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Mr. Armando Alves
University of Aveiro

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Journal article
Published: 05 September 2019 in Cities
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The unsustainable use of our planet's resources needs to be tackled from different angles and multiple levels of governance. As the human population urbanizes, having access to reliable, cross-cutting, quantitative city-level sustainability metrics is key to understanding the environmental impacts of urban dwellers and the role cities can play in the 21st century sustainability challenge. Framing the environmental pillar of urban sustainability with an overarching metric like the Ecological Footprint informs stakeholders and citizens about a city's overall pressure on the biosphere. In Portugal, six cities established a pioneering collaborative project to guide their transition to sustainability and support city governance; this paper presents the results of the first phase of the project. We tracked annual demand for natural resources and ecological services by the city residents and compared it against the “carrying capacity” of the cities' ecological assets. We then assessed the ability of this new data to increase local environmental awareness and support local public policies in Portugal and elsewhere. Lessons from this study inform the ongoing debate on the Ecological Footprint's usefulness as sustainability metric for cities, and point to specific policy insights for managing key consumption sectors and reaching key targets such as the UN SDGs.

ACS Style

Alessandro Galli; Katsunori Iha; Sara Moreno Pires; Maria Serena Mancini; Armando Abrunhosa Alves; Golnar Zokai; David Lin; Adeline Murthy; Mathis Wackernagel. Assessing the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of Portuguese cities: Critical results for environmental awareness and local management. Cities 2019, 96, 102442 .

AMA Style

Alessandro Galli, Katsunori Iha, Sara Moreno Pires, Maria Serena Mancini, Armando Abrunhosa Alves, Golnar Zokai, David Lin, Adeline Murthy, Mathis Wackernagel. Assessing the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of Portuguese cities: Critical results for environmental awareness and local management. Cities. 2019; 96 ():102442.

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Alessandro Galli; Katsunori Iha; Sara Moreno Pires; Maria Serena Mancini; Armando Abrunhosa Alves; Golnar Zokai; David Lin; Adeline Murthy; Mathis Wackernagel. 2019. "Assessing the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of Portuguese cities: Critical results for environmental awareness and local management." Cities 96, no. : 102442.

Journal article
Published: 13 August 2018 in Resources
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The increasing rate of urbanization along with its socio-environmental impact are major global challenges. Therefore, there is a need to assess the boundaries to growth for the future development of cities by the inclusion of the assessment of the environmental carrying capacity (ECC) into spatial management. The purpose is to assess the resource dependence of a given entity. ECC is usually assessed based on indicators such as the ecological footprint (EF) and biocapacity (BC). EF is a measure of the biologically productive areas demanded by human consumption and waste production. Such areas include the space needed for regenerating food and fibers as well as sequestering the generated pollution, particularly CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels. BC reflects the biological regeneration potential of a given area to regenerate resources as well to absorb waste. The city level EF assessment has been applied to urban zones across the world, however, there is a noticeable lack of urban EF assessments in Central Eastern Europe. Therefore, the current research is a first estimate of the EF and BC for the city of Wrocław, Poland. This study estimates the Ecological Footprint of Food (EFF) through both a top-down assessment and a hybrid top-down/bottom-up assessment. Thus, this research verifies also if results from hybrid method could be comparable with top-down approach. The bottom-up component of the hybrid analysis calculated the carbon footprint of food using the life cycle assessment (LCA) method. The top-down result of Wrocław’s EFF were 1% greater than the hybrid EFF result, 0.974 and 0.963 gha per person respectively. The result indicated that the EFF exceeded the BC of the city of Wrocław 10-fold. Such assessment support efforts to increase resource efficiency and decrease the risk associated with resources—including food security. Therefore, there is a need to verify if a city is able to satisfy the resource needs of its inhabitants while maintaining the natural capital on which they depend intact.

ACS Style

Małgorzata Świąder; Szymon Szewrański; Jan K. Kazak; Joost Van Hoof; David Lin; Mathis Wackernagel; Armando Alves. Application of Ecological Footprint Accounting as a Part of an Integrated Assessment of Environmental Carrying Capacity: A Case Study of the Footprint of Food of a Large City. Resources 2018, 7, 52 .

AMA Style

Małgorzata Świąder, Szymon Szewrański, Jan K. Kazak, Joost Van Hoof, David Lin, Mathis Wackernagel, Armando Alves. Application of Ecological Footprint Accounting as a Part of an Integrated Assessment of Environmental Carrying Capacity: A Case Study of the Footprint of Food of a Large City. Resources. 2018; 7 (3):52.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Małgorzata Świąder; Szymon Szewrański; Jan K. Kazak; Joost Van Hoof; David Lin; Mathis Wackernagel; Armando Alves. 2018. "Application of Ecological Footprint Accounting as a Part of an Integrated Assessment of Environmental Carrying Capacity: A Case Study of the Footprint of Food of a Large City." Resources 7, no. 3: 52.

Conference paper
Published: 22 June 2017 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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Ecologically responsible behaviour and commitment to a sustainable development should be fostered among citizens. The IMPRINT+ project, co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, intends to promote an ecological reasoning at an European level, supported by the participation of local communities and particularly by young people. Based on ICT use (smartphones, tablets and websites) and using a gamification strategy, the IMPRINT+ project aims to encourage young citizens to become aware of the global environmental impact of their everyday actions and to encourage them to act and participate in a local context. This paper aims to answer the question of what requirements, functional and non-functional, are appropriate to an app designed to engage young citizens, to be aware of their ecological footprint and to contribute, within different levels (individual, familiar, community or even national), with actions to its compensation. The paper describes the development process of the app, in terms of its specifications, requirements and system architecture. Preliminary tests suggest that the options made to develop the app were appropriate to promote the engagement of young people within the projects’ goals.

ACS Style

Pedro Beça; Pedro Amado; Maria João Antunes; Milene Matos; Eduardo Ferreira; Armando Alves; André Couto; Rafael Marques; Rosa Pinho; Lísia Lopes; João Carvalho; Carlos Fonseca. From Technological Specifications to Beta Version: The Development of the Imprint+ Web App. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2017, 80, 179 -188.

AMA Style

Pedro Beça, Pedro Amado, Maria João Antunes, Milene Matos, Eduardo Ferreira, Armando Alves, André Couto, Rafael Marques, Rosa Pinho, Lísia Lopes, João Carvalho, Carlos Fonseca. From Technological Specifications to Beta Version: The Development of the Imprint+ Web App. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2017; 80 ():179-188.

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Pedro Beça; Pedro Amado; Maria João Antunes; Milene Matos; Eduardo Ferreira; Armando Alves; André Couto; Rafael Marques; Rosa Pinho; Lísia Lopes; João Carvalho; Carlos Fonseca. 2017. "From Technological Specifications to Beta Version: The Development of the Imprint+ Web App." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 80, no. : 179-188.