Doctoral Theses

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DATE
Jul 2025
TITLE
Ecologies of Fishing Labor: an ethnography with fishers from Setúbal and Sesimbra
AUTHOR
Joana Sá Couto Lomba Batista
DATE
Mar 2025
TITLE
Social acceptance for treated wastewater reuse as a climate adaptation strategy – the case of Lisbon municipality
AUTHOR
Marcella Melo Silva da Conceição
DATE
Feb 2025
TITLE
The international law of climate change under construction: limitations and potentials for the protection of the Earth System by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
AUTHOR
André de Castro dos Santos
DATE
Oct 2024
TITLE
The European Union’s influence on global sustainability: A legal focus on the Brussels Effect in the trade of forest products in Mato Grosso
AUTHOR
Ana Flávia Trevisan
DATE
Jul 2024
TITLE
Downscaling Climate with temporal correlation and spatial dependencies
AUTHOR
Pedro Miguel de Almeida Garrett Graça Lopes
DATE
Jun 2024
TITLE
Sea level rise impacts and adaptation measures in coastal areas of Bangladesh
AUTHOR
Bishwajit Roy
DATE
Jan 2024
TITLE
Coordinates of a Reality – Climate Refugees – Getting on the Right Path
AUTHOR
Cristina Maria Cabanelas Gama Garcia
DATE
Jan 2024
TITLE
Intersectionality, Organisation, and Sustainability: The case of women collectors of recyclable materials in the coastal municipalities of the Recife Metropolitan Region
AUTHOR
Marília Feitosa de Alencar Arruda
DATE
Sep 2023
TITLE
Adapting the agro-forestry landscapes of the Alentejo region to climate change
AUTHOR
André Vizinho
DATE
May 2023
TITLE
Climate Change in a Mingling-State: Sea Level Rise Confronts Social Susceptibility and Justice in the Southwestern Coastal Region of Bangladesh
AUTHOR
Md.Ashrafuzzaman
DATE
Jan 2023
TITLE
Climate Change, Migration, and Security: Is there cause for alarm? Portuguese Security in the face of Climate Immigration
AUTHOR
David Marcos Borralho Pereira
DATE
Jan 2023
TITLE
Education for sustainable development: impacts of the Eco-Schools program on environmental awareness in a Portuguese school: A case study
AUTHOR
Josiel da Silva Cunha
DATE
Jan 2023
TITLE
Defying Climate Determinism: A Study of Climate Change and Migration Decisions in Guinea-Bissau
AUTHOR
Cláudia Luísa Gouveia dos Santos
DATE
Jan 2023
TITLE
Flora and vegetation of the Lower Quanza River Basin, Angola
AUTHOR
Manuela Paula Constantino Pedro
DATE
Jan 2023
TITLE
Climate change and social inequalities in Alentejo: narratives, representations, and practices concerning drought and water
AUTHOR
Ana Rita Torres Gonçalves Matias
DATE
Jan 2023
TITLE
A climate change integrated assessment of whale watching in Macaronesia.
AUTHOR
Andreia Gonçalves de Sousa
DATE
Oct 2022
TITLE
Evaluating water scarcity in the Tagus River basin
AUTHOR
Melissa Nogueira Sondermann
DATE
Sep 2022
TITLE
Methodology for technical assessment and improvement of resilience to urban flooding
AUTHOR
Ingrid Tonon Miranda
DATE
Mar 2022
TITLE
Municipalities in Transition: a governance system for navigating transformative change in tipping point times 
AUTHOR
Pedro Adélio Costa Macedo
DATE
Mar 2022
TITLE
Accelerating the transition: Energy systems modelling under low-carbon policies
AUTHOR
Luís Alexandre Mendes Fazendeiro
DATE
Feb 2022
TITLE
Traditional Practices of Adaptation to Droughts in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: The Case of the Municipality of Triunfo, Pernambuco
AUTHOR
Anastácia Brandão de Mélo
DATE
Feb 2022
TITLE
Fire regime in the Iberian Peninsula: links with current and future climate
AUTHOR
Tomás Leonardo Teixeira de Calheiros e Menezes
DATE
Jan 2022
TITLE
Seeing the Forest for the Trees. Polycentric Climate Governance in the Amazon
AUTHOR
Fronika Claziena Agatha de Wit
DATE
Jan 2022
TITLE
Transforming Urban Green Space Governance in China under Ecological Civilisation – An Institutional Analysis
AUTHOR
Jieling Liu
DATE
Jan 2022
TITLE
Money and sustainability: Transitioning to an ecological monetary system
AUTHOR
Filipe Miguel Moreira Alves
DATE
Jul 2021
TITLE
A New Paradigm for Food Souvereignty under the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda. Case Studies: Panamá, Costa Rica, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic
AUTHOR
Hala Shahin
DATE
Jun 2021
TITLE
Collective action and economic incentives to promote fuel management at the landscape scale
AUTHOR
Ana Luísa Costa Martins Pinheiro
DATE
May 2021
TITLE
Strategies for implementing green infrastructure as an instrument to reinforce tourist territory resilience within a Climate Change framework: the Algarve region in the case of Silves, Albufeira, and Loulé
AUTHOR
André Samora-Arvela
DATE
May 2021
TITLE
Suffering Deadlock in the Artics Ecology and Health. The Sámi World.
