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- O sistema de gestão de carbono da SuldouroPublication . Oliveira, Sandra; Barbosa, Ana; Silva, Margarida; Macedo, Pedro; Ferreira, Helena; Dias, Sofia
- Participação pública nos planos de gestão das regiões hidrográficasPublication . Macedo, Pedro; Barros, Dora; Machado, Arnaldo; Silva, MargaridaA participação pública é essencial para o sucesso da Directiva Quadro da Água, assumindo particular importância no processo de elaboração e execução dos Planos de Gestão das Regiões Hidrográficas, responsabilidade assumida pela Administração da Região Hidrográfica do Norte I.P. É apresentada uma síntese das acções desenvolvidas até ao momento no âmbito da elaboração dos Planos.
- The lifecycle of a voluntary policy innovation: the case of local Agenda 21Publication . Pinto, Marta; Macedo, Marta; Macedo, Pedro; Almeida, Conceição; Silva, MargaridaLocal Agenda 21 (LA21) emerged 23 years ago as a voluntary policy innovation for local governments aiming at sustainability and has now completed its lifecycle. We aim at a second look at LA21 from the standpoint of the institutional and innovation diffusion theories and with Portugal as case study. Results show a three moment lifecycle for LA21, each with distinct diffusion patterns. The Dawn, stymied by lack of regional and national leadership, was likely fuelled by a learning mechanism. It lasted 10 years and involved a mere 1% of the potential adopters. The Zenith took place when other countries had already come full circle. During this phase 27% of the local governments became active and both coercion and competition stand out as relevant engines. Twilight, most probably powered through coercion, competition and imitation mechanisms, took LA21 to a steady state with an additional 19% of local governments enrolling. Since then LA21 has shown departures in several different directions, including oblivion. We speculate, based on preliminary data that, although most LA21 are no longer active, a durable setting was created that promotes further innovation and public participation.
- Planting the future: cooperation involving local governments and researchersPublication . Macedo, Pedro; Almeida, Conceição; Pinto, Marta; SIlva, MargaridaThe FUTURE project was initiated by the Porto Metropolitan Area Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (RCE Porto) and addresses two documented priorities at the regional context: the need to improve the natural capital, particularly native woodlands (which underpin a broader environmental quality), and the need to expand on the social capital, specifically through the creation of social networks that facilitate the action, cooperation and public participation required to move the region towards sustainability. The project, collaboratively designed and managed, comprises the creation of 100 hectares of native woodlands in the region (100,000 trees) until 2015 and, simultaneously, the setting up of a group of citizens that are aware, skilled and motivated enough to promote and care for these native woodlands in close cooperation with regional organizations.