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Mountain tourism stakeholders’ perspectives on waste management: The case of Ev...
Sangeeta Neupane; Pinto, Hugo; Pintassilgo, PedroWaste on Mount Everest, both intentional and unintentional, is a significant concern. The study, based on a site visit and interviews with residents, business owners, tourists, and government officials, highlights the region’s severe waste management issues. Key problems include the rising number of tourists, inadequate information, limited waste management infrastructure, and a lack of collective commitment. S...
A bioeconomic model for a multispecies small-scale fishery system
Azevedo, Eric; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Dantas, David; Daura-Jorge, Fábio GonçalvesA fishery encompasses various interconnected systems, including ecological, socioeconomic, and governing systems. Managing fisheries requires the simultaneous consideration of all these systems, making it a challenging endeavor. To address these challenges, fisheries bioeconomic models have emerged as a crucial tool. They are particularly valuable in the context of small-scale fisheries, which are often complex...
Environmental attitudes and behaviour of birdwatchers: a missing link Environme...
Guimarães, Maria; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Pinto, Patrícia; Costa, Andreia; Matias, AntónioBirdwatching is one of the fastest growing sectors of ecotourism. Managing this nature-based activity requires understanding birdwatchers’ attitudes and behaviour towards the natural environment. This paper proposes assessing these attitudes and the link to behavioural intentions by combining the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) with a criterion-based segmentation method, the chi-squared automatic interaction d...
Sustainable drive tourism routes: a systematic literature review
Cruz, Sandra; Ribeiro de Almeida, Cláudia; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Raimundo, RicardoDrive tourism (DT) has become an attractive way to visit tourism destinations for an increasing number of visitors along driving routes. This flow of visitors has made sustainability a major issue, that is, the way by which tourism development ensure economic benefits for local communities and preserves local identity, along the route, without compromisingtheenvironmental resources. Many studies focused the top...
Activating an artisanal saltpan: tourism crowding in or waterbirds crowding out?
Ramos, Jorge; Pinto, Patrícia; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Resende, Anabela; Cancela da Fonseca, LuísPurpose There is an increasing interest in visiting protected areas in the Algarve (Portugal). Tourists are interested in contact with nature activities. However, protected areas are quite sensitive to human pressure and are limited in their carrying capacity. The purpose of this study is to fill a literature gap concerning which features attract tourists who visit saltpans via a pedestrian tour and what sort o...
Environmental attitudes and behaviour of birdwatchers: a missing link
Pintassilgo, Pedro; Pinto, Patrícia; Costa, Andreia; Matias, António; Guimarães, M. HelenaBirdwatching is one of the fastest growing sectors of ecotourism. Managing this nature-based activity requires understanding birdwatchers’ attitudes and behaviour towards the natural environment. This paper proposes assessing these attitudes and the link to behavioural intentions by combining the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) with a criterion-based segmentation method, the chi-squared automatic interaction d...
Cost-benefit analysis of tidal energy production in a coastal lagoon: the case ...
Rodrigues, Nuno; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Calhau, Francisco; G-Gorbeña, Eduardo; Pacheco, AndréThe energy that can be extracted from tidal currents is one of the most promising renewable energy sources due to its high density/predictability. Within this paper this energy source is evaluated economically respecting sustainability principles. This evaluation contrasts from previous studies due to the application of a cost-benefit analysis based on a hydro-morphodynamic model, and moving away from the class...
Quality of life and emotional solidarity in residents' attitudes toward tourist...
Lai, Hio Kuan; Valle, Patrícia Oom do; Pintassilgo, PedroThis study proposes a model to investigate the relationship between residents' perception of tourism's impact on their quality of life (QoL) and their emotional solidarity toward tourists. The social exchange theory was used as a framework to explain the relationship, and structural equation modeling to assess the hypothesized model. Data for this study were obtained from survey responses of 407 residents in Ma...
Comunidades energéticas sustentáveis: estudo de implementação de uma comunidade...
Calhau, Francisco; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Guerreiro, J.Este livro aborda o tema da geração de eletricidade com recurso à energia eólica, dando assim o seu contributo para a redução das emissões de dióxido de carbono e demais gases causadores do efeito de estufa. O principal objetivo do trabalho nele descrito foi o de estudar a implementação de uma unidade de geração de eletricidade a partir da energia eólica, que permita satisfazer as necessidades de consumo de uma...
The role of social and technical excludability for the success of impure public...
Finus, Michael; Schneider, Raoul; Pintassilgo, PedroWe argue that international fisheries are a prime example to study the incentive structure of forming impure public good and common pool agreements. We consider a fully integrated multiple zone model, in which zones are linked through density-dependent migration. The incentive to accede to Regional Fishery Management Organizations (RFMOs) is related to multiple characteristics. Firstly, the relative patch sizes...