Editor Profile

Luís Loures

University/Organization: Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre

Country: Portugal

 Biography

Landscape Architect and Agronomic Engineer, Professor both at the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre and at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, who holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning, focusing landscape reclamation but also sustainable design processes. Since he graduated he has published several per reviewed papers at the national and international levels and he has been a guest researcher and lecturer both at Michigan State University (USA), and at University of Toronto (Canada) where he has developed part of his Ph.D. research with the Financial support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Ph.D. grant).
On recent years he teach in several courses in different Universities, both at Ph.D. and Master levels including the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro – Portugal, Letterkenny Institute of Technology – Ireland, the University of Algarve – Portugal, The University of Santiago de Compostela and Ryerson University – Canada, among others, mainly regarding the fields of landscape architecture, environmental planning, rural engineering and sustainable agriculture