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The United Nations SDG13 and the EU27 countries performance: a comparative anal...
Sena, Marina B.; Costa, Leonardo; Leitão, Alexandra; Silva, Maria C. A.This paper evaluates the performance of the European Union 27 (EU-27), its supranational regions, and Member States (MSs) in relation to the Climate Action Sustainable Development Goal (SDG13) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The Alkire–Foster method is used to develop the Multidimensional Climate Action Index (MCAI) framework. Regarding individual MSs’ overall performance, the results show that Sweden (North...
Promoting the transition to a Circular Economy: A study about behaviour, attitu...
Alves, Márcia; Castro, Alberto; Leitão, Alexandra; Seixas, CarlosYounger and highly skilled generations are one of the major driving forces of a successful transformation to a circular economy (CE); therefore, this paper intends to assess the prevalent behaviour, attitudes, and knowledge of the CE by university students. The study focuses specifically on Portuguese students. Some new conclusions were added to the existent literature. Our conclusions show that, although stude...
Promoting the transition to a circular economy: a study about behaviour, attitu...
Alves, Márcia N.; Seixas, Carlos; Castro, Alberto; Leitão, AlexandraYounger and highly skilled generations are one of the major driving forces of a successful transformation to a circular economy (CE); therefore, this paper intends to assess the prevalent behaviour, attitudes, and knowledge of the CE by university students. The study focuses specifically on Portuguese students. Some new conclusions were added to the existent literature. Our conclusions show that, although stude...
Circular Economy: Behaviours, attitudes and knowledge of university students in...
Alves, Márcia; Leitão, Alexandra; Seixas, CarlosThe goal of this paper is to assess behaviours, attitudes, and knowledge about circular economy (CE) by university students, since younger and highly skilled generations are one of the major driving forces of a successful CE transformation. The study focuses specifically on Portuguese students. Data collection from the target audience was made using an online questionnaire, and 377 answers were obtained. The re...
Climate change prevention through community actions and empowerment: a scoping ...
Costa, Maria João Salvador; Leitão, Alexandra; Silva, Rosa; Monteiro, Vanessa; Melo, PedroAs society tries to tackle climate change around the globe, communities need to reduce its impact on human health. The purpose of this review is to identify key stakeholders involved in mitigating and adapting to climate change, as well as the type and characteristics of community empowerment actions implemented so far to address the problem. Published and unpublished studies from January 2005 to March 2022 in ...
A comparative analysis of EU member states and their performance regarding the ...
Sena, Marina B.; Costa, Leonardo; Leitão, AlexandraThe objective of this research is to assess the performance of the European Union 27 (EU27), its regions and Member States (MSs) towards the Climate Action Sustainable Development Goal (SDG13) from the United Nations 2030 Agenda. To do so, we used the Alkire-Foster (AF) method, developing the Multidimensional Climate Action Index (MCAI) framework. Results show that the EU27 and its regions are not performing sa...
Climate action plans in Porto Atlantic Front municipalities: a comparison with ...
Leitão, Alexandra; Costa, Leonardo; Silva, ConceiçãoThe purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss the main advances and shortcomings of the climate action plans of the Porto Atlantic Front municipalities - Matosinhos, Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia and compare them with the best international municipal practices, proposing recommendations for improving the plans and policy framework in which they were developed. We also analyse to what extent these municipal...
Business cycles and trends in Germany and Portugal: macroeconomic policy implic...
Costa, Leonardo; Oliveira, Francisca Guedes de; Leitão, Alexandra; Paredes, JoséWe describe the neoclassical view of the business cycle by European Institutions in the Euro Area, and derive the stylized facts of business cycles and trends for Germany and Portugal in the period 1991–2018. The data are extracted from the European Commission’s AMECO database. To separate cycle and trend, we use the decomposition available in the AMECO database for the output, and the Hodrick-Prescott filter f...
Repensar a economia como uma economia circular
Leitão, AlexandraO modelo atual de crescimento assente em combustíveis fósseis, altamente intensivo em recursos e linear, que tem consistido em extrair, transformar, produzir, utilizar e descartar, parece ter atingido o seu limite. É urgente uma transformação profunda para fazer face à necessidade de descarbonizar e desmaterializar a economia, diminuir a pressão sobre os recursos naturais e reduzir a poluição, aumentando, simul...
Impactos económicos do Norte 2020: uma análise input-output
Oliveira, Francisca Guedes de; Leitão, AlexandraEste estudo tem como objetivos examinar o impacto do programa NORTE 2020 no VAB e emprego da economia portuguesa e se a riqueza global gerada se concentra na região Norte. Com base na análise input-output, estima-se que o investimento total aprovado no âmbito deste programa tenha um impacto no VAB nacional na ordem dos € 4 mil milhões e leve a criação de 112 mil postos de trabalho. O impacto na riqueza produzid...