Adriana F. Alves holds a Diploma in Anthropology from the University of Paris Ouest – La Défense Nanterre (France). She later specialized in a Masters in Development and Population Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). Having worked in several non-governmental organizations in projects in the areas of international development and the environment, he integrated ICS-ULisboa to consolidate the ClimAdaPT.Local team, a project dedicated to the Local Adaptation to Climate Change in Portugal. She is currently a PhD student at ICS-ULisboa in the Doctoral Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies, as a fellow of FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology.