Ana Isabel Queiroz

• PhD in Landscape Architecture
• Faculty Member at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

This article argues that the study of literary representations of landscapes can be aided and enriched by the application of digital geographic technologies. As an example, the article focuses on the methods and preliminary findings of LITESCAPE.PT—Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal, an on-going project that aims to study literary re...

Calamities in agricultural production have emerged as a relevant research topic for global food security in the current context of adaptation to climate change. Historians have been participating in this research by examining crop losses in the past. However, they face challenging questions and methodological issues when evaluating the magnitude, i...

Bioinvasions occurred in the past as they do in the present, raising a set of ecological, economic, cultural and scientific changes. This paper focuses on how people dealt with and overcame the introduction and spread of the brown soft scale (Coccus hesperidum) in the Azorean orange groves in the 1840s–1860s. It describes the difficulties in the de...

Cormac Ó Gráda acerca de alimentação, fomes e doenças: uma longa história de escassez e mortalidade Cormac Ó Gráda au sujet de la nourriture, des famines et des maladies : Une longue histoire de pénurie et mortalité H S A I Q p. 205-217 Resumos English Português Français In this interview, Cormac Ó Gráda recalls how he arrived at the topic of famin...

O elo que une literatura, geografia e turismo literário é, cada vez mais, uma realidade indiscutível. De facto, na esteira dos estudos preconizados por vários investigadores, as representações literárias de paisagens envolvem uma confluência de conhecimentos que integram conceitos e abordagens procedentes de vários campos do saber. O artigo que apr...

Insects that are potentially harmful to agriculture have shaped agricultural practices and policy-making worldwide. For some species and geographies, historical research still needs to be done. This is not only crucial to understanding the past, but also the present and future of pest surges. An overview of Iberian history in relation to the Morocc...

The “orange tree devourer” (Coccus hesperidum, also known as the “Brown Soft Scale”) was the agent of a crisis with economic and political implications that affected orange production in the Azores between 1840 and 1860. This article analyzes the origin, expansion, and impact of the pest, and how island and central powers intervened very quickly to...

Gomes, Inês, and Ana Isabel Queiroz. “The Manifold Borders of a Locust Outbreak.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2019), no. 15. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/8636.

Iracema, Legend of Ceará (1865) is a canonical work from Brazilian Romanticism, written by José de Alencar (1829–77), and one of the most popular literary works published in Brazil. Together with O Guarani (1857) and Ubirajara (1874), it comprises Alencar’s expression of “Indianism.” “Indianism” (in Portuguese indianismo), which had its heyday in B...

Alien plant species have been essential for farming and agro-forestry systems and for their supply of food, fiber, tannins, resins or wood from antiquity to the present. They also contributed to supporting functions and regulating services (water, soil, biodiversity) and to the design of landscapes with high cultural and scenic value. Some of those...

Book about Biological Invasions in Portugal: History, Diversity and Management

This chapter introduces the main themes of the book and states its aims and scope. It defines and provides an overview of the study region, discussing the biophysical and historiographical dimensions of defining a ‘Mediterranean region’. Key polemics arising in debates over how to think about bioinvasions are considered, and the editors’ positions...

The Argentine ant ( Linepithema humilis ) is a Neotropical species from the Paraná River basin in central South America which has been spread unintentionally through human commerce from the nineteenth century onwards. It was soon recognised as an urban and plant pest and, more recently, as a threat to biodiversity in many of the places it has been...

Bioinvasions is a current top research subject for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a major concern for conservationists, land managers and planners. In the last decades, new findings, perspectives and practices have revealed the multifaceted challenges of preventing new introductions and dealing with those invasive species that...

Whether as a romantic depiction or with a pretension to realism, rural life was a classic topic throughout the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. A few writers represented the impending threats to the natural environment as a consequence of human actions, such as deforestation and poaching. More recently, literary landscape incorporates the pr...

Resumo A formiga argentina (Linepithema humile Mayr) é identificada na Madeira em meados do século XIX, sendo este o seu primeiro registo fora da região Neotropical, de onde é originária. Ideias e respostas aos impactos desta espécie invasora constituem o argumento desta narrativa histórica, baseada em publicações científicas, livros de viagens e d...

Environmental history is increasingly contributing to the research on bioinvasions. It investigates the vectors of introduction, people’s perceptions and societal responses. Historical narratives of introduction processes and spread may help improve current preventive and management practices designed to mitigate impacts in the economy, ecology and...

Birds are emblematic natural elements of landscapes. Readily noticeable and appreciated due to their songs and flight, they have been thoroughly used as components of literary scenarios. This paper analyses their representations in an enlarged corpus (144 writings by 67 writers) since the nineteenth century, divided in three time-periods. It aims t...

This paper explores representations of wolves in Portuguese literature using an anthropological framework to analyze perceptions, beliefs, knowledge, and practices. From a literary corpus compilation, 262 excerpts from 68 works that made reference to wolves were classified by grid analysis into 12 categories, encompassing the diversity of meanings...

This poster were presented in the 8th European Society for Environmental History Biennial Conference, held in Versailles, France (30 June – 3 July 2015)

This paper presents an embryo of a literary guide on the Carnation Revolution to be explored for educational historical excursions other than leisure and tourism. We propose a historical trail through the centre of Lisbon, city of the Carnation Revolution, called Walk through the Revolution. The trail aims to reinforce collective memory about the m...

This article blends the frameworks of ecocriticism and digital humanities. Itexplores quantitative methods for analysing literary representations of the wolf in Portuguese literature on a temporal and spatial basis, from an enlarged literary corpus . A grid analysis covers the entire sample’s content and encompasses thevarious forms that relations...

This article proposes a methodology to address the urban evolutionary process, demonstrating how it is reflected in literature. It focuses on “literary space,” presented as a territory defined by the period setting or as evoked by the characters, which can be georeferenced and drawn on a map. It identifies the different locations of literary space...

Antologia de excertos da obra aquiliniana nos quais se descrevem mais de 60 aves selvagens, seus habitats e relação com o Homem. A compilação é de Ana Isabel Queiroz, que no ensaio introdutório traça o percurso da descrição de aves desde os primeiros "bestiários" até à literatura científica de hoje, passando pela cultura clássica grega, pela tradiç...

This article focuses on the literary landscape of Monsanto. It confronts the discourse produced by the writer, Fernando Namora (1819-1989)—a pioneer of the Neo-Realistic literature in Portugal—and the literary production of other contemporary authors related with the ideological bases of “Estado Novo” (“New State”), the dictatorial regime that held...

Early suggestions for using literature as a potential source of geographical knowledge came from J. K. Wright in 1924 (unsigned note in the Geographical Review, quoted by Salter & Lloyd, 1977). He observes that writers "visualised even more clearly than the professional geographer those regional elements of the earth's surface most significant to t...

Restoration models and practise to date have been applied mainly to ecosystems. More recently, there has been a focus on the “landscape perspective” of ecosystem restoration in order to improve nature conservation and management effectiveness.Here, we clarify some of the differences between ecosystem- and landscape-oriented restoration, and propose...

Mountain landscapes have changed drastically during the 20th century. The knowledge of changing patterns and processes is currently considered a key element for conservation and management. This integrative study combines different data sources, methodologies and representations that contribute to the history of common property land in Leomil highl...