João Lourenço Marques

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of Aveiro

This book presents the results of a survey of 812 people across the country on Development Cooperation. At a time when the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the demise of USAID, pose enormous challenges for international cooperation, this research aims to support the Portuguese state and CSOs in tackling them.

Purpose Information and communication technologies brought a new paradigm that allows policymakers to ground their actions on real-time events. Smart cities were initially conceived as a technological vision separate from urban planning. As a result, projects were rarely connected between departments, objectives were not aligned with strategic goal...

Socio-spatial segregation is a multidimensional phenomenon. It manifests itself in the residential segregation of communities that cannot choose their place of residence (physical dimension), combined with the lack of opportunities provided by local services (functional segregation). Both impose impediments to participation and trigger symbolic sti...

Resumo: Neste capítulo, são apresentados desafios e recomendações para a prática do planeamento estratégico, no seu desígnio de promover e construir visões coordenadas, de consensos de base coletiva, para orientar o desenvolvimento socioeconómico e territorial de médio a longo prazo. É uma perspetiva sobre o processo de planear com e para as pessoa...

Construir uma reflexão poliédrica sobre como «Planear a cidade-região do futuro» foi assumida como um desígnio amplo e ambicioso para o qual reunimos conhecimentos provenientes de muitas disci-plinas mobilizadas junto de várias instituições. Os treze capítulos deste volume oferecem abordagens distintas e complementares sobre o planeamento da cidade...

Resumo: Este capítulo destaca a importância dos sistemas de apoio à decisão (SAD) como ferramentas úteis à prática do planeamento. São evidenciadas as diferenças que estiveram na base do seu processo de evolução, assim como são discutidos os desafios ao seu desenvolvimento e aplicação. Operacionalizar um SAD de base territorial exige uma perspetiva...

Resumo: Os sistemas de suporte ao planeamento regional e urbano assumem a missão de explorar o potencial retido em enormes flu-xos de dados estruturados e não estruturados. Permitem que este potencial seja canalizado e transformado em decisões que criem e recriem conhecimento e inteligência territorial. O nível de conheci-mento e os construtos dos...

Resumo: As opções de planeamento regional e urbano interferem com a maior ou com a menor dificuldade de promover habita-ção adequada e acessível. A forma como acedem à habitação condiciona o quadro de vida das famílias, assumindo, por isso, um papel central no âmbito dos direitos humanos, exigindo-se ação aos Estados para lhes conferir materialidad...

A permanência e recorrência de contextos de crise acelera a necessidade de repensar os quadros teórico-conceptuais afetos à missão do planeamento regional e urbano. Urge responder aos nunca previstos e ainda imprevisíveis, efeitos da sincronização de crises, robustecendo paulatinamente a resiliência dos sistemas urbanos. É desta ambição que germina...

Policymakers face numerous challenges in benchmarking and assessing cities’ current development states. This study extends the understandings of previous research to provide a new perspective about how to rank smart cities’ developments by comparing the existing initiatives with city population density (as a proxy of socio-demographic characteristi...

THe idea that all people and places had to get the same level of Sustainable Development Goals indicators is strange because if places are different and people have similar needs, similar people should prefer different goals in different places. The chapter uses a Q analysis to perceive the preferences of people accross different cities in Europe a...

Regions often exhibit disparities in socio-economic conditions, leading to unequal access to resources and op- portunities. This study focuses on the territorial aspect of justice and presents a methodology for identifying regions where individuals lack proper socio-economic conditions for upward mobility. We first provide an overview of spatial ju...

Space is an important element for understanding housing values: it assimilates the complexity of locational preferences and translates them through market price dynamics. In housing price modeling, space tends to be incorporated through the lens of spatial heterogeneity and spatial dependence, which need to be explicitly modeled. The scientific deb...

