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The Impact of Street Trees on Temperature Reduction in a Nature-Based Climate A...
Castelo, Sofia; Bussolotti, Victor Moura; Pellegrini, Izabela; Ferreira, Filipa; Ismail, Nor Atiah; Poggi, Francesca; Amado, MiguelUIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; Nature-based solutions have been promoted as an effective strategy to address climate impacts, including urban temperature reduction. In this paper, we analyze the impacts of the introduction of street trees on temperature (Universal Thermal Climate Index, UTCI) for three different dates, 2000, 2023, and 2050. A 3D model was developed in Rhinoceros software for a part of George ...
Recreation and Alcohol Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Alves, Daniela; Delgado, António Pedro; Amado, Miguel; Craveiro, Isabel; Santos, Zelia; Goggins, Alexander; Gasparinho, Carolina; Correia, ArturFunding Information: This research was funded by Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, under PTDC/ATP-EUR/5074/2012, UID/04413/2020, UIDB/00006/2020, SFRH/BD/115382/2016, and COVID/BD/152120/2021. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.; Background: Reducing alcohol consumption and improving urban planning in African cities are public health priorities. The aim of this study was to explore gender an...
Repensar o Espaço Rural do Futuro
Poggi, Francesca; Amado, MiguelUIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020
Os novos desafios da Geografia no contexto da Transição Energética Sustentável
Poggi, Francesca; Firmino, Ana; Amado, MiguelUIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020
Using different levels of information in planning green infrastructure in Luand...
Amado, Miguel; Rodrigues, Evelina; Poggi, Francesca; Pinheiro, Manuel Duarte; Amado, António Ribeiro; José, HelderUIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; Integrating natural processes to build areas through the creation of green infrastructure (GI) in Africa with its rapid urbanisation is a challenge because of the information base. The aim of this paper is planning a GI linking biophysical, social, and legal contents in a specific Africa country with an approach that combines different scales and different levels of data and inf...
The reuse of waste heaps from extraction sites: An architectural methodology
Talento, Katia; Amado, Miguel; Kullberg, José CarlosNowadays, the rehabilitation of quarries is a widespread practice. It stems from the most significant environmental concern in the management of non-renewable resources. However, reusing quarry waste in the process of regeneration represents the aspect less prevalent. This procedure results from the non-commercialized material, accumulated in huge piles of waste, that constitute invasive elements of the landsca...
Quarries: From abandoned to renewed places
Talento, Katia; Amado, Miguel; Kullberg, José CarlosNumerous industrial pits are discarded after their exploitation in every part of the world. Humanity both transforms the original morphology of the landscape, due to industrial activity in the territory, and, at the same time, rejects this "new" situation. This is to the detriment of the landscape, which is witness to this transfiguration, degradation, and abandonment. What is the future of these impersonal and...
Transforming Cape Vert
Amado, Miguel; Poggi, Francesca; Martins, Adriana; Vieira, Nuno; Amado, Antonio RibeiroUID/SOC/04647/2013; The lack of land ownership databases in developing countries has influenced inhabitants of these countries to occupy public lands. This situation has resulted in areas of informal housing, commerce, and agriculture, ultimately creating new informal settlements, which are becoming a serious problem in developing countries. These informal settlements contain inhabitants settled on public land ...
E-city web platform
Amado, Miguel; Poggi, Francesca; Amado, António Ribeiro; Breu, SílviaUID/SOC/04647/2013; Cities, as main energy consumers, play a crucial role in achieving a more sustainable energy future. This means that there is an urgent need to transform the way of planning urban areas, focusing on more efficient and self-reliant energy production and consumption modes overall. In this framework, the aim of this study is to explore the Net-Zero energy balance between two spatial scales: the...
Clusters municipais de bioenergia
Poggi, Francesca; Firmino, Ana; Amado, MiguelUID/SOC/04647/2013; After the shock that Portugal suffered with the forest fires at Pedrogão Grande (2017), inspiring critical reflections on the role and social responsibility of Geography is especially relevant to develop an adequate response framework for the protection of life, goods and natural resources. This article reflects on a cause -effect -solution relationship to be established for the prevention o...