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Course: Rural Revitalisation: Landuse Planning and resilience to wildfires
To tackle this challenge, the Land Lab (Laboratorio do Territorio) is organizing the course Rural Revitalization: Territorial Planning and Resilience to Wildfires, a training initiative now …
GREENSEED gets underway: boosting entrepreneurship and strengthening the support ecosystem in bioeconomy
GREENSEED will promote Territorial Bioeconomy Entrepreneurship Support Ecosystems (ETEB) in four pilot regions—two on each side of the border. These will function as collaborative networks c…
Energy Crisis and Agrarian Regeneration – NoNormal Tour
The NonNormal Tour is a space for dissemination, reflection, and mobilization around the energy crisis, the material limits of industrial civilization, and the awareness that the recent econ…
Research areas
Green infrastructure and ecosystem services
Green infrastructure is a management framework of special interest to the age group. Currently with particular interest in deepening the planning of specific ecosystem services or the social dimension of green infrastructure.
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Geodata science
The large volume of proprietary data produced by the laboratory gives us an advantage when modeling, simulating, and reinterpreting the dynamics present in research projects. This is complemented by the development of new proprietary tools and infrastructure geared towards spatial information processing.
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Spatial planning and territorial transition
It includes, among others, activities related to territorial organization and planning, with special interest in the rural environment or the monitoring of resources for the formulation of rural transition strategies.
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Active land use management
A line of work that integrates the analysis of land-use dynamics and the land market with innovation in property governance for land mobilization, aiming to diagnose and improve the territorial base of agricultural activities and to attract and guide new managers toward underutilized plots.
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Participatory action research
Participatory action research is a cross-cutting pillar of the Land Lab. It is applied as a methodological principle that promotes research acting as a driver of change, rooted in the territory and connected to the people who inhabit it.
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Food systems and generational renewal in agriculture
With points of contact with other activity of the group, for example related to the abandonment of the agrarian or the transition territorial, this line focuses on strategies towards food systems resilient and support to the relief xeneracional in agriculture.