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Pitidis, V.,Coaffee, J., & Lima-Silva, F. (2024). Advancing equitable ‘resilience imaginaries’ in the Global South through dialogical participatory mapping: Experiences from informal communities in Brazil.Cities,150, 105015.

Pitidis V., Coaffee J. & Bouikidis A. (2023) Creating ‘resilience imaginaries’ for city-regional planning, Regional Studies, 57:4, 698-711, DOI:

Porto de Albuquerque, J., Anderson, L., Calvillo, N., Cattino, M., Clarke, A., Cunha, M. A., Degrossi, L., Garde-Hansen, J., Klonner, C., Lima-Silva, F., Marchezini, V., Martins, M., Pajarito Grajales, D., Pitidis, V., Rizwan, M., Tkacz, N., & Trajber, R. (2023). Dialogic data innovations for sustainability transformations and flood resilience: the case for Waterproofing Data.Global Environmental Change,82

Marchezini V., Porto de Albuquerque J., Pitidis V., Rudorff C., Lima-Silva F., Klonner C. and Martins M. (2022), 'Flood risk governance in Brazil and the UK: facilitating knowledge exchange through research gaps and the potential of citizen generated data', Disaster Prevention and Management, 31 (6), Available at:

Pitidis V., Albuquerque J.P, Coaffee J., Lima-Silva F.. (2022), 'Enhancing Community Resilience through Dialogical Participatory Mapping'. In Rob Grace, & Hossein Baharmand (Eds.), ISCRAM 2022 Conference Proceedings – 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 495–503). Tarbes, France. Available at:  

Porto de Albuquerque JP. , Anderson L., Calvillo, Nerea, Coaffee J., Cunha M.A., Degrossi L., …Pitidis V., Rudorff C., Tkacz N and Zipf, Alexander (2021). The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agenda. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 49, 153–163. Available at:  

Coaffee J., de Albuquerque J.P., Pitidis V. (2021) Risk and Resilience Management in Co-production. In: Loeffler E., Bovaird T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Pitidis V. and Coaffee J. (2020), Catalysing governance transformations through urban resilience implementation: The case of Thessaloniki, Greece, Cities (107), ISSN 0264-2751 Available at:

Yeboah, Godwin, Troilo, Rafael, Pitidis, Vangelis and Porto de Albuquerque, João (2019) In: State of the Map 2019, Heidelberg, Germany, 21-23 Sep 2019. Published in: Proceedings of the Academic Track at the State of the Map doi:

Porto de Albuquerque, J., Yeboah, G., Pitidis, V. and Ulbrich P. (2019). . Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaiian Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2019). doi:10.24251/hicss.2019.476

Pitidis, V., Tapete, D., Coaffee, J., Kapetas, L., & Porto de Albuquerque, J. (2018). . Sustainability, 10 (10), 3573. https://doi.org/10.3390/SU10103573

• Lead convenor

• Co-convenor (with Dr Camilla Audia)

GD325: Addressing disasters for sustainable DevelopmentLink opens in a new window

• Co-convenor

I am interested in supervising PhD students or postdoctoral researchers interesting in topics including, but not limited to: urban governance; community resilience; disaster risk reduction; climate resilience and adaptation; participatory methods; citizen science; GIS and collaborative mapping; urban regeneration; green and blue infrastructure; nature-based solutions. Please feel free to contact me to discuss your project ideas.

For funding acquisition, please take a look at postgraduate research financial supportLink opens in a new window and postgraduate research opportunitiesLink opens in a new window at the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø's website º£½ÇÉçÇø. I am currently supervising two PhD students:

• Tripti Singh (PhD Candidate)Link opens in a new window - along with Prof Jon Coaffee

  Community resilience to intersecting crises: water and sanitation insecurity and heatwaves in Delhi

• Gabriella Crawford-Koltai (PhD Candidate)Link opens in a new window - along with Prof Mandy Sadan

  Role of Culture in sustainable urbanisation to enhance helath and wellbeing in Hungary

• Impact Lead for the School of Cross-Faculty Studies (since 2023)
• ECR representative for the Sustainability Spotlight Network
• Member of the ESRC IAA panel at the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø