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I am an interdisciplinary researcher with a passion for developing and integrating qualitative and quantitative tools to natural hazards and sustainability research. Currently, I am diving into the amazing world of data analytics and computational social sciences. I use a set of tools to support corpus-based investigations.

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2023 (3)

• de Brito, M.M.^# (2023) Cities dried-up by few. Nature Sustainability. doi:10.1038/s41893-023-01097-6.
• de Brito, M.M.*^#, Kuhlicke, C.*, Bartowski, B., Botzen, W., Dogulu, C., Han, S., Hudson, P., Karanci, A., Klassert, C., Otto, D., Scolobig, A., Soares, T.M., Rufat, S. (2023) Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research. Global Environmental Change. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102672
  
• Moreira, L.L., Vanelli, F.M., Kobiyama, M., de Brito, M.M.^# (2023) Sensitivity analysis of criteria weights for constructing flood vulnerability indexes: a participatory approach. Frontiers in Water. doi:10.3389/frwa.2023.970469

2022 (7)

• Vanelli, F.M., Kobiyama, M., de Brito, M.M.^# (2022) To which extent are socio-hydrology studies really integrative? The case of natural hazards and disaster research. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, doi:10.5194/hess-26-2301-2022
  
• Rufat, S., de Brito, M.M.^#, Fekete, A., Comby, E., Robinson, P.J., Armas, I., Botzen, W.J.W., Kuhlicke, C. Surveying the Surveyors to Address Risk Perception and Adaptive Behaviour Cross-study Comparability. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussion, doi:10.5194/nhess-2021-365
• Papagiannaki, K., Petrucci, O., Diakakis, M., Kotroni, V., Aceto, L., Bianchi, C., Brázdil, R., Grimalt-Gelabert, M., Inbar, M., Kahraman, A., Kilic, Ö., Krahn, A., Kreibich, H., Kotroni, V., Llasat, M.C. , Llasat-Botija, M. Macdonald, N., de Brito, M.M., Mercuri, M., Pereira, S. Rehor, J. Geli, J.R., Salvati, P., Vinet, F. Zêzere, J.L. (2022). Developing a large-scale dataset of flood fatalities for territories in the Euro-Mediterranean region, FFEM-DB. Scientific data, doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01273-x
• Sodoge, J., de Brito, M.M., Kuhlicke, C. (2022) Automatized Drought Impact Detection Using Natural Language Processing. Wasserwirtschaft, doi: 10.1007/s35147-022-1008-7
• Yiwo, E., Jato-Espino, D., Carracedo, P., de Brito, M.M. (2022). Multi-stakeholder perception on flood management in Ghana: analysis of drivers and potential solutions, with a focus on surface permeability. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102990
• Otto, D., Pfeiffer, M., de Brito, M.M., Gross, M. (2022). Fixed Amidst Change: 20 Years of Media Coverage on Carbon Capture and Storage in Germany. Sustainability, doi:10.3390/su14127342
• Raška, P., Bezak, N., Ferreira, C.S.S., Kalantari, Z., Banasik, K., Bertola, M., Bourke, M., Cerdà, A., Davids, P., de Brito, M.M. [...] Hartmann, T. (2022). Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: an interdisciplinary overview using the expert community approach. Journal of Environmental Management, doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114725

2021 (8)

