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A Farming System Approach to Exploring Drivers of Food Insecurity Among Farm Ho...
Abbas, Máriam; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Santos, José LimaFarm households, especially in developing countries, are among the most vulnerable to food insecurity and poverty. A farming system approach is largely recognized to play an important role in supporting strategies to improve food security and alleviate poverty among farm households. This paper aims at exploring the drivers of food insecurity among farm households in developing countries, using a farming system ...
The current policy focus shift from a sectoral to a territorial governance of w...
Canadas, Maria João; Leal, Miguel; Novais, Ana; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Santos, José LimaLand management for wildfire reduction has been said to require new governance arrangements that ensure the coordination at the local level among landowners and between them and other relevant private and public actors. To promote a shift in the policy approach to wildfire mitigation from the current focus on fuel management, within the forestry sector, to a more effective cross-sectoral landscape transformatio...
Farming System Choice Is Key to Preserving Surface Water Quality in Agricultura...
Derossi, Fabiola Nunes; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Santos, José LimaDespite numerous published literature on the impacts of agriculture on water quality, knowledge gaps persist regarding which farming systems are of most concern for their impact on water quality, which would allow water resource planners to better target water management efforts. Seeking to understand how these relationships vary across different farming systems, we used data on water quality status in watershe...
Differentiating fire regimes and their biophysical drivers in Central Portugal
Bergonse, Rafaello; Oliveira, Sandra; Zêzere, José; Moreira, Francisco; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Leal, Miguel; Santos, José Manuel LimaWe characterize fire regimes in central Portugal and investigate the degree to which the differences between regimes are influenced by a set of biophysical drivers. Using civil parishes as units of analysis, we employ three complementary parameters to describe the fire regime over a reference period of 44 years (1975–2018), namely cumulative percentage of parish area burned, Gini concentration index of burned a...
Promoting low-risk fire regimes: an agent-based model to explore wildfire mitig...
Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Moreira, Francisco; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; Leal, Miguel; Oliveira, Sandra; Bergonse, Rafaello; Zêzere, JoséLandscape patterns and composition were identified as key drivers of fire risk and fire regimes. However, few studies have focused on effective policymaking aimed at encouraging landowners to diversify the landscape and make it more fire-resilient. We propose a new framework to support the design of wildfire mitigation policies aimed at promoting low-risk fire regimes based on land use/land cover choices by lan...
Wildfire mitigation and adaptation: Two locally independent actions supported b...
Canadas, Maria João; Leal, Miguel; Soares, Filipa; Novais, Ana; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Schmidt, Luísa; Delicado, Ana; Moreira, FranciscoThere is a broad consensus in the academic and policy communities over the need to shift the focus from fire suppression to fire prevention. To inform policies that effectively promote this shift, we distinguish between prevention actions aimed at more fire-resilient landscapes and those focused on the protection of people, i.e., wildfire mitigation and adaptation (WM&A), respectively. With the goal of discussi...
Differentiating fire regimes and their biophysical drivers in central Portugal
Bergonse, Rafaello; Oliveira, Sandra; Zêzere, José Luís; Moreira, Francisco; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Leal, Miguel; Santos, José Manuel LimaWe characterize fire regimes in central Portugal and investigate the degree to which the differences between regimes are influenced by a set of biophysical drivers. Using civil parishes as units of analysis, we employ three complementary parameters to describe the fire regime over a reference period of 44 years (1975–2018), namely cumulative percentage of parish area burned, Gini concentration index of burned a...
Recent trends in fire regimes and associated territorial features in a fire-pro...
Moreira, Francisco; Leal, Miguel; Bergonse, Rafaello; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; Oliveira, Sandra; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Zêzere, José LuísFire regimes in Mediterranean countries have been shifting in recent decades, including changes in wildfire size and frequency. We sought to describe changes in fire regimes across two periods (1975–1995 and 1996–2018) in a fire-prone region of central Portugal, explore the relationships between these regimes and territorial features, and check whether these associations persisted across periods. Two independen...
Promoting low-risk fire regimes: an agent-based model to explore wildfire mitig...
Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Moreira, Francisco; Canadas, Maria João; Novais, Ana; Leal, Miguel; Oliveira, Sandra; Bergonse, Rafaello; Zêzere, José LuísLandscape patterns and composition were identified as key drivers of fire risk and fire regimes. However, few studies have focused on effective policymaking aimed at encouraging landowners to diversify the landscape and make it more fire-resilient. We propose a new framework to support the design of wildfire mitigation policies aimed at promoting low-risk fire regimes based on land use/land cover choices by lan...
Wildfire mitigation and adaptation: Two locally independent actions supported b...
Canadas, Maria João; Leal, Miguel; Soares, Filipa; Novais, Ana; Ribeiro, Paulo Flores; Schmidt, Luísa; Delicado, Ana; Moreira, FranciscoThere is a broad consensus in the academic and policy communities over the need to shift the focus from fire suppression to fire prevention. To inform policies that effectively promote this shift, we distinguish between prevention actions aimed at more fire-resilient landscapes and those focused on the protection of people, i.e., wildfire mitigation and adaptation (WM&A), respectively. With the goal of discussi...