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Integrating ecosystem services provided by legumes in agricultural life cycle a...
Cimarelli, Stefano; Goglio, Pietro; Serpa, Dalila; Quagliolo, Carlotta; Dorca-Preda, Teodora; Sadhu, Abbigel; Rai, Kamala; Roebeling, PeterAgricultural production is endangering agroecosystems health and functioning, compromising the delivery of many ecosystem services (ES) to prioritize provisioning. Legumes’ inclusion in cropping systems appears as a promising solution towards the ecological intensification of agriculture in Europe, providing a multiplicity of ES. Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) does not explicitly assess ES; however, t...
Can policy instruments enhance the benefits of nature-based solutions and curb ...
Mendonça, Rita; Roebeling, Peter; Fidélis, Teresa; Saraiva, Miguel MarinhoNew policy solutions are necessary to make cities more liveable in a future that will be hampered by climate change, urbanization, landscape fragmentation and overall overexploitation of limited resources and space. There is an aspiration to continue to integrate Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) into global agendas to cope with climate change and urbanization due to their multiple benefits and co-benefits. Neverthe...
INCCA: adaptação integrada às alterações climáticas para comunidades resilientes
Coelho, Carlos; Lima, Márcia; Alves, Filipe Moreira; Roebeling, Peter; Ferreira, Ana Margarida; Matos, Fábio; Barbosa, Joaquim PaisSem resumo disponível.
Assessing Coastal Erosion and Climate Change Adaptation Measures: A Novel Parti...
Coelho, Carlos; Lima, Márcia; Moreira Alves, Filipe; Roebeling, Peter; Pais-Barbosa, Joaquim; Marto, MarcoThis work aims to provide a more complete characterization of coastal erosion mitigation and climate change adaptation measures by presenting a participatory approach that integrates medium- to long-term perspectives, considering simultaneously social, environmental, economic and engineering dimensions to help decision makers implement sustainable climate change adaptation (CCA) strategies. The work lists, expl...
Participatory Action Research Challenges Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review...
Matos, Fábio André; Alves, Filipe Moreira; Roebeling, Peter; Mendonça, Rita; Mendes, Rúben; López-Maciel, Max; Vizinho, AndréThe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that spread through the world in 2020 had a major effect on academia. Research projects relying on participatory methods and action research approaches were especially harmed by the restrictions and changes the situation imposed. This study performs a rapid literature review to identify common themes in the narratives of published studies concerning the difficult...
Nature-based solutions and policy instruments towards an optimal urban design
Mendonça, Rita Meireles; Roebeling, Peter; Fidélis, T.; Saraiva, Miguel MarinhoUrban planning is crucial to promote resilience and liveability of cities in the face of current urbanization patterns and climate change challenges. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are viable alternatives to grey infrastructure, with multiple environmental, social and economic benefits and co-benefits, comprehensively contributing to the sustainable development goals. Despite their widely recognized importance, s...
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to a...
Mendes, Rúben; Fidélis, Teresa; Roebeling, Peter; Teles, Filipe; Farrelly, MichaelSpatial planning policies are fundamental blocks for the implementation of sustainable development goals. Still, despite the growing adoption of environmental proxies, as it is nature- based solutions, the study of their institutionalization in policy and spatial planning is in the early stages. Simultaneously, the use of discursive and interpretative methods to unfold the social structures related to environme...
The Embeddedness of Nature-Based Solutions in the Recovery and Resilience Plans...
Di Pirro, Elena; Mendes, Rúben; Fidélis, Teresa; Sallustio, Lorenzo; Roebeling, Peter; Marchetti, Marco; Lasserre, BrunoEuropean countries recently prepared recovery and resilience plans (RRPs) to recover from the pandemic crisis and reach climate neutrality. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are recognized as crucial drivers to fostering climate transition while addressing other challenges. Accordingly, RRPs offer the opportunity to promote the adoption of NBS. This article assesses the NBS embedded- ness in the policy discourse of ...
Assessing the Inclusion of Water Circularity Principles in Environment-Related ...
Miranda, Ana Catarina; Fidélis, Teresa; Roebeling, Peter; Meireles, InêsCities face increasing water pressure and supply issues, jeopardizing the balance between growth and sustainable water resource use. Green, resilient, smart, circular, blue, water sensitive, or water-wise city concepts are increasingly part of the design of strategies to rethink cities. These concepts have motivated many studies, but little is known about their relative relevance among the scientific community ...
Policy Instruments to Encourage the Adoption of Nature-Based Solutions in Urban...
Mendonça, Rita; Roebeling, Peter; Fidélis, Teresa; Saraiva, MiguelUrban landscapes are under great pressure and particularly vulnerable, due to climate change, population growth and economic development. Despite the growing understanding that Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) represent efficient solutions to facilitate adaptation to climate change and increase cities’ resilience, their wide-scale adoption is still limited. There is a need to include NBS in urban governance and pla...