Inês Boavida-Portugal
Dr. Inês Boavida-Portugal is an assistant professor at the University of Lisbon’s Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT-ULisboa). Her recent work explores urban tourism patterns and spatial planning responses to gear cities towards future sustainable pathways. To explore these phenomena, Dr. Boavida-Portugal uses a mixed-method approach including geographical information systems and information and communication technologies. She has been particularly interested in the application of such methodologies to study how behavioral changes at the micro level (governance triangle: civil society, governments, markets) can produce critical changes at the macro level in urban systems, specifically focusing on tourism dynamics as a disruptive phenomenon.