Books By Jose Manuel (Associate Professor, University of Coimbra, Portugal) Mendes - Author

José Manuel Mendes holds a PhD in Sociology from the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, where he is an Associate Professor with Aggregation. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, where he has been working in the fields of risk and social vulnerability, planning, public policies and citizenship. He is coordinator of the Risk Observatory (OSIRIS) of the Centre for Social Studies and is the Editor of Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. Gretchen Kalonji currently serves as the Dean of the Sichuan University – Hong Kong Polytechnic University Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, and as Strategic Advisor to the Institutional Development of Sichuan University. She served almost four years as the Assistant Director–General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO, where she was responsible for strengthening the efforts of the organization in all aspects of the science and engineering enterprise, and for working together with the rest of UNESCO’s senior leadership team in the