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Spatial planning and land-use management
Gomes, Eduardo; Marques da Costa, Eduarda; Abrantes, PatríciaSpatial Planning and Land-Use Management play a pivotal role in striking a balance between enhancing the quality of life for communities and addressing environmental protection and natural resource management. Additionally, they facilitate the exploration of alternative land-use scenarios that cater to socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental needs, ensuring the welfare of populations while upholding principl...
Internal report with descriptive spatial analysis and calculated accessibility ...
Encalada Abarca, Luis; Marques da Costa, Eduarda; Marques Da Costa, Nuno; Louro, AnaThe concept of the 15-minute city emphasizes the importance of ensuring residents can efficiently access essential urban amenities within a short distance. This includes healthcare, education, leisure, and other daily services that significantly enhance quality of life, particularly for vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children. A toolkit has been developed to assess accessibility to urban amenities, p...
Remote sensing of vegetation and soil moisture content in Atlantic humid mounta...
Monteiro, Antonio; Arenas-Castro, Salvador; Punalekar, Suvarna M.; Cunha, Mário; Mendes, Inês; Giamberini, Mariasilvia; Marques da Costa, EduardaThe satellite monitoring of vegetation moisture content (VMC) and soil moisture content (SMC) in Southern European Atlantic mountains remains poorly understood but is a fundamental tool to better manage landscape moisture dynamics under climate change. In the Atlantic humid mountains of Portugal, we investigated an empirical model incorporating satellite (Sentinel-1 radar, S1; Sentinel-2 optical, S2) and ancill...
Oyster shells’ incorporation into mortar to achieve blue circular economy: LCA ...
Bellei, Poliana; Schäfer, Giovanna; Magalhães, Fernanda; Torres, Isabel; Marques da Costa, Eduarda; Solstad, Runar; Flores-Colen, InêsCurrently, society's great challenge is to face climate change and mitigate environmental impacts. This study aims to identify the environmental impacts of recovering traditional construction techniques in coastal regions by incorporating oyster shells into mortar to achieve the objectives of the blue circular economy. The possible environmental impacts are measured using Life Cycle Assessment. Oyster shell is ...
Food inflation in Brazil in the last decade: comparing evolution trends before ...
Oliveira, Jonatan Alexandre de; Baccarin, José Giacomo; Marques da Costa, EduardaThe objective is to characterize food inflation in general and, particularly, the food items and agrifood chains, according to the level of exposure to foreign trade, degree of processing, and inflation indicators in nine metropolitan areas of Brazil between 2007 and 2022. Basically, the data used were surveyed by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics for the Broad Consumer Price Index (Índice de ...
The evolution of teleworking in Portugal: regional disparities and sectoral var...
Marques da Costa, Eduarda; Franco, Pedro; Morgado, Paulo; Louro, Ana; Marques da Costa, NunoObjective: The objective of this study is to investigate the evolution of teleworking in Portugal during and immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to analyze sectoral variations and identify regional disparities in teleworking adoption. Theoretical Framework: The research builds on teleworking adoption rates and their variation across sectors and regions considering the differentiation of several fact...
O quotidiano das pessoas idosas nas cidades portuguesas em tempo de pandemia.
Marques da Costa, Nuno; Marques da Costa, Eduarda; Louro, AnaO envelhecimento obriga-nos a repensar as cidades como incentivo às oportunidades no quotidiano das pessoas idosas. Após o confinamento pandémico, foi aplicado um inquérito no contexto do Projeto GRAMPCITY, entre 2020 e 2021, a 403 pessoas com 65 ou mais anos de seis áreas de estudo em Portugal – Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (AML), subdividas em cidade de Lisboa, AML Norte e AML Sul, a que se juntam três cidade...
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Alves, André; Marques da Costa, Eduarda; Gomes, Eduardo; Niza, SamuelUm dos principais desafios no desenvolvimento de centros eletroprodutores renováveis prende-se com a sua localização. Essa decisão está intrinsecamente ligada à necessidade de equilibrar a disponibilidade de recursos com outros usos. No atual contexto de transição energética, a produção de energia renovável terá de crescer significativamente para a descarbonização do sistema elétrico. Em Portugal, as metas do P...
Transport infrastructures and mobility for Portugal 2030: insights from the env...
Arsenio, Elisabete; Macedo, António Lemonde de; Rodrigues, Marta; Marques da Costa, EduardaMajor strategic investments in infrastructures and equipment across four different areas have been outlined by the National Investments’ Program (PNI 2030) in Portugal. This paper in built on the environmental assessment study of the PNI 2030 and focus on its key methodological contributions and policy recommendations addressing the transport and mobility area that represents around 52% of the total investment....
O quotidiano das pessoas idosas nas cidades portuguesas em tempo de pandemia. U...
Marques Da Costa, Nuno; Marques da Costa, Eduarda; Louro, AnaO envelhecimento obriga-nos a repensar as cidades como incentivo às oportunidades no quotidiano das pessoas idosas. Após o confinamento pandémico, foi aplicado um inquérito no contexto do Projeto GRAMPCITY, entre 2020 e 2021, a 403 pessoas com 65 ou mais anos de seis áreas de estudo em Portugal – Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (AML), subdividas em cidade de Lisboa, AML Norte e AML Sul, a que se juntam três cidade...