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Engineering Education for a Sustainable Future A systematic literature review a...

Silva, Paulo; Felgueiras, Carlos; Caetano, Nídia; Martins, Florinda; Onofrei, George; Blue, Juanita; Sintejudeanu, Mara; Acitores, Adela

Education represents a fundamental pillar of society, being an important factor in shaping and building each individual for their future. It is common sense that society, like the world we live in, undergoes adaptations and modifications over time, especially due to the need to resolve issues that allow for improved comfort and greater chances of survival in these changes. There-fore, a question arises: what fa...


Energy Policies, Education and Sustainable Development Goals Applied to Low Dev...

Martins, Florinda; Silva, Paulo; Felgueiras, Carlos; Almeida Santos, Adriano Manuel; Pereira, Filipe; Caetano, Nídia

Energy, its use and management, weighs heavily on the burden that each society can impose on a fragile balance of nature, with implications not only environmental and financial, but also social, creating jobs and improving quality of life. Devising strategies that combine these three factors are a valuable option that will yield good results, meeting the challenge of fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals...


Macro modeling of electricity price towards SDG7

Martins, Florinda; Felgueiras, Carlos; Caetano, Nídia

Energy challenges are crucial issues to achieve Sustainable Development and its goals. Energy availability and affordability are pillars for ending poverty, giving access to commodities as well as water, etc. Modern lives rely on appliances and gadgets based on electric energy being its price a key issue making it worth to analyze and promote simple models able to predict electric energy prices to support in de...


Methodology for the decision-making process in Social District Heating implemen...

Alonso, Rita; Azevedo, João; Martins, Florinda

District heating is a centralized energetic system, capable of providing heat to different structures. This technology helps achieving energetic efficiency with a high fuel flexibility, enabling the use of various renewable sources, which will lead to a lower pollution potential. Beside the environmental perspective, these systems show a great ability concerning the social context. Benefits such as, tackling fu...


Macro Modelling of Electricity Price Towards Sdg7

Martins, Florinda; Felgueiras, Carlos; Caetano, Nídia

Energy challenges are crucial issues to achieve Sustainable Development and its goals. Energy availability and affordability are pillars for ending poverty, giving access to commodities as well as water, etc. Modern lives rely on appliances and gadgets based on electric energy being its price a key issue making it worth to analyze and promote simple models able to predict electric energy prices to support in de...


Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost of an Innovative Carbon Paper Sensor ...

Martins, Florinda; Torrinha, Álvaro; Delerue-Matos, Cristina; Morais, Simone

Nowadays there is a growing concern with the environment and sustainability, which means that better methods, including pollutants analysis, with less consumption of materials, organic solvents, and energy, need to be developed. Considering the almost inexistent information about the topic, the main goal of this work was to compare the environmental impacts of two analytical methods, a traditional one based on ...


Macro Modelling of Electricity Price Towards SDG7

Martins, Florinda; Felgueiras, Carlos; Caetano, Nídia

Energy is a very important issue to achieve Sustainable Development. Energy availability and affordability are key aspects for ending poverty and giving access to base commodities. In addition our daily lifes rely on electric appliances and gadgets to perform inumerous tasks so electricity price is a crucial issue due to its economic, environmental and social impacts. In this work it was studied the correlation...



Raw material depletion and scenario assessment in European Union – A circular e...

Martins, Florinda; Castro, Helio

Nowadays the production systems are linear and the consumption patterns are essentially based on products with a short life cycle, which contribute to increase the demand for raw materials and environmental impacts. The Circular Economy (CE) is playing a major role among scholars and practitioners. Many aspects are now defining this new trending paradigm such as the roles of product development, transformation ...


Analysis of Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption and Environmental Impacts in Europea...

Martins, Florinda; Felgueiras, Carlos; Smitkova, Miroslava; Caetano, Nídia

The use of fossil fuels as the main source of energy for most countries has caused several negative environmental impacts, such as global warming and air pollution. Air pollution causes many health problems, causing social and economic negative effects. Worldwide efforts are being made to avoid global warming consequences through the establishment of international agreements that then lead to local policies ada...


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