Staff Profile:Dr Richard Nunes
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- Dr Richard Nunes
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- Lecturer
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Richard Nunes is an architect and planner whose current research and teaching is focused on local and regional economic development, and European and international spatial planning. His international research has included both international and UK policy-oriented projects. It includes research on Portugal and Brazil, as well as a multi-country study of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In the past three years he has completed studies of industry transformation and regional economic restructuring in Portugal, and territorial governance at the interplay of knowledge and policy development in an enlarged EU. His current work includes the study of 'grassroots innovations' of the Transition Movement in the UK (London) and Brazil (Sao Paulo). It focuses on the social networks and learning processes, as well as the expectations and participation of actors and resources in these emerging niche practices. It seeks to understand how these niche grassroots innovations have framed problems, and how the coordination of individual actions and behaviour to solve them has been promoted.
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- Bachelor in Architecture (Cornell)
Master in Regional Planning (UMass, Amherst)
PhD in Planning Studies (UCL)
Recent Research
Recent Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Adams, N., Cotella, G. & Nunes, R. (forthcoming 2012) 'The Engagement of Territorial Knowledge Communities with European Spatial Planning and the Territorial Cohesion Debate: A Baltic Perspective', European Planning Studies, special issue: Spatial Planning in the Baltic States: The Influence of European Policies and Strategies
Cotella, G., Adams, N. & Nunes, R. (forthcoming 2012) 'Evolving Territorial Governance Arrangements in the Enlarged EU: Approaching the Territorial Cohesion Debate from a Central and Eastern European Perspective', European Planning Studies
Books/Book Chapters
Adams, N., Cotella, G. & Nunes, R. (eds) (2011) Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Knowledge and Policy Development in an Enlarged EU, Routledge: London
Adams, N., Cotella, G. & Nunes, R. (2011) Spatial Planning in Europe: the Interplay between Knowledge and Policy in an Enlarged EU. In Adams, N. et al (eds) Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Knowledge and Policy Development in an Enlarged EU, Routledge: London
Adams, N., Cotella, G. & Nunes, R. (2011) Territorial Knowledge Channels in a Multi-jurisdictional Policy Environment. Toward a Theoretical Framework. In Adams, N. et al (eds) Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Knowledge and Policy Development in an Enlarged EU, Routledge: London
Adams, N., Cotella, G. & Nunes, R. (2011) Territorial Knowledge Channels. Contexts for 'Situated Learning'. In Adams, N. et al (eds) Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Knowledge and Policy Development in an Enlarged EU, Routledge: London
Nunes, R. & Heitor, M. (eds) (2004) A Practical Guide to Regional Foresight in Portugal. European Commission: Brussels ISBN: 9289447079
Other
Nunes, R. (2010) Territorial knowledge channels: Understanding and meeting the challenges of territorial cohesion, Regional Insights, Vol. 1:1, Regional Studies Association: Seaford
Nunes, R. (2008). Review of OSWALT, P. (ed) (2005) Shrinking Cities (Hatje Cantz Publishers), for Urban Studies, 45(5/6), May
Cidre, E., Cotella, G. & Nunes, R. (eds) (2008) Special Issue: Central and Eastern European Enlargement. New Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Environments. ALFA SPECTRA STU, Planning Studies - Central European Journal of Architecture and Planning, Vol. 12(1). FA STU: Bratislava ISSN 1135-2679
Nunes, R., Cidre, E. & Cotella, G. (eds) (2007) 'Special Issue: Central and Eastern European Engagement: Planning, Development and Sustainability'. ALFA SPECTRA STU, Planning Studies - Central European Journal of Architecture and Planning, Vol. 11(2). FA STU: Bratislava ISSN 1135-2679
Nunes, R. & Heitor, M. (2007) Technological Change and the Challenges for Regional Development: Building 'Social Capital' in Less-Favoured Regions. In Landabaso, M. et al. (eds) Europe - Reflections on Social Capital, Innovation and Regional Development: The Ostuni Consensus. Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu: Pruszków
