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Local Housing Strategy: Analysis of Importance and Implementation in Machico Mu...
Alves, Raul; Lousada, Sérgio; Cabezas, José; Gómez, José Manuel NaranjoThis article presents a detailed analysis of the local housing strategies (ELH) in the Mu nicipality of Machico, Madeira, examining the diagnosis of housing needs, proposed solutions, and projected goals for the future. In addition to addressing the rehabilitation of private and public hous ing and the increase in housing supply, the study also explores how ELH relate to the new generation of housing policies a...
The Importance of the Strategic Urban Rehabilitation Plan in the Sustainable De...
Alves, Raul; Lousada, Sérgio; Cabezas, José; Gómez, José Manuel NaranjoThrough the requalification of buildings, the improvement of public spaces and the reorganization of motorized and pedestrian circulation, success is achieved, and thus the trend of decay of the urban fabric is reversed, transforming and returning urban centers to the people. The Strategic Plan for Urban Rehabilitation of Machico is an important document for the sustainable development of the city, which will c...
Land-Use Changes in Insular Urban Territories: A Retrospective Analysis from 19...
Lousada, Sérgio; Cabezas, José; Castanho, Rui Alexandre; Gómez, José Manuel NaranjoAs the main island of the Madeira Archipelago, Madeira is faced with a clear demand for more precise and specific planning policies, in order to respond to regional requests. Bearing in mind the urgency of this issue linked to the concept of sustainability, planning strategies must be based on and strengthened by several studies, with the most varied themes, as a way of incisively understanding the problem at h...
Hydraulic planning in insular urban territories: the case of Madeira Island—Rib...
Lousada, Sérgio; Cabezas, José; Castanho, Rui Alexandre; Gómez, José Manuel NaranjoThe main objective of this study was to analyze the flood propensity of the main water course of Ribeira Brava drainage basin and, if necessary, to suggest two methodologies to mitigate the impacts, i.e., detention basin sizing and riverbed roughness coefficient adjustment. For the flood propensity assessment, geomorphological data obtained from the watershed characterization process was used through the SIG Ar...
Assessing health resources equipped with hemodynamic rooms in the Portuguese-Sp...
Gómez, José Manuel Naranjo; Castanho, Rui Alexandre; Cabezas Fernández, José; Loures, LuisPortugal and Spain share one of the greatest European borderland areas. This fact has direct impacts on a large territory and consequently on the communities’ living in it. Still, even if the border areas represent an essential fraction of the territory, planning policies have not resulted in specific cooperation programs that could enable sharing general leisure and recreation assets and infrastructures and co...
Impactos Socioculturais da Cooperação Transfronteiriça (CT) no Espaço Europeu
Loures, Ana Lúcia Corvo Viegas; Cabezas, José; Fernández-Pozo, Luis; Lousada, Sérgio António; Gómez, José Manuel Naranjo; Castanho, Rui AlexandreO Projeto Europeu tem sido alvo de diversas críticas e oscilações políticas que têm contribuído para uma degradação da coesão na União Europeia. Torna-se crucial analisar os fatores críticos para o sucesso da cooperação transfronteiriça, de modo a compreender este fenómeno e encontrar soluções para a temática Europeia, promovendo a articulação de medidas e métodos de crescimento sustentável para estes territóri...
Dynamics of the land use changes and the associated barriers and opportunities ...
Castanho, Rui Alexandre; Lousada, Sérgio; Gómez, José Manuel Naranjo; Escórcio, Patrícia; Cabezas, José; Fernández-Pozo, Luis; Loures, LuísConsidering the complex dynamics, patterns, and particularities that peripheral and insular territories/regions present—e.g., as the fragility, they show to achieve a sustain able development and growth—a study that analyzes the land uses of this territories is seen as pivotal to identify barriers and opportunities for a long-term sustained devel opment. Contextually, a general analysis was carried out through ...
Assessing land-use changes in european territories: a retrospective study from ...
Gómez, José Manuel Naranjo; Loures, Luís Carlos; Castanho, Rui Alexandre; Cabezas Fernández, José; Fernández-Pozo, Luis; Lousada, Sérgio António NevesThe need to understand what land use is has motivated the development of programmes that aims to identify it and quantify it—CORINE Land Cover (CLC) in 1985. From this official and open geodatabase—through the using of geographic information system (GIS) tools—the amount of area established for each land use has been identified in all the 28 member states of the EU. This mostly corresponds to agricultural and f...