Os fundos comunitários e a política educativa em Portugal no quadro 2014-2020: mapeamento dos PIICIE, operação territorializada e colaborativa Structural funds and education policy in Portugal during the 2014-2020 multiannual financial framework: mapping the PIICIE, a territorialized and cooperative operation Fondos estructurales y política educati...

p>This study discusses an estimation framework of spatial interactions at the local (urban) scale - the so-called spatial weights matrix (W). It develops an application to the Portuguese's Aveiro and Ílhavo municipalities. The work was based on a housing dataset retrieved from the Portuguese real estate portal CASA SAPO ( https://casa.sapo.pt/ ). T...

p>This study discusses an estimation framework of spatial interactions at the local (urban) scale - the so-called spatial weights matrix (W). It develops an application to the Portuguese's Aveiro and Ílhavo municipalities. The work was based on a housing dataset retrieved from the Portuguese real estate portal CASA SAPO ( https://casa.sapo.pt/ ). T...

A par com outras instituições internacionais, a União Europeia (UE) difunde um discurso educativo que privilegia uma abordagem economicista, especialmente desde a Estratégia de Lisboa. Não dispondo de poder legislativo nesta matéria, instrumentos como a Estratégia Educação e Formação e a Política de Coesão permitem à UE promover um alinhamento dos...

The last time an editor-in-chief of ´Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais` (Portuguese Revue of Regional Studies) wrote an editorial was for the 50th issue of the journal, which dates back to May 2019. Since then, the editors are committed to keep the journal alive, and position it within the regional science scientific community. Although the r...

Portuguese territories' distribution of wealth and people with higher qualifications appears to be related. On the one hand, more concentrated in certain municipalities, and on the other hand, each time more unbalanced between municipalities. The Portuguese population with higher qualifications tends to be more concentrated close to big cities and...

Cross-border cooperation is a major instrument of European policy to overcome the barriers posed by national borders and correcting regional imbalances. But the question of whether it is leading to the convergence of cross-border regions (CBRs) is still open for debate, given the significant heterogeneity of borders and the localized and spatially...

Citizens' role evolved to become active agents in decision-making. However, existing policy definition procedures are still not tailored to engage citizens and the participation of specific groups. Moreover, it is vital to understand citizens' interests and motivations to set the methods and build democratic methodologies that make them feel comfor...

The housing market occupies a central place within any society. Residential property represents the essential parts of most families’ wealth, as well as a substantial part of their monthly expenditure. It also represents a large fraction of private investment, generating significant earnings. However, and despite this importance, the compilation of...

Subordinada ao Método Aberto de Coordenação, não há uma verdadeira política educativa europeia governada por diretivas de implementação obrigatória nos Estados-Membros. Pelo contrário, existem orientações, partilhas de boas práticas, quadros estratégicos, mecanismos de monitorização e, talvez mais proeminente, uma Política de Coesão que orienta a a...

Today, policymakers struggle to obtain information from specific smart city case studies. The literature lacks a unified view of current initiatives. This paper performs an empirical study with the aim of collecting evidence from the literature about existing smart city initiatives in the European Union (EU). The contribution of each paper and its...

National level Ecological Footprint studies have highlighted disparities among countries. This assessment has proved essential to accurately characterize ecological impacts to specific countries but often ignore the het-erogeneity within national spaces. Population groups within a country engage in different behaviors and consumption patterns that...

The scientific literature and decision makers debate and explore education’s influence on regional development. However, differences among EU regions remain to be explained. The present article proposes to measure these disparites in terms of the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and understand how tertiary education can explain that performa...

While industry tends towards mass personalisation and instant deliveries, the last mile of urban logistics is being challenged to decrease the number of vehicles in circulation and the distances they travel in city centres. The COVID-19 pandemic helped expose the inefficiency of cities in fulfilling citizens' real-time needs. Moreover, the first ai...

The adjustment of services of general interest to ageing and shrinking populations is a significant challenge in many European regions. This article analyses the response in the number of primary schools to changes in the student population in the municipalities of mainland Portugal between 2007 and 2016. It focuses on the time lag of this adjustme...

Sem pretender fazer uma avaliação da política educacional implantada na cidade do Rio de Janeiro entre 2012 e 2016, este trabalho tem como objetivo realizar um esforço de sistematização para apresentar um estudo descritivo-exploratório do caso. Espera-se poder alimentar o debate sobre o tema ao levar a outros pesquisadores e profissionais da área...