AUTHOR
Laura Lou Peres Dorsch
DATE
Mar 2021
TITLE
Social Appropriation of Knowledge (SAK) as a strategic process for good governance facing climate change: an analysis from the Colombian context
AUTHOR
Jairo Antonio Ceballos Sandoval
DATE
Mar 2021
TITLE
The Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources in São Tomé and Príncipe
AUTHOR
Dudene Vaz Lima
DATE
Feb 2021
TITLE
The Effects of Extreme Weather Disasters in the European Food Availability
AUTHOR
Teresa Maria Armada Brás
DATE
Jan 2021
TITLE
Adaptation to Climate Change in an Estuarine Environment
AUTHOR
Susana Maria Pinto de Noronha
DATE
Jul 2020
TITLE
Managing Social-Ecological Systems for People and Nature: Insights from the World Network of Biosphere Reserves
AUTHOR
Ana Filipa Dinis Ferreira
DATE
Jul 2020
TITLE
Solar Energy in Brazil: challenges and opportunities for large-scale use
AUTHOR
Juliana Pacheco Barbosa
DATE
Jun 2020
TITLE
Climate change and coastal communities: risk assessment and adaptation to coastal erosion and flooding in sea level rise scenarios in Guinea-Bissau
AUTHOR
Morto Baiém Fandé
DATE
Jun 2020
TITLE
Exposure, Vulnerability, and Risk to Natural Hazards in Mozambique: the case of tropical cyclones in the Municipality of Angoche
AUTHOR
Manuel Salvador da Conceição Rebelo
DATE
Jun 2020
TITLE
Climate Change, new Metanarrative for Humanity: Climate Policy in the western Mediterranean
AUTHOR
João Camargo Ribeiro Marques Santos
DATE
Dec 2019
TITLE
Climate change impacts on island coastal evolution: the case of Boa Vista (Cabo Verde)
AUTHOR
Cesária da Conceição Baessa Moreira Gomes
DATE
Sep 2019
TITLE
Mass introduction of electric passenger vehicles in Brazil: impact assessment on energy use, climate mitigation and on charging infrastructure needs for several case studies
AUTHOR
José Evaldo Costa
DATE
Sep 2019
TITLE
Gender and Water: The case of the One Million Rural Cisterns Program in Serra Talhada in the Brazilian Semiarid Region
AUTHOR
Islene Pinheiro Façanha
DATE
Jun 2019
TITLE
Food, Public Procurement, and Sustainable Development – the case of schools
AUTHOR
Rosa Maria Sousa
DATE
May 2019
TITLE
The Climate Adventure game©: a communication channel to confer materiality to the climate change phenomenon and promote civic engagement towards Sustainable Development Goals
AUTHOR
Mônica Igreja do Prado
DATE
Apr 2019
TITLE
Improving the resilience of water supply towards climate change impacts in Tacloban, Philippines
AUTHOR
Rita Gonçalves Simões Marteleira
DATE
Jan 2019
TITLE
The effect of burnings in a Climate Change scenario: The perception of farmers in the rural settlements of the legal Amazon – S. Jorge, Itacira, and Pontal settlements.
