/31 | The political economy of the colour of rice: Reconstructing a process of Atlantic significance | Riso. Colture e culture in Europa e nel Mediterraneo
Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
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| 2022/11/22 | Burning landscapes: a political history of the large fires in Portugal, 1950-2020 - Project concepts and methodologies | Contemporary History course
Faculdade de Letras - UL, Ignacio Pereda (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/06/27 | African knowledge and rice cultivation in the Sado region | Summer School "Plantation Europe"
Institute of Social Sciences (ERC project The Colour of Labour) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2022/05/05 | Typical weather conditions of large wildfires in Portugal (1980-2018) | International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk ICFBR2022
Institute of Bioeconomy of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR IBE, Sassari) (Alghero, Sardinia , Italy)
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| 2021/12/20 | The many landscapes of fire: concept and methodology | Sob(re) a Paisagem 2021-2022 | Rotações da paisagem
IN2PAST (Guimarães, Portugal)
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| 2020/02/14 | Extreme Wildfires in Portugal in a changing climate: Driving weather conditions and air quality impacts | 1º Workshop de Projetos de Investigação Científica no âmbito da Prevenção e Combate a Incêndios Florestais
Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI), University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2018/07/11 | Agricultural expansion and soil degradation in Portugal, 1873-1960: Agricultural history or soil history? | 6.º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT) (Almada, Portugal)
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| 2015/11/06 | Nature as Politics: a historical exercise on Portuguese agricultural production (A natureza enquanto política: um exercício histórico em torno da produção agrícola portuguesa) | IV Encontro CITCEM: Cruzar Fronteiras, Ligar as Margens da História Ambiental (4th CITCEM Conference: Connecting Edges of
Environmental History)
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Porto University (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2015/11/03 | The transition from organic to chemical fertilization in Portugal: A historical nutrient balance of agricultural soil (1951-56). | Workshop on Nutrients management in the transition to industrial metabolic regimes
Agro-Ecosystems History Laboratory, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Carmona, Spain)
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| 2015/09/07 | A historical nutrient balance of agricultural soil in Portugal (1951-56). Can the soil fertility be a subject of history? | International conference Rural History 2015
University of Girona (Girona, Spain)
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| 2014/06/10 | For an Environmental History of Agriculture in Alentejo - A Nutrient balance of Portuguese agriculture (1850-2010) | Workshop on Social and Environmental Metabolism
Agro-Ecosystems History Laboratory, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain)
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| 2012/07/05 | Water supply in Guinea-Bissau: A cooperative and technological experience (Abastecimento de água na Guiné-Bissau: Uma experiência cooperativa, comunitária e tecnológica) | II COOPEDU - Cooperação e Educação: África e o Mundo (Cooperation and Education: Africa and the World)
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE–IUL), Centro de Estudos Africanos (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2007/10/18 | The Black Tides of Sines. Characterization of oil spills (As Marés Negras de Sines, Caracterização dos Derrames de Petróleo) | VI Congresso da Geografia Portuguesa (VI Congress of Portuguese Geography)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (LIsboa, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/01/01 - 2023/01 | FIREUSES seminar: first results on the socio-ecological dynamics of rural fires in Portugal (2023/01/31 - 2023/01/31)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal |
| 2023 - 2023 | Panel at the 12th ESEH Conference entitled Memories, stories and measures of burning landscapes (2023/08/22 - 2023/08/26)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universität Bern, Switzerland |
| 2022/07/01 - 2022/12/18 | Decolonial histories of knowledge, technology and environment - Late summer seminar by IHC and Drexel University (2022/09/12 - 2022/09/13)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal Drexel University, United States |
| 2015/06/01 - 2015/11/05 | Seminar Contemporary Critical Thinking and Nature (Curso de Pensamento Crítico e Natureza) (2015/10/15 - 2015/11/05)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Unipop colective, Portugal |
| 2014/09/15 - 2015/09/10 | Conference panel at the 2015 Rural History - The Socio-ecological Transition of Mediterranean Agriculture from a soil fertility
point of view (1750-2010). (2015/09/07 - 2015/09/10)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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2015 Rural History Conference, Spain |
| 2011/10/01 - 2012/09/06 | Encontros do Rio – Desenvolvimento, ciência, comunidade e utopias em Tavira (River Encounters: Development, Science, Community
and Utopias in Tavira) (2012/05/25 - 2012/06/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal Non-profit organization Chão-de-Gente (chaodegente.wix.com/chaodegente), Portugal |
| 2006/09/10 - 2006/09/10 | Consequências Sociais da Desertificação (Social Consequences of Desertification)
(2006/09/10 - 2006/09/10)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Biblioteca-Museu República e Resistência, Portugal |
| 2005/12/01 - 2005/12/30 | A Floresta e o Litoral – conferências sobre ambiente e território (The Forest and the Coast - Conferences on environment and
territory) (2005/12/17 - 2005/12/17)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Biblioteca-Museu República e Resistência, Portugal |
| 2002/05/17 - 2002/05/17 | Alterações Climáticas. E Portugal? (Global climate change and Portugal) (2002/05/17 - 2002/05/17)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2020/01/06 - 2020/01/10 | Attendance to the Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax
Workshop
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Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2015/07/16 - 2015/07/18 | Attendance to the VI Congresso de Estudos Rurais
Congress
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VI Congresso de Estudos Rurais (VI Portuguese Rural Studies Congress)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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| 2014/07/08 - 2014/07/12 | Attendance to the 2nd World Conference of Environmental History - Environmental History in the Making
Conference
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Second World Conference of Environmental History - Environmental History in the Making
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2021/02/01 - Current | Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) | Member |
| 2018/01/01 - Current | Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Rurais (Portuguese Society for Rural Studies) (SPER) | Member |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2007/03/02 - 2008/02/04 | English-Portuguese translation of scientific articles within the project Recovery of Burnt Areas (supported by the Permanent Forest Fund - IFADAP/INGA, 2004-2009) | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Prof Baeta Neves, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/09/16 - 2023/01/31 | Uses of fire in the Serra de Monchique from the local press (1950-1990) | Uses of fire in the Serra de Monchique from the local press (1950-1990) (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |