The article discusses a new model of participatory governance in Lisbon by providing theoretical reflection and empirical knowledge fromthe action of two urban agencies: the “Centre of Urban Information of Lisbon” (CIUL) and the “Municipal Offices in Support of Neighbou...

Collective collaboration between NGOs, associated and non-associated agents can capitalise knowledge, experience and expertise in initiatives for social change. This contribution focusses on forms of citizen engagement funded by international and local agencies for urba...

A procedure is presented that allows identifying large burned scars and the monitoring of vegetation recovery in the years following major fire episodes. The procedure relies on 10-day fields of Maximum Value Composites of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (MVC-NDV...

The present work aims to study the combined effect of drought and large wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula relying on remotely sensed data of vegetation dynamics and leaf moisture content, in particular monthly NDVI, NDWI and NDDI time series from 1999–2009, derived fro...

This work aims at characterising the seamount physiography and biology in the OSPAR Convention limits (north-east Atlantic Ocean) and Mediterranean Sea. We first inferred potential abundance, location and morphological characteristics of seamounts, and secondly, summari...

The deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus is a symbiont bearing bivalve that is found in great abundance at the Menez Gwen and Lucky Strike vent sites and in close vicinity off the Azores region near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). The distinct relation...

In this study, Algal Pigment Index 2 (API2) is investigated in Sagres, an area located in the Atlantic off the southwestern Iberian Peninsula. Standard results provided by the MEdium Resolution Image Spectrometer (MERIS) ocean colour sensor were compared with alternativ...

Widespread consensus has emerged around the importance of further agricultural intensification, if the nutritional requirements of the everexpanding global population are to be met (fao 2017). Mainstream models of agricultural intensification, closely linked to speciali...

Apesar de não existir uma definição unanimemente aceite para o conceito de bloqueio atmosférico, este pode ser descrito como uma supressão do fluxo zonal devido à presença de um sistema de alta pressão. Esta circulação anticiclónica, normalmente localizada nas latitudes...

Global land ecosystems are particularly important in the regulation of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) balance, removing every year about one quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Although the oceans constitute a CO2 sink of approximately the same magnitude, most...