Rate My Professor Raquel Tardin Coelho

Dr. Raquel Tardin-Coelho is an Associate Professor at the Curtin Institute for Energy Transition within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. An architect and landscape planner, she holds a PhD Cum Laude in Urban and Regional Planning from the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. Prior to her appointment at Curtin in November 2020, she served as Associate Professor in the Graduate Programme in Urbanism (PROURB) and the Department of Urbanism and Environment (DPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from April 2006 to March 2020. In these roles, she conducted research and community engagement projects, supervised master's and PhD theses, and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on landscape and spatial planning and design, open space systems, sustainability, systemic landscape design, and sustainable development goals.

Raquel Tardin-Coelho's research specializations include integrated landscape and urban planning and design based on regenerative sustainability principles, cultural landscapes, systems thinking, and community engagement to build sustainable and resilient communities. Her work emphasizes biocultural systems for developing strategic plans and projects, with a particular focus on cultural landscapes and clean energy transitions involving First Nations Peoples. Additional interests encompass indigenous-led cumulative effects assessment and management, localising the Sustainable Development Goals, water dynamics and blue-green infrastructure, risk management, strategic spatial planning, biodiversity conservation, and urban expansion structuring. As an expert member of the ICOMOS-IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (UNESCO), her key publications feature "Carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) and public perceptions: A systematic literature review" (2025), "A systematic review on public perceptions of RNAi-based biopesticides: Developing Social Licence to Operate" (npj Sustainable Agriculture, 2025), "Reimagining Closed Open Spaces (COSs): A Multiscalar Landscape Approach to Urban Integration Through Hybrid Open Spaces (HOSs)" (2026), "Water dynamics and blue-green infrastructure (BGI): Towards risk management and strategic spatial planning guidelines" (2021), and "Systemic Landscape and Sustainable Development Goals: a short reflection" (2021). Her scholarship has accumulated over 560 citations on Google Scholar, influencing regional planning, sustainability, and energy transition fields. She also contributed to the documentary "Transforming the Landscape," awarded Best Short Film at the Australian Film Festival in 2022.