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Structuring wicked problems in transdisciplinary research using the Social-Ecol...
Guimarães, Helena; Guiomar, Nuno; Godinho, Sérgio; Surova, Diana; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Sandberg, A.; Ravera, Federica; Varanda, MartaThe aspiration to understand the environment as a whole and to deal with real world problems have inspired some groundbreaking examples of transdisciplinarity (TD). The core idea of TD is that different academic disciplines work jointly with practitioners to solve a real-world problem. The first step of TD implies an intimate and iterative association with the context that implies dealing with an issue complexi...
A landscapes-based approach to improving linkages among research, management an...
Muñoz-Rojas Morenés, José; Teresa Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Azeda, Carla; Fonseca, Ana; Godinho, Sérgio; Guimarães, Helena; Guiomar, Nuno; Ravera, FedericaMulti-functional land-use systems are acknowledged as highly sustainable and resilient, and play an important role in confronting global challenges such as increasing climate hazards, decreasing food security, decline in social capital and biodiversity conservation. The Montado of Central and Southern Portugal falls within such category. The Montado is a Mediterranean silvo-pastoral land-use system dominated by...
Contributions of Iberian Silvo-Pastoral Landscapes to the Well-Being of Contemp...
Surová, Diana; Ravera, Federica; Guiomar, Nuno; Sastre Martínez, Rodrigo; Pinto Correia, TeresaAssessments of society’s perceptions of rangeland systems offer insights into the motivations, cultural beliefs, and values that can support landscape conservation and the everyday decisions of landowners. Silvo-pastoral landscapes, the grazed oak woodlands known as montado in Portugal and dehesa in Spain, are the main rangelands of southwestern Iberia. At the interface of complex interactions between natural p...