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Introduction
Operational and Information Manager of the Blue Azores Program. Adriano has a degree in Marine Biology and a Phd in Geography from the University of the Azores, where he called home for over 15 years. During his time in the archipelago, Adriano was involved in coastal and watershed environmental planning projects that also included stakeholders engagement. Adriano worked as an environmental consultant in the offshore oil and gas seismic survey industry and was a researcher at the Uni. Aveiro
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April 2017 - present
October 2005 - March 2007
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- Research in Environmental and Coastal Planning Issues Application of Geographical Information Systems in coastal and watershed management land use management processes. Technical and Scientific assistance in the development of several projects
January 2004 - July 2004
Position
- Secretariat coordination
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- Secretariat of the 3rd Seminar on Participative Coastal Zone Management organized by Guia Maritime Lab-FCUL (IMAR), Center of Environmental Protection and Conservation and by the Coastal Services Center of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Education
April 2007 - May 2012
October 1997 - June 2003
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Publications (36)
Directive 2014/89/EU provided a common framework for MSP in Europe, aiming to promote the sustainable development of maritime activities. However, its implementation has been facing various challenges in different Member States. This paper presents the evolution of MSP in Portugal and analyses how the conditions set by the directive have been addre...
The dataset presented in this article contains information about marine Area-Based Management Tools (ABMTs) used to assess their contribution to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Following the scope of the analysis, ABMTs were identified by scrutinizing international and regional legal sources related to ocean management in the...
Area-Based Management Tools (ABMTs) are spatial instruments for conservation and managing different forms of ocean use. A multitude of ABMTs exists in marine areas within and beyond national jurisdiction, ranging from tools for the regulation of specific human activities (e.g. fisheries, shipping, or mining) to cross-sectoral tools (e.g. such as ma...
Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) is gaining importance as a new process for the governance of seas and oceans, as maritime nations exercise greater management over their territorial waters and, in many cases, over exclusive economic zones that span a larger area. The purpose of this planning is to reverse the environmental degradation of the seas an...
Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) is bringing new challenges to planning and management in the marine realm, namely on the environmental assessment of the new plans and projects. Portugal is developing its first MSP instrument, PSOEM (Plano de Situação do Ordenamento do Espaço Marítimo), since 2015 and published it on December 2019. This paper focuse...
LESSONS LEARNT FROM SIMNORAT - MSP Implementation Methodology
This report is the output of one of the case studies of the SIMNORAT project, shared by Portugal and Spain. All background information presented in this document supports a conceptual methodology to create and manage a cross-border Marine Protected Area (MPA) between both countries. In order to achieve this, the case study focused on the existing S...
This report presents the work carried out as part of Task Cl.3.2. Spatial demands and future trends for maritime sectors and marine conservation of the SIMNORAT project. The specific objective of this component is to investigate current and future demands of maritime sectors, with reference to cross-border issues. This work was led by CEREMA and mo...
Accommodating sea uses while protecting the ecosystems is a challenge of the marine planning and management process. The European Directive on Maritime Spatial Planning calls for Maritime Spatial Plans until 2021 developed within an Ecosystem Based Management approach. The main goal of this study is to support the Maritime Spatial Planning process...
Cross-border marine conservation initiatives constitute a real challenge for many European countries taking into account their governmental arrangements and nowadays also their national maritime spatial planning (MSP) objectives. However, they have something in common; the MSP Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive encourage Member S...
The increasing human uses in our oceans and coasts are causing multiple pressures in marine and coastal ecosystems. Impacts resulting from these pressures are provoking degradation in species and habitats (EEA, 2015). In order to answer to these threats, marine management approaches are shifting towards ecosystem based management (EBM) to accomplis...
This webinar originally aired on May 3, 2018.
Cumulative impact tools can be useful for evaluating the environmental effects resulting from human activities in a given area. Several initiatives are underway in Europe to develop and enhance cumulative impact tools and assessments to incorporate the ecosystem-based approach in marine management, as c...
“(...) representa e identifica a distribuição espacial e temporal dos usos e das atividades existentes e potenciais, procedendo também à identificação dos valores naturais e culturais com relevância estratégica para a sustentabilidade ambiental e a solidariedade intergeracional (…)” (Artigo 9.º do Decreto-Lei n.º 38/2015, de 12 de março).
O Plano...
