Urban containment: An effective tool for environmental protection?

This paper examines the effectiveness of urban containment policies to protect forestland from residential conversion and to increase the provision of forest public goods in the presence of irreversible investments and policy uncertainty. We develop a model of a single landowner that allows for switching between competing land uses (forestry and residential use) at some point in the future. Our results show that urban containment policies can protect (even if temporarily) forestland from being developed but must be supplemented with policies that influence the length and number of harvesting cycles if the goal is to increase nontimber benefits. The threat of a development prohibition creates incentives for preemptive timber harvesting and land conversion. In particular, threatened regulation creates an incentive to shorten rotation cycles to avoid costly land-use restrictions. However, it has an ambiguous effect on forestland conversion as the number of rotation cycles can also be adjusted to maximize the expected returns to land. Finally, in the presence of irreversibility, forestland conversion decisions should be done using real option theory rather than net present value analysis

Monitorização do consumo de energia em centros de dados

Dissertação de Mestrado em Engenharia Informática

Geoambiente e indústria das rochas ornamentais

The essential aspects of the conflict between the traditional extractive industry, particularly that related to ornamental stones, and the recent priorities of environmental protection required by the contemporary society are described. Within the legal framework of the problem, various criteria for evaluating environmental impacts in the ornamental rock sector are analyzed, as well as the landscape rehabilitations required to quarry owners,thus leading to a conclusion that harmonization of those tendencies with the Portuguese reality is an essential necessity.

A new model for EEZ surveillance and management in Portugal

Management Information Systems 2000, p. 103-111

Avaliação da carga poluente afluente a uma massa de água – rio de S. Domingos

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente – Perfil de Engenharia Sanitária

Modelação dinâmica de sistemas de drenagem em meio urbano

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, perfil Engenharia Sanitária