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Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do...
Guimarães, Maria Helena; Jacinto, Gonçalo; Isidoro, Ana Catarina; Pohl, ChristianEvaluation plays a pivotal role in transdisciplinary (TD) research, often discussed during funding stages or when assessing project impacts. A few studies delve into the participant perspective when examining the quality of transdisciplinarity. Our work contributes to this area of assessment. Rather than providing a definitive definition of transdisciplinarity, we developed a questionnaire to evaluate a set of ...
Co-design of a marine protected area zoning and the lessons learned from it
Horta e Costa, Barbara; Guimarães, Maria Helena; Rangel, Mafalda; Ressurreicão, Adriana; Monteiro, Pedro; Oliveira, Frederico; Bentes, LuísMarine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a tool to safeguard marine natural systems, yet their effectiveness depends on how well they are integrated into the existing socioeconomic context. Stakeholder engagement in MPA design can contribute to increasing integration. This study focuses on the co-design of an MPA between researchers, public administration, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations. The pr...
Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex si...
Pinto-Correia, T; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Maria Isabel; Guimarães, Maria Helena; Sales-Baptista, Elvira; Cruz, Carla; Godinho, Carlos; Santos, Ricardos shown by the Green Deal's ambition, the European Commission is progressively pushing for an environmental shiftand climate action in Europe. For the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), this involves a stronger focus on greening policy objectives.For agri-environmental schemes, this entails changes toward performance-based payments, partially replacing traditional activity-basedpayments. The CAP foresees greater...
Decision-making criteria to shape mulching techniques for fire-prone landscapes
Petratou, Dafni; Nunes, João Pedro; Guimarães, Maria Helena; S.A., PratsAbstract Context 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 implementati...
Article 9 - EU FTAs and divided sovereignty: Transformative shifts in trade aut...
Guimarães, Maria HelenaEU trade policy has evolved on the scope of its remit through what can be framed as “creeping competence” (Pollack 1994, 2000). Since the Treaty of Rome to the Lisbon Treaty the EU has consolidated its sovereignty over trade by broadening its competences. However, the enlarged scope of EU FTAs has pushed subnational units to demand shared sovereignty over trade issues to protect the status quo on their regulato...
EU FTAs and divided sovereignty: transformative shifts in trade authority
Guimarães, Maria HelenaA política comercial da UE evoluiu no âmbito do seu mandato através do que pode ser enquadrado como "creeping competence" (Pollack 1994, 2000). Desde o Tratado de Roma até ao Tratado de Lisboa, a UE consolidou a sua soberania sobre o comércio, alargando as suas competências. Contudo, o âmbito alargado dos ACL da UE levou as unidades subnacionais a exigir uma soberania partilhada sobre questões comerciais para p...
The spatial, temporal and social construction of the concept of silvopastoral s...
Guimarães, Maria HelenaConcept diversity is inherent to silvopastoral system due to their historical and evolutionary dimensions. It's mathematical in the sense that we can have different combinations of its components including. Narrowing the look over this diversity to the case of montado and dehesa we display the variance of the meaning of this concept's definition. The concepts of montado and dehesa are described considering the ...
Time for collective actions
Guimarães, Maria Helena; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, IsabelThe worrying marginalization of traditional silvopastoral practices, products and territories deserve collective innovations to persist and respond to continuously changing social structures and societal demands, and to maintain the important ecosystem services these multi-purpose systems provide. In this chapter, we describe some examples of initiatives grouped in four categories, (1) social and institutional)...
Multi-actor platforms as a mechanism for actively bringing together actors and ...
Guimarães, Maria HelenaDue to the multifunctionality of silvopastoral systems several interests co-exist in the same space. Actors' coordination can allow the development of collective strategies and actions towards sustainability and resilience of these systems. How can such coordination be implemented? We try to reply to this question by discussing two initiatives that work as platforms for knowledge and action creation. A special ...
Mediterranean land system dynamics and their underlying drivers: Stakeholder pe...
Esgalhado, Catarina; Guimarães, Maria Helena; Lardon, Sylvie; Debolini, Marta; Balzan, Mario V.; Gennai-Schott, Sabine C.; Simón-Rojo, Marian• Land system dynamics from seven Mediterranean case studies are discussed. • Despite the diversity of contexts captured, transversal patterns were found. • Data shows disconnection between expected and desired futures. • Territorial actors can identify opportunities and actions towards desired futures. • Embedding actors within dynamics enables to frame local actions as drivers of change.