http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1611 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:19:26 GMT 2026-06-02T15:19:26Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42095 Title: Ecosystem Services and Riparian Restoration: A socioecological assessment of the LIFE Alnus Taejo Project. Authors: Cordon, C.; Giménez, M.; Garcia, J.; Ribeiro, S.; Palomo, M.; Sanchez, J.; Borowiecka, S.; Julian, F.; Robredo, J.; Baena, J. Abstract: Ecosystem services are essential for ecological conservation and human well-being. In the framework of restoration activities over the riparian forest involves in the Spain-Portugal cross-border LIFE Alnus Taejo project’s, this study assesses people perception regarding their hydrological, wild harvested products, and cultural/recreational ecosystem services, before the restoration works starts, and also, how the planned activities may affect those services, over three different regions: Montemayor del Río, Villasbuenas de Gata, and Fundão. Using the TESSA methodology approach, a mixed-methods approach combined surveys, free-listing, and geospatial mapping to assess community perceptions and expectations of future conservation actions. Findings reveal regional variations, highlighting the need for tailored conservation strategies. Water quality perceptions differed, with 75% of Villasbuenas de Gata respondents reporting seasonal turbidity concerns, while Fundão residents cited chemical contamination. In Montemayor del Río, minor issues such as occasional turbidity and foam were noted. Anticipated flood risk reduction was highest in Fundão (71.4%) and lowest in Villasbuenas de Gata (50%). For harvested wildlife products, 92.9% in Villasbuenas de Gata collected natural resources, compared to 63.6% in Montemayor del Río and 66.7% in Fundão, indicating strong economic dependence. In cultural and recreational services, 100% of Fundão’s respondents saw tourism potential, while 85% in Villasbuenas de Gata supported ecotourism but raised accessibility concerns. Over 75% of participants across locations expressed interest in conservation initiatives. These results provide a baseline for evaluating future conservation efforts and ecosystem services, aligning with global restoration strategies, and emphasizing adaptive, community-driven conservation planning to optimize ecological and socioeconomic benefits. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42095 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41545 Title: Becoming-with in the natural-cultural world: narratives of the Outgoing Community of practice Authors: Folque, Assunção; Almeida, Tiago; Ilhéu, Maria Abstract: This qualitative study aims to discuss how outdoor practices with children and ECE teachers may transform their relation with the natural-cultural world. This study is part of the OutGoing project (Rasteiro et. al. 2023), a Community of Practice (CoP)of academics, teachers, and children searching for new ways of thinking, feeling and acting through outdoor experiences in ECE contexts. The theoretical framework of this study is anchored in the critical pedagogy using concepts such as Worlding, Becoming-with and Response-ability (Harraway, 2016). In a qualitative paradigm, this study analyses the teachers’ practices with children using cartography (Almeida & Costa, 2021) and delicate empiricism (Ilhéu & Valente, 2019) in outdoor ‘selected’ places; it uses teachers’ narratives and mini-stories produced throughout the OutGoing CoP as a way of listening to children and teachers. Participants’ initial informed consent was followed by negotiated participation during the research process, allowing withdrawing from the study without a sense of failure. The main results suggest that: 1) the teachers’ participation in the CoP contribute to a supportive way to introduce new practices; 2) Cartographies and delicate empiricism are two possible approaches to create time and space in ECE where children and adults reshape their interactions with the natural-cultural world; 3) mini-histories supported the emergence of children and teachers’ narratives about the word. Results may inspire new practices and meanings in education for sustainability and impact policy recommendations that provide the conditions to strengthen children's and teachers in their relationship with the nature-cultural world. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41545 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41544 Title: Ser ribeira - connectare artes, ecologia e educação. Authors: Valente, Mariana; Serpa Branco, Leonor; Sousa, Ana Teresa; Ilhéu, Maria Abstract: A investigação apresentada desenvolve-se no âmbito do projeto transdisciplinar Ser Ribeira, num contexto de Ecologia e Educação Artística. O projeto tem como objetivo treinar a atenção afeiçoada ao mundo. A investigação realizada tem como corpus os desenhos e os escritos dos jovens que participaram no projeto e pretende mostrar a importância de multiplicar modos de conhecer o mundo, valorizando a importância da transformação sensível e cognitiva de quem conhece. No desenvolvimento do projeto e das categorias de análise na investigação foi utilizado o “empirismo delicado”. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41544 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41543 Title: Learning to notice and love a multispecies world Authors: Ilhéu, Maria; Valente, Mariana Abstract: For several years we have dedicated ourselves to find strategies in order to change world perspectives by “noticing” so many ways of life of more than humans and worlding with them. With this aim we have been working with pupils, students, educators, researchers, and others. It began by following the "delicate empiricism" of J. W. Goethe. Through this method we venture to live direct, sensitive and affective experiences in different outdoor places; we treasure the time and the continuity of experiences and assign their meaning, stimulating the use of different languages in raising short stories. Through these multiple stories we can notice and attend the transformations of each one in these processes. The voices of Michel Serres, Anna Tsing, Natasha Myers and Carla Hustak, Vinciane Despret, Donna Haraway, Isabelle Stengers, among many others, have helped us to weave the narrative that we bring here. In this narrative made together with the short stories mentioned before, perception and sensibility come together with other forms of knowledge; with them we may develop an ethical and affective commitment. A new model of knowledge is ongoing, as Tsing states; its fundamental characteristic is multispecies love. Our narrative includes fragments of making-world projects; discoveries of "abundance of reality" in the most unexpected places, both in semi-natural and in urban areas in the South of Portugal, during the lasts 7 years. We accentuate modes of attunement among trees, pupils, streams, rivers, students, mosses, educators, birds, researchers, sounds, colours and others, and stress ways for multispecies love which occur during those making-world projects. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41543 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z