Name: Álvaro Fernández Braña
ORCID Number: 0000-0002-0351-2664
Scopus Number: 57021700900
Institucional Adress: CERNAS - Pólo de Coimbra | Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra | Rua Pedro Nunes – Quinta da Nora, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal | Google Maps: 40.192714, -8.411604
Email: alvaro.branha@esac.pt
Institutional Telephone: +351239790200

Álvaro Fernández-Braña, Célia Dias-Ferreira,
Evaluating and modelling a decentralised community-based waste collection system in developing São Tomé city (2023)
Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
DOI: 10.1016/j.scp.2022.100914

Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Ferreira, Célia, Sousa, Ana Catarina,
Avaliação de um modelo comunitário de recolha, separação e tratamento de resíduos em São Tomé e Príncipe (2022)


Álvaro Fernández-Braña, Vítor Sousa, Célia Dias-Ferreira,
A structured methodology to understand municipal waste generation at local level with minimized effort: development and case study (2021)
Environmental Science and Pollution Research ,vol.28, 10 , pp.12597--12612
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11108-0

Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Ferreira, Célia,
Comparison of environmental impacts of municipal waste before and after the introduction of PAYT systems using life cycle assessment: the cases of Aveiro, Larnaka and Lisbon (2021)


Garra, João, Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Ferreira, Célia,
Costs and benefits resulting from the implementation of PAYT schemes (2021)


Ferreira, Célia, Fernández Braña, Álvaro,
Layman's report of the project LIFEPAYT: tool to reduce waste in South Europe (2021)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra

Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Ferreira, Célia,
Recolha comunitária de lixo em São Tomé e Príncipe: guia de implementação de um modelo descentralizado e auto-sustentável ao nível da comunidade (2021)
ONGD Leigos para o Desenvolvimento

Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Sousa, Catarina, Bringsken, Beatriz, Neves, AnitaDinis, IsabelFerreira, Célia
Socioeconomic impact of waste over the lifetime of project LIFEPAYT (2021)



Turning waste management into a carbon neutral activity: Practical demonstration in a medium-sized European city (2020)
Science of The Total Environment
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138843

Bringsken, Beatriz, Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Sousa, Catarina, Ferreira, Célia
Lisbon's socioeconomic baseline on waste for large waste producers (2020)


Bringsken, Beatriz, Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Neves, Anita, Sousa, CatarinaAndré, PedroDinis, IsabelProença, SaraFerreira, Célia
Socioeconomic baseline on waste for households in Aveiro, Portugal (2020)


Bringsken, Beatriz, Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Sousa, Catarina, Kasidoni, MariaFerreira, Célia
Socioeconomic baseline on waste for households in Larnaka, Cyprus (2020)


Bringsken, Beatriz, Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Sousa, Catarina, Kasidoni, MariaFerreira, Célia
Socioeconomic baseline on waste for households in Vrilissia, Greece (2020)


Bringsken, Beatriz, Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Sousa, Catarina, Ferreira, Célia
Socioeconomic baseline on waste for the non-domestic waste sector in Condeixa-a-Nova, Portugal (2020)


Fernández-Braña, A., Feijoo-Costa, G., Dias-Ferreira, C.,
Testing scenarios for municipal waste management chasing carbon neutrality (2020)
Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019 , pp.375-380
DOI: 10.1201/9780429289798-59

Álvaro Fernández-Braña, Gumersindo Feijoo-Costa, Célia Dias-Ferreira,
Looking beyond the banning of lightweight bags: analysing the role of plastic (and fuel) impacts in waste collection at a Portuguese city (2019)
Environmental Science and Pollution Research ,vol.26, 35 , pp.35629--35647
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-05938-w

Álvaro Fernández-Braña, Vítor Sousa, Célia Dias-Ferreira,
Are municipal waste utilities becoming sustainable? A framework to assess and communicate progress (2019)
Environmental Science and Pollution Research ,vol.26, 35 , pp.35305--35316
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-05102-4

Sousa, V., Dias-Ferreira, C., Fernández-Braña, A., Meireles, I.
Benchmarking operational efficiency in waste collection: Discussion of current approaches and possible alternatives (2019)
Waste Management and Research ,vol.37, 8 , pp.803-814
DOI: 10.1177/0734242x19854119


The setting up of a pilot scale Pay-as-you-Throw waste tariff in Aveiro, Portugal (2019)
Waste Management and the Environment IX
DOI: 10.2495/wm180141

Dinis, Isabel, Petrillo, Tupac, Castro, Fátima Velez de, Ferreira, CéliaProença, SaraFernández Braña, ÁlvaroNeves, Anita
Socioeconomic indicators to monitor the impacts of the transition to PAYT tariffs (2018)


Fernández Braña, Álvaro, Ferreira, Célia,
Development of indicators to monitor environmental impacts of the transition to PAYT tariffs (2017)