Curriculum Vitae. Research Interests. Education. Dissertation. Fellowships, Prizes and Awards. Idalina Baptista September 2009

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1 Curriculum Vitae Research Interests Governance and public participation Collaborative processes in environmental planning, policy-making, and decision-making Environmental governance, ethics and citizenship Education 2009 PhD in City and Regional Planning 1999 Master in Landscape Architecture Thesis: How Environmental Planning and Policy Making is Changing in Portugal: The Case of the Guadiana River Valley Natural Park Master degree recognized in 2001 by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal 1996 Licenciatura in Environmental Engineering (5-year Undergraduate Program) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Dissertation Title: Regimes of Exception in Urban Planning and Governance: The Case of the Polis Program, Portugal In this dissertation, I seek to contribute to urban governance debates by offering the concept of regime of exception as a heuristic device to examine the implications of how policymakers frame alternative arrangements to existing urban planning and governance systems for particular projects, instead of seeking to directly reform them. I develop this concept from a reinterpretation of literature on the exception and by using new sociological institutionalism to examine the institutional changes promoted by these alternative arrangements. Specifically, I examined the framing, operation and implications of the Polis Program, which operated in Portugal as a regime of exception under the purview of the Ministry of Environment. Research findings suggest that, in narrowly framing the Polis regime of exception to focus on administrative efficiency of project delivery, policymakers neglected how conflict is endemic to urban planning and governance, especially when involving large-scale urban projects. Consequently, instances of political, inter-agency, and social conflict emerged as participating actors from public agencies to citizens used the areas left unregulated by the Polis regime of exception to circumvent the Program s implementation. Participating agents did so by undermining the leadership and commitment to the Program, by challenging the reallocation of authority it entailed, or by advancing alternative visions to the projects proposed. Fellowships, Prizes and Awards 2009, 2008 Pinto-Fialon Fellowship PhD Fellowship (Bolsa de Doutoramento) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal 1/7

2 2007, 2005, 2004 Pinto-Fialon Award Portuguese Studies Program 2003/2004 Department of City and Regional Planning Block Grant 1999 Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Block Grant 1998/1999 Beatrix Farrand Scholarship Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning FLAD Scholarship Luso-American Foundation for Development, Portugal 1996 Young Researcher Scholarship (Bolsa de Jovem Investigador) Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica, Portugal Academic Experience 2009, 2008 Graduate Student Instructor Course: Research Methods for Planners (CP204B) Supervised by Prof. Teresa Caldeira Lecturer (Assistente, Assistente Estagiária) Universidade Aberta, Lisboa, Portugal Courses: Environmental Ethics and Citizenship; Land Use Planning; Waste Management; Environmental Management; and Meteorology and Air Pollution Guest Lecturer (Assistente Convidada) Universidade Atlântica, Portugal Course: Environmental Ethics Undergraduate Thesis Advisor ( ) of Sofia Luís, student of the Environmental Management Undergraduate Program. Thesis: Proposal of Environmental Intervention on the Multipurpose Alqueva Project 1998 Teaching Assistant Course: Introduction to Environmental Design (ED1) Supervised by Prof. Randolph T. Hester, Jr. 1995/1997 Instructor (Monitor) Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Courses: Ecology I; Ecology II; and Land Ecology Supervised by Prof. Rosa Paiva and Helena Farrall 2/7

