Sugestões para projectos de investigação

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Nesta página estão sugestões para possíveis projectos de investigação dentro do âmbito do Dynamo. Para mais informações podem contactar o investigador associado ao tópico.

É importante notar que nenhum dos seguintes tópicos tem financiamento guarantido

    1. Title: Assessing the effects of a transdisciplinary dialogue around the sustainability of the montado agro-silvo-pastoral system in the Alentejo region,Portugal
      Themes: Transdisciplinarity; evaluation; knowledge
      Methodology: Surveys, social network analysis; Most significant change method;.
      Possible supervisors: Helena Guimarães | mhguimaraes@uevora.pt
      Level: For a master thesis
      Useful references: Tobias, S., Ströbele, M.F. & Buser, T. (2018): How transdisciplinary projects influence participants’ ways of thinking: a case study on future landscape development. Sustainability Science. direct link (open access): http://rdcu.be/Fn7Y

 

    1. Title: Farmers perspectives on the best strategy for the development of the agriculture sector – a case study in the Alentejo region
      Themes: Agriculture, perceptions, agriculture Policy, intensification/extensification, markets, governance.
      Methodology: questionnaires and data analysis by factor analysis and perhaps multivariate regressions analysis
      Possible supervisors: Helena Guimarães | mhguimaraes@uevora.pt
      Level: For a master thesis
      Useful references : Barroso, F., Pinto-Correia, T., 2014. Land managers’ heterogeneity in Mediterranean landscapes – Consistencies and contradictions between attitudes and behaviors.Barroso, F., Menezes, H., Pinto-Correia, T., 2013. How can the land managers and his multi-stakeholder network at the farm level influence the multifunctional transitions pathways? Spanish Journal of Rural Development 4(4): 35-48. DOIPinto-Correia, T., Machado, C., Barroso, F., Picchi, P., Turpin, N., Bousset, JP., Chabab, N. and Michelin, Y. (2013). How do policy options modify landscape amenities? An assessment approach based on public expressed preferences. Environmental Science and Policy. (32), pg. 37-47

 

    1. Title: Understanding land system dynamics with actors
      Themes: land systems, land system dynamics, participatory approaches, territorial game.
      Methodology: surveys, spatial analysis, territorial game
      Possible supervisors: Helena Guimarães | mhguimaraes@uevora.pt
      Level: For a master thesis or a PhD student depending on the scale of the work to be develop. There is enough material for a PhD student.
      Useful references: https://divercropblog.wordpress.com/Debolini M. et al. (2018) Land and farming system dynamics and their drivers in the Mediterranean Basin. Land Use PolicyAngeon V., Caron P., Lardon S., 2006. Des liens sociaux à la construction d’un développement territorial durable. Quel rôle de la proximité dans ce processus? Revue Développement durable et Territoires (http://developpementdurable.revues.org/).

 

    1. Title: Testing integrative territorial frameworks to develop more sustainable and resilient land-use systems in peripheral rural regions across Europe (tentative title).
      Theme: Land-use systems, Landscape Ecology, Rural Geography, Integrative Territorial Frameworks, Sustainability, Resilience, Peripheral Rural Regions.
      Methodology: Spatial Analysis, Landscape Assessment and Evaluation, Mode-2 science, Land-Systems and Territorial Approaches, Green Infrastructures, the Ecosystems Approach.
      Main supervisor: José Muñoz-Rojas (ICAAM) | jmrojas@uevora.pt
      Level: Phd, to be developed at ICAAM (Portugal) with potential for collaboration with other European Universities, including: SLU-Sweden, Universidad de Granada-Spain, James Hutton Institute-UK, Ilia State University-Georgia & Aleksandras Stulginskis University-Lithuania)
      Useful references: Muñoz-Rojas, J. Angelstam, P., Pinto-Correia, T (2018). Landscape and the Ecosystem Services framework: improving governance and stewardship for sustainable territorial development and resilience. SI accepted in Landscape Ecology (forthcoming).

 

  1. Title: Historical trajectories and future scenarios for the sustainability and resilience of olive grove expansion: a comparative analysis in Alentejo and Andalucía. (tentative title)
    Theme: Olive Groves, Ecological History, Landscape Ecology, Rural Geography, Sustainable and Resilient Land-Use Systems, Alentejo, Andalucía.
    Methodology: Spatial Analysis, Quantitative Social Sciences, Qualitative Participatory Analysis, Land-Use Scenarios, Social-Ecological Metabolism, .
    Main supervisor: José Muñoz-Rojas (ICAAM) & Gloria Guzmán Casado/Juan Infante Salas (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) | jmrojas@uevora.pt
    Level: Phd. to be jointly developed among ICAAM (Portugal) and Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla, Spain)
    Useful references: The making of olive landscapes in the South of Spain. A history of continuous expansion and intensification. Infante-Amate, J.; Villa, I.; Aguilera, E.;. González de Molina (2016), in Agnoletti, M. y Emanueli, F. (eds.), Biocultural Diversity in Europe, Springer. | 2016