José Gomes Ferreira has a Degree in Sociology, issued by the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE – Lisbon, Portugal), and a Master’s Degree in Communication, Culture and Media technologies, by the same institute. He has a Doctorate in Social Sciences, issued by the Instituto de CiênciasSociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa – Lisbon, Portugal). In this institute, he incorporates the team of Observa - Observatório de Ambiente, Território e Sociedade (Environment, Territory and Society Observatory). He is currently a post-doctorate researcher at the Post-Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, in which he incorporates the research group SAD - Sociedade, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento (Society, Environment and Development), and the SEMAPA group - Socioeconomia do Meio Ambiente e Política Ambiental (Environmental Socio Economy and Environmental Politics). His main research topics are water issues, in aspects such as the access to the resource and the social and climatic vulnerability in the context of the Brazilian Northeast.