Participatory mapping in the design process of a spatial data infrastructure SDI: a case study in the Biosphere Reserve Rio Platano (Honduras)

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

An Atlas for the future National Park: Las Cumbres de la Sierra de Guadarrama

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

A acção da ONU na prevenção e no combate aos crimes contra a Humanidade em territórios de conflito: O caso do tráfico humano no Kosovo

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências Políticas e Relações Internacionais

Politics, Commerce, and Colonization in Angola at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em História Moderna e dos Descobrimentos

Vista Alegre: the decline of an historical company

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Studying urban space and literary representations using GIS: Lisbon, Portugal, 1852-2009

This article proposes a methodology to address the urban evolutionary process, demonstrating how it is reflected in literature. It focuses on “literary space,” presented as a territory defined by the period setting or as evoked by the characters, which can be georeferenced and drawn on a map. It identifies the different locations of literary space in relation to urban development and the economic, political, and social context of the city. We suggest a new approach for mapping a relatively comprehensive body of literature by combining literary criticism, urban history, and geographic information systems (GIS). The home-range concept, used in animal ecology, has been adapted to reveal the size and location of literary space. This interdisciplinary methodology is applied in a case study to nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels involving the city of Lisbon. The developing concepts of cumulative literary space and common literary space introduce size calculations in addition to location and structure, previously developed by other researchers. Sequential and overlapping analyses of literary space throughout time have the advantage of presenting comparable and repeatable results for other researchers using a different body of literary works or studying another city. Results show how city changes shaped perceptions of the urban space as it was lived and experienced. A small core area, correspondent to a part of the city center, persists as literary space in all the novels analyzed. Furthermore, the literary space does not match the urban evolution. There is a time lag for embedding new urbanized areas in the imagined literary scenario.

Fast screening for diagnostic of heart ischemic episodes

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Química Sustentável

Lá fora um lugar para existir/Abroad a place where to exist

A exposição “Artistas Portugueses - Lá Fora” pretende mostrar uma parte significativa da produção de artes plásticas que resultou de processos de migração que tiveram origem em território português. Integra uma multiplicidade de situações temporais e sociais que, para serem lidas, necessitam de alguma contextualização. Trata-se, tal como no caso da emigração económica, de uma emigração de sobrevivência, sendo que aqui o sentido do termo sobrevivência assume uma dimensão mais existencial. Para elas, partir quer dizer, ao mesmo tempo, resistir enquanto ser humano e existir enquanto criador. The exhibition “ABROAD” aims to show a significant part of the Fine Arts production resulting from migration procedures starting from the Portuguese territory. It comprises multiple periods of time and social situations which, in order to be comprehended, need to be contextualized. This is, just like in the case of economic emigration, an emigration for survival even if in this context the meaning of the Word survival assumes an existential dimension. For those people to leave means, simultaneously, to resist as a human being and to exist as a creator.

Apoio à implementação do Sistema de Informação Territorial da Administração Interna e à análise de padrões espaciais

Este documento visa apresentar o trabalho de Estágio realizado na Direção Geral de Administração Interna (DGAI) como parte integrante e conclusiva do Mestrado em Gestão do Território na Área de Especialização em Deteção Remota e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, ministrado pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. O Estágio desenvolveu-se em duas fases. A primeira detém um caráter mais genérico e teve como objetivo prestar apoio à consolidação do Sistema de Informação Territorial da Administração Interna (SITAI), onde, entre diversas atividades desenvolvidas, a principal, e conforme exposto no presente relatório, reside na adaptação de dados do Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Censos 2011) ao território nacional após a Reorganização Administrativa do Território das Freguesias (RATF). A segunda enfoca o fenómeno da Violência Doméstica (VD) e consiste no tratamento e análise de vários tipos de dados provenientes da base de dados do Ministério da Administração Interna (MAI) relacionados com o mesmo. Não obstante esta segmentação de trabalhos, é objetivo deste Estágio a aplicação dos Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (SIG) envolvendo dados de realidades específicas e a produção de informação capaz de se constituir como instrumento de suporte à decisão e desenvolvimento de políticas de segurança interna pelas quais o MAI é responsável.

Liberdade e tolerância religiosa: "portugueses não católicos" no ultramar do século XIX

The personal legal status of native non catholic people of Portuguese colonial Empire during the nineteenth century, their position in what concerns Portuguese citizenship, is the main subject of this article. While discussing constitutional articles on religion, Portuguese deputies of the nineteenth century were confronted with a set of problems about that status which they find difficult to solve: should non catholic peoples who were born in Portuguese colonial territory be treated as plain Portuguese citizens or where they just “savage people”, “colonial subjects” or, in a more optimistic approach, “civilizing subjects”. The results were not conclusive, giving rise to an “uncertainty principle” which enabled central and local government to decide in an almost casuistic way about native people status and rights.

