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Delta Sousa e Silva. The general domain of specialization is on environmental sociology and risk issues, studying the patterns of interaction between the environment and society. The specific domain of specialization is concerned with the study of patterns natural hazards mitigation, human vulnerabilities towards risk, protective behaviours and public risk perception. Major present research interests are concerned with going further on the analysis of societal vulnerabilities towards environmental risks and natural hazards. More specifically, risk communication action-research processes, testing and assessing participatory methodologies, social vulnerability analysis and integration of risk mitigation in land-use planning. Research interests and research activities pursued in the last years have surpassed the specific domain of specialization. Given this, knowledge of patterns of interaction between environment and society has been pursued through the analysis of other empirical objects (e.g. urban risks). Besides, research experience has been achieved through the participation in projects concerned with populations facing the risk of social exclusion. These other research interests and activities have been valuable for gaining research experience, namely as far as it concerns research methodologies, public inquiry techniques, data analysis, and advanced statistical procedures.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Delta Sousa e Silva

Citation names

  • Silva, Delta

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
591A-9ACA-EA9F

Email addresses

  • delta@lnec.pt (Professional)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2010
Concluded
 Sociologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Gestão do Risco e Governação" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003
Concluded
 Mestrado em Sociologia (Mestrado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"À espera da cheia? Paradoxos da modificação do ambiente por via da tecnologia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 muito bom (unanimidade)
1994
Concluded
 Sociologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Sociologia
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 15 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/02/02 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
1999/07 - 2013/02/01 Research Assistant (Research) Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
2007 - 2007 Research Trainee (Research) University of Delaware Disaster Research Center, United States
1995 - 1999 Research Trainee (Research) Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2016 - 2017 KNOWRISK – Know your city, reduce seismic Risk
ECHO/SUB/2015/718655/PREV28
Researcher
European Commission
Concluded
2012 - 2013 UPSTRAT-MAFA – Urban Disaster Prevention Strategies using Macroseismic Fields and Fault Sources
230301/2011/613486/SUB/A5
Researcher
European Commission
Concluded
2009 - 2011 RISKGOV - Risk Management and Governance: The case of seismic risk in Azores
0804/11/17787
Principal investigator
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
Concluded
2005 - 2008 Social Ecology of Risk
0804/11/16199
Principal investigator
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
 Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
Concluded
2003 - 2005 CARE-S - Computer-aided Rehabilitation of Sewer Networks
EVK1-CT-2002-00106
Researcher
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2002 - 2003 Waiting for the flood? Paradoxes of modification of environment through technology
0804/111/654321
Principal investigator
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
 Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
Concluded
1995 - 1999 Dam-break Flood Risk Management in Portugal
0804/111/456963
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 NATO
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Silva, Delta; Pereira, Álvaro; Vicente, Marta; Bernardo, R.; Ferreira, Monica Amarel; Lopes, Mario; Oliveira, Carlos Sousa. "Seismic Risk Communication: How to Assess It? The Case of Lisbon Pilot-Area". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 429-443. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-78187-7_32
  2. Silva, Delta; Vicente, Marta; Pereira, Álvaro; Bernardo, R.; Candeias, Paulo; Ferreira, Monica Amarel; Lopes, Mario; Oliveira, Carlos Sousa; Henriques, P.. "Shaping Favorable Beliefs Towards Seismic Protection Through Risk Communication: A Pilot-Experience in Two Lisbon Schools (Portugal)". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 445-458. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-78187-7_33
  3. Silva, Delta. "Contributions of social sciences to risk management in Portugal". edited by Almeida, A. B.; Ramos, C. M.; Viseu, T.; Santos, M. A.. Lisboa, Portugal, 2002.
    Published
  4. Silva, Delta. "Social Sciences Involvement in Dams and Safety Management of Downstream valleys: A first Approach to Arade and Funcho’s Dam-break Flood Risk Perception". In Dams and Safety Management at Downstream Valleys, edited by Almeida, A. B.; Viseu, T.. Roterdão, Netherlands: Balkema Editions, 1996.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Oliveira, C. S.; Lopes, Mário; Musacchio, G; Silva, Delta; Rupakhety, R.; Ferreira, M. A.. "The KnowRisk project: objectives and achievements". Paper presented in 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018.
    Published
  2. Ferreira, M.A.; Musacchio, G; Silva, Delta; Pais, I.; Oliveira, C.S.; Lopes, M.; Rupakhety, R.; et al. "Engaging stakeholders in non-structural risk communication and mitigation". Paper presented in 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018.
    Published
  3. Platt, S.; Musacchio, G.; Silva, Delta; Crescimbene, M.; Pino, N.; Ferreira, M. A.; Oliveira, C.S.; Lopes, M.; Rupakhety, R.. "Measuring students' attitudes to earthquake risk and prevention action". Paper presented in 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018.
    Published
  4. Silva, Delta; Pereira, Álvaro; Bernardo, R.; Vicente, M.. "Evaluating a risk communication process for seismic risk protection: methodological challenges". Paper presented in Society for Risk Analysis Europe Annual Conference, Lisboa, 2017.