3 Professional Experience 2006 Lecturer/Organizer Training course Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment: Practice and Theory, December 12, 2006, CCDR-LVT, Lisboa, Portugal. Half-day training course lectured in cooperation with Prof. Rosário Partidário 2002 Consultant APEA Associação Portuguesa de Engenheiros do Ambiente, Portugal Project Program Contents of the Environmental Interpretation and Monitoring Centers of the POLIS Programs. Project coordinated by M. G. Martinho, M. G. Gonçalves and A. P. Martinho 2002, 2001, 2000 Lecturer/Organizer Training courses on Interactive Methods for Environmental Planning and Management. Organized and lectured in cooperation with Prof. Lia Vasconcelos and Ursula Caser Consultant Biodesign, Portugal Coordination and development of several projects, including: Master Plans for Protected Areas (Guadiana River Valley Natural Park and Douro Internacional Natural Park); Master Plan for the Madeira Autonomous Region Tourism; Master Plan for Agricultural Structuration of the Municipality of Mortágua; Master Plans of Water Basins of Sabugal, Monte da Rocha, and Santa Águeda dams; Visual and Landscape Requalification Project of the Old Cement Plan of Secil-Outão; preparation of several public competition proposals for landscape design projects 1999 Facilitator CIVITAS Centro de Estudos de Vilas e Cidades Sustentáveis Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Facilitator of Participatory Workshops for Municipal Plans under Local Agenda Consultant ADPM Associação de Defesa do Património de Mértola, Mértola, Portugal Design project development of the Center for Landscape Interpretation of Amendoeira da Serra. Evaluation of a local project, Guadiana Vivo, about the involvement of local community on the development of the Master Plan for the Guadiana River Valley Natural Park Intern CONCUR, Inc., Berkeley, California, USA Review the CONCUR Resource Guide on Dispute Resolution 1997 Intern Biodesign, Portugal Project for admission to the Society of Engineers: Environmental rehabilitation of the Santa Sofia Creek, at Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal. Landscape design project of the Residential Area of Vialonga, Portugal; preparation of several public competition proposals for Master Plans of Protected Areas. 3/7

4 Research Experience 2006 Junior Visiting Scholar Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Research towards doctoral dissertation at Since 2001 Since 2001 Research Assistant-Collaborator, IMAR, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Collaborator for the scientific research field of Environment and Environmental Planning (Interactive and collaborative decision-making group processes) Research-Coordinator of WTeamUp, Participation and Empowerment WTeamUp is an informal research group developing practice-oriented research on alternative, interactive, participatory, and collaborative methods of decision-making. The team collaborates with academic research teams, NGOs, public agencies and institutions, and private companies to develop plans, strategies, and policies in the field of environmental planning and management Research Assistant Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Project Integrated Methodology for Environmental Evaluation of Land Use Planning, supervised by Prof. Lia Vasconcelos, for the research project SPIA Environmental Indicators Expert System, coordinated by Prof. Joanaz de Melo University and Professional Service Since 2006 Reviewer for different peer-reviewed journals (Journal of Planning Education and Research, Environment and Planning C, Berkeley Planning Journal and International Public Management Journal) Member, Portuguese Studies Program Executive Committee Member, PhD Program Committee Department of City and Regional Planning, Member, Berkeley Planning Journal Editorial Collective (Vol. 18) Department of City and Regional Planning, Publications Books (as co-author) Oliveira, Rosário and Idalina Baptista Guadiana Vivo: Uma Abordagem Participada ao Planeamento e Gestão do Parque Natural do Vale do Guadiana. Mértola, Portugal: ADPM, Associação de Defesa do Património de Mértola. Books (as co-editor) Vasconcelos, Lia T. and idalina Baptista (Eds.) Environmental Activism in Society. Proceedings of the Workshop held at FLAD in Lisbon, Portugal, on January 25 26, 1999, organized by the Luso- American Foundation and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal: Luso-American Foundation. 4/7

