All Outputs (37)

Food security and circular cities: Paradigmatic shifts, geographical and temporal scales, and participatory governance support to facilitate transitions towards ‘urban sustainability' (2025)
Journal Article

This article explores how the principles of circularity, applied to urban food systems, could contribute to catalysing a transition towards more sustainable cities, working on the premise that food security is a key pillar of urban resilience. In ord... Read More about Food security and circular cities: Paradigmatic shifts, geographical and temporal scales, and participatory governance support to facilitate transitions towards ‘urban sustainability'.

A participatory urban governance framework for transitioning cities towards sustainability: linking the protection of urban ecosystems’ functions and circularity principles (2024)
Journal Article

The purpose of this research is to provide an urban governance framework that can aid decision-makers to transition cities towards more sustainability and resilience. Our premise is that such transition will take time, iterations and adaptations and... Read More about A participatory urban governance framework for transitioning cities towards sustainability: linking the protection of urban ecosystems’ functions and circularity principles.

Towards city resilience, food security and territorial learning: Three territorial paradigmatic shifts triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Book Chapter

According to projections, the urban share of the world population will grow to 66% by 2050, with people moving to cities seeking shelter and jobs. Whilst the current pandemic is questioning the validity of the globalisation upon which our societies r... Read More about Towards city resilience, food security and territorial learning: Three territorial paradigmatic shifts triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The potential of citizen science for socio-spatial studies. Defining and operationalising research pathways (2023)
Book Chapter

The term Citizen Science has been used in various contexts, but little effort has been made to provide a vision of it in regard to socio-spatial studies, which are at the core of the research group on Citizen Science in understanding and transforming... Read More about The potential of citizen science for socio-spatial studies. Defining and operationalising research pathways.

Economics, urban planning, and food systems: From “chrematistike” to “oikonomia” toward sustainable cities (2023)
Journal Article

The history of cities and of urbanism has closely followed economic changes—so much so that cities have been described as microcosms of our economic systems. As heavy contributors to climate change, pollution and the generation of waste, cities have... Read More about Economics, urban planning, and food systems: From “chrematistike” to “oikonomia” toward sustainable cities.

The role of design thinking to promote a sustainability transition within participatory urban governance: Insights from urban agriculture initiatives in Lisbon (2023)
Journal Article

This article contributes to research into new forms of participatory urban governance aimed at creating more sustainable cities. Focused on food security, which has, like ‘sustainability’, economic, ecological and socio-political dimensions, our rese... Read More about The role of design thinking to promote a sustainability transition within participatory urban governance: Insights from urban agriculture initiatives in Lisbon.

Multi-level education for sustainability through global citizenship, territorial education and art forms (2023)
Journal Article

This article is aimed at addressing concepts, approaches and challenges that are both very characteristic of the era we are living in and that would also greatly benefit from being more and better integrated into our learning systems (both in the for... Read More about Multi-level education for sustainability through global citizenship, territorial education and art forms.

Museu de Lisboa (org.) – Hortas de Lisboa: Da Idade Média ao Século XXI = Lisbon Vegetable Gardens: From Middle Ages to the 21st Century [exposição e catálogo] (2022)
Journal Article

This short article is a presentation and analysis of the exhibition

Personal proximity, disruptive dissent, and participatory urban governance as forms of climate change activism through urban agriculture (2022)
Journal Article

The fight against climate change is a long battle that is far from won. Negotiations and formal agreements on climate change have been conducted for decades and targets have been set to impose reductions in greenhouse gas emissions on governments and... Read More about Personal proximity, disruptive dissent, and participatory urban governance as forms of climate change activism through urban agriculture.

Covid and higher education: Crossed perspectives in the construction of knowledge and the rise of citizenscience. Theoretical reflections and practical approach in the 11th encounter of CeiED researchers (2022)
Journal Article

Ensuring that learning is participatory and even further democratised seems particularly important at a time when people are kept apart because of a Covid pandemic that thrives on proximity. Whilst learning is based on exchanges, it also benefits fro... Read More about Covid and higher education: Crossed perspectives in the construction of knowledge and the rise of citizenscience. Theoretical reflections and practical approach in the 11th encounter of CeiED researchers.

