Coordinator: José Saldanha Matos
This group is composed of of 28 researchers (14 integrated PhD, 9 PhD collaborators, 5 PhD students) collaborators covering a broad range of topics, which include different fundamental environments, water resources, and cross-cutting related issues, such as:
Environment and Water Resources Research Group is active in the following domains of environment and water resources:
- Water policy and governance
- Hydrology and water resources management
- Hydrogeology and groundwater services
- Water supply and sanitation systems and services
- Environmental assessment and management
Through all thematic strands of CERIS, Environment and Water Resources Research Group plans to:
- Promote adequate water resources management through policy formulation and governance
- Promote integrated water resources management, including the development of advanced knowledge on hydrologic processes modelling
- Promote efficient water services and pollution control
- Develop groundwater assessment tools and modelling
- Promote the sustainable management of natural and built environments
Environment and Water Resources Research Group has made a considerable impact on specific topics such as:
- Water policy and governance
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- Principles, criteria and indicators for water governance
- Hydrology and water resources management
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- Characterization of the various components of the hydrologic cycle and its dynamics
- Monitoring and modelling hydrologic variables and processes, including the characterization of hydrologic extreme events
- Assessment of climate change impacts on water resources and formulation of adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Water supply and sanitation systems and services
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- Aquifer monitoring testing and assessment of groundwater pollution
- Ecosystems in groundwater
- Numerical and stochastic groundwater modelling
- Geophysics and SSD applied to hydrogeology and groundwater management
- Water supply and sanitation systems and services
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- Development of sanitation strategies and solutions for peri-urban areas of low-income countries
- Sewer systems and processes modelling
- Field studies and modelling of wastewater treatment plants, including constructed wetlands
- Strategic planning of water infrastructures and services
- Study of nature-based solutions for flood control in urban and coastal areas
- Environmental assessment and management
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- Sustainability assessment solutions, systems and certification
- Environmental policy formulation to ensure sustainable development
