Sumários

Key Challenges - Agroforestry

17 Março 2023, 14:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato

This session is parte of the Key territorial challenges that make up the first part of the ACOT Module.

In this session we take a systemic view to the un-sustainability of the current global agroforestry through the lens of the evolution of global food production and consumption dynamics and its current key challenges.

Reading List

Fagerholm, Nora, et al. "A systematic map of ecosystem services assessments around European agroforestry." Ecological Indicators 62 (2016): 47-65.

Godfray, H. C. J., Crute, I. R., Haddad, L., Lawrence, D., Muir, J. F., Nisbett, N., ... & Whiteley, R. (2010). The future of the global food system.

Mbow, Cheikh, et al. "Achieving mitigation and adaptation to climate change through sustainable agroforestry practices in Africa." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 6 (2014): 8-14.

Mosquera-Losada, M. R., Santiago-Freijanes, J. J., Rois-Díaz, M., Moreno, G., den Herder, M., Aldrey-Vázquez, J. A., ... & Rigueiro-Rodríguez, A. (2018). Agroforestry in Europe: A land management policy tool to combat climate change. Land Use Policy, 78, 603-613.

Schoeneberger, Michele, et al. "Branching out: Agroforestry as a climate change mitigation and adaptation tool for agriculture." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 67.5 (2012): 128A-136A.

Seto, K. C., & Ramankutty, N. (2016). Hidden linkages between urbanization and food systems Science, 352(6288),

943-945.

Springmann, M., Clark, M., Mason-D’Croz, D., Wiebe, K., Bodirsky, B. L., Lassaletta, L., ... & Willett, W. (2018). Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits. Nature, 562(7728), 519-525.

Verchot, L.V., Van Noordwijk, M., Kandji, S. et al. Climate change: linking adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry. Mitig Adapt Strat Glob Change 12, 901–918 (2007).

Wilson, Matthew Heron, and Sarah Taylor Lovell. "Agroforestry—The next step in sustainable and resilient agriculture." Sustainability 8.6 (2016): 574.

Key Challenges - Urbanization

10 Março 2023, 18:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato

In this session we address Urbanization as one of the five key global territorial challenges that provide the contextual framework for ACOT. We stress a systemic perspective on how urbanization and sustainability intertwine at multiple level through the example of a growingly scarce resource worldwide - sand.

Reading List

Anguelovski, I., & Carmin, J. (2011). Something borrowed, everything new: innovation and institutionalization in urban climate governance. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 3(3), 169–175

Brenner, N. (2013). Theses on urbanization. Public culture, 25(1 (69)), 85-114.

Broto, V. C. (2017). Energy landscapes and urban trajectories towards sustainability. Energy Policy, 108, 755-764.

Bulkeley, H., Carmin, J., Broto, V. C., Edwards, G. A., & Fuller, S. (2013). Climate justice and global cities: mapping the emerging discourses. Global Environmental Change, 23(5), 914-925.

Grandin, J., Haarstad, H., Kjærås, K., & Bouzarovski, S. (2018). The politics of rapid urban transformation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 31, 16–22.

Henderson, J. V., Storeygard, A., & Deichmann, U. (2017). Has climate change driven urbanization in Africa?. Journal of development economics, 124, 60-82.

Jiang, L., & O’Neill, B. C. (2017). Global urbanization projections for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Global Environmental Change, 42, 193-199.

Satterthwaite, D. (2009). The implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change. Environment and Urbanization, 21(2), 545–567.

Turner, W. R., Nakamura, T., & Dinetti, M. (2004). Global urbanization and the separation of humans from nature. Bioscience, 54(6), 585-590.

Key Challenges - Natural disasters

3 Março 2023, 18:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato

Natural disasters. Discuss and understand the concept. Identify and understand extreme phenomena that can cause risks and cause disasters originating from natural phenomena and/or human-made actions. Diagnostic methodologies. Preparation of risk and/or susceptibility cartography. Integration into the planning and management of the territory of concrete measures to prevent and minimize the catastrophic effects of extreme phenomena.

UNISDR (2009). UNISDR terminology on disaster risk reduction. Genebra: United Nations International Strategy forDisaster Reduction.

https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gdo/php/index.php?id=2050

https://www.undrr.org/publications

Introduction

24 Fevereiro 2023, 18:00 • João Morais Lavadinho Mourato

Module Introduction. Objectives and Assessment. Course syllabus and assessment materials were distributed.

The spirit of the module, its systemic view rationale was then illustrated with a presentation and group debate on the topic of Lisbon's 50year-long waiting period for the new airport's decision-making to conclude. Spatial planning and Climate change issues, and how these intersect, are introduced and debated collectively, through the chosen empirical case-study.