The population pyramid of the Portuguese population reveals an aged population as a consequence of low fertility rates and the growing life expectancy. In this scenario, some municipalities tend to create conditions and give incentives to attract the young population, or otherwise, even more, primary schools should be closed. The dynamic relation b...

A habitação é um tema incontornável na agenda das Políticas Públicas. A sua complexidade e multidimensional, associada à falta de informação sobre o mercado de habitação, tem dificultado o seu estudo e análise. Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo demonstrar a relevância de métodos e técnicas de recolha e processamento de dados dos domínios de...

O desenvolvimento acelerado das tecnologias de informação e comunicação tem vindo a impor na agenda técnico científica o debate sobre a “forma” e o “conteúdo” do planeamento do território na sociedade contemporânea, reclamando alguns autores a necessidade de revisitar conceitos, princípios e definições clássicas do planeamento (Marques et al.,...

APDR organized its first congress in Aveiro in 1990. Three decades later, and more than two dozen congresses, it is considered relevant to present an analysis on how regional science in Portugal was discussed in the context of these events. The contents of the abstracts of 16 proceedings were systematized, analysing the themes, subthemes, profile o...

A APDR organizou o seu primeiro congresso em Aveiro em 1990. Três décadas depois e mais de duas dezenas de congressos realizados, considera-se pertinente apresentar uma análise evolutiva sobre a forma como a ciência regional em Portugal foi discutida no contexto destes eventos. Sistematizaramse os conteúdos dos resumos de 16 livros de atas analisan...

Ainda que tenha constituído por muito tempo o ‘parente pobre’ no ciclo das políticas públicas, a componente de avaliação e monitorização tem sido crescentemente entendida como essencial para a robustez das políticas, designadamente na área da Educação. A recolha, sistematização e análise de evidências torna-se, assim, prioritária no processo de tom...

The lack of cooperation between stakeholders and coordination of departments, the absence of systems interoperability, and the resistance to change by policymakers represent some of the challenges that make the implementation of the Smart City a complicated task. Nevertheless, the literature is lacking a broader comprehension of the Smart City barr...

As condições habitacionais da população portuguesa têm merecido, nos últimos anos, uma atenção particular no quadro da formulação de políticas públicas. Este reconhecimento tem-se traduzido num conjunto de ações que têm contribuído para uma melhoria das condições de dignidade habitacional, visível nas trajetórias dos indicadores de qualidade das ha...

A synthetic and spatial measure of housing affordability was developed as an extension of the standard relationship between housing costs and household income ratios. This contributes to combining this clas‑ sical approach with the endogenous and exogenous features of the territory. To pursue this aim, the paper begins with a brief discussion of...

The European Union’s Cohesion Policy aims at strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion to correct imbalances between countries and regions. However, European Union policy was expressed unevenly, and asymmetries grew at different scales. Therefore, it has raised discussions on territorial cohesion, which looks much different on the gro...

Smart cities evolved to include citizens as co-creators, while Industry 4.0 envisioned personalized supply chain models arranged according to consumers’ wishes. Both concepts strove to focus on citizens, impacting transport and manufacturing processes, enhancing social development and promoting sustainability. However, it lacks a clear understandin...

The lack of strategic planning has increased urban pressure and accumulated traffic in cities. Smart Cities are replacing the short-time perspective with a long-term approach. The objectives align with city strategic goals, and citizens play an essential role in the decision-making process. High-level guidelines have emerged over the years to guide...

ABSTRACT Concerning the last census 2021 in Portugal preliminary results, we observed, and have been an aim of several political and social discussions, on one hand, the loss of population in some territories, and on other hand, the rise in the population and attractivity in other cities and territories. The study of migrations among territories i...

A construção de instrumentos de política educativa local (Cartas Educativas e Planos Estratégicos Educativos Municipais) tem sido reforçada com a participação de atores da comunidade educativa, em várias etapas do processo. Apenas deste modo é possível construir documentos orientadores da política e planeamento educativos, com significado para a co...