The purpose of this document is to identify the specific ecological characteristics of the marine management area. It aims at identifying where the particularly sensitive or ecologically important areas are. Identifying where ecologically or biologically significant areas are located is a key step for marine spatial planning. This assessment is cen...
This Initial Assessment of anthropogenic pressures and impacts on ecosystems in OSPAR Region IV provides information on different types of pressures that are assessed under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The main goal of the MSFD is to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) of EU waters by 2020. GES is defined as “The environmenta...
Cumulative impact tools can be useful for evaluating the environmental effects resulting from human activities in a given area. Several initiatives are underway in Europe to develop and enhance cumulative impact tools and assessments to incorporate the ecosystem-based approach in marine management, as called for in multiple policy frameworks (e.g.,...
Several works on public perception of bathing area quality state that litter is one of the top concerns of users. Litter was also considered the top concern of bathing users regarding Bathing Area (BA) quality in São Miguel (Azores). This fact highly justifies the need to evaluate BA in this perspective. During 2009 summer 11 bathing areas, coverin...
The bathing areas in the Azores, although very important in a socioeconomic and environmental way,
have been subjected to several ways of environmental degradation or to inadequate management.
The management of bathing areas worldwide was always based on the concept that bathing areas
are one-dimensional systems, aiming essentially the physical and...
The Sete Cidades Lake (437 ha) is located in a volcanic crater of São Miguel Island (Azores). The watershed is 1923 ha, and 25% of it is covered with water. Extreme logging and the use of fertilizers in the cattle grazing areas have caused sedimentation and eutrophication of the main water body (Carlson Trophic State Index TSI = 40–50 mesoeutrophy)...
In Portugal there is no specific bathing policy taking into account the management for all basic aspects concerning bathing activity. This fact leads to the lack of information available in some of these aspects such as the use patterns of this areas and the perception of users regarding beach quality, landscape and social importance. It is urgent...
CALADO, H., QUINTELA, A. and PORTEIRO, J., 2007 Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategies on Small Islands. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50 (Proceedings of the 9th International Coastal Symposium), 125 - 129. Gold Coast, Australia, ISSN 0749.0208 In 2002 the European Parliament and Council indicated the general principles and options for an...
As regiões insulares apresentam características distintas das verificadas em outras zonas costeiras, exigindo por isso, a consideração de especificidades, particularmente nos processos de planeamento e gestão costeira, o que por si só constitui um desafio. Os Planos de Ordenamento da Orla Costeira constituem um dos instrumentos aplicáveis na adopçã...
Da caracterização jurídica efectuada relativamente ao quadro normativo que a elaboração de um Plano de Ordenamento da Orla Costeira (POOC) nos Açores deverá respeitar não resultam algumas especificidades para as Regiões Autónomas. No entanto devem seguir-se as regras, princípios e orientações decorrentes do direito intencional, comunitário e nacion...
The coastal zones are sensitive areas subject to strong anthropic pressures. Those pressures limit its biological diversity, natural landscape and environmental quality. The majority of the population and economical activities are located in the coastal zones threatening the equilibrium of the coastal environment in the absence of adequate manageme...
Commercial fish species on the Azores with illustrations and English text along the Portuguese.
Biologia (DB) promove acções de Educação Ambiental junto das populações. Neste âmbito, a nossa deslocação à ilha do Pico teve como principal objectivo realizar acções de sensibilização e promoção da melhoria do estado de conservação do meio ambiente. As nossas acções tiveram como público-alvo sobretudo crianças e jovens, e como tal pretendeu-se que...
A maior parte das questões ecológicas ou de gestão de recursos envolvendo organismos marinhos sésseis requerem amostragem específica para a descrição de padrões de abundância. Apresenta-se uma aplicação de uma metodologia de análise espacial (SIG) a um problema clássico de ecologia de comunidades sésseis: a de amostragem quantitativa precisa não de...
Questions
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It seems that both of this terms have been used withou any criterium in what concerns Marine Spatial Planning. Does any one know when to use one or another?
Example: If a certain maritime activity produces the pressure "Underwater noise" at what distance it becomes neglectable? Does this distance changes accordinglly the ecologic feature we are looking for?
Does anyone know how can i find information regarding habitats, species or substrata of Vigo seamount?
I am looking for the state of the art on methodologies on the implementation of Marine Spatial Planning focusing on transboudary and cross-border approach. This literature review will regard the current methodologies to implement MSP. Propositions of major steps and principles of MSP methodological approach with a focus on cross-border MSP and in accordance with EBA to be included.
