BEng Water Resources (FICH/UNL, Argentina), M Sc and PhD in Water Resources (IPH/UFRGS, Brazil) and BMBF Senior Postdoc at CESR/Univ Kassel, Germany, Mendiondo has recognized experience as a science-policy expert on hydrology and humanitarian engineering for Water Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (WDR3), acting with multidisciplinary teams on: Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB), Observations from Under-Represented Sensors (OURS), Unsolved Problems in Hydrology (UPH), linking WDR3 to social memory and citizen science through the Socio-Hydrological Observatory for Water Security (SHOWS). His interests focus on empirical, numerical and hybrid approaches to water-social inequalities, co-evolution, patterns, feedbacks and paradoxes , with WDR3-SHOWS modules linked to: Sendais DRR, Paris COP21, IPCC, and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With international science networks from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, he promoted WDR3-SHOWS studies for Brazilian and Latin Americas water aging infrastructure, coping with floods, droughts, landslides, tropical diseases, social inequality and economic affordability. After participating through science-knowledge transfer with CEMADEN (Nat Centre for Monitoring Alerts of Natural Disasters), INCLINE and Joint Research Centre/Ispra, Italy, he envisioned PUB, OURS and WDR3-SHOWS for a wide spectrum of adapting tools, with hard and soft techniques of Low Impact Development (LID or SUDS) transformed into: Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA), AI-based insurance for non-stationary drivers and IPCCs composite impacts from multi-hazards and multi-risks. During 2019-2023 he is leading projects of FAPESP/SPRINT Water-Health-Resilience (BR/UK), FAPESP-3rd Generation of LID/LCA Water Facilities, FAPESP UK Acad on Social Resilience, Peoples Memory Enigmas. Also, he is Principal Investigator of the Water Security subcomponent of 2017-2023 FAPESP/CNPq/CAPES National Institute of Science Technology on Climate Change-Phase 2 (INCTMC2), leaded by CEMADEN/MCTIC; he is Associated Investigator of the 2018-2023 FAPESP/CEPID Research Centre for Innovation and Communication on Applied Maths for Industry (CEPID/CeMEAI-Phase 2), leaded by ICMC/USP and is Assoc. Investigator of the proposed 10-year IBM/FAPESP Centre for Artificial Intelligence. He is the Chairperson of the CAPES School of Advanced Studies on Water and Society Under Change, with open lectures available to the wide public through social media on Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter. He is Associated Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Instigation (INCLINE/USP). Elected Science Coordinator of the Sao Paulo Centre for Education and Research of Disasters (CEPED/SP), supporting the 2019-2035 Braz. Water Security Plan. Since the 2004 Indonesia/Aceh disaster, when acted as a DPRI/Kyoto Visiting Scholar, until his 2014-2016 CEMADEN RD Coordinaton, he has promoted SHOWS-OpenLabs to cope with risks in 1,000 municipalities and 40,000 Brazilian Risk Prone Areas (BRPAs). He has served as author-fellow of theMillennium Ecosystem Assessments, further adapting WDR3 plans for the APFM/WMO, the UNESCO-IHP and the World Bank. He is invited for the Int Flood Initiative and for IAHS groups: 2019/2021 Panta Rhei (Everything flows) Biennium, MOXXI (Measurements Observations of the XXI Century), Citizen and Hydrology (CandHy) and Water Footprint Regional Studies for BRPAs. He is ad-hoc a Water Security Advisor of AmBEV Co and FIESP (Sao Paulo's Federation of Industries), CNPq, CAPES, FINEP and FAPESP. He has engaged vulnerable communities using Participatory Water Resilience Indices (PWRI) and Willingness-to-Adapt (WtA) metrics. Through hybrid learning methods called PET (Praxis, Empiricism and Theory), he performs as a social agent with: digital water, Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data analytics (BDa), SDGs multicriteria attainment optimization, MOXXI pre-screening, CandHys volunteer geographic information (VGI) systems, (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This cooperative proposal meets the requirements of sub-question 3 ("Future change prediction and risk averaging of extreme climate events. For China and Brazil, develop predicting technologies and methods for different time periods in the future, make refined prediction of future changes and risks of extreme climate events at the regional scale, improve the accuracy of predictions in ord…
The INCT Climate Change aims to implement and develop a comprehensive network of interdisciplinary research on global change and sustainability, and is based on the cooperation between about 30 research groups from all regions of Brazil and 10 international research groups, involving in its entirety over approximately 300 researchers, students and technicians and establishing itself as on…
Brazil has endured the worst droughts in recorded history over the last decade, resulting in severe socioeconomic and environmental impacts, especially in Northeast and Southeast Brazil. Since 2014/2015, drought patterns and their effects on the country's hydroelectric power plants remain in a critical condition (Cuartas et al, 2022). On the one hand, these changing patterns also unveil n…
The primary research aim of our proposal is the exploration of the Water-Health-Resilience Nexus in changing urban environments in the UK and Brazil. Building urban resilience in flood-prone areas requires the development of adaptive capacities and socio-hydrological approaches capable of assisting this process by investigating the interplay between hydrological and human related dynamics…
The project addresses issues central to the community, risk perception, climate change, water security and adaptive behaviour as its priority, under a British-Brazilian research partnership. The aim of the project is to use innovative research strategy to understand patterns of public perception of climate change risk, focused on hydrology driven disaster risks, which identifies with thei…
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Under global changes, risk management for water reservoir services faces new challenges in the co-production of knowledge towards a green transition. This involves considering the analysis of ecosystem services linked to natural capital and the risks associated with socio-hydrological extremes. On the other hand, water infrastructure needs to be adaptable to the increased frequency and ma…
Nowadays, in order to mitigate urban drainage problems in Brazilian cities, compensatory techniques (CTs) with structural, punctual and centralized measures in the macrodrainage scale are prioritized. On the one hand, these CTs, primarily, present high implementation costs, few operation and maintenance plans, and do not inhibit the continuous increase in the impacts of a growing and unpl…
Given the current scenarios of water crisis and the occurrence of extreme hydrological phenomena, there is a need to attribute economic value to the benefits offered by the environment, also called ecosystem services, in a river basin scale.Ecosystem services can be valued through analyzes of supply and demand, as well as in the market economy, even though the said ecosystem services are …
Sustainable Urban Drainage Sytems (SUDS) are low-cost adaptation alternatives to assist traditional drainage systems, aiming at mitigating the risks of hydrological extremes. In this project, a new nomenclature is used for SUDS, facing the extremes due to change in future scenarios and their adaptations. For example, when they are adapted for changes in land use and occupation, e.g. urban…
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Extreme hydrological events, such as droughts and floods, are one of the main causes of disasters worldwide, and it tends to be aggravated by climate and land use changes. As a consequence, risks to the population also increases, once flood events in urban centers become more frequent and the parallel between higher demand and resources scarcity contributes to increase water, energy and f…
The Water Footprint indicator has been gained ever wider space in several areas of study and market niches, however, it has also been an object of several questions about the reliability of the results released for the products and sectors all over the world. Our primary goal here is to propose the analysis of sensitivity and uncertainty of the WF´s components (WFblue, WFgreen and WFgrey…
The global economic losses associated with environmental disasters increased, as did the frequency of hydro-meteorological disasters. Floods induced by extreme precipitation events are a concern in many locations around the world, making it urgent and necessary to take preventive actions in an integrated manner. Adaptation strategies, such as early warning systems for floods and environme…
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