Rosário Oliveira is a landscape architect, with an European PhD in Arts and Techniques of Landscape. She has reconciled teaching and research at 6 universities, taught 16 courses and supervised 24 postgraduate candidates. She is a researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais – Universidade de Lisboa (Environment, Territory and Society research group). Her research seeks to respond to societal challenges, in particular the climate emergency, food planning and biodiversity loss, through transformative processes and nature based solutions that integrate science, public policies and action, with a positive impact on human well-being, the economy, environmental and landscape quality. She believes in the power of nature and on the creativity as a robust tool that human beings have at their disposal to build a healthier, more beautiful and fairer world. As a researcher and citizen, she seeks to contribute to a better informed, tolerant, collaborative and entrepreneurial society for the 'common good'.