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Miguel Carmo is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA FCSH, since 2020. His work been focused on agriculture, forestry and food production between the early modern period and the 20th century at a crossroads between agricultural change, environmental history, and history of science. He has undergraduate studies in Environmental Engineering and an MSc degree in Landscape Ecology where he researched the ecological patterns of wildfire spread in northern Portugal. He also worked in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (2009-2013). Recently, he has been working in multidisciplinary teams on wildfires history and other rural uses of fire, rice cultivation and knowledge in the modern Atlantic, the wheat cycle in Portugal, soil science and fire meteorology. Since January 2022 he is Principal Investigator in the FIREUSES project.
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

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
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
2013/04/01 - 2018/11/21
Concluded
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)
Approved with Distinction by unanimity
2006/10/01 - 2009/06/19
Concluded
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)
Final average of 17 (0-20)
1998/09/12 - 2005/05/10
Concluded
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)
Final average of 15 (0-20)
2003/09/01 - 2004/02/17
Concluded
ERASMUS Mobility Program (Outros)
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Spain
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
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
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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

Contract

Designation Funders
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
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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
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
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Silva, Pedro; Carmo, Miguel; Rio, João; Novo, Ilda. "Evolution of the annual cycle of Burned Area in Portugal from 1980 to 2018: Implications for fire season management". In Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022, 1095-1100. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022.
    Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_165
Book review
  1. Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, Joana. "Os «Pretos do Sado». História e memória de uma comunidade alentejana de origem Africana (Séculos XV-XX) (The Black people from Sado)". Review of Os «Pretos do Sado». História e memória de uma comunidade alentejana de origem Africana (Séculos XV-XX) 9, 1 (2021): 276-283. http://mediacoes.ese.ips.pt/index.php/mediacoesonline/article/view/301.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Novo, Ilda; Silva, Álvaro; Alves, Daniela; Ferreira, João; Rio, João; Mendes, Manuel; Carmo, Miguel; et al. "Typical Weather Conditions of Large Wildfires in Portugal (1980–2018)". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk ICFBR2022 (3–6 May 2022), Alghero, 2022.
    10.3390/environsciproc2022017077
Conference paper
  1. Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, Joana; Ágoas, Frederico; Portela, Joana. Corresponding author: Queiroz, Ana Isabel. "The literary arsonist". Paper presented in Uncertain Landscapes - International Congress, Guimarães, 2023.
    Submitted
Conference poster
  1. Carmo, Miguel. "Cape Verde’s Maison Logique: A low-tech lab on water, energy, agriculture and housing". Paper presented in Seminar Acqualab: Le Tecnologie Appropriate Nell'Úso Dell’Acqua, 2010.
Dictionary entry
  1. Ágoas, Frederico; Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, Joana; Ferreira, José Miguel; Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Silva, Marta Nunes; Gomes, Inês; Direito, Bárbara. Corresponding author: Ágoas, Frederico. "Burning landscapes". In Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities. Duke University Press, 2023.
    Submitted
Journal article
  1. Silva, Pedro; Carmo, Miguel; Rio, João; Novo, Ilda. "Changes in the Seasonality of Fire Activity and Fire Weather in Portugal: Is the Wildfire Season Really Longer?". Meteorology 2 1 (2023): 74-86. https://doi.org/10.3390/meteorology2010006.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/meteorology2010006
  2. Sousa, Joana; Çinar, Can; Carmo, Miguel; Malagoli, Marco A. S.. "Social and historical dimensions of wildfire research and the consideration given to practical knowledge: a systematic review". Natural Hazards 114 2 (2022): 1103-1123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05460-2.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/s11069-022-05460-2
