CETRAD researcher attended the 4th ESP Europe conference held in in Heraklion, Greece, 10-14th October 2022. Ecosystems services empowering people and societies in times of crisis was the broad conference theme. Lívia Madureira presented the communication “Ecosystems services supply by agriculture: using choice experiments to estimate trade-offs between monetary and non-monetary incentives”.
CETRAD organised a World Café event on the 20th of June at the inspiring environment of Quinta do Paço to evaluate the main strengths and weaknesses of the centre and identify the main priorities for the future. Over 30 participants, integrated and collaborative members, PhD students and researchers shared their views and ideas regarding 4…
We are delighted to announce that CETRAD researchers Prof. Carla Marques, Prof. Carmem Leal and Prof. Rui Silva represented CETRAD in Toledo at the 38th annual congress of AEDEM – European Academy of Management and Business Economics – and were awarded the prize for best research in entrepreneurship with their work “Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in Rural…
Lívia Madureira attended the 14 th European Farming Systems Conference (IFSA – European Group), held at the University of Évora, Portugal from 10 – 14 April 2022. held at the University of Évora, Portugal, and hosted by the Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED) The main focus of the conference was Farming Systems Facing Climate Change and Resource…
On the 12th April, within the framework of CETRAD’s 20th anniversary celebrations, the Tourism and Sustainability research group CETRAD will organise a session on Tourism and Sustainable development in low density territories. Morning session: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/94463899479?pwd=dXcrdk9tckwrYkszS21keUlYeWpaUT09Afternoon session: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91212926294?pwd=bHRQNS9EbnBhYi9INncwVFNBWEdqdz09
On May 31st, The Centre of Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD) at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), organized a workshop on the implementation of transdisciplinary approaches to rural development. Several Ph.D. students, postdocs and university professors from different backgrounds participated in a discussion. Lívia Madureira, Professor at UTAD and Director of CETRAD, opened…
Livia Madurerira, director of CETRAD, was interviewed by the ECO newspaper in a special feature on Portuguese forests, highlighting the ECOFOR project of which CETRAD was a part. Livia Madureira warns of the need to invest in forest prevention and management in a sustainable and efficient way and emphasises the importance of solutions to guarantee…
