On 8 October, ECO held a debate on the role of the economy in defending and valuing the forest, at the Belém Cultural Centre. The event, which was attended by the Secretary of State for Forests Rui Ladeira, also saw the presentation of the ECOFOR.PT study – Economic Valorisation of the Goods and Services of Portugal’s Forest Ecosystems, by UTAD university professor and CETRAD director Lívia Madureira.
UTAD, through the CETRAD, will organize next ESEE 2025, the 27th European Seminar on Extension & Education, in Vila Real, Portugal. CETRAD researcher Lívia Madureira will chair the ESEE steering Committee between September 2023 and ESEE2025. ESEE will be back to the UTAD after 34 years, where CETRAD founders Artur Cristóvão, José Portela, and Alberto…
CETRAD celebrated its 20 years of existence with an event that brought together its researchers, integrated members, collaborators, doctoral students, grantees, visitors and friends for a day, for a reflection on the past with a view to projecting the future. The event tooked place at november 23. During this meeting, the main achievements and contributions…
This Wednesday is the last GEIT session of 2023.Once again, we will be welcoming colleagues from Brazil: Andréia Tecchio, Valdete Boni and Giovana Paludo Giombelli, from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, who will be speaking on:Basket of territorial goods and services: theoretical and methodological frameworkDate:…
The paper titled Attraction, passion, and confidence: the paths to undergraduates’ entrepreneurial intentions, presented by Carlos Peixeira Marques and co-authored by two other CETRAD researchers, Carla Susana Marques and Carmem Leal, and by the research assistant Cristina Sousa, was awarded the 1st place on the best papers’ session at the 6th International Scientific Conference on…
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”.
The 24th of November, the anniversary of the renowned Portuguese scientist, Rómulo de Carvalho, has been celebrated as the National Day of Scientific Culture. This year, CETRAD’s team also joined the nationwide Science and Technology Week by organising a public discussion on rural quality of life. A wide variety of stakeholders, from local business owners…
