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  • An open participatory conceptual framework to support state of the environment and sustainability reports
    Publication . Ramos, Tomás B.; Martins, Ivone P.; Martinho, Ana Paula; Douglas, Calbert H.; Painho, Marco; Caeiro, Sandra
    It is fundamental to monitor, evaluate and report the state of the environment at global and local levels, to better implement sustainable development principles and practices. The State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports should be written in an understandable and accessible way for stakeholders and also be developed from the beginning with its involvement and participation. Despite several initiatives that refer public engagement in State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports, from the national to the corporate levels, usually the participatory approaches are restricted to consultations of key actors. They do not explore the role that could be played by stakeholders as part of the report staff, from designing to production and reviewing. The aim of this research is to develop a conceptual framework to support open participatory, interactive and adaptive State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports, where the stakeholders’ involvement (non-experts and experts) will effectively contribute to the design, data gath- ering and evaluations produced in the reports. The proposed open participatory approach will support the design and implementation of a collaborative report. The stakeholders’ assessment of the State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports can also be used as an indirect way for formal results evaluation, allowing for cross-validation. The paper analyses and explores two practices of regular and formal State of the Environment reports: the “European Environment e State and Outlook (transnational scale) and the “Portuguese State of the Environment Report” (national scale). In both reporting initiatives, the partici- patory approaches in the design and production of the reports are weak or inexistent and many times merely formal. A set of steps and procedures, embedded in a formal framework, is proposed for adoption in the both initiatives. The proposed framework should be implemented through gradually and prioritised steps to mitigate practical difficulties, due to the complexity of institutional reporting processes. The open participatory State of the Environment and Sustainability Report will represent a joint commitment among stakeholders for active reporting development with new information and knowledge. Rethinking tradi- tional reporting and related participatory approaches can move the State of the Environment and Sus- tainability Reports to a new stage of evolution: a continuous updating of information. In this process, data and information will come from formal and informal sources and, stakeholders can scrutinize each other’s participation and increase the overall content and quality of the collaborative disclosures.
    2014Journal article Restricted access Show more
  • Bioeconomia uma nova área de desenvolvimento económico (Tópico 3 EDS)
    Publication . Martinho, Ana Paula; Jacquinet, Marc
    Uma primeira definição da bioeconomia é atribuída a Georgescu-Roegen (1975) num artigo sobre bioeconomia, que defendia uma perspetiva biofísica para a economia, embora esta atribuição não seja consensual entre os investigadores. O entendimento atual da bioeconomia, que foi desenvolvido na última década, está enraizado na ideia de que as matérias-primas industriais (por exemplo, materiais, químicos, energia) devem ser derivadas de recursos biológicos renováveis, utilizando a pesquisa e a inovação para determinar o processo de transformação. Pode-se assim dizer que a noção de Bioeconomia é multifacetada, onde se pode incluir três visões distintas, das quais pelo menos as duas primeiras parecem ser significativamente influenciadas por uma perspetiva de engenharia e ciências naturais. Essas visões de Bioeconomia são: 1. A visão da biotecnologia enfatiza a importância da investigação biotecnológica e a aplicação e comercialização da biotecnologia em diferentes sectores da economia; 2. A visão dos recursos biológicos centra-se no processamento e atualização de matérias-primas biológicas, assim como no estabelecimento de novas cadeias de valor; 3. A visão bio-ecológica destaca a sustentabilidade e os processos ecológicos que otimizam o uso de energia e nutrientes, promovem a biodiversidade e evitam monoculturas e a degradação do solo.