• de Brito, M.M.^# (2021) Compound and cascading drought impacts do not happen by chance: a proposal to quantify their relationships. Science of the Total Environment, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146236
• de Brito, M.M.^#, Kuhlicke, C., Otto, D. (2021) Tracking topics and frames regarding sustainabilty transformations during the onset of the Covid-19 crisis. Sustainability. doi:10.3390/su131911095
• Lehmann, P., de Brito, M.M., Gawel, E., Groß, M., Haase, A., Lepenies, R., Otto, D., Schiller, J., Strunz, S., Thrän, D. (2021) Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability. Sustainability Science, doi:10.1007/s11625-021-01003-z
• Moreira, L.L., de Brito, M.M.^#, Kobiyama, M. (2021) A systematic review and future prospects of flood vulnerability indices. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, doi:10.5194/nhess-2021-34
• Fekete, Al, Aslam, A.B., de Brito M.M., Dominguez, I., Fernando, N., Illing, C., Apil, K.C., Mahdavian, F., Norf, C., Platt, S., Santi, P.A., Tempels, B. (2021) Increasing flood risk awareness and warning readiness by participation – but who understands what under ‘participation’? International Journal of Disaster risk reduction, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102157
• Moreira, L.L., de Brito, M.M.^#, Kobiyama, M. (2021) Effect of different normalization, aggregation and classification methods on the construction of flood vulnerability indexes. Water, doi:10.3390/w13010098
• Lehmann, P., Beck, S., de Brito, M.M., Gawel, E., Groß, M., Haase, A., Lepenies, R., Otto, D., Schiller, J., Strunz, S., Thrän, D. (2021) Environmental Sustainability Post-COVID-19: Scrutinizing Popular Hypotheses from a Social Science Perspective. Sustainability, doi:10.3390/su13168679
• Melo, C.M., Michel, G.P., Kobiyama, M., de Brito, M.M.^# (2021) The relevance of geotechnical unit characterization for landslide susceptibility mapping with SHALSTAB. Geohazard. doi:10.3390/geohazards2040021

2020 (2)

• de Brito, M.M.^#, Kuhlicke, C., Marx, A. (2020) Near-real-time drought impact assessment: A text mining approach on the 2018/19 drought in Germany. Environmental Research Letters. doi:org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba4ca
• de Brito, M.M.*, Amoradie, A.*, Evers, M., Bossa, A., Lumor, M., Norman, C., Yacouba, Y., Hounkpe, J. (2020) Current flood risk management practices in Ghana: Gaps and opportunities for improving resilience. Journal of Flood Risk Management. doi:10.1111/jfr3.12664

2019 (1)

• de Brito, M.M.^#, Almoradie, A., Evers, M. (2019) Spatially-explicit sensitivity and uncertainty analysis in a MCDA-based flood vulnerability model. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, doi:10.1080/13658816.2019.1599125

2018 (4)

• de Brito, M.M.^#, Evers, M., Almoradie, A. (2018) Participatory flood vulnerability assessment: a multi-criteria approach. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22, 373-390, doi:10.5194/hess-22-373-2018
• García-Santos, G., de Brito, M.M., Höllermann, B., Taft, L., Almoradie, A., Evers, M. (2018) Methodology to explore emergent behaviours of the interactions between water resources and ecosystem under a pluralistic approach. Proceedings of the Int. Association of Hydrological Sciences, 95, 1-5, doi:10.5194/piahs-95-1-2018
• Bormann, H., de Brito, M.M., Charchousi, D., Chatzistratis, D., David, A., Groser, P.F., Kebschull, J., Konis, A. Koutalakis, P., Koraki, A., Krauzig, N., Meier, J., Meliadou, V., Meinhardt, M., Munnelly, K., Stephan, C., de Vos, L.F., Dietrich, J., Tzoraki, O. (2018) Impact of hydrological modellers’ decisions and attitude on the performance of a calibrated conceptual catchment model: results from a ‘modelling contest’. Hydrology, 5, 64; doi:10.3390/hydrology5040064
• Ramos, P.A.R., Oliveira, G.G., de Brito, M.M., Silva, L.C.P. (2018) Methodological proposal for flood vulnerability mapping. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 41, 281-291, doi: 10.11137/2018_3_281_291

2017 (4)

• de Brito, M.M.^#, Evers, M., Höllermann, B. (2017) Prioritization of flood vulnerability, coping capacity and exposure indicators through the Delphi technique: A case study in Taquari-Antas basin, Brazil. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 24, 119-128, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.05.027
• de Brito, M.M.^#, Weber, E.J., Silva Filho, L.C.P. (2017) Multi-criteria analysis applied to landslide susceptibility mapping. Revista Brasileira de Geomorfologia, 17, 719-735, doi:10.20502/rbg.v18i4.1117
• de Brito, M.M.^#, Weber, E.J., Krigger, V.S., Leitzke, F.P. (2017) Analysis of landslide conditioning factors in Porto Alegre municipality based on historical data. Brazilian Journal of Cartography, 68, 1853-1872
• de Brito, M.M.^#, Weber, E.J., Passuello, A. (2017) Multicriteria analysis applied to landslide susceptibility mapping: a case study in Cascata District, Porto Alegre, RS. Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física, 10, 12-24, doi:10.5935/1984-2295.20170048
  

