José Carlos Ferreira

• Professor (Associate) at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Mitigation, adaptation, environmental protection, and sustainable development on the land and related water bodies are being promoted in a fragmented way. Integrated Water Resources Management and Integrated Coastal Management have been presented as a way to face these problems. The Source-to-sea approach has recently emerged proposing a new water...

RESUMO: Nascido de uma parceria entre diversas entidades e com coordenação da NOVA School of Science and Tecnology e da Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente (APA), o Sistema de Administração do Recurso Litoral (SIARL) é uma ferramenta interativa com a finalidade de promover ações integradas dos diversos organismos com competências no litoral continental...

Coastal areas are home to more than 2 billion people around the globe and, as such, are especially vulnerable to climate change consequences. Climate change adaptation has proven to be more effective on a local scale, contributing to a bottom-up approach to the problems related to the changing climate. Portugal has approximately 2000 km of coastlin...

Urban parks have a fundamental role and an essential function for urban populations, both in terms of access to nature and the role they play in the quality of life. Thus, it is key to evaluate and monitor these spaces to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the offer. The literature and studies developed on this issue suggest a diverse rang...

This article explores the development of human occupation and the anthropogenic impacts at Costa da Caparica, a Portuguese coastal town that faces several challenges concerning coastal erosion processes. A historical long-term analysis was made, mainly through medieval and modern writing sources, crossing such textual data with geology, geography,...

Waste management is currently facing multiple challenges worldwide. The population growth in urban areas and related environmental concerns have increased the need to promote urban sustainability, namely where urban waste is a challenge. Thus, research on efficient waste management to reduce resources overload and to develop more sustainable produc...

Green infrastructure planning has been receiving great attention since the end of the last century. Although green infrastructure has been known for its ability to respond to a wide range of environmental, social, and economic challenges, the concept and associated implementation measures are still being discussed among researchers, decision-makers...

Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas that are designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. It incorporates green and blue spaces and other physical features in terrestrial and marine areas. Despite the increase of green infrastructure planning in several regions of the worl...

Marine litter has been considered one of the most serious global challenges, requiring urgent action by governmental bodies, especially in African Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where resources and research are limited. In addition to this, waste management and environmental education and ocean literacy programs in schools are scarce, with...

Ambassadors for Biodiversity (EmBio) is an ocean literacy research project that contributes to the improvement of literacy on marine and coastal biodiversity, namely encompassing the areas covered by the Natura 2000 Network, by promoting coastal and oceanic resources conservation and natural and cultural values preservation of the Portuguese wester...

Coastal areas are densely populated areas, and they have been experiencing increasing pressures as a consequence of population growth, but also because of climate change aggravation. For this reason, hazard, vulnerability, and risk indexes have been becoming more recurrent, especially to study and analyze low-lying coastal areas. This study present...

In this chapter, the authors, dealing with an uncertain and complex context, defend that socio-ecological literacy is crucial for societal evolution since it contributes to changes in attitudes and behaviors, and, as a consequence, it promotes society transformation. This can be accomplished through Social Labs (SL), carefully designed and professi...

Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, green infrastructure, as a planning tool, contributes to social and economic benef...

Beach nourishment is a soft engineering intervention that supplies sand to the shore, to increase the beach recreational area and to decrease coastal vulnerability to erosion. This study presents the preliminary evaluation of nourishment works performed at the high-energy wave-dominated Portuguese coast. The shoreline was adopted as a proxy to stud...

Duarte, C.M.; Ferreira, J.C., and Fortes, J., 2020. Risk modelling in urban coastal areas to support adaptation to climate change and extreme weather events: Early warning, emergency planning and risk management systems. In: Malvárez, G. and Navas, F. (eds.), Global Coastal Issues of 2020. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 95, pp. 785–...

This paper addresses a cost analysis and evaluation of the benefits associated with different climate change adaptation strategies in coastal areas, considering high risk scenarios. For that, a cost analysis of adaptation strategies was carried out over a period of 50 years for Furadouro Beach, Ovar Portugal, a low-lying coastal area with high coas...