Governance systems, when addressing post-disaster action, play an important role in minimizing the community’s vulnerability in future disruptive events. The literature describes how post-disaster actions towards resistance-resilience measures are often implemented, shifting to adaptive-resilience approaches as a second concern, and disregarding re...

The lack of examples of smart-city initiatives and the sharing of best practices in Portugal confirm the gap in the transference of empirical knowledge to the scientific literature in this area. The smart-city concept has passed through three stages. However, its evolution has not been noted equally throughout countries and their territories. The l...

The digital transformation has driven a more assertive absorption of external information and knowledge in all economic activities, especially in the low technological intensity sector, where competition has been fierce. In this way, the use of information and knowledge can provide companies with higher performance before its competitors. Thus, thi...

Equity, fairness, and justice are related concepts widely discussed in several areas of study but remain an open field in terms of spatial justice and support decision systems application. Uneven spatial development have shown a tendency to amplify social inequalities alongside territories. To better understand the spatial configuration and spatial...

Assuming that it is not possible to detach a dwelling from its location , this article highlights the relevance of space in the context of housing market analysis and the challenge of capturing the key elements of spatial structure in an automated valuation model: location attributes, heterogeneity, dependence and scale. Thus, the aim is to present...

The demand for automated, reliable and understandable housing price valuation mechanisms is increasing. Most efforts have been made to improve model accuracy and prediction power through the well-established standard econometric models based on regression techniques. However, the modelling of the spatial attributes of housing through mass appraisal...

Access to health care services is a key concept in the formulation of health policies to improve the population's health status and to mitigate inequities in health. Previous studies have significantly enhanced our understanding and knowledge of the role played by spatial distribution of health facilities in sustaining population health, with exten...

It is important for demographic analyses and policy-making to obtain accurate models of spatial diffusion, so that policy experiments can reflect endogenous spatial spillovers appropriately. Likewise, it is important to obtain accurate estimates and forecasts of demographic variables such as age-specific fertility rates, by regions and over time, a...

Recent events such as Covid-19 vaccine distribution issues and the blockage of the Ever Given ship in the Suez Canal raised concerns about how fragile the traditional supply chain is. Last-mile personalized fulfillment can have a catalyst role in the proliferation of the Industry 4.0. This growing trend will reduce standard production, bringing man...

Economics and business are a great background for data science provided econometricians and data scientists are sets with an intersection, although remaining unknown. In econometrics, data mining is somewhat a monstrous word, a field that traditionally seeks causal inference and results in interpretability. When we go deeper into what data science...

Smart Cities emerged in the 90s. Since then the concept has passed from several phases from a purely techno-centric vision to see technology as a means and not an end in itself. Alongside this evolution, the role of citizens has been changing. Nowadays, citizens are seen as taking part in the co-design and co-creation of Smart Cities. However, stan...

Through an empirical study of 74 Portuguese e-commerce brands, from the fashion, cosmetics, supplements, jewelry, beverages, utilities, orthopedics, book, sports, technology, decoration, pet, printing, and flowers’ sectors, it was noticed that consumers still do not have the possibility to personalize their products neither to request immediate del...

Este artigo publicado nos Cadernos de Urbanismo (n.º4) da Associação Portuguesa de Urbanistas, discute os princípios de justiça e dá pistas de como o planeamento e as políticas públicas podem ajudar a mitigar os problemas de desigualdades e de justiça (social) espacial. Pode responder a um pequeno questionário para aferir as diferentes percepções...

This special issue of the Regional Science Policy&Practice (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) focuses on the challenges of territorialization of public policies and the role of data, information and technologies in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policies to promote regional development. The defi...

Num contexto em que aumentam os episódios de crise (biofísica, económica, social, política) que colocam os territórios sob pressão, cresce, na mesma proporção, a necessidade de aprofundar soluções para identificar as competências que lhes permitem suportar perturbações sem colapsar. O planeamento urbano preventivo e pós-crise (“Building Back Better...

There are missing links between research and policy that can be provided by better information on the real world. This is important not only to evaluate the contribution of research to the policy makers and to society, but also to design policies based on evidences. Three models for meeting such objectives are presented, emphasizing the role of (a)...

