Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes

Dr Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes is a Research Fellow in Disaster Resilience at RMIT University’s Centre for Urban Research. He is part of the Natural Hazards Research Australia's Natural hazards and resilience in complex urban systems project with his contribution focusing on assessing and mapping vulnerabilities and resilience within urban systems at local scales. His research programme explores how formal and informal planning processes inform the building of resilience and vulnerability to disasters and climate change.

Leonardo seeks to understand the roles of regulation, self-organisation and connectivity in resilience-building processes and global-local interplays from social-ecological and complex adaptive systems’ perspectives. His emerging work looks at the roles of drone imagery and social media in supporting citizen science and understanding of climate change impacts as part of enabling adaptation through nature-based solutions.