Papers by José Carlos Ferreira
Sustainability
Green infrastructure planning has been receiving great attention since the end of the last centur... more Green infrastructure planning has been receiving great attention since the end of the last century. Although green infrastructure has been known for its ability to respond to a wide range of environmental, social, and economic challenges, the concept and associated implementation measures are still being discussed among researchers, decision-makers, and practitioners. To help these discussions, several authors have identified green infrastructure planning principles to help these professional with planning procedures. However the perception of practitioners regarding these principles was never taken into consideration. Because of this, the purpose of this research is to learn about the priorities of urban planners regarding green infrastructure planning principles and their integration into spatial planning. To achieve this, an Analytic Hierarchy Process methodology was applied to urban planners working in the 17 municipalities of Lisbon Metropolitan Area, in order to prioritize the...
REDE - Revista Eletrônica do PRODEMA, Apr 13, 2018
investigadores do MARE. O projeto envolve a comunidade local, mas principalmente a comunidade esc... more investigadores do MARE. O projeto envolve a comunidade local, mas principalmente a comunidade escolar. Os objetivos do projeto são contribuir para o conhecimento local sobre a biodiversidade e tradições locais, sensibilizar para comportamentos sustentáveis em meio costeiro e marinho, aumentar a consciencialização assim como a participação ativa da comunidade local. Estes objetivos serão cumpridos através de: uma exposição itinerante que circulará principalmente pelas escolas dos municípios; ações e atividades de sensibilização na comunidade local e; um programa educativo nas escolas dos municípios. É reconhecido que criar comunidades com conhecimento e capacidades para resolver ou prevenir problemas ambientais é importante para a conservação dos recursos naturais e para o desenvolvimento de uma sociedade sustentável. É igualmente reconhecido que a sociedade atual ruma à globalização, assim como o conhecimento, sendo que o património (cultural e natural) e as tradições locais podem ser esquecidas ou confundidas com a informação de cariz global ou de outras regiões do planeta. Este projeto pretende responder a estas problemáticas ABSTRACT: This article deals with a project of oceanic and coastal literacy and environmental education called "Knowing to Preserve-Ambassadors for Biodiversity" that takes place within the scope of the candidature elaborated by the Municipality of Torres Vedras and by the Municipality of Lourinhã to the Operational Program Sustainability and Efficiency in Use of Resources (PO SEUR).It is developed by a team of the Department of Sciences and EnvironmentalEngineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (NOVA University Lisbon). The project involves the local community, especially the school community. The objectives of the project are to contribute to local knowledge about biodiversity and local traditions, raise awareness of sustainable coastal and marine behaviors, raise awareness as well as active local community participation. It is recognized that creating communities with knowledge and skills to solve or prevent environmental problems is important for the conservation of natural resources and for the development of a sustainable society.
Sustainability, Apr 25, 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Coastal areas are home to more than 2 billion people around the globe and, as such, are especiall... more Coastal areas are home to more than 2 billion people around the globe and, as such, are especially vulnerable to climate change consequences. Climate change adaptation has proven to be more effective on a local scale, contributing to a bottom-up approach to the problems related to the changing climate. Portugal has approximately 2000 km of coastline, with 75% of the population living along the coast. Therefore, this research had the main objective of understanding adaptation processes at a local scale, using Portuguese coastal municipalities as a case study. To achieve this goal, document analysis and a questionnaire to coastal municipalities were applied, and the existence of measures rooted in nature-based solutions, green infrastructures, and community-based adaptation was adopted as a variable. The main conclusion from this research is that 87% of the municipalities that answered the questionnaire have climate change adaptation strategies implemented or in development. Moreover,...
Water, 2020
Beach nourishment is a soft engineering intervention that supplies sand to the shore, to increase... more Beach nourishment is a soft engineering intervention that supplies sand to the shore, to increase the beach recreational area and to decrease coastal vulnerability to erosion. This study presents the preliminary evaluation of nourishment works performed at the high-energy wave-dominated Portuguese coast. The shoreline was adopted as a proxy to study beach evolution in response to nourishment and to wave forcing. To achieve this aim, images collected by a video monitoring system were used. A nourishment calendar was drawn up based on video screening, highlighting the different zones and phases where the works took place. Over the six-month monitoring period, a total amount of 25 video-derived shorelines were detected by both manual and automated procedures on video imagery. Nourishment works, realized in summer, enlarged the emerged beach extension by about 90 m on average. During winter, the shoreline retreated about 50 m due to wave forcing. Spatial analysis showed that the norther...
