J. Ferreira

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Resumo Investir em Inovação e Desenvolvimento (I&D) pode não ser o remédio para uma economia pouco desenvolvida e carente de competitividade. São inúmeros os estudos, os relatórios e os rankings que apontam para uma relação entre os investimentos em I&D e as elevadas performances económicas. No entanto, não poderá ser provada a existência de uma si...

The Algarve region, which socio-economy is mostly based on Sun and Sea tourism, may experience a decline due to the loss of beach area as a tourist resource because of sea level rise. As such, an adaptation pathway to enhance the regional resilience of Mediterranean regions such as the Algarve is necessary in a changing climate. Thereby, knowing th...

Mediterranean destinations are mostly based on sun and beach tourism through the qualification of its coastal assets, which establishes a framework of low diversification of their regional socioeconomy that will encounter climate change as a challenge that could constitute a potential threat of disruptive impact to these regions, specially, when lo...

Purpose - This paper analyses the growth of tourism in Portugal and in the municipality of Lisbon, with a focus on short-term rentals. Design - The paper begins with the statistical background of the tourism boom that occurred in Portugal in the 2010s. The central part of the paper concentrates on an analysis of the spatial distribution of short-te...

The Algarve region, south of Portugal, is a case study of Mediterranean tourism, and its recreational offer is essentially based on the promotion of sun and beach product and on the qualification of its coastal assets, establishing a framework of weak tourism differentiation which, conjugated with the climate change impacts, poses a threat to the r...

The tourism and recreational offer of Mediterranean destinations involves, essentially, the promotion of mass tourism, based on the appeal of the sun and beach, and the quality of its coastal assets. Alongside the impacts of climate change, poor tourism diversification represents a threat to the resilience of the territory. Thus, heterogenization o...

Mediterranean destinations that rely on sun and beach tourism—like the Algarve region, south of Portugal—are in a fragile situation. Challenges related to an aging population and climate change (e.g. extreme temperatures and sea level rise) will have consequences on the development of Mediterranean regions. In this context, sea level rise and beach...

Samora-Arvela, A., Ferrão, J., Ferreira, J., Panagopoulos, T., Vaz, E. (2017). Green Infrastructure, Climate change and Spatial Planning: Learning lessons across borders. Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics. Vol. V, Issue 3, pp. 176-188. ISSN: 2183-1912. Disponível em: http://www.cieo.pt/journal/2017/JSD_3_2017.pdf

Samora-Arvela, A., Ferrão, J. Ferreira, J., Oliveira, R., Panagopoulos, T., Vaz, E. (2016). Infraestrutura verde e alterações climáticas: um contributo para a mitigação e adaptação do território às alterações climáticas. In García Marín, R.; Alonso Sarría, F.; Belmonte Serrato, F.; Moreno Muñoz, D. (Eds.) XV Coloquio Ibérico de Geografía. Retos y t...

Internet is a global network. Individuals and companies have realized the value of location and because geographic space suffers distortions by an increasingly importance of techs, it is imperative to associate to this Internet virtual space, a physical perspective that identifies an origin, by connecting the virtual to its physical or territorial...

The present and future climate change will lead to impacts on tourism, which will change the human thermal comfort and tourist seasonality, decrease landscape aesthetic quality to be expressed by continuous reduction of beach area, changes in vegetation and animal biogeographical distribution and loss of biodiversity, among others. opportunities, a...

Samora-Arvela, A., Alves, M., Julião, R. P., Ferreira, J. R. (2015). SIG e Modelação do Contributo da Infraestrutura Verde na Adaptação do Território às Alterações Climáticas. In Associação Portuguesa de Geógrafos (Ed.), Valores da Geografia - Atas do X Congresso da Geografia Portuguesa (pp. 323-328). ISBN: 978-989-99244-2-0;

Os Sistemas Locais de Turismo (SLT) podem ser analisados com base em conceitos que derivam da economia industrial aplicada aos “distritos industriais”, sistemas produtivos locais ou “regiões inteligentes”. O conceito de SLT constitui uma poderosa ferramenta analítica útil para percepcionar a estrutura, diversidade e as diferentes formas de organiza...

1546SUSTAINABLE TOURISM CLUSTERS: THE CASE OF ALENTEJO Abstract: Local Tourist Systems (LTS) can be analyzed according to an investigation structure that derives from industrial economics on industrial districts, local productive systems or learning regions. LTS concept is a useful analytical tool that can seize the resorts diversity and organizat...

Over the last few years a new worldwide socio-economical order lead to an increasing number on crime rates and raised the need to find new ways to handle information about criminality. To better understand its causes, local, regional and national security authorities turned to new decision support tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS)...

John Friedmann desenvolveu um modelo geográfico de inspiração neo-clássica com centro e periferias diferenciadas. Este professor do MIT considera poderem identificar-se quatro tipos de regiões: o Centro; a região periférica ascendente; a região periférica descendente; e a “região de recursos de fronteira”, com população escassa mas com importantes...

The invention of the Internet and the generalisation of its use has shortened distances, democratised access to information and expand the human relations in a society that is growing in individualism. Trough the Internet people gathered around common interests and not because of geographic proximity. This aspect frees communications from space and...