A new phase in the history of education for sustainability. The emergence of territorial education in a post-Covid recovery period (2022)
Journal Article

The current pandemic has acted as a catalyst for chain reactions on issues such as the decline of certain industries, job losses and problems of food transportation. In a ‘globalized world’, connections require re-organizing. More than ever, the econ... Read More about A new phase in the history of education for sustainability. The emergence of territorial education in a post-Covid recovery period.

The ‘Covid-trigger’: New light on urban agriculture and systemic approach to urbanism to co-create a sustainable Lisbon (2022)
Journal Article

In 2018, Lisbon won the title of Green capital of Europe 2020. It was described by the Expert Panel as an inspirational city which had started its journey towards sustainability during a period of economic crisis. A year later, Covid-19 had become a... Read More about The ‘Covid-trigger’: New light on urban agriculture and systemic approach to urbanism to co-create a sustainable Lisbon.

Territorial education through urban agriculture: Contributing to building sustainable cities in times of a pandemic (2021)
Journal Article

The multi-dimensional damages caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have highlighted the fragility of our economic systems and their lack of resilience. People are starting to question globalisation, and debates on alternative modes of development are back... Read More about Territorial education through urban agriculture: Contributing to building sustainable cities in times of a pandemic.

Réintroduire le patrimoine de l’eau parmi les communs: Pour un développement alternatif et durable au Maroc (2021)
Journal Article

Considérant les difficultés à gérer une ressource naturelle qui se fait de plus en plus rare du fait des changements climatiques mais aussi de systèmes de gestion inadaptés aux contraintes socio-économiques et écologiques, cet article explore la faço... Read More about Réintroduire le patrimoine de l’eau parmi les communs: Pour un développement alternatif et durable au Maroc.

Reviving indigenous water management practices in Morocco (2021)
Book

This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi- arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book begins by examining indigenous water heritage, considering the contribu... Read More about Reviving indigenous water management practices in Morocco.

Review of "Water on sand: Environmental histories of the Middle East and North Africa" (2020)
Journal Article

This is a book review.

Histoire d'eau. Le patrimoine de l'eau jailli des sources pour un developpement alternatif au Maroc (2020)
Book

Pourquoi s’intéresser à la gestion de l’eau dans un pays semi-aride du point de vue de sa dimension patrimoniale, en ce début de XXIème siècle ? Dans quelle mesure est-ce que la dimension patrimoniale peut-elle aider à aborder des problèmes de straté... Read More about Histoire d'eau. Le patrimoine de l'eau jailli des sources pour un developpement alternatif au Maroc.

Exploring the harmful effect of informational dissonance on students’ recruitment. A Moroccan case study (2020)
Book Chapter

Private universities have become institutions of choice for many African students. So far, our knowledge of their marketing strategies to influence prospective students’ choice remains weak. In this chapter, we have attempted to understand better stu... Read More about Exploring the harmful effect of informational dissonance on students’ recruitment. A Moroccan case study.

Bridging divides in the Arab world: The use of ICT platforms to promote women’s emancipation in Morocco (2013)
Book Chapter

The study is divided in three parts. It first describes how ICTs could be used in the country to contribute to women's emancipation and by whom. This angle of the research illustrates the Western-centred view of emancipation, itself embedded in a ver... Read More about Bridging divides in the Arab world: The use of ICT platforms to promote women’s emancipation in Morocco.

Using ICTs to explore Moroccan women’s ideas about their emancipation (2011)
Journal Article

This research note presents the results of a feasibility study on how the use of audiovisual and information and communication technology (ICT) tools can help Moroccan women express their understanding of the concept of “emancipation,” and thereby pr... Read More about Using ICTs to explore Moroccan women’s ideas about their emancipation.