Water
This article explores the development of human occupation and the anthropogenic impacts at Costa ... more This article explores the development of human occupation and the anthropogenic impacts at Costa da Caparica, a Portuguese coastal town that faces several challenges concerning coastal erosion processes. A historical long-term analysis was made, mainly through medieval and modern writing sources, crossing such textual data with geology, geography, and other related scientific disciplines studies regarding the coastal erosion problems of the study area. Therefore, from the Middle Ages to the present, human actions concerning this area were examined. The sea was first seen as an income, due to tourism, and later seen as a danger. It is argued that human behaviors were the main cause of historical problems and also the present vulnerabilities and risks associated with this coastal stretch of the Portuguese littoral. We must search the past for answers to understand present problems and think about the future. This is the main purpose of this paper: to contribute to a better knowledge c...
Journal of Coastal Research, 2006
This paper presents the first Greenways studies for a Portuguese costal area. This first approach... more This paper presents the first Greenways studies for a Portuguese costal area. This first approach shall be considered not as a strict detailed plan, but as a schematic vision, which became possible by Geographic Information Technologies-Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. Integrated template data are human pressures (urban sprawling, rail and motorways), cultural and historic heritage, scenic places, ecology (Natura 2000 biotopes and existing Protected Areas) and other natural values to be protected ( ...
This paper describes the recent advances on the research project HIDRALERTA -"Flood Forecast... more This paper describes the recent advances on the research project HIDRALERTA -"Flood Forecast and Early Warning System in Coastal and Port Areas", whose main objective is developing a system for forecasting, warning and assessment of risks associated with wave overtopping and flooding in coastal and port areas, supported by measurements/predictions of waves and water levels in these areas. The case study here presented is the port and bay of Praia da Vitória, at the Terceira Island, Azores. Methodologies and accomplishments of the HIDRALERTA project achieved so far, with the focus on its more relevant results, are herein described.
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021
Marine litter has been considered one of the most serious global challenges, requiring urgent act... more Marine litter has been considered one of the most serious global challenges, requiring urgent action by governmental bodies, especially in African Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where resources and research are limited. In addition to this, waste management and environmental education and ocean literacy programs in schools are scarce, with islands suffering more seriously from these problems. Despite the amount of literature regarding causes and impacts of marine litter, there is still not enough research conducted concerning the public perceptions on both the problem and the potential solutions. This is even more noticeable in African developing countries, where resources and research are scarce. Perception plays a key role for ecosystem management and conservation policies. This study intends to explore the perceptions of local island fishing communities in Cape Verde regarding marine litter, in order to contribute for an improvement of marine ecosystem management and deve...
Education Sciences, 2021
Ambassadors for Biodiversity (EmBio) is an ocean literacy research project that contributes to th... more Ambassadors for Biodiversity (EmBio) is an ocean literacy research project that contributes to the improvement of literacy on marine and coastal biodiversity, namely encompassing the areas covered by the Natura 2000 Network, by promoting coastal and oceanic resources conservation and natural and cultural values preservation of the Portuguese western Atlantic coast. This project directly promotes the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the implementation of 2030 Agenda developed by the United Nations and adopted by most countries in the world, which define the priorities and aspirations for global sustainable development until the year of 2030, mobilizing a world-wide effort to meet a common set of goals and objectives. This paper contributes to understanding how ocean literacy, and specifically the EmBio research project, fits into the international agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs and its targets. Through an analysis and a comparison between t...
Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021
Waste management is currently facing multiple challenges worldwide. The population growth in urba... more Waste management is currently facing multiple challenges worldwide. The population growth in urban areas and related environmental concerns have increased the need to promote urban sustainability, namely where urban waste is a challenge. Thus, research on efficient waste management to reduce resources overload and to develop more sustainable production and consumption is key. Having this in mind, modern society is now seeking for an active voice and to be part of the decision-making processes that directly affect citizens. Citizens need to play an active role on decision-making to co-construct action guidelines, aiming a higher implementation success for an effective and inclusive management of urban waste. In this sense, UrbanWINS project was developed to promote co-construction and implementation of pilot actions involving citizens. In this paper the authors described the framework developed, and reflect critically on the results achieved.
Land, 2020
Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, includ... more Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, green infrastructure, as a planning tool, contributes to social and economic benefits, leading to the achievement of sustainable, resilient, inclusive and competitive urban areas. Despite recent developments, there is still no consensus among researchers and practitioners regarding the concept of green infrastructure as well as its implementation approaches, which makes it often difficult for urban planners and other professionals in the field to develop a robust green infrastructure in some parts of the world. To address this issue, an integrative literature review was conducted to identify which green infrastructure planning principles should be acknowledged in spatial planning practices to promote sustainability and ...
