Extensão do Centro de Ecologia Funcional da Universidade de Coimbra na Universidade Aberta | Capítulos/artigos em livros internacionais / Book chapters/papers in international books
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- Climate change perceptions and adaptation strategies in vulnerable and rural territoriesPublication . Marques, Filipa; Alves, Fátima; Castro, Paula; Leal Filho, Walter; Kovaleva, Marina; Alves, Fátima; Abubakar, IsmailaThe consequences of climate change are unavoidable, making adaptation actions more important than ever. The engagement of communities and civic participation is also essential in adaptation strategies, and part of that involves studying citizens’ perceptions of climate change. This chapter aims to understand and discuss how people’s perceptions of climate change, mainly those belonging to rural and vulnerable communities, evolved over time and are important in designing adaptation strategies tailored to their local vulnerabilities and territorial contexts that may effectively increase climate change resilience to climate change.
- Human mobility: the invisible issue in climate change adaptation policies: the case of MoroccoPublication . Fernandes, Carla Sofia Ferreira; Loureiro, João; Alves, Fátima; Leal Filho, Walter; Kovaleva, Marina; Alves, Fátima; Abubakar, Ismaila RimiClimate change has led countries to develop mitigation strategies and policies to support populations in their adaptation to its impacts. By analyzing the climate change adaptation policies it is possible to understand how human mobility is included in (or excluded from) those same policies. In the case of Morocco, for example, the National Plan Against Climate Change includes various actions that address strategic sectors. Nevertheless, in practice, most adaptation actions are limited to the water management and agriculture sectors, which are perceived to be priority sectors. Human mobility can be an adaptation strategy and/or a factor that further intensifies vulnerability to climate change. However, it is generally missing from the overall adaptation policies. Most frequently, mobility-related policies are defined in different fora that do not necessarily include climate change-related considerations and often focus on international movements, which are a minority of the overall migratory movements. This study aims to analyze how the various national and regional climate change adaptation policies address mobility as a possible adaptation strategy using Morocco as a case study.
- Written press’s approach to climate change in the autonomous region of Madeira and the autonomous community of the Canary IslandsPublication . Mendonça, Ana Bijóias; Leal Filho, Walter; Alves, Fátima; Leal Filho, Walter; Kovaleva, Marina; Alves, Fátima; Abubakar, Ismaila RimiThe Autonomous Region of Madeira and the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands belong to Macaronesia and are ultra-peripheral regions, being particularly vulnerable to climate change (CC). Due to their isolation and idiosyncratic characteristics, the written press has a decisive role in the context of the insular territories and on tackling CC, hence, the purpose of this paper is to assess the written press’ approach to CC in a ten-year interval. We used the descriptor ‘climate change’ to collect articles from two newspapers (Canarias 7 and Diário de Notícias da Madeira), comprising July 2008 and January 2009, as well as July 2018 and January 2019, gathering 170 news articles (in total). For further analysis, all the news articles were coded and categorised according to five major categories (scope, entities involved, topics related to CC, discourse content, and position on CC). Results confirmed the prevalence of news articles in Diário de Notícias da Madeira in both periods of analysis, but this does not necessarily mean that the stakeholders are more receptive or prepared to act in Madeira. The scope was broad, given the prevalence of regional level news in the two newspapers. On the entities involved, despite the large number and diversity of social actors depicted, a preponderance of political and institutional actors stood out. A wide variety of topics related to CC were reported, predominantly vulnerability, CC consequences, and CC policies (overall mitigation). Regarding content, the centre of attention was on informative/institutional, expert opinions and critical discourses. Lay rationalities, knowledge, and practices were virtually absent. As for the positioning on CC, most of the news evidenced the acceptance that it is an unavoidable problem and that possible solutions require structural transformations in the development model of current societies and a paradigm shift. Other narratives coexisted with this perspective (mainly in Diário de Notícias da Madeira), denoting manipulative discourses and greenwashing, along with the view of CC as opportunity. We argue that the media should extend the debate on environmental issues to all social actors, including local communities, bridge the gap between scientists, technicians and policy makers and society in general, and go beyond the mainstream approach to CC and the sensationalist trends to contribute to knowledge improvement, awareness-raising, and solution building, mostly at the regional/local level.