    2020-04-06Education resource Open access Show more
  • Co-creating a sustainability performance assessment tool for public sector organisations
    Publication . Ramos, Tomás B.; Domingues, Ana Rita; Caeiro, Sandra; Cartaxo, Joana; Painho, Marco; Antunes, Paula; Santos, Rui; Videira, Nuno; Walker, Richard M.; Huisingh, Donald
    Organisations are increasingly being pushed to manage, assess and report their sustainability performance, including public sector organisations (PSO). Several approaches were developed to implement sustainability assessments at the organisation level. However, the majority are still for the private sector and are often not supported by active stakeholder involvement. Several PSO have adapted private-oriented models to assess their sustainability performance, which are often not adequate due to public administration, whose main mission is to provide public services. The present work aims at developing a conceptual framework to support PSO and to assess their sustainability performance. The proposed approach is supported by two sustainability performance assessment systems – Formal and Informal Sustainability Performance Assessment. The Formal Sustainability Performance Assessment system, which is the main focus of this paper, consists of a checklist of objectives and practices and a set of twenty-nine (29) performance indicators. An initial proposal was drawn from the literature review and then assessed through a participatory process involving practitioners and academics in semistructured interviews, questionnaire surveys and a collaborative workshop. The Portuguese central public administration was used as a case study. The developed checklist of objectives and practices and related performance indicators will allow PSO to assess and communicate complex information about organisational sustainability. Reference values support the normalization of indicators’ results, and consequently, the comparison of sustainability-related performance between PSO integrated into the context of the Portuguese central public administration. This research contributes to the debate on organisational sustainability assessment and communication, and the importance of selecting and developing sustainability indicators using co-creation processes with key stakeholders.
    2021-10Journal article Restricted access Show more
  • A conceptual model for integrating non-material components in sustainability assessment
    Publication . Viégas, Osvaldo; Caeiro, Sandra; Ramos, Tomás B.
    A adoção do conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável (DS) originou inúmeros sistemas de avaliação da sustentabilidade, para os quais diversos autores têm sugerido a incorporação de componentes não materiais. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo principal o desenvolvimento de um modelo conceitual para a futura integração desses componentes em sistemas de avaliação da sustentabilidade. A revisão da literatura possibilitou construir um modelo conceitual para os componentes não materiais da sustentabilidade e identificar temas associados. Essa proposta foi analisada em escala local-regional, através de entrevistas semiestruturadas dirigidas a atores-chave no estado de Alagoas e na cidade de Maceió, Brasil. A proposta foi considerada pelos atores envolvidos como genericamente adequada, e foram apresentadas propostas de melhoria e ajuste, para facilitar compreensão e aplicação prática. A análise da percepção dos entrevistados permitiu identificar o vínculo preferencial do termo sustentabilidade com a dimensão ambiental e a restrita referência ao compromisso intergeracional.
    2019-01-31Journal article Open access Show more
  • Desenvolvimento económico e recursos comuns : introdução
    Publication . Jacquinet, Marc
    Os quatro momentos ou três tópicos deste seminário 1. Desenvolvimento económico 2- Problemática dos recursos comuns (Tragedy of the Commons) 3- Economia e desenvolvimento sustentável 4 - Conclusões: Entender o desenvolvimento económico e a sustentabilidade
    2015-07Education resource Open access Show more
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  • Employee-driven sustainability performance assessment in public organisations
    Publication . Coutinho, Vera; Domingues, Ana Rita; Caeiro, Sandra; Painho, Marco; Antunes, Paula; Santos, Rui; Videira, Nuno; Walker, Richard M.; Huisingh, Donald; Ramos, Tomás B.
    Organisations are increasingly adopting sustainability performance assessment tools. However, these formal organisational sustainability assessments are typically managed and prepared by technical staff. There is a lack of research on approaches that enable a stakeholder-driven performance assessment. This paper develops a framework of informal/complementary stakeholder-driven sustainability performance assessment, from the perspective of employee voluntary collaboration. The framework composes a checklist of questions covering the main sustainability domains: perceptions, individual practices, and voluntary monitoring indicators. In an exploratory case study in a public organisation, the checklist was evaluated by employees in a participatory workshop. The evaluation criteria of understanding and usefulness were rated more positively than reliability. This paper shows a novel way of integrating employee inputs for informal sustainability assessment and supports the importance of empowering public organisations, thereby increasing their understanding of sustainability management frameworks.
    2018Journal article Restricted access Show more
  • Ergonomia e antropometria: haverá um ergónomo no barco?
    Publication . Silva, Aurora; Freitas, Isabel; Lacomblez, Marianne; Tomás, José Augusto; Melo, Rosário
    Estrutura funcional da atividade piscatória tendo em consideração situações que visam a segurança no trabalho.
    1996Education resource Open access Show more
  • Gestão da qualidade
    Publication . Jacquinet, Marc
    2010Education resource Open access Show more
  • How are new sustainable development approaches responding to societal challenges?
    Publication . Ramos, Tomás B.; Caeiro, Sandra; Pires, Sara Moreno; Videira, Nuno
    2018-03Journal article Restricted access Show more