Journal of Coastal Research, 2020
ABSTRACT Cardona, F.S.; Ferreira, J.C., and Lopes, A.M., 2020. Cost and benefit analysis of clima... more ABSTRACT Cardona, F.S.; Ferreira, J.C., and Lopes, A.M., 2020. Cost and benefit analysis of climate change adaptation strategies in coastal areas at risk. In: Malvárez, G. and Navas, F. (eds.), Global Coastal Issues of 2020. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 95, pp. 764-768. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper addresses a cost analysis and evaluation of the benefits associated with different climate change adaptation strategies in coastal areas, considering high risk scenarios. For that, a cost analysis of adaptation strategies was carried out over a period of 50 years for Furadouro Beach, Ovar Portugal, a low-lying coastal area with high coastal erosion and frequent overtopping. The results show that cumulative costs of adaptation measures in the combination of defense and accommodation strategies are € 276M, € 164M in accommodation, € 112M in defense and € 75M in retreat. These results are an example of the importance of evaluating adaptation strategies in high-risk areas and show the usefulness of the approach taken as a support to decision making for processes that involve urban management and territorial planning of coastal zones vulnerable to the coastal erosion, wave overtopping and coastal flooding.
This paper illustrates the methodology developed to evaluate the risk of flooding of a coastal ar... more This paper illustrates the methodology developed to evaluate the risk of flooding of a coastal area, as well as the application of such methodology to Vale do Lobo beach, situated in the Loulé Municipality, a Portuguese coastal area under significant touristic pressure. The methodology is based on four main steps: a) division of the study area into sub-areas with similar characteristics in terms of coastal defense; b) determining the likelihood of flooding level that exceed predetermined thresholds for each study area; c) establishment of qualitative factors related to the consequences of the occurrence of flood level that exceed those thresholds; d) combination of the above steps for expeditious assessment of flood risks. The determination of flood levels follows the methodology presented in [1] and [2] which is based on the transference of the Faro wave-buoy regime to the study area by using the SWAN model integrated in a geographic information system (GIS).
Journal of Coastal Research
This work illustrates the methodology developed to evaluate the risk of coastal flooding and its ... more This work illustrates the methodology developed to evaluate the risk of coastal flooding and its application to Vale do Lobo beach, located in the Loulé Municipality, a Portuguese coastal area under significant touristic pressure. The methodology is based on six main steps: 1) division of the study area into sub-areas with similar characteristics in terms of coastal defense; 2) determining the probability of exceeding the pre-set thresholds of flood levels for each study area; 3) establishment of qualitative factors related to the consequences of such excess of the flood levels; 4) the combination of the above steps for expeditious assessment of flood risks; 5) identification of the risk areas; 6) proposal for risk adaptation. The determination of the flood levels is based on the local wave regime at the Faro wave-buoy over 9 years, on its propagation to the study area using the SWAN model integrated in the geographic information system (GIS), GUIOMAR, together with the calculation ...
Ocean & Coastal Management, 2014
This paper presents the results of a study to analyze the social value of Costa de Caparica's wav... more This paper presents the results of a study to analyze the social value of Costa de Caparica's waves for beachgoers and surfers, as well as the economic value, using the Zonal Travel Cost Method. The valuation of the wave through this methodology is a key tool to obtain the minimum economic value unallocated to the market, allowing to understand the true value of the presence of this abiotic resource of high uniqueness. The data collected carried out with 432 surveys made during August and September on the beaches of Costa de Caparica in 2011. One of the findings of the study was the recognition of the waves used directly by surfers, as a resource for the local economy by all users. Many of the users understood that their disappearance would be negative, since Costa de Caparica has an associated mass clients surfing contribution. As for the economic value it is estimated that the waves may be worth between V46 635.12 and V1 022 789.52 from an estimation of 22 000 surfers that attend annually. This paper demonstrates the importance of Costa de Caparica's waves in social and economical analyses and the need to consider them as a potential resource, for which the negative impacts could be damaging both local community and economy.
The length of the Portuguese coast, the severity of the sea conditions and the concentration of p... more The length of the Portuguese coast, the severity of the sea conditions and the concentration of population and economic activities on its coastal zone justify the importance of studying wave-induced risks and, in particular, flooding due to wave action. Indeed, emergency situations caused by adverse sea conditions are frequent and put in danger the safety of people and goods, with negative impacts for society, economy and natural heritage. So, assessing the risk of flooding of coastal and port areas is essential for the proper planning and management of these areas. In this framework, a methodology for the flood risk assessment in coastal and port areas is under development. The methodology is embedded into the HIDRALERTA system, a novel integrated system for port and coastal management, designed to prevent emergency situations, to support their management and to forecast incidental long-term interventions. The present paper describes the methodology, the HIDRALERTA system and a case study, the São João da Caparica beach, on the Lisbon's area, where the referred methodology was recently applied. Sea wave characterization and flood level calculations are presented for the study.
Journal of Coastal Research, 2013
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