Living with the Beast: Wolves and Humans through Portuguese Literature
Artigo publicado na revista "Anthrozoös: A multidisciplinary journal of the interactions of people and animals” por um colectivo de investigadoras da FCSH-UNL. O estudo foca-se nas relações dos humanos com os lobos, estudadas através de representações literárias. Os interessados em receber cópia do artigo devem contactar as autoras através do…
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy,…
Recursos Minerais e Comunidade: impactos humanos, socioambientais e econômicos
A publicação deste livro decorre da continuação do projeto “Recursos Minerais e Territórios”, iniciado em 2010, patrocinado pela Secretaria de Geologia e Mineração e Transformação Mineral (SGM) do Ministério de Minas e Energia (MME), e com diversos resultados destacados. Entre eles, o livro Grandes Minas e APL´s, em que quinze…
Reading Topics on Environmental History: 1st meeting of REPORT(H)A Portuguese Network of Environmental History
In 2015 the CITCEM – Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória, organizes the 4th CITCEM Conference subordinated to the theme Crossing Borders: Connecting Edges of Environmental History. The Conference aims to bring together experts of environmental history, whose contributions will enable the exchange of new perspectives, discussing concepts,…
The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 - a worst case
The heat waves of 2003 in Western Europe and 2010 in Russia, commonly labelled as rare climatic anomalies outside of previous experience, are often taken as harbingers of more frequent extremes in the global warming-influenced future. However, a recent reconstruction of spring–summer temperatures for WE resulted in the likelihood of…
Western Mediterranean precipitation over the last 300 years from instrumental observations
The paper reports the results of the analysis of the 14 longest precipitation instrumental series, covering the last 300 years, that have been recovered in six subareas of the Western Mediterranean basin, i.e., Portugal, Northern and Southern Spain, Southern France, Northern and Southern Italy. This study extends back by one…
Early portuguese meteorological measurements (18th century)
Natural proxies, documentary evidence and instrumental data are the only sources used to reconstruct past climates. In this paper, we present the 18th century meteorologists (either Portuguese or foreigners) who made the first observations at several sites in Continental Portugal, Madeira Island and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), from 1749 until…
Potential of oak tree-ring chronologies from Southern Portugal for climate reconstruction
The present work reports a first attempt to assemble long tree-ring chronologies from Portugal potentially useful for climate reconstructions. Three oak species (Quercus pyrenaica, Quercus faginea, and Quercus ilex) were sampled at three sites in southern Portugal to obtain tree-ring chronologies. The longest tree ring series covers 173 years extending…