5 Chapters in books Baptista, Idalina O Programa POLIS e o País Desordenado : percepções sobre governância e planeamento urbano em Portugal. In: Cidade e Cidadania: Governança urbana e participação cidadã em perspectiva comparada, Cabral, Manuel Villaverde, Tiago Saraiva, and Filipe Carreira da Silva (Eds.). Lisbon, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. Chapters in books (co-author) Vasconcelos, Lia T. and Idalina Baptista The Role of Environmental Activism in Society. In: Environmental Activism in Society, Vasconcelos, Lia T. and Idalina Baptista (Eds.). Lisbon, Portugal: Luso-American Foundation. Articles in journals of international circulation Baptista, Idalina Citizen participation, stakeholder involvement, and the planning process in Portugal. L Architecture d Aujourd hui, 366: Articles in journals of national circulation Baptista, Idalina and Lia T. Vasconcelos Muddling Through Complex Contexts: Making Sense Out Of A Myth. Antropológicas, 9: Cancela, Jorge, Idalina Baptista, and Isabel Gonçalves O Jardim da Ciência e da Biodiversidade no Madeira Tecnolopo. Sociedade e Território, 31/32: Baptista, Idalina Doomed to Success: the Guadiana River Valley Natural Park. Sociedade e Território, 29: Articles in the press Baptista, Idalina Participação Pública por Geração Espontânea. Público, March 28, Baptista, Idalina Política de Ordenamento do Território a 4D. Público, May 10, Baptista, Idalina Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Expresso, November 3, 2001, Supplement on Environmental Engineering. Selected Presentations Baptista, Idalina O Programa POLIS e o País Desordenado: percepções sobre governância e planeamento urbano em Portugal," Baptista, I. Book presentation "Cidade & Cidadania: Governança Urbana e Participação Cidadã," December 12, 2008, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisboa, Portugal. Baptista, Idalina Withdrawal or Reinvention? The changing role of state agents in Portuguese urban governance in face of increasing demands for public accountability. Paper presented at the 4 th Joint ACSP-AESOP Congress Bridging the Divide: Celebrating the City, July 6-11, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Baptista, Idalina Formality vs. Informality: Diffusion of an Urban Governance Policy across Portuguese Cities. Paper presented at the ACSP 47 th Annual Conference Boarders and Cores: What is Planning in the Global Era?, November 9-12, 2006, Forth Worth, TX, USA. Baptista, Idalina Is There a Theory of Collaborative Planning We Can Talk About? Paper presented at the 46 th AESOP Conference The Dream of a Greater Europe, July 13-17, 2005, Vienna, Austria. Vasconcelos, Lia T. and Idalina Baptista The Meaning of Active Participation in Technical Arenas: perspectives from the Portuguese water arena. Paper presented at the 45 th ACSP Conference Planning Matters! People, Places, and Institutions, October 21-24, 2004, Portland, OR, USA. 5/7

6 Baptista, Idalina and Lia T. Vasconcelos Muddling Through Complex Contexts: Making Sense Out Of A Myth. Paper presented at the 3 rd Joint Congress AESOP/ACSP The Network Society: the new context for planning, July 8-12, 2003, Leuven, Belgium. Baptista, Idalina New Requirements for Participation: Managing Protected Areas. Paper presented at the 1 st Conference Towards the Deliberative Democracy: the USA and the Portuguese Experience, May 7, 2002,. Conference and Seminar Organization Doctoral Colloquium, Department of City and Regional Planning, 2004 Workshop Advocacy Building for NGOs: Europe-USA Models for Capacity Building nd Policy Seminar Deliberative Democracy: from Theory to Action 2003 Seminar Mobilidade, Ambiente e Cidadania, APEA Associação Portuguesa de Engenheiros do Ambiente, Lisbon, Portugal 2003 Conference Innovations in Water and Environmental Planning in Mediterranean- Climate Systems: Experiences in California and Portugal University of California Berkeley, California, USA 2003, 2001 National Congress of Environmental Engineering APEA Associação Portuguesa de Engenheiros do Ambiente, Lisbon, Portugal 2002 Conference Towards the Deliberative Democracy: the USA and the Portuguese Experience, 1 st Policy Seminar Deliberative Democracy: from Theory to Action 2000 Seminar Urban Regeneration/Requalification, APEA Associação Portuguesa de Engenheiros do Ambiente and CIVITAS Centro de Estudos das Cidades e Vilas Sustentáveis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Recent Professional Development 2008 Course Tutors for E-learning Education Universidade Aberta, Portugal 2003 Course Education for Citizenship Fundação Mário Soares, Lisbon, Portugal 2002 Policy Seminars Deliberative Democracy: from Theory to Action Lectured by Prof. Connie Ozawa (Portland State University, USA) and Prof. Sanda Kaufman (Cleveland State University, USA) 6/7

7 Memberships and Professional Licenses Since 1998 PAPS Portuguese Association of Post-Graduate Students in USA Since 1997 Since 1997 Society of Engineers College of Environmental Engineering, Portugal Professional license n.º APEA Portuguese Association of Environmental Engineers, Portugal Member of the Board of Directors in ; Vice-President in /7