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Water efficiency perception among higher education students
Galvão, Ana; Matos, Cristina; Durão, Anabela; Mourato, Sandra; Mateus, Dina; Araújo, Ivo; Neves, Luís; Barreiros, AnaThe present study surveyed students from 7 High Education Institutions (HEI) in Portugal aiming at analyzing university students’ perceptions regarding water efficiency. A questionnaire answered by 663 students revealed that they are very aware of the importance of water resources, strongly agreeing that water is essential for the livelihood and health of the environment (73%) and essential for human activities...
Higher education institutions’ students’ literacy in sustainable use of potable...
Barreiros, Ana M.; Durão, Anabela; Galvão, Ana; Matos, Cristina; Mateus, Dina; Araújo, Ivo; Neves, Luís; Mourato, Sandra; Durão, Anabela Cândida RamalhoHigher education institutions (HEIs) play a key role in fostering sustainability, since students will be future active society members. By providing them with the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to address environmental challenges, they can contribute to increasing sustainability in a long-term approach. With the effects of climate change strongly affecting water availability across the planet, it is incr...
Higher education institutions’ students’ literacy in sustainable use of potable...
Barreiros, Ana M.; Durão, Anabela; Galvão, Ana; Matos, Cristina; Mateus, Dina; Araújo, Ivo; Neves, Luís; Mourato, SandraHigher education institutions (HEIs) play a key role in fostering sustainability, since students will be future active society members. By providing them with the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to address environmental challenges, they can contribute to increasing sustainability in a long-term approach. With the effects of climate change strongly affecting water availability across the planet, it is incr...
Study of the requirements of an autonomous system for surface water quality mon...
Barros, M.; Granchinho, P.; Ferreira, C.; Neves, P.; Magalhães, H.; Santos, L.; Lopes, B.; Marques, J.; Pinho, H.; Mourato, SandraIn recent years, there has been increasing awareness of the preservation, protection and sustainable use of natural resources. Water resources, being one of the most important natural resources, face major threats due to contamination by pollutants of various types and origins. Maintaining the quality of water resources requires more robust, reliable and more frequent monitoring than traditional techniques of d...
Analyzing green behavior and the rational use of water in portuguese higher edu...
Barreiros, Ana Maria; Durão, Anabela; Galvão, Ana; Matos, Cristina; Mateus, Dina; Araújo, Ivo; Neves, Luís; Matos, Mário; Mourato, SandraIn the forthcoming years Portugal expects to be an increasingly hot and dry country dealing with the risk of water scarcity. According to the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere data, annual precipitation values have decreased 20 mm/decade. On the other hand, it is also verified that the periods of rain occur in a shorter interval, although more intensively. Water scarcity is one of the major challenges...
Analyzing green behavior and the rational use of water in Portuguese higher edu...
Barreiros, Ana M.; Galvão, Ana; Matos, Cristina; Mateus, Dina; Araújo, Ivo; Neves, Luís; Matos, Mário; Mourato, Sandra; Durão, AnabelaIn the forthcoming years Portugal expects to be an increasingly hot and dry country dealing with the risk of water scarcity. According to the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere data, annual precipitation values have decreased 20 mm/decade. On the other hand, it is also verified that the periods of rain occur in a shorter interval, although more intensively. Water scarcity is one of the major challenges...
Quality control of outsourced LiDAR data acquired with a UAV : a case study
Pereira, Luísa Gomes; Fernandez, Paulo; Mourato, Sandra; Matos, Jorge; Mayer, Cedric; Marques, FábioOver the last few decades, we witnessed a revolution in acquiring very high resolution and accurate geo-information. One of the reasons was the advances in photonics and LiDAR, which had a remarkable impact in applications requiring information with high accuracy and/or elevated completeness, such as flood modelling, forestry, construction, and mining. Also, miniaturization within electronics played an importan...
An interactive Web-GIS fluvial flood forecast and alert system in operation in ...
Mourato, Sandra; Fernandez, Paulo; Marques, Fábio; Rocha, Alfredo; Pereira, Luísa GomesFloods are one of the natural disasters not preventable, affecting people and causing significant damage to economic activities and infrastructures. Thus, it is of foremost importance to, within a disaster risk-reduction strategy, develop a useful flood forecast and alert system to prevent people from suffering flood disasters and mitigate its consequences. This article presents the Flood Forecast and Alert Sys...
Recurso ao focus group para identificação de perceções sobre riscos naturais
Veiga, Anabela; Mourato, Sandra; Anastácio, Rita; Quinta-Nova, L.C.The aim of this article is to present the results obtained through the application of the Focus Group technique as part of a process of public participation and involvement of the local community of the municipalities of Leiria, Ferreira do Zêzere and Ourém within the Project CLIMRisk - “Climate change adaptation measures in the management of natural and environmental risks”. The methodology used consisted of d...
An interactive Web-GIS fluvial flood forecast and alert system in operation in ...
Mourato, Sandra; Fernandez, Paulo; Marques, Fábio; Rocha, Alfredo; Pereira, LuísaFloods are one of the natural disasters not preventable, affecting people and causing significant damage to economic activities and infrastructures. Thus, it is of foremost importance to, within a disaster risk-reduction strategy, develop a useful flood forecast and alert system to prevent people from suffering flood disasters and mitigate its consequences. This article presents the Flood Forecast and Alert Sys...