  3. Carmo, Miguel; Ferreira, João; Mendes, Manuel; Silva, Álvaro; Silva, Pedro; Alves, Daniela; Reis, Luís; Novo, Ilda; Xavier Viegas, Domingos. "The climatology of extreme wildfires in Portugal, 1980–2018: Contributions to forecasting and preparedness". International Journal of Climatology 42 5 (2021): 3123-3146. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7411.
    Open access • Published • 10.1002/joc.7411
  4. Carmo, Miguel; Domingos, Tiago. "Agricultural Expansion, Soil Degradation, and Fertilization in Portugal, 1873–1960: From History to Soil and Back Again". Social Science History 45 4 (2021): 705-732. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2021.28.
    Open access • Published • 10.1017/ssh.2021.28
  5. Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, Joana ; Varela, Pedro; Bívar, Manuel; Ventura, Ricardo. "African knowledge transfer in Early Modern Portugal: Enslaved people and rice cultivation in Tagus and Sado rivers". Diacronie, Studi di Storia Contemporanea 44 4 (2020): 44-66. https://www.studistorici.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03_SOUSA-BIVAR-CARMO-VARELA-VENTURA.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  6. Carmo, Miguel; García-Ruiz, Roberto; Ferreira, Maria Isabel; Domingos, Tiago. "The N-P-K soil nutrient balance of Portuguese cropland in the 1950s: The transition from organic to chemical fertilization". Scientific Reports 7 1 (2017): 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08118-3.
    Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41598-017-08118-3
  7. Carmo, Miguel; Catarina Rodrigues. "A Natureza enquanto Política: pensar a agricultura e a natureza na transformação rural do século XX português (Nature as Politics: reflecting on agriculture and nature in the rural transformation of the 20th century in Portugal)". CEM / Cultura, Espaço & Memória (ed. CITCEM, UPorto) 1 7 (2016): 87-111. https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/CITCEM/article/viewFile/4722/4411.
    Open access • Published
  8. Carmo, Miguel; Moreira, Francisco; Casimiro, Pedro; Vaz, Pedro. "Land use and topography influences on wildfire occurrence in northern Portugal". Landscape and Urban Planning 100 1-2 (2011): 169-176. https://www.repository.utl.pt/bitstream/10400.5/15953/1/REP-CEABN-FMOREIRA-1-s2.0-S0169204611000028-main.pdf.
    Published • 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.11.017
Magazine article
  1. Carmo, Miguel; Sousa, Joana ; Ventura, Ricardo; Varela, Pedro; Abrantes, Manuel. "Transferência de conhecimento tecnológico africano em Portugal durante a Modernidade (paper translated into Portuguese)", BUALA (www.buala.org), 2021, https://www.buala.org/pt/a-ler/transferencia-de-conhecimento-tecnologico-africano-em-portugal-durante-a-modernidade-pessoas-e.
Newspaper article
  1. Carmo, Miguel; Bívar, Manuel. "Discutir a floresta e natureza (Discussing the forest and the nature)", Jornal Mapa, 2015, http://www.jornalmapa.pt/2015/07/01/a-floresta-que-nos-resta/#comment-218.
Online resource
  1. Carmo, Miguel. Review of Correndo et al. (2021), Subsoil-potassium depletion accounts for the nutrient budget in high-potassium agricultural soils. 2021. https://www.qeios.com/read/QZ49I2.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Carmo, Miguel Costa do. "Soil and Agriculture in 20th Century Portugal: An environmental, historical and epistemological problem". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17510.
  2. Carmo, Miguel Costa do. "Land use and topography influences on wildfires occurrence in the northern Portugal". Master, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/53800.
  3. Carmo, Miguel. "Modeling of sediment transport in coastal environments (Modelação do Transporte de Sedimentos em Ambientes Costeiros).". Degree, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2005. http://www.mohid.com/publicdata/products/thesis/tfc_miguelcarmo.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
2021/12/20 The many landscapes of fire: concept and methodology Sob(re) a Paisagem 2021-2022 | Rotações da paisagem
IN2PAST (Guimarães, Portugal)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/01/06 - 2020/01/10 Attendance to the Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax
Workshop
Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2015/07/16 - 2015/07/18 Attendance to the VI Congresso de Estudos Rurais
Congress
VI Congresso de Estudos Rurais (VI Portuguese Rural Studies Congress)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2014/07/08 - 2014/07/12 Attendance to the 2nd World Conference of Environmental History - Environmental History in the Making
Conference
Second World Conference of Environmental History - Environmental History in the Making
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
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
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