Valorização do património tradicional em Santana: um contributo para o crescimento do turismo cultural da Madeira

Dissertação de mestrado em Património e Turismo Cultural

A autonomia no processo de aquisição da competência plurilingue e intercultural no âmbito da aprendizagem do Espanhol

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ensino de Português no 3.º ciclo do Ensino Básico Secundário e do Ensino do Espanhol no Ensino Básico e Secundário

Strategic planning of electricity systems: Integrating renewable energies

Tese de Doutoramento - Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Industrial e Sistemas (PDEIS)

GIS application in water resources master planning

Due to water scarcity, it is important to organize and regulate water resources utilization to satisfy the conflicting water demands and needs. This paper aims to describe a comprehensive methodology for managing the water sector of a defined urbanized region, using the robust capabilities of a Geographic Information System (GIS). The proposed methodology is based on finding alternatives to cover the gap between recent supplies and future demands. Nablus which is a main governorate located in the north of West Bank, Palestine, was selected as case study because this area is classified as arid to semi-arid area. In fact, GIS integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographic information. The resulted plan of Nablus represents an example of the proposed methodology implementation and a valid framework for the elaboration of a water master plan.

O novo ecossistema comunicacional e a socialização de crianças e jovens no espaço cultural da lusofonia: contributos da literatura infantojuvenil

Partindo da configuração de um novo ecossistema comunicacional, que tem na internet o seu epicentro, procura-se refletir sobre a influência do mesmo na socialização de crianças e jovens, através da análise da presença de literatura infantojuvenil neste novo media. A observação de que os dispositivos de comunicação digital alargam as oportunidades de acesso à informação entre cidadãos que falam, pensam e sentem em língua portuguesa, foca a questão no espaço cultural da lusofonia.

Apresentação: Lusofonias - reinvenção de comunidades e combate linguístico-cultural

[Excerto] Lusofonia e Interculturalidade. Promessa e Travessia debate a questão lusófona, em três aspetos principais. No atual contexto da globalização, que é uma realidade de cariz eminentemente económico-financeiro, comandada pelas tecnologias da informação, esta obra interroga o sentido das narrativas (literárias e mediáticas, e também das narrativas de histórias de vida) sobre a construção de uma comunidade geocultural transnacional e transcontinental lusófona. Interroga, igualmente, as políticas da língua e da comunicação como combate simbólico pela afirmação de uma comunidade plural, na diversidade de povos e culturas lusófonas. E interroga, ainda, a complexidade do movimento de interpenetração das culturas, o qual, com gradações diversas, que compreendem colonialismo, neocolonialismo e pós-colonialismo, na relação entre povos, traduz o encontro, a assimilação e a dominação, na interação entre nós e o outro. Sendo este o plano geral da obra Lusofonia e Interculturalidade, misturam-se nela distintos regimes do olhar, específicos das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, que vão da sócio-antropologia, à psicologia social, à ciência política e às ciências da comunicação, e da linguística, aos estudos literários, à história e às ciências da educação.

Assessment and management of the geomorphological heritage of Monte Pindo (NW Spain): a landscape as a symbol of identity

This study focuses on the granite mountain known as Monte Pindo (627 m above sea level) in the Autonomous Community of Galicia (NW Spain). This territory is included in the area classified as “Costa da Morte” in the “Politica de Ordenación Litoral” (POL) (Coastal Planning Policy) for the region of Galicia. This coastal unit, located between “Rías Baixas” and “Cape Fisterra” has great potential for demonstrating geological processes and its geomorphological heritage is characterized by a high degree of geodiversity of granite landforms. The main objective of our work is to assess the geomorphological heritage of the site, thus revealing its wide geodiversity. We shall analyze and highlight: its scientific value, developing an inventory of granite landforms; its educational valuel and its geotouristic potential. It must be ensured that the Administration understands that natural diversity is composed of both geodiversity and biodiversity. Only then will the sustainable management of Monte Pindo become possible by integrating natural and cultural heritage values. The goal is to ensure that Monte Pindo and its immediate surroundings become a geopark with the aim of promoting local development projects based on the conservation and valorization of its geological heritage.

Development of a methodology to incorporate risk and uncertainty in electricity power planning

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Industrial

Estudo da influência cultural no Design de Calçado

Dissertação de mestrado em Design e Marketing

Holistic approach, tourism

Holistic refers to something that emphasizes the whole and the interdependence of its parts. It can be conceptualized as interdisciplinary: the claim that most social and economic phenomena cannot be fully understood or explained without adopting an approach that goes beyond the aims of a single scientific discipline.

The influence of the Palestinian sociocultural values in shaping the vernacular architecture of Nablus city

Recently, environmental architecture and sustainable construction has been ranked on top of the worldâ s interests. Making use of natural resources helps in reducing energy consumption and costs associated with the operation of buildings. The current architectural approaches and designs in Palestine are far away from environmental concepts, copying and simulating abroad approaches, without taking into account the culture, climate, and inhabitant's needs. On the contrast, vernacular architecture has achieved environmental concepts and has given suitable approaches and samples - without any need to simulate or copy - which come from people and land. This paper discusses how the Palestinian socio-cultural context shaped the residential vernacular architecture in Palestine, taking the old city of Nablus as a case-study. The research concept depends on analysing and trying to understand the effect of the socio-cultural context on vernacular architecture and trying to reach some rules or understandings of how it works in order to reach a modern environmental dwelling that is suitable to this concept. The research method goes through analysing study cases from the traditional architecture models and the Nablus city is selected as a case study. This analytical and qualitative method can lead to deep understanding for how to benefit from vernacular architecture in Palestine in finding the future environmental residential construction. One of the main findings of this research is to set general and special rules for building sustainable buildings in Palestine from the socio-cultural point view, in order to be a reference for designers, stakeholders, ministry of planning, and municipalities.

A música clássica: um objeto cultural, artístico e comunicacional para o desenvolvimento humano

Dissertação de mestrado em Comunicação, Arte e Cultura

Cultural studies as the new humanities

The purpose of this study is to argue that Cultural Studies may be regarded as the new humanities. Cultural Studies focus on ethnic, post-colonial, communication, anthropological, ethnographic and feminist studies, and only ‘very marginally’ have they shown an interest in literature and literary studies (Aguiar & Silva, 2008). But those fields, which ‘Social Science’ rather than the ‘Arts’ have invested in (Ibid., p. 254), are the touchstone of modernity. Today, the concept we have of humankind is, to a large extent, played out in these areas. The questioning of both humankind and modernity has as backdrop the technologically-driven shift of culture from word to image (Martins, 2011 a). My proposal takes into account this debate, while underscoring how Cultural Studies are engaged in what is current and contemporary, which means, in the present and everyday life.

Interação cultural e interpretatio na epigrafia votiva: o caso da fachada ocidental do conuentus Bracaraugustanus

Dissertação de mestrado em Arqueologia

Turismo arqueológico: um projeto de valorização da arte rupestre no vale do Lima

Dissertação de mestrado em Património e Turismo Cultural