Carla Gomes
University of Lisbon
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Landscape Research | 2014
Timothy O'Riordan; Carla Gomes; Luísa Schmidt
Abstract This paper adopts two perspectives. The first is a framing process aimed at defining and examining the conditions for adopting adaptive coastal governance. The second applies to relevant themes of changing coastal policy, central to the testing of adaptive coastal governance, namely cooperative science, risk-sensitive planning, socially fair insurance cover and effective ways to design, finance and engage with local communities over actual coastal change. We illuminate both missions through case studies in North Norfolk (England) and Portugal, all notably affected by coastal change. In England and Portugal, there is a broad understanding and acceptance of the likely effects of climate change. This recognition encourages debates over risk-averse planning, the design of proactive insurance cover, creative relocation of endangered property and new ways of predicting and paying for coastal adjustment. Yet, moving from a basic willingness to engage with coastal change to actual practices of landscape adjustment through such policy shifts is proving very difficult. In this research, we find that coastal landscapes are lived experiences, resigned acceptances of inevitable change and hopeful imaginings. Coastal management institutions are not geared to resolving this incompatibility and this paper explains why.
Ambiente & Sociedade | 2012
Luísa Schmidt; Filipe Duarte Santos; Pedro Prista; Tiago Saraiva; Carla Gomes
The Portuguese coast is one of the most threatened by coastal erosion in Europe, a phenomenon that will be intensified by climate change, due to sea level rise and changes in the wave system in the Atlantic coast. Along with this physical fragility, the coast has witnessed an accelerated urban and tourist pressure, which increased in Portugal since the 60s. This phenomenon creates social fragility, which in turn links with a political fragility resulting from the states inability to deal with coastal management in a consistent way. The main response to coastal problems has been investing in heavy defence structures strongly supported by EU funds. However, this type of investment is increasingly compromised due to the economic downturn and the prospective reduction of European funds. Based on three case studies - in the North, Centre and South of Portugal - we will address the current social condition of risk perception in three unstable areas of the Portuguese coast, where urban centres with a strong touristic motivation were installed: Vagueira, Costa da Caparica and Quarteira. Despite having in common recent growth dynamics, these areas show different occupation processes and different levels of coastal erosion. The paper addresses these three places from the point of view of its administrative condition and the effects of public policies for coastal planning. Furthermore we propose a reflexion about the need for new institutional models of governance and sustainable coastal management.
Revista de Estudos Constitucionais, Hermenêutica e Teoria do Direito | 2011
Carla Gomes
This article aims to establish a framework of principles which can be useful to the Administration who has the task of managing the uncertainty within a society of globalised risk. Bearing in mind that risk assessment and risk management are mostly administrative missions, this paper enunciates some basic principles applicable in that domain, emphasizing the role of a revision principle of environmental permits, decisive in order to follow the intense dynamics of environmental elements.
Land Use Policy | 2013
Luísa Schmidt; Pedro Prista; Tiago Saraiva; Tim O’Riordan; Carla Gomes
Land Use Policy | 2014
Luísa Schmidt; Carla Gomes; Susana Guerreiro; Tim O’Riordan
Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada - Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management | 2012
Ana Delicado; Luísa Schmidt; Susana Guerreiro; Carla Gomes
Journal of Coastal Research | 2013
Luísa Schmidt; Ana Delicado; Carla Gomes; Paulo Granjo; Susana Guerreiro; Ana Horta; Pedro Prista; Tiago Saraiva; Mónica Truninger; Timothy O'Riordan; Filipe Duarte Santos; Gil Penha-Lopes
Congresso sobre Planeamento e Gestão das Zonas Costeiras dos Países de Expressão Portuguesa | 2013
Luísa Schmidt; Carla Gomes; Susana Guerreiro; Pedro Prista; Filipe Duarte Santos; Gil Penha Lopes
Revista Argumentum | 2018
Carla Gomes
e-Pública: Revista Eletrónica de Direito Público | 2016
Carla Gomes