2016 (1)

• de Brito, M.M.^#, Evers, M. (2016) Multi-criteria decision making for flood risk management: a survey of the current state-of-the-art. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 16, 1019-1033, doi:10.5194/nhess-16-1019-2016
  

2015 (1)

• de Brito, M.M.^# (2015) Identification of landslides scars in the Eastern Edge of the Paraná Basin based on Landsat 5-TM images. Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física, 8, 56-70. doi:10.26848/rbgf.v8.1.p056-070

* Both authors contributed equally

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Books and book chapters

• de Brito, M.M., Sodoge, J. (2023) Computational Social Sciences in der Umweltsoziologie. In: Sonnberger, M., Bleicher, A., Groß, M. (eds) Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-37222-4_14-1
• Jato-Espino, D., de Brito, M.M., Eslamian, S. (2022) Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Flood Risk Assessment. In: Flood Handbook – analysis and modeling. Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN: 9780429463938.
• Vanelli, F.M., Kobiyama, M., Dávila, I.G. Fusinato, E., de Brito, M.M. (2022) An integrative approach for overcoming dichotomous thinking in natural hazards and disasters research. In: Lourenço Magnoni Jr. (Ed.) Ensino de Geografia e Redução de Riscos.
• Kobiyama, M., Vanelli, F.M., Oliveira, H.U., Basconcellos, S.M., Campagnolo, K., de Brito, M.M., Moreira, L.L. (2020) Uso da bacia-escola na redução do risco de desastres: uma abordagem socio-hidrológica. In: Magnoni Junior et al. (Org.) Redução do risco de desastres e a resiliência no meio rural e urbano. ISBN: 978-65-87877-12-9
• Ramos, P.A.R., Andrades Filho, C.O., de Brito, M.M. (2020) Levantamento histórico dos registros de desastres hidrológicos no município de Igrejinha, encosta do planalto meridional no Rio Grande do Sul. In: Ladwig, N.I., Campos, J.B. (Orgs.) Planejamento e gestão territorial: inovação, tecnologia e sustentabilidade. ISBN: 978-65-87458-07-6
• Evers, M., de Brito, M.M. (2018) Multi-criteria and participatory Vulnerability Analysis – a transdisciplinary approach to Flood Risk Management. In: Schütze, N. et al. (Eds) Forum für Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung. Heft 39.18.
• Evers, M., Almoradie, A., de Brito, M.M. (2018) Enhancing flood resilience through collaborative modelling and MCDA. In: Fekete, A., Fiedrich, F. (eds.) Urban disaster resilience and security - novel approaches for dealing with risks in societies. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68606-6_14
  
• Passuello, A., de Brito, M.M., Giazzon, E., Foresti, A., Pauletti, C., Favero, E., Bresolin, J., Silva Filho, L.C.P. (2017) Tecnologia social como ferramenta para a redução de vulnerabilidade a riscos. In: Marchezini, V., Saito, S., Londe, L., Trajber, R., Iwama, A.Y., Furtado, J.R. (Eds.) Redução de vulnerabilidade a desastres: em busca de rotas para prevenção. RiMA editora.
• Silva Filho, L.C.P., Pauletti, C., Passuello, A., Bussular, C.Z., Korzenowski, C., Rocha, C. S., Giazzon, E.M.A., Costa, E.A., Favero, E., Bresolin, J.T., Fin, J., Guasselli, L.A.; Souza, L. P., Bressani, L.A., Fonseca, M.R., de Brito, M.M., Assis, M., Schavinski, M., Fontes, P.W., Alves, R.C.M., Lucena, R. B., Saito, S.M., Marchezini, V. (2015) Capacitação em gestão de riscos. 2nd ed. Porto Alegre: UFRGS. 214p.

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