She is an associate professor with habilitation at the UTAD (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro) and senior researcher at CETRAD (Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies). She got her Ph.D. in environmental and land economics in 2003, with research that has combined different non-market economic valuation methods to value rural landscape attributes aiming at contributing to innovative solutions for sustainable rural development by incorporating public preferences in land use policy design and evaluation. She has been involved in several international and national research projects and has been a visiting scholar at various universities, including UC Berkeley. She is an interdisciplinary researcher by background and experience, skilled with both quantitative and qualitative methods, including mixed methods combining both. Her current research topics are innovation and sustainability studies, with numerous applications to understand the individual and deliberative decision-making processes of farmers, consumers, policy-makers, and citizens toward sustainable options and how to foster sustainable development processes and sustainability transitions at the territorial scale.

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Main Publications:

Madureira, L.; Labarthe, P.; Marques, C. S. & Santos, G. (2022). Exploring microAKIS: farmer-centric evidence on the role of advice in agricultural innovation in Europe. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 28(5), 549-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224X.2022.2123838

Guimarães, M. H.; Nunes, L. C.; Rodrigues, A.; Madureira, L. & Dentinho, T. (2021). Evaluation of environmental actions by local citizens – a choice modeling application. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2021.2002276

Polita F.S., & Madureira L. (2021). Transition Pathways of Agroecological Innovation in Portugal’s Douro Wine Region. A Multi-Level Perspective. Land 10(3):322. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10030322

Madureira, L., & Torre, A. (2019). Innovation processes in rural areas. Regional Science Policy and Practice, 11(2), 213-218. https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rsp3.12215

Van der Ploeg, J.; Barjolle, J.D.; Bruil, J.; Brunori, G.; Madureira, L., Dessein, J.; Drąg, Z.; Fink-Kessler, A.; Gasselin, P.; Molina, M.G.; Gorlach, K.; Jürgens, K.; Kinsella, J.; Kirwan, J.; Knickel, K.; Lucas, V.; Marsden, T.; Maye, D.; […] & Wezel, A. (2019). The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe. Journal of Rural Studies, 71, 46-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.09.003

Main Projects:

(2022-2027) Integrated SERVices supporting a sustainable AGROecological transition (AgroServ). Funded by Horizon Europe – HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions (https://agroserv.eu/). Coordinated by AnaEE – https://www.anaee.eu/). Livia Madureira is responsible researcher at the UTAD and responsible for UTAD package of socioeconomic services and the UTAD pole transnational of living lab.

(2017-2021) Agricultural Knowledge: Linking farmers, advisors and researchers to boost innovation (AGRILINK). Funded by the Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme, RIA (call H2020-RUR-2016-2). Coordinated by INRA, Paris, France. Livia Madureira is responsible researcher at the UTAD and responsible for one of the project working packages (WP2). URL: https://www.agrilink2020.eu/

(2017-2021) COST Action CA15206 – Payments for Ecosystem Services (Forests for water) (PESFOR W). Action chair Gregory Valatin (Forest Research, Surrey, UK). Lívia Madureira is a substitute member of the Management Committee (MC) [CA15206 PT]

(2019-2021) ECOFOR.PT – Valorização Económica dos Bens e Serviços dos Ecossistemas Florestais de Portugal Continental. PDR2020-2023-045913. Funded by the PDR (Programa de Desenvolvimento Rural). Project coordinated by Américo Mendes of U. Católica, Porto. Lívia Madureira was member of the team and responsible researcher at the UTAD.

(2016-2019) Interact – Integrative Research in Environment, Agro-Chain and Technology. Funded by NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000017, research line BEST – BioEconomy and Sustainability. Lívia Madureira was member of the team, co-coordinator of task 4 and coordinator of the project Getting closer producers, consumers and stakeholders, included in the task 4 – Societal Challenges and Dynamic Decision Support System.