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Design for Circular Economy in a Strong Sustainability Paradigm
Rocha, Cristina Sousa; Antunes, Paula; Partidário, PauloThis research received no external funding.; Given the strategic role of design when addressing societal changes and its prominence in the circular economy (CE) discourse and practice during the past decade, a plethora of tools and methods is nowadays available to support organizations in the transition from a linear model of production to a circular one. The need for an intersection of CE, corporate sustainabi...
Green Infrastructure Planning Principles
Monteiro, Renato; Ferreira, José Carlos; Antunes, PaulaAcknowledgments: The authors acknowledge and thank the support given by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) to MARE through the strategic projects UIDB/04292/2020 and UIDP/04292/2020, and CENSE through the strategic project UIDB/04085/2020. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.; Green infrastructure planning has been receiving great attention since...
Co-creating a sustainability performance assessment tool for public sector orga...
Ramos, Tomás B.; Domingues, Ana Rita; Caeiro, Sandra; Cartaxo, Joana; Painho, Marco; Antunes, Paula; Santos, Rui; Videira, Nuno; Walker, Richard M.%ABS2% Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) support through the CENSE is financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the strategic project. The authors also acknowledge the participants in the surveys and the participatory workshop for their valuable contribution to this research. All organisations m...
Coupling spatial pollination supply models with local demand mapping to support...
Fernandes, João; Antunes, Paula; Santos, Rui; Zulian, Grazia; Clemente, Pedro; Ferraz, DiogoUID/AMB/04085/2019 UIDB/04085/2020; Mapping of ecosystem services (ES) is a powerful tool for communication and knowledge sharing about the implications of ecosystem management practices for human wellbeing. This research aimed to show the usefulness of ES mapping for decision-making by combining modelling of ES supply with ES demand mapping in a participatory process with the engagement of relevant stakeholder...
Green infrastructure planning principles: An integrated literature review
Monteiro, Renato; Ferreira, José C.; Antunes, PaulaUIDB/MAR/04292/2020 UIDB/04085/2020; Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, green infrastructure, as a planning tool, contributes to social and economic benefits, leading to the achieve...
Institutional challenges in putting ecosystem service knowledge in practice
Saarikoski, Heli; Primmer, Eeva; Saarela, Sanna Riikka; Antunes, Paula; Aszalós, Réka; Baró, Francesc; Berry, Pam; Blanko, Gemma GarciaThe authors wish to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. Most importantly, we want to acknowledge the participants in the case studies whose input was instrumental for this research project. The research was carried out in the project Operationalisation of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: From Concepts to Real-world Applications (OpenNESS), funded by t...
SPP toolbox
Trindade, Paula Cayolla; Antunes, Paula; Partidário, PauloLIFE + programme (contract number LIFE 09 ENV/PT/50). Pest-OE/AMB/UI4085/2013 from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation.; Public procurement can shape production and consumption trends and represents a stimulus for both innovation and diversification in products and services, through a direct increase in demand. In recent years, the interest in demand-side policies has grown and several approaches h...
A holistic framework to assess the sustainability of irrigated agricultural sys...
Antunes, Paula; Ferreira dos Santos, Rui; Cosme, Inês; Osann, Anna; Calera, Alfonso; De Ketelaere, Dirk; Spiteri, Anna; Mejuto, Miguel FernandezIrrigated agriculture is a key activity for the long-term survival of human-environmental systems and the assessment of agricultural sustainability has been gaining increasing relevance. In spite of several proposals developed, there is not a holistic approach that can be generally applied to assess sustainability of irrigated agricultural areas. In this paper we present a framework and associated indicators fo...
Defying standard criteria for digital replantation
Casal, Diogo; Gomez, Manuel Mac Emino; Antunes, Paula; Candeias, Henrique; Almeida, Maria AngélicaFunding Information: Diogo Casal (the first author of the paper) received a grant from “The Programme for Advanced Medical Education” sponsored by “ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Champalimaud, Ministério da Saúde and Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal .” Funding Information: Part of this work was funded by “The Programme for Advanced Medical Education” sponsored by “Fundação Calouste Gulben...