A5001881134- Regional Development and Policy
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Social and Economic Solidarity
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Urban Development and Societal Issues
- Environmental Sustainability and Education
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Local Economic Development and Planning
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Regional resilience and development
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Social Sciences and Policies
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Organic Food and Agriculture
University of Lisbon
2010-2024
Instituto de Ciências Sociais
2021-2024
Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2019-2022
Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia
2015
UCL Australia
2012
University College London
2005
Over the last decade, soft planning has become an increasingly visible concept in literature. Since term spaces was firstly coined, been used to describe a growing number of practices that occur at margins statutory systems. However, as planning-related literature proliferates, so does diversity approaches and it encompasses. Such fuels long-standing questions about what can or cannot be considered well its usefulness for today’s theory practice. To shed light on this still unclear...
Schmidt, L., Delicado, A., Gomes, C., Granjo P., Guerreiro, S., Horta, Mourato, J., Prista, Saraiva, T., Truninger, M., O'Riordan, Santos, F.D., and Penha-Lopes, G. 2013. Change in the way we live plan coast: stakeholders discussions on future scenarios adaptation strategiesA scenario of increased risks due to climate change coastal erosion, coupled with a stringent economic recession, is threatening Portuguese coast. Three particular locations are focus CHANGE – Changing Coasts, Climate,...
This paper offers a fresh perspective on the predominant narrative that links climate change to migration. We review how this is being used promote securitization policies and limit migration avenues. propose reinterpretation of connection by drawing its current critique acknowledging alternative conclusions emerge from local perceptions change. explore human development perspectives demonstrate context-specific power structures politics behind causes (non-)migration, inhibit freedom choice...
EU spatial policy upholds the need to proactively counterbalance negative effects of increased inter-European competitiveness brought about by 'single market' and globalisation. As global economic integration continues create interdependencies among nations localities, competition for scarce inward investment intensify. these trends continue, as planning takes on growing significance within EU, there remains uncertainty role in inward-investment process. The market competition-oriented...
Alternative Food Networks gain increasing importance in sustainability transitions of food production, retail, and consumption. This paper explores the role AFN consumers as critical change agents, with a special focus on low-income consumers. It challenges preconceived notions that associate sustainable living exclusively affluent communities, highlighting substantial influence economically disadvantaged individuals shaping consumption patterns. Based survey Portuguese Fruta Feia...
Over the past three decades, Local Action Groups (LAGs) have gained significant relevance as territorial development polities. Initially established in 1990s under LEADER programme, EU-funded LAGs were lauded for their ability to engage local stakeholders, promote proactivity, and build capacity designing implementing Development Strategies (LDS). With introduction of Community-Led (CLLD) policy initiative 2014–2020 Community Support Framework, geographical scope expanded beyond rural...
Increasingly, Protected Areas (PAs) are sustained by a multilevel governance where demands for public participation have occurred against the backdrop of state reconfiguration.Little scholarly attention has been paid to how these shifts taken place; this paper aims diachronically assess involvement non-state actors in PAs Portugal.Our findings indicate that while range involved decision-making process progressively widened, their engagement remains mainly consultative.Moreover, managed local...
This paper shows how coastal and island peoples of Guinea-Bissau continue to prefer staying put over migrating when faced with manifestations climate change environmental disrepair. reaction contradicts widely held interpretations migration, which emphasize anti-immigrant sentiments border regimes. We examine historically marginalized Bissau-Guineans respond slow-onset events in the face political jeopardy inadequate governance. find that while their most pressing livelihood challenges...
A avaliação de políticas públicas em Portugal tem cerca duas décadas e nasceu por imposição externa (sobretudo financiamento adopção leis da União Europeia/UE). Não sendo o ordenamento do território uma competência formal UE, a teve, neste caso, um início particular. Entretanto, verificou-se sucessivo alargamento das suas componentes: conformidade, preventiva impactes, dinâmicas territoriais, dos processos práticas território. Esta evolução traduz paradoxal crescente “europeização” política...
A avaliacao de politicas publicas em Portugal tem cerca duas decadas e nasceu por imposicao externa (sobretudo financiamento adopcao leis da Uniao Europeia/UE). Nao sendo o ordenamento do territorio uma competencia formal UE, a teve, neste caso, um inicio particular. Entretanto, verificou-se sucessivo alargamento das suas componentes: conformidade, preventiva impactes, dinâmicas territoriais, dos processos praticas territorio. Esta evolucao traduz paradoxal crescente “europeizacao” politica...