During the Covid-19 pandemics, many companies had to cease their activities due to the scarcity of raw material supply or availability of goods' transportation modes. Simulataneously, vehicles from different enterprises were still performing similar routes, delivering goods to the same clients or nearby locations, with a small percentage of their c...

The shrinking population in many European regions has led to a debate on the relation between the local provision of services of general interest and the demographic growth of different territories. Primary schools have been a frequent focus of this debate, given the significant number of school closures in recent years, as well as their social, ec...

O estudo da resiliência urbana assume-se como uma área de interesse dos investigadores, técnicos de planeamento e decisores políticos. Disponibiliza um quadro teórico e um conjunto de dispositivos analíticos e operativos para enfrentar as consequências e os riscos complexos que decorrem da recorrência e do incremento da magnitude das tensões, crise...

The shrinking populations of many regions in Portugal have led to a debate on the criteria which should guide the restructuring of public services at the local scale, and namely how to balance raising per capita costs with guaranteeing equity in accessibility. This article contributes to this debate by analyzing the spatial distribution of primary...

A Ciência Regional Portuguesa comemorou os 30 anos da realização do seu primeiro congresso em Aveiro. Aproveitou-se essa oportunidade para reunir um conjunto de contributos de cientistas ligados aos órgãos sociais da Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional (APDR), para dar corpo a uma obra com interesse científico e divulga-tivo. Ao l...

O espaço, como conceito mais abstrato de território, de localização, de localidade, de lugar, de ciberespaço, entre outros, é o objeto primordial de estudo e análise de vários domínios científicos e tem merecido um longo e amplo debate. O objetivo deste capítulo é apresentar um quadro teórico-conceptual da noção de espaço no discurso das ciências s...

Quais então os fatores demográficos que afetam a economia? O crescimento demográfico trava o estimula o crescimento económico? Com base no padrão de crescimento moderno das economias desenvolvidas que combina aumento populacional com melhoria das condições de vida, é razoável poder antecipar uma fase de declínio económico face ao chamado inverno de...

No ano em que se celebram trinta anos desde a organização do primeiro Congresso da Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional, os mais prestigiados investigadores portugueses na área do Desenvolvimento Regional juntam-se numa reflexão sobre os temas mais relevantes da ciência regional, do estado da arte aos desafios do desenvolvimento re...

Researchers from multidisciplinary scientific fields have been puzzled by human behaviour in dynamic and complex decision-making contexts. Since the seventeenth century, several theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contributions have emerged. These contributions evidence the need to critically assess the rational foundations of decision theories,...

Os processos de transformação urbanos são dos fenómenos que mais atenção têm recebido nas ciências regionais ou urbanas. Mas a complexidade e diversidade destes processos, as suas múltiplas manifestações a diferentes escalas, têm desafiado a sua categorização e identificação. Este artigo contribui para esta problemática ao propor uma tipologia de t...

The relevant aspects of the new urban agenda of the UN refer to the information and communication challenges of sustainable development. Provide the citizens with a greater knowledge of its reality and how to engage it as a participant with their neighbourhood issues and problems, represents a pertinent contribution for this sustainable development...

The relevant aspects of the new urban agenda of the UN refer to the information and communication challenges of sustainable development. Provide the citizens with a greater knowledge of its reality and how to engage it as a participant with their neighbourhood issues and problems, represents a pertinent contribution for this sustainable development...

Smart Cities have changed from a purely technological paradigm to a holistic, integrated strategy, where the citizens play an important role in the decision-making process. Cities begin to understand the potential of integration approaches, interoperability of solutions, and start seeking strategic thinking when addressing new technologies. In this...

Este número especial da Revista Portuguesa de Desenvolvimento Regional assinala o momento da realização do 26º Congresso da APDR, que decorreu na Universidade de Aveiro, entre 3 e 5 de julho de 2019. Sob o tema "Evidence-based territorial poli-cymaking formulation, implementation and evaluan-tion of policy", este encontro anual permitiu, a acadé-mi...

Population decline is one of the most demanding phenomena in recent decades in various European regions. Moreover, even in regions with a positive migratory balance, a negative demographic dynamic persists, dominated by an ageing population. As such, demographic ageing and the role of migrations have become a widely debated research and policy topi...