The Vase’s Representation (Cantharus, Crater) on the Roman Mosaic in Portugal: A Significant Formal and Iconographic Path from Classic Antiquity to Late Antiquity

11TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS OCTOBER 16TH  20TH, 2009, BURSA TURKEY Mosaics of Turkey and Parallel Developments in the Rest of the Ancient and Medieval World: Questions of Iconography, Style and Technique from the Beginnings of Mosaic until the Late Byzantine Era

Comédias do Minho - A singularidade de um projecto cultural no Vale do Minho

As Comédias do Minho (CdM) são uma associação cultural criada em 2003 por iniciativa de cinco municípios do Vale do Minho – Melgaço, Monção, Paredes de Coura, Valença e Vila Nova de Cerveira – com o objectivo de oferecer às comunidades deste território rural um projecto cultural próprio. Ao longo dos dez anos de existência as Comédias do Minho têm vindo a arrecadar distinções e a ganhar reconhecimento público. O presente trabalho surge da necessidade de entender as razões por detrás destes factos. Procura-se identificar as práticas das CdM a partir do mapeamento da sua orgânica e eixos operativos (Companhia, Projecto Pedagógico e Projecto Comunitário), evidenciando as características que singularizam este projecto cultural no Vale do Minho. Pretende-se, ainda, relacionar as práticas das CdM com a comunidade e o território de acção. A partir da enunciação destes factos, propõe-se a reflexão sobre a possibilidade de existência de práticas de cultura em zonas rurais, deixando em aberto diversas possibilidades de leitura que o caso CdM revela.

Sustainable urban planning: parameters to the operational process

In modern society, energy consumption and respect for the environment have become essential aspects of urban planning. The rising demand for alternative sources of energy, coupled with the decline in the construction sector and material usage, gives the idea that the thinking on modern cities, where attention is given to reduced energy consumption, savings, waste recycling and respect for the surrounding environment, is being put into practice. If we examine development of the city over recent centuries, by means of the theories of the most famous and influential urban planners, it is possible to identify the major problems caused by this type of planning. For this reason, in recent urban planning the use of systems of indicators that evaluate and certify land environmentally and energetically guides the master plan toward a more efficient city model. In addition the indicators are targeted on key factors determined by the commissioner or the opportunities the territory itself provides. Due the complexity of the environmental mechanics, the process of design and urban planning has become a challenging issue. The introduction of the indicators system has made it possible to register the life of the process, with a spiral route that allows the design itself to be refined. The aim of this study, built around the creation of a system of urban sustainability indicators that will evaluate highly eco-friendly cities, is to develop a certification system for cities or portions of them. The system will be upgradeable and objective, will employ real data and will be concerned with energy production and consumption.

Historic and recent occurrences of pinnipeds in the Archipelago of the Azores

The Archipelago of the Azores (Portugal) is located between 378 and 418N and 258 and 318W and crosses the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It is the most isolated archipelago in the Atlantic, situated 1600 km west of mainland Portugal and 3500 km from the eastern coast of the United States of America. At present, the only population of seals occurring in the Portuguese territory is found on Desertas Islands, Archipelago of Madeira, where a colony of 24 Mediterranean monk seals, Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779), still persists (Pires and Neves 2001). Nonetheless, historical accounts reported by Frutuoso (1983) dating from the early to late 1500s mention sightings of ‘‘sea wolves’’ (the old Portuguese folk term for the Mediterranean monk seal) at several sites along the Azorean Island of Santa Maria. Little is known about the occurrence of monk seals in this area over the past five centuries, but the species certainly did not escape deliberate killing by the first settlers. While the early monk seal reports by Frutuoso (1983) are the only reports referring to the presence of colonies of seals in the Azores, more recently several sightings and strandings of vagrant seals of other species have been noted.

Infraventus-internationalizing a renewables business to Kenya

Infraventus – Internationalizing a Renewables Business to Kenya Infraventus is a renewable energy development company, with a consolidated experience, since 1988, in developing, constructing and operating projects mainly in Portugal, but also in other countries: Spain, Poland, France, Australia, Finland and Panama, and is now regarding Kenya as a possible destiny. Kenya is the biggest economy of East Africa, with a growing GDP around 5% and a low level of electric grid coverage thru its territory, 33% of national access to electricity. Kenya energy policy is intended to promote the investment in renewables; wind and sun are existing resources in good measures. Kenya is an interesting destiny to Infraventus, but has many risks. The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate the possible advantages of this investment and risks and propose recommendations about how to mitigate them considering alternative entry mode