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Tertúlias do Montado 2016-2019: Avaliação e Síntese
Guimarães, MariaTERTÚLIAS DO MONTADO 2016-2019 Avaliação e Síntese OBJECTIVOS: • Apresentar os resultados de um questionário de avaliação respondido em 2019 por 100 participantes das Tertúlias. • Resumir a atividade das Tertúlias do Montado desde de 2016 até 2019.
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a r...
Guimarães, Maria; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Freitas, Maria; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Maria; Batista, Elvira; Veiga, José; Marques, Tiago; Pinto-Cruz, CarlaThe Montado is a silvopastoral system with a tree cover of predominantly Quercus suber but also Quercus rotundifolia, where cattle or sheep graze the understory. It occupies more than one million hectares in southern Portugal, and a similar landscape, the Dehesa, covers ca. three million hectares in Spain. These silvopastoral systems can simultaneously benefit the environment and socio-economic activities by pr...
Decision-making criteria to shape mulching techniques for fire-prone landscapes
Petratou, Dapne; Nunes, J.P.; Guimarães, Maria; Prats, SergioContext Wildfires have severe impacts on landscapes’ hydrological and sediment processes. They are linked to events such as flash floods and droughts, and high erosion rates which lead to loss of soil organic matter and detachment of seeds and seedlings. Mulching is an effective measure implemented directly after a fire to reduce soil erosion and increase soil water retention. However, its implementation has pr...
Governance for Mediterranean Silvopastoral Systems.
Guimarães, Maria; Pinto-Correia, TeresaThe goal of the book is to fill the gap in the knowledge on silvo-pastoral systems and their changing trends, by adding the human dimension, with enough detail to draw inferences about the new governance solutions that are needed to address the multiple challenges faced by silvo-pastoral systems. This text will be highly valuable to university and research institute libraries, academics, policy officials, and s...
Environmental attitudes and behaviour of birdwatchers: a missing link Environme...
Guimarães, Maria; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Pinto, Patrícia; Costa, Andreia; Matias, AntónioBirdwatching is one of the fastest growing sectors of ecotourism. Managing this nature-based activity requires understanding birdwatchers’ attitudes and behaviour towards the natural environment. This paper proposes assessing these attitudes and the link to behavioural intentions by combining the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) with a criterion-based segmentation method, the chi-squared automatic interaction d...
A holistic approach to land system dynamics – The Monfurado case in Alentejo, P...
Guimarães, Maria; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Isabel; Guiomar, Nuno; Esgalhado, CatarinaUnderstanding land system dynamics is fundamental for policy-making from local to global scale. Land system is a combination of land use, land management and territorial practices. To attain such complete information about landscape structures is a challenging task. Aiming to deepen knowledge on land systems, we applied a methodology meant to achieve a broader understanding of dynamics in the Sítio de Monfurado...
Unveiling Contrasting Preferred Trajectories of Local Development in Southeast ...
Guimarães, Maria; Esgalhado, CatarinaMediterranean land systems are amongst the most susceptible to global change, in part due to the region’s vulnerability to climate change and misfit within a high production demanding political and societal setting. The impact of global drivers at a local scale (i.e., the possible trajectories of change of a territory) are context-dependent, and to some extent dependent on how local actors perceive them and act...
Assessment and Determinants of the Quality of Life in Portuguese Cities
Guimarães, MariaThe quality of life (QoL) in cities has increasingly been used as a symbol of urban success. Studies addressing this issue tend to focus, however, on large cities and/or on cities from different countries. By using a set of data from a single country, comprehending cities with different population sizes and densities, observations for 11 performance dimensions, and an approach combining the Data Envelopment Ana...
Water Governance in Mediterranean Farming Systems through the Social-Ecological...
Guimarães, Maria; Esgalhado, CatarinaWater governance is a major challenge in the Mediterranean context. Any action to drive water governance towards sustainability needs to be grounded in a holistic understanding of such challenges. Therefore, a first step towards the improvement of water governance is a grounded understanding of what is at stake, who are the actors involved, and how they interact. To achieve this level of understanding, we propo...
Evaluation of environmental actions by local citizens – a choice modeling appli...
Guimarães, Maria; Nunes, Luis Catela; Rodrigues, Ana; Madureira, Lívia; Dentinho, TomazLittle is known about citizens’ judgment of nature conservation actions financed by public funds. The present work contributes to this topic with empirical evidence coming from a Choice Modeling (CM) study designed in an innovative mode. Using the participatory budget format, a CM exercise elicited respondents’ choice between the allocation of public funds for nature conservation actions versus other actions (e...