Maria João Canadas

Forest owners' and farmers' willingness to accept landscape transformation measures for wildfire mitigation: A choice-experiment application

Paulo Flores Ribeiro, Maria João Canadas, Ana Novais, Miguel Leal et autres

Despite substantial research efforts and significant public investment in wildfire mitigation over recent decades, outcomes have remained insufficient. Current proposals increasingly emphasize landscape-scale interventions aimed at enhancing mosaic diversity and reducing the extent of large, contiguous forest areas. Portugal has recently adopted …

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Bird species richness peaks at intermediate levels of farmland in wooded savannas and dry forests, but not in rainforests

Vera Soares, Maria João Canadas, Paulo Flores Ribeiro, Natasha Ribeiro et autres

Despite widespread concern over farmland-driven biodiversity loss in tropical landscapes, the possibly non-linear response of species richness to farmland and the possible dependency of this response on biome remain poorly understood. Drawing on nationwide data about the occurrence of terrestrial bird species …

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Gestão coletiva para a conservação de ambientes de montanha

Camila Espezio de Oliveira, Maria João Canadas, Alexandre Toshiro Igari

A ação coletiva envolve a colaboração entre diversos atores para alcançar benefícios compartilhados. Identificar os atributos que promovem a ação coletiva para a conservação ambiental é um desafio na pesquisa de sustentabilidade. Este artigo utiliza uma triangulação metodológica entre observação participante, análise …

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Conservation with People inside the Protected Areas: How to Address Local People’s Needs with No Zero-Sum Game

Aires Afonso Mbanze, Cremildo Ribas Dias, Aidão Munome, Yasalde Massingue et autres

In this chapter, we are resurging the hot debate on Protected Areas (PAs) design and management, which had comprehensively been discussed. Two opposing approaches are commonly accepted: (i) relocation of people to outside PAs (isolation of PAs) or enabling people to live …

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Estimating the willingness of forest owners and farmers to engage in landscape transformation measures for wildfire risk reduction: evidence from a choice experiment in central Portugal

Paulo Flores Ribeiro, Maria João Canadas, Ana Novais, Miguel Leal et autres

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Nature and people: identifying the impacts of mountaineering activities across different social-ecological settings and approaches

Camila Espezio de Oliveira, Maria João Canadas, João Marcos Mott Pavanelli, Alexandre Toshiro Igari

Mountaineering, a burgeoning tourism sector, involves intense interactions with mountain environments, making it a suitable subject for studying the interplay between tourism and conservation. This study conducts a thorough systematic review and content analysis to evaluate the impact of mountaineering on natural …

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A Systems Approach to Identify and Explain Family Forest Owners’ Technical Options. The Link with Labor Organization, Decision-Making Styles and Timber Sales

Maria João Canadas, Pedro Arnaldo Reis, João Ervedeiro, Ana Novais

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The current policy focus shift from a sectoral to a territorial governance of wildfire reduction is aligned with forest owners’ preferences

Maria João Canadas, Miguel Leal, Ana Novais, Paulo Flores Ribeiro et autres

Land management for wildfire reduction has been said to require new governance arrangements that ensure the coordination at the local level among landowners and between them and other relevant private and public actors. To promote a shift in the policy approach to …

Promoting Low-Risk Fire Regimes: An Agent-Based Model to Explore Wildfire Mitigation Policy Options

Paulo Flores Ribeiro, FRANCISCO EDVANDO DE AQUINO MOREIRA, Maria João Canadas, Ana Novais et autres

Landscape patterns and composition were identified as key drivers of fire risk and fire regimes. However, few studies have focused on effective policymaking aimed at encouraging landowners to diversify the landscape and make it more fire-resilient. We propose a new framework to …

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Recent Trends in Fire Regimes and Associated Territorial Features in a Fire-Prone Mediterranean Region

FRANCISCO EDVANDO DE AQUINO MOREIRA, Miguel Leal, Rafaello Bergonse, Maria João Canadas et autres

Fire regimes in Mediterranean countries have been shifting in recent decades, including changes in wildfire size and frequency. We sought to describe changes in fire regimes across two periods (1975–1995 and 1996–2018) in a fire-prone region of central Portugal, explore the relationships …

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Proprietários florestais. Lógicas, dinâmicas e coordenação na gestão dos espaços florestais

Maria João Canadas, Ana Novais, Pedro Reis, José Lima Santos et autres

A identificação das práticas de gestão dos espaços florestais pelos seus proprietários é fundamental para compreender a evolução das funções ambientais e socioeconómicas desses mesmos espaços. Dos resultados de um conjunto de inquéritos a proprietários florestais, realizados em diferentes momentos e regiões, …

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Wildfire mitigation and adaptation: Two locally independent actions supported by different policy domains

Maria João Canadas, Miguel Leal, Filipa C. Soares, Ana Novais et autres

There is a broad consensus in the academic and policy communities over the need to shift the focus from fire suppression to fire prevention. To inform policies that effectively promote this shift, we distinguish between prevention actions aimed at more fire-resilient landscapes …

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