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Deliberating for sustainability: lessons from the Porto Alegre experiment with participatory budgeting

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2019
This paper analyses the practice of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, through an interdisciplinary lens that combines the theories of right to the city, environmental justice and deliberative democracy.
Martin Calisto Friant
exaly   +2 more sources

Culture and Tourism in Porto City Centre: Conflicts and (Im)Possible Solutions

open access: yesSustainability, 2019
City centres are spaces where different economic and cultural values converge as a consequence of their current uses and functions. In the case of Porto (Portugal), more than 20 years after being declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO (in 1996 ...
Inês Gusman   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Porto

2023
Campanhã, the easternmost parish of the city of Porto, Portugal, is a land marked by problems of social and territorial cohesion, fractured by large-scale rail and road infrastructures, an area still torn between its past of rural tradition and the increasingly visible features of middle-class modernity with cosmopolitan aspirations.
Machado E Moura, Carlos   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Green infrastructure and its influence on urban heat island, heat risk, and air pollution: A case study of Porto (Portugal).

Journal of Environmental Management
Green infrastructure plays a fundamental role in mitigating the effects of urban heat island. Vegetation may trap particulates and absorb pollutants like ozone, thus improving air quality.
Hélder Silva Lopes   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital Technology in a Smart Tourist Destination: The Case of Porto

Journal of Urban Technology, 2018
Pedro Manuel da Costa Liberato   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

HOW does veganism contribute to shape sustainable food systems? Practices, meanings and identities of vegan restaurants in Porto Alegre, Brazil

, 2020
This article discusses if and how the practices of vegan restaurants and their consumers converge towards the construction of sustainable food systems.
P. Niederle, Maycon Noremberg Schubert
semanticscholar   +1 more source

PortOS

Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '02, 2002
In this paper, we describe PortOS, an educational operating system designed to complement undergraduate and graduate level classes on operating systems. PortOS is a complete user-level operating system project, with phases covering concurrency, synchronization, networking and file systems.
Benjamin Atkin, Emin Gün Sirer
openaire   +1 more source

Motivation-based cluster analysis of international tourists visiting a World Heritage City: The case of Porto, Portugal

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 2017
The UNESCO recognition of cultural centres as World Heritage Sites has a significant impact, both on the size of tourist flows and on the types of visitors. The classification of Porto as a World Heritage City in 1996 strengthened its international image
Ana Ramires   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Incidence, characteristics and geographical distributions of canine and human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the Porto region (North West Portugal).

The Veterinary Journal, 2019
Lymphoma is one of the most common neoplasms in dogs and it is one of the top five causes of cancer-related deaths, similar to human lymphoma. Companion animal epidemiological studies define dogs as sentinels of potential risk factors for human health ...
K. Pinello   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Application of multi-criteria decision analysis methods for assessing walkability: A case study in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2018
The concept of walkability refers to the extent to which a neighbourhood is walking-friendly. Several walkability indexes have been developed to quantify and evaluate the pedestrian environment.
Alejandro Ruiz-Padillo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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