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Resposta comum à tragédia: da teoria das relações internacionais ao contributo ...
Brandão, Ana Paula Lima Pinto de Oliveira Almeida; Machado, Carolina Feliciana; Pinto, Lígia[Excerto] À semelhança dos restantes 16 ODS, o ODS13 dedicado à ação climática é multifacetado e pode ser subdividido em 6 ações. De entre estas, a análise que aqui se propõe, evidencia o contributo das Relações Internacionais, da Economia, e da Gestão. Assim, acentua-se a dimensão internacional do problema e das políticas nomeadamente de mitigação, mas também as de adaptação numa perspetiva de equidade entre d...
UMinho’s seven guiding principles for sustainability strategies - a critical as...
Ramísio, Paulo J.; Pinto, LígiaThe University of Minho, in 2009, published her first sustainability report. It was, at the time, the first Portuguese University to do so. This publication grew out of a voluntary and informal group of faculty members from diverse scientific areas. The commitment with sustainability reporting, and most fundamentally to the sustainability quest, was constant until 2017. During these 9 years UMinho’s public repo...
Who knows the price of water services, and does it make a difference? An explor...
Pinto, Lígia; Ramísio, Paulo J.; Valente, MarietaWater scarcity represents an increasingly worldwide concern. Policies designed to address water scarcity either focus on the water supply or consumers’ demand. This paper proposes to analyze the relevance that water price plays in regulating households’ demand and, the role it could play if set differently, to induce more sustainable water use. In particular, in Portugal, the quantity of water can represent les...
Alignment between the Urban Water Sector Mission and the SDGs: the management m...
Arezes, Luís Diogo Araújo; Crispim, José António Almeida; Pinto, Lígia; Ramísio, Paulo J.The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reinforce the central role of organizations in the implementation of solutions that promote sustainability. Similarly, there is a direct link between society?s well-being and the management of water resources. Thus, water companies have a central role in defining targets and programs focused on achieving these goals. This research aims to analyze the incorporation o...
A co-financing model for the mitigation of highway runoff pollution
Ramísio, Paulo J.; Arezes, Luís Diogo Araújo; Pinto, LígiaHighway runoff impacts urban and natural ecosystems negatively. A financing model, that is economically feasible and accepted by all stakeholders, has been a limitation for the implementation of pollution control measures. A case-study on a 279-km Portuguese Highway is presented as a basis for a co-financing model. Runoff pollution load was estimated for quality indicators (TSS, COD, Zn, Cu, Pb), and the total ...
Ageing (un)equally and (un)healthily: On the health status of Portuguese people...
Correia, Isabel M.; Ferreira, Priscila; Pinto, Lígia; Valente, Marieta; Veiga, PaulaResearch on the health status and on socio-economic inequality in the health status of Portuguese adults with 50 years of age or more is scarce, but urgent, so that policy-makers can better understand the type of burdens that this ageing process will place on social welfare policies. We use data from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe Wave 6 to investigate the role of gender, income and educat...
Explaining the social acceptance of renewables through location-related factors...
Pinto, Lígia; Sousa, Sara; Valente, MarietaThe public perception of renewable energy sources is generally positive, due to their role in air pollution and CO<sub>2</sub> emission mitigation policies. However, there are local environmental detrimental effects, and empirical evidence is not consistent as to the support of local communities. In the present paper, we analyse the antecedents of public generic perceptions of renewables grounded on objective l...
3rd Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Energy Economics & 5th Meet...
Pinto, Lígia; Valente, MarietaThe 3rd Annual Conference of the Portuguese Association of Energy Economics – APEEN and the International Meeting on Energy and Environmental Economics – ME3 took place on the 18-19 October 2018 in Braga, Portugal. The event was hosted by the Universidade do Minho and gathered the contributions of specialists in Energy and Environmental Economics to enrich the debate about the many issues raised by the manageme...
Energy footprint in Hei: a decade overview on relevant energy indicators
Ramísio, Paulo J.; Pinto, Lígia; Almeida, Manuela Guedes deThe Millennium Development Goals and the 17 Global Goals for Sustainability Development have been acting as a global and inclusive framework for the implementation of a new and sustainable development model (United Nations, 2015). Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are a privileged space for the analysis of the necessary conditions for a sustainable future, and can represent a crucial role in providing the the...
Resilience and adaptation in the face of climate change: the Douro wine bio- cu...
Pinto, Lígia; Ramísio, Paulo J.; Lourenço-Gomes, LinaThe Douro wine region is one of the most important Portuguese wine regions, and the oldest demarcated wine region in the world. The evolving and living cultural landscape resulted from a symbiotic relationship between human and nature, that has proven, through time, to be sustainable and resilient was, in 2001, recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site. Climate change effects represent a growing/global concern...