Salinization of streams is a global environmental problem that has intensified in recent decades as a result of human population growth and associated activities, including the use of road de-icing salts, agricultural practices, and the generation of urban and industrial effluents. This phenomenon has led to significant changes in the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems, affecting fundamental ecolog...
The 21st century faces major environmental challenges, such as climate change and water pollution, highlighting the need for more sustainable and circular economic models. The textile industry contributes significantly to these issues, as it still exhibits low circularity and is a major contributor to water pollution, largely due to inefficiencies in textile dyeing and finishing stages, which generate effluents...
Grounded in references from visual poetry and sound art, the present investigation examines my artistic works developed between 2018 and 2025, in which I relate and articulate the fields of the visual, image, word, and sound in order to propose reflections on my artistic production and my experiences with research in the arts within the academic context. In this way, this dissertation presents two research dime...
The increase of fire risk in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is associated with the effects of climate change, together with the growth in demographic pressure (e.g., residential and industrial construction), and, unfortunately, with human-made actions (accidental or deliberate). Therefore, in recent years, a series of enormous and uncontrolled catastrophic fires have killed hundreds of people: in Australia ...
The transition toward the Sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks is fundamentally driven by the shift from centralized architectures to distributed multi-antenna topologies. While these configurations enhance coverage and Spectral Efficiency (SE), they simultaneously introduce additional security and network integrity vulnerabilities. For that, to complement the traditional cryptographic algorithms, Physica...
The “Photofônica” Experimentation, the central object of this research, aims to contribute to both the academic and artistic communities by exploring the interfaces between sound and image in contemporary creation. It is conceived as a performative experience that fuses, in real time, sonic gesture and photographic image, materializing in an audiovisual performance. The visual source material for this creation ...
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide increasingly adopt sustainability commitments, yeta comprehensive assessment of their environmental impacts remains methodologically limited. Thisthesis develops and validates an integrated Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) frameworkdesigned explicitly for HEIs, addressing the gap between institutional sustainability reporting andcomprehensive environmental ...
A aviação desempenha um papel crucial na mobilidade global, contribuindo simultaneamente de forma significativa para os impactes ambientais através das emissões de poluentes atmosféricos e do ruído. Compreender estes efeitos é essencial para apoiar a transição para uma aviação mais sustentável, particularmente num contexto de alterações climáticas. O principal objetivo desta tese é desenvolver e implementar um ...
A digitalização no setor da construção abriu novas oportunidades para a recolha e monitorização de dados de alta qualidade, com vista a alcançar emissões líquidas nulas. O Digital Building LogBook (DBL) e o Certificado de Desempenho Energético (EPC) são os dois principais repositórios de informações históricas estáticas «conforme construído» e de informações dinâmicas contínuas «indicadores-chave de desempenho ...
The climate emergency poses unprecedented challenges for the Law. Several decades since the adoption of the first legal instruments on climate change, the planet’s biogeophysical conditions are deteriorating at an accelerated pace. Faced with this dissonance, the juridical field has experienced a disruptive phenomenon, whereby various actors seek to fill the gap in effectiveness: the radicalisation of climate l...