    Published
  5. Vicente, M.; Silva, Delta; Pereira, Álvaro; Bernardo, R.; Ferreira, M. A.. "Empowering youngsters for seismic risk reduction through participatory maquette modelling". Paper presented in Society for Risk Analysis Europe Annual Conference, Lisboa, 2017.
    Published
  6. Platt, S.; Crescimbene, M.; Pino, A.; Lopes, M.; Ferreira, M. A.; Oliveira, C. S.; Silva, Delta; Ruphakhety, R.. "Development of a common (European) tool to assess earthquake risk communication". Paper presented in International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 2017.
    Published
  7. Silva, Delta; Pereira, Álvaro; Vicente, M.; Bernardo, R.; Ferreira, M. A.; Lopes, M.; Oliveira, C. S.. "Seismic risk communication: how to assess it? The case of Lisbon Pilot area". Paper presented in International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Reykjavík, 2017.
    Published
  8. Silva, Delta; Vicente, M.; Pereira, Álvaro; Bernado, R.; Ferreira, M. A.; Lopes, M.; Oliveira, C. S.; Henriques, P.. "Risk communication – Knowrisk intervention: the Portuguese case". Paper presented in International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Reykjavík, 2017.
    Published
  9. Campos, V.; Silva, Delta. "A ponderação do risco sísmico nas decisões de ordenamento do território e urbanismo". Paper presented in Seminário O Risco Sísmico no Ordenamento do Território, Lisboa, 2016.
    Published
  10. Sousa, L.; Silva, Delta; Costa, P. T.; Matias, L.; Ribeiro, M. J.; Pais, I.. "The "earth shakes": Social Impact of an earthquake exercice". Paper presented in 5th Portuguese Seminar of Structural Engineering (JPEE2014), 2014.
    Published
  11. Silva, Delta; Aguirre, B.. "Societal Factors involved ion Risk Mitigation Policy: Challenges to Seismic Retrofitting of Hospital Buildings". Paper presented in International Seminar on Seismic Risk and Rehabilitation on Stone Masonry Housing, Horta (Faial), 2008.
    Published
  12. Craveiro, J. L.; Machado, P.; Silva, Delta; Pereira, Álvaro. "Reflecting about the Emergence of Sustainable Urban Communities – A Social-Ecological Point of View". Paper presented in Conferência Internacional SB07 “Sustainable Construction, Materials and Practices, Lisboa, 2007.
    Published
  13. Silva, Delta; Almeida, A. B.. "Living with dam-break flood risk: The case of a Portuguese dam-valley system". Paper presented in Fifth International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation, 2006.
    Published
  14. Silva, Delta. "À Espera da Cheia ? Paradoxos da Modificação do Ambiente por via da Tecnologia". Paper presented in V Congresso Português de Sociologia, Braga, 2004.
    Published
  15. Silva, Delta. "Disasters are not inevitable catastrophes: Considerations about planning and management of crisis in dams’ downstream valleys". Paper presented in Technical Seminar on Risk and Crisis Management in dams’ downstream valleys, Lisboa, 1997.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Silva, Delta. "Waiting for the Flood? Paradoxes of environment modification through technology". Paper presented in Innovations in coping with water and climate related risks, 2006.
  2. Silva, Delta. "Risk Management and Governance: the case of earthquake risk". Paper presented in Natural Hazards Workshop, 2006.
Journal article
  1. Martins, V. N.; Cabral, P.; Silva, Delta. "Urban modelling for seismic prone areas: the case study of Vila Franca do Campo (Azores Archipelago, Portugal)". Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 12 9 (2012): 2731-2741. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-2731-2012.
    Published • 10.5194/nhess-12-2731-2012
  2. Martins, V. Nuno; Silva, Delta; Cabral, Pedro. "Social vulnerability assessment to seismic risk using multicriteria analysis: the case study of Vila Franca do Campo (São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal)". Natural Hazards 62 2 (2012): 385-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-012-0084-x.
    Published • 10.1007/s11069-012-0084-x
Report
  1. Silva, Delta; Vicente, M.; Pereira, Álvaro; Crescimbene, M.; Musacchio, G.; Pino, A.; Rupakhety, R.. 2018. Social Impact Assessment Report: How far was risk communication in terms of attitudinal change towards earthquake hazard and non-strutuctural protection?.
  2. Musacchio, G.; Piangiamore, G. L.; Eva, E.; Falsaperla, S.; Silva, Delta; Ferreira, M. A.; Oliveira, C. S.; Lopes, M.; Rupakhety, R.. 2018. Know your school, cope with non structural vulnerability. Tools and strategies of risk communication and learning.
  3. Silva, Delta; Vicente, M.; Pereira, Álvaro; Crescimbene, M.; Musacchio, G.; Pino, A.; Rupakhety, R.. 2018. On going social impact assessment: going into the communities.
  4. Silva, Delta; Vicente, M.; Pereira, Álvaro; Crescimbene, M.; Musacchio, G.; Pino, A.; Rupakhety, R.. 2016. Approaching target-communities.
  5. Silva, Delta. 2010. CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS, RISCO E DESASTRE: Apontamentos teóricos e breves notas sobre o caso do LNEC.
  6. Silva, Delta. 2010. CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS, RISCO E DESASTRE: Questões de Metodologia.
  7. Silva, Delta. 2010. Human coping with risk.
  8. Craveiro, J. L.; Silva, Delta; Machado, P.. 2006. Towards a Social Ecology of Wildfires.
  9. Silva, Delta. 2004. Risco de cheia: vias para a sua mitigação.
  10. Oliveira, T.; Craveiro, J. L.; Pereira, Álvaro; Silva, Delta. 2001. A Costa Portuguesa: Espaço Vivido e Territórios de Risco: ocupação, pressões urbanas e usos económicos e sociais do litoral português.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Silva, Delta. "Disaster, recovery and change: the case of 1998 Faial earthquake.". PhD, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2012.
  2. Silva, Delta. "Waiting for the flood? Paradoxes of the Modification of Environment through Technology". Master, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2003.
Activities

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018/12 - Current AD URBEM – Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Direito do Urbanismo e da Construção