Monteiro, R. and Ferreira, J.C., 2020. Green infrastructure planning as a climate change and risk adaptation tool in coastal urban areas. In: Malvárez, G. and Navas, F. (eds.), Global Coastal Issues of 2020. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 95, pp. 889–893. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The green infrastructure of Setúbal i...

The main purpose of this chapter is to study storm occurrences on the Portuguese northwestern coast, explore the characteristics and pathways of the tropical storms that affect the area, and most importantly, evaluate the vulnerability of this coast to storm surges with the aid of hydrodynamic models. The variation of storm surge heights depends on...

Este artigo aborda um projeto de literacia oceânica e costeira e educação ambiental denominado como “Conhecer para Preservar – Embaixadores pela Biodiversidade” que decorre no âmbito da candidatura elaborada pela Câmara Municipal de Torres Vedras e pela Câmara Municipal da Lourinhã ao Programa Operacional Sustentabilidade e Eficiência no Uso de Rec...

The coastal area of Costa de Caparica is an important territory representing one of the main affected areas by storms such as Hercules in 2013 and 2014. This paper propose a new coastal risk assessment to coastal floods, combining GIS-based inundation analysis over the last 35 years, coastal vulnerability model based on geological and physical vari...

O presente trabalho consiste numa proposta de análise dos custos e avaliação dos benefícios associados a diferentes opções de adaptação considerando cenários de risco muito elevado. O local de estudo é a Praia do Furadouro, em Ovar, uma área com elevada erosão costeira e frequentes galgamentos. A análise de custos às estratégias de adaptação é real...

This paper describes the recent advances on the research project HIDRALERTA -"Flood Forecast and Early Warning System in Coastal and Port Areas", whose main objective is developing a system for forecasting, warning and assessment of risks associated with wave overtopping and flooding in coastal and port areas, supported by measurements/predictions...

As ondas do mar nas zonas costeiras são um recurso potenciador de actividades desportivas com elas relacionadas (surf, paddle surf, skymboard, bodyboard, kitesurf, windsurf entre outros). Como tal a promoção estratégica dos desportos de ondas é uma oportunidade para o litoral, assegurando a sua sustentabilidade, e a sua governância é fundamental pa...

Os riscos associados à inundação e galgamento de estruturas de defesa costeira são uma constante preocupação na costa portuguesa, sendo que situações de emergência provocadas pelo mar são frequentes, pondo em causa a segurança de pessoas, bens e o próprio património natural. Para tal, é importante desenvolver uma metodologia que permita avaliar os...

Mais do que um projeto, o MARGov – Governância Colaborativa de Áreas Marinhas Protegidas (margov.isegi.unl.pt) – consistiu no desenvolvimento de um diálogo colaborativo envolvendo os atores chave do Parque Marinho Professor Luiz Saldanha, na Arrábida. Este projeto apostou num modelo de governância colaborativa, em que cada parceiro se tornou um age...

The length of the Portuguese coast, the severity of the sea conditions and the concentration of population and economic activities on its coastal zone justify the importance of studying wave-induced risks and, in particular, flooding due to wave action. Indeed, emergency situations caused by adverse sea conditions are frequent and put in danger the...

The bathing-tourism phenomenon on Costa de Caparica beaches has evolved into mass tourism, compromising environmental preservation and socioeconomic balance. The aim of the study focuses on the use of management tools, such as carrying capacity, expanding to associated surfing activity in the water, as surfers are also users. This tool operates in...

The Tagus estuary is the largest wetland and estuary in Portugal and one of the most important estuaries in Europe. This estuary occupies a central position in the territorial context of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. However, the competitive relationship between the multifunctional land uses and economic activities present in this estuary and the s...

The bathing-tourism phenomenon on Costa de Caparica beaches has evolved into mass tourism, compromising environmental preservation and socioeconomic balance. The aim of the study focuses on the use of management tools, such as carrying capacity, expanding to associated surfing activity in the water, as surfers are also users. This tool operates in...

