Andressa Vianna Mansur

Dr. Andressa Vianna Mansur is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in environmental and coastal management, environmental justice, vulnerability and adaptation to climate risks, urban planning, transformative change to sustainability. Her work to date has focused on human-environmental interactions related to sustainability challenges in socio-ecological systems. She was awarded two Erasmus Mundus, a scholarship for a European Master in Ecohydrology and a PhD fellowship in Marine and Coastal Management at the University of Cadiz.
Her PhD focuses on socio-environmental vulnerability and adaptation to floods in urban parts of the Amazon Delta. Then, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) collaborating in a global effort on urban growth direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity and human well-being. She also completed a postdoc at the University of Georgia-United States working in a project focusing on the potential of Nature- Based Solutions (NbS) to address social equity and deliver sustainable development goals. Andressa is a fellow of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and a lead author in the Transformative Change Assessment (TCA)(2022-2024). She is a postdoc at the Basque Centre for Climate Change collaborating on BridgingVALUES project and contributing to research on nature values and equity for sustainability transformation.