Este artigo discute a aplicação de metodologias de suporte à tomada de decisão no planeamento. Mais especificamente, pretende-se analisar os desafios que se colocam à implementação um sistema de apoio à decisão, face à complexidade organizativa dos sistemas urbanos. Realça-se a importância da tomada de decisão tecnicamente informada, apoiada numa a...

International scientific mobility has a significant impact on mobile researchers, the co-creation and sharing of knowledge, and the competitiveness of individual research institutions and nation states. Despite the political importance of mobility in science, there is no systematic effort to analyze and characterize the phenomenon. We argue that in...

Housing is a particular type of commodity with different values and representations among households. A vast range of characteristics need to be managed and comprehended, namely its physical properties, territorial attributes and environmental amenities, plus the individual conceptions on the importance assigned to each feature. Thus, housing prefe...

O acesso aos equipamentos de saúde é fundamental na formulação de políticas de saúde para melhorar o estado de saúde da população e mitigar as iniquidades existentes. Deste modo, a avaliação e monitorização do acesso revestem-se da maior importância. Vários estudos têm explorado o conceito numa perspetiva espacial, denotando o papel crucial de uma...

A habitação tem sido alvo de inúmeras abordagens na literatura científica das quais destacamos entre outras, as preocupações com a acessibilidade, o mercado de arrendamento, os efeitos da habitação na saúde, e mais recentemente, as preocupações com os desafios da pandemia COVID-19 na política de habitação. Estas abordagens são acompanhadas de vário...

Ensuring the provision of affordable housing is an important and challenging role of planning practice, both at macro and micro level. The adequacy of housing supply to the population’s (present and future) needs, preferences and income is particularly relevant and complex in territories where standard housing market mechanisms typically fail. In p...

O declínio populacional é um dos fenómenos mais desafiantes nas últimas décadas em várias regiões da Europa. Mesmo em regiões com saldos migratórios positivos, persiste uma dinâmica demográfica negativa dominada pelo envelhecimento da população. Como tal, o tema do envelhecimento da população, e o papel determinantes das migrações, tornou-se uma ár...

There are several references in the literature highlighting the importance of the international scientific mobility studies and several examples of how this academic population has been characterized. Typically, the analysis of academic mobility has been conducted by applying extensive surveys to a “representative” sample, in a specific moment in t...

Social inequalities have shown a tendency for being amplified by the distribution of socioeconomic groups and of spatial amenities and disamenities. Given their commitment to principals of spatial equity, it is important to understand if public services fit into this pattern or, on the contrary, provide similar levels of accessibility to different...

ICDSST 2020 is EWG-DSS’s 6th International Conference, following the five previous successful International Conferences on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2019 in Madeira; ICDSST 2018 in Crete; ICDSST 2017 in Namur; ICDSST 2016 in Plymouth; and ICDSST 2015 in Belgrade) as listed below. Since 1989 when the EWG-DSS was founded, the societ...

Researchers from multidisciplinary scientific fields have been puzzled by human behaviour in dynamic and complex decision-making contexts. Since the seventeenth century, several theoretical, conceptual and empirical contributions have emerged. These contributions evidence the need to critically assess the rational foundations of decision theories,...

Housing is more than a living space; it represents a social status capable of promoting several forms and levels of socialization and segregation. Housing is characterized by a set of attributes and functions that are valued differently, in which the consumption of “good housing” is made considering the preferences of their attributes, perceived ta...

The exigency of “leaving no one behind”, expressed in the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the existence in some contexts, such as in Portugal, of new competences for local authorities, call for greater attention to the evaluation of policies and monitoring of results at subnational level. This paper scrutinizes the most critical iss...

Os desafios demográficos e socioeconómicos, como o envelhecimento populacional, o adiamento e declínio da fecundidade e os fluxos migratórios, têm motivado as figuras de planeamento a definir estratégias e políticas educativas que respondam a novas dinâmicas territoriais e às necessidades educativas atuais e futuras da comunidade local. Com o proce...