O comprimento da costa Portuguesa, a severidade das condições do mar, a concentração de população e actividades económicas na zona costeira justificam a importância de estudar os riscos provocados pelas ondas, em particular, a inundação devido à acção do mar. Na verdade, situações de emergência causadas por condições de mar adversas são frequentes...

This work illustrates the methodology developed to evaluate the risk of coastal flooding and its application to Vale do Lobo beach, located in the Loulé Municipality, a Portuguese coastal area under significant touristic pressure. The methodology is based on six main steps: 1) division of the study area into sub-areas with similar characteristics i...

In the last decades, the Portuguese coastal area registered an intensification of the tourism activity in general and specially during the summer season. This intensification has originated highly significant negative impacts, due to the growing beach occupation, as well as the increased massive use of the coastal ecosystems. The use of specific to...

O presente trabalho ilustra uma metodologia desenvolvida no Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) com a colaboração do Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para avaliação do risco de inundação de uma zona costeira e a sua aplicação à praia de Vale do Lobo, concelho de Loulé. A metodologia baseia...

A “infra-estrutura verde” e definida por uma rede de areas naturais e areas abertas (open spaces) fundamentais para o funcionamento ecologico do territorio,contribuindo para a preservacao dos ecossistemas naturais, da vida selvagem, para a qualidade do ar e da agua e para a qualidade de vida dos cidadaos. Para Bennedict e McMahon (2006), Uma infra-...

This paper illustrates the methodology developed to evaluate the risk of flooding of a coastal area, as well as the application of such methodology to Vale do Lobo beach, situated in the Loulé Municipality, a Portuguese coastal area under significant touristic pressure. The methodology is based on four main steps: a) division of the study area into...

This paper presents the results of the study performed for estimating the run-up and flood levels in a stretch of Vale do Lobo beach, located at Loulé Municipality, in the Algarve region. The study started by defining the offshore wave conditions in the area, based upon data collected during 1991 by the Portuguese Hydrographic Institute with a dire...

Coastal areas stand in the intersection of human and physical factors, some of them interacting in a non linear fashion and presenting feedbacks, which typically are characteristics of complex systems. This kind of systems are very difficult to model in a top-down approach, due to the high number of variables in question and the nature of relations...

The artificial changing of the natural environment occurs every time man transforms the landscape according to the needs and the land resources' availability. The magnitude of such a change is conditioned by the socio-cultural matrix and by the economic and technological capacities of the society, thus conditioning the space-transforming ability as...

The growth and development that the Municipality of Almada (Portugal) has had, an area with an extensive coastal line, both Atlantic and estuary, translates directly into morpho-functional changes and specific spatial dynamics, with these spaces acquiring more and more complex semantic meanings. The modelling of spatially dynamic and naturally comp...

FERREIRA, J. C., 2003. Coastal Zone Vulnerability and Risk Evaluation. A Tool For Decision-Making (An Example In The Caparica Littoral - Portugal). Journal of Coastal Research, SI 39 (Proccendigs of the 8th International Coastal Symposium), pg - pg. Itajaí, SC - Brazil, ISSN 0749-0208 The Caparica-Espichel Coastal Arch, in the Portuguese western co...

cellular automata land use model to establish different scenarios of growth

The geosimulation (geocomputation) is an emergent field of inquiry like ones heuristic search, artificial neural networks and cellular automata. This work presents a method to simulate both the coast line and the land use/cover evolution in a developed costal area reality, linking neural networks and cellular automata in a GIS environment. Such alt...

The main purpose of this research consists in the development and validation, through the application to a case study, of new methods for the definition of territorial discontinuities and morphologies, using the most recent scientific and technological developments that have been made in the fields of remote sensing, geographical information system...

The digital information provided by satellite remote sensing supplies spatial, spectral and temporal perceptions that are not available from other sources. It represents one of the most recent and developed technical means for the study of the earth and of environmental sciences from space. Often it is the only source of data for observing natural...