A5014110747- Coastal and Marine Management
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Marine and fisheries research
- Cruise Tourism Development and Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
University of Aveiro
2020-2022
University of Algarve
2020-2022
For Mar Centro de Formação Profissional das Pescas e do Mar
2022
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a tool to safeguard marine natural systems, yet their effectiveness depends on how well they integrated into the existing socioeconomic context. Stakeholder engagement in MPA design can contribute increasing integration. This study focuses co-design of an between researchers, public administration, private sector, and non-governmental organizations. The proposed is Portugal includes area that hotspot for biodiversity economic activities. first proposal...
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) require effective indicators to assess their performance, in compliance with the goals of relevant national and international commitments. Achieving prioritizing shortlists multidisciplinary demands a significant effort from specialists depict multiple conservation socioeconomic interests, large complexity natural systems. The present paper describes structured expert-based methodology (process outputs) co-define list MPA performance indicators. This work was...
Environmental and nature conservation authorities are calling for a collective effort to break or reduce the current cycle of environmental degradation. Much response depends on scientific knowledge production based thematically geographically comprehensive datasets. Citizen science (CS) is cost-effective support tool research that provides means building large datasets promoting public awareness participation. One greatest challenges CS engage citizens retain participants in project. Our...
Scuba diving is one of the most popular coastal recreational activities, and few that are allowed in multiple-use marine protected areas. Nevertheless, like many other if excess, it may harm ecosystems their sustainable use. This paper focuses on seascape landscape characteristics associated with existence dive sites, aiming to identify suitable locations along coast potentially reduce environmental pressure (e.g., overcrowding physical damage) existing sites. Logistic regressions were...