AUTHOR
Fabrício Ribeiro de Castro
DATE
Jan 2019
TITLE
Water Resource Governance in the Context of Scarcity and Insularity
AUTHOR
Larissa Helena Varela Ferreira
DATE
Nov 2018
TITLE
The impact of tropical cyclone Haiyan in the Philippines: Contribution of spatial planning to enhance adaptation in the city of Tacloban
AUTHOR
Carlos Tito Santos
DATE
Nov 2018
TITLE
Fishing communities and social change; climate change, knowledge transfer, and adaptation strategies
AUTHOR
Francisco Alexandre da Silva Ferreira Branco
DATE
Oct 2018
TITLE
The sustainability of Cape Verde’s development in the context of small island states: The Public Energy Policy
AUTHOR
Luzia Mendes de Oliveira
DATE
Jul 2018
TITLE
Planning guiding principles for improving sanitation services in urban areas of developing countries – case study application in Maputo
AUTHOR
Ana Rita Caldeira Ramôa
DATE
Jul 2018
TITLE
Environmental education in the Brazilian military combat training for managing environmental and climatic risks
AUTHOR
Renate Kottel Boeno
DATE
Jul 2018
TITLE
Social valuation of organic waste for tourism in Brazil
AUTHOR
Karina Gonçalves de Almeida Souza Baptista
DATE
Jul 2018
TITLE
The militarization of disasters: the securitization of climate change and the thinking of Ibero-American Armed Forces
AUTHOR
Raul Kleber Boeno
DATE
May 2018
TITLE
Changes in Nature Conservation Values: a discursive analysis of biodiversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest
AUTHOR
Rodrigo Muniz da Silva
DATE
Dec 2017
TITLE
Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Marine Erosion in Northeast Brazil: From social, political, and legal complexity.
AUTHOR
Rômulo Lima Silva de Góis
DATE
Nov 2017
TITLE
A justice approach to the African ‘land rush’: investigating the social dynamics around agricultural investments in Mozambique
AUTHOR
Carla Maria Gomes
DATE
Oct 2017
TITLE
Social-Ecological Resilience of local communities to Climate Change: Guidelines for Brasilian Context
AUTHOR
Kátia Virgína Canellas
DATE
Oct 2017
TITLE
Modelling Urban Form and Energy Performance Across Urban Typologies in Lisbon, Portugal
AUTHOR
João Filipe Mota Guedes Fumega
DATE
Oct 2017
TITLE
Climate change and planning: sea level rise and flooding in Baixa Pombalina
AUTHOR
Carla Patrícia Ribeiro
DATE
Jul 2017
TITLE
Residential Sector Energy Consumption at the Spotlight: From Data to Knowledge
AUTHOR
João Pedro Gouveia
DATE
May 2017
TITLE
Climate Change in Brazil: Social Movements and Rural Land Reform Settlements in Pontal do Paranapanema-SP
AUTHOR
João Vitor Gobis Verges
DATE
Feb 2017
TITLE
Puzzling out ecosystem services values:A participatory framework to support decision-making
AUTHOR
Rita João Duarte Lopes
DATE
Jan 2017
TITLE
Integrating public preferences in biodiversity conservation decision-making: a choice-modelling approach
AUTHOR
Ana Carina Vieira da Silva
DATE
Dec 2016
TITLE
Staying Cool: Towards an Integrated Approach to Climate Change Vulnerability in South Europe Housing
AUTHOR
Ricardo Manuel Mafra Barbosa
DATE
Jun 2016
TITLE
Societal Transformation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Participatory Action Research (PAR) Experiences in Portugal
AUTHOR
Inês Almeida Dias Sobral de Campos
DATE
Feb 2016
TITLE
Sustainable use of pesticides. Comparative analysis between the European Union and Brazil
AUTHOR
Márcia dos Santos Gonçalves
DATE
Dec 2015
TITLE
Changing Climate, Changing Decisions Understanding Climate Adaptation Decision-Making And The Way Science Supports It
AUTHOR
Tiago Lourenço
DATE
Jul 2015
TITLE
Socio-Environmental Contract to an Anthropology of Hope. Citizenship and Sustainability in the Era of the Environmental Crisis
AUTHOR
Bruno Rego
DATE
May 2015
TITLE
Geoengineering: The Ethical and Social Issues
AUTHOR
Paula Curvelo
DATE
Apr 2015
TITLE
Reduction of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions without wastewater treatment. An action roadmap for managing entities
AUTHOR
Fernando Godinho
DATE
Mar 2015
TITLE
Taking it to the extremes: understanding the role of assets in older people’s vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to extreme temperatures
AUTHOR
Ana Raquel Nunes
DATE
Jul 2014
TITLE
Carbon prices Dynamic analysis of European and Californian markets
AUTHOR
Rita Sousa
DATE
Jul 2014
TITLE
Public Environmental Policies in Portugal: Legislative and institutional contexts and implementation dynamics
AUTHOR
Ana Garcia
DATE
Nov 2013
TITLE
Adaptation Strategy for Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) to Climate Change Supported by Dynamic Simulation
AUTHOR
Jorge Oliveira e Carmo