Abstract Portugal (Southwestern Europe) experiences a high incidence of dry hazards such
as drought, a phenomenon that entails a notable burden of morbidity and mortality …

Due to the lack of a general drought definition, water users and managers have developed
and used different indices. Many studies using drought indices have been made so as to …

A high-resolution study of a marsh sedimentary sequence from the Minho estuary provides a
new palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from NW Iberian based on geological proxies …

Portuguese freshwater reservoirs are important socio-economic resources, namely for
recreational use. National legislation concerning bathing waters does not include mandatory …

New paleoclimatic data from the Casa Branca salt marsh, in the southwest coast of Portugal,
are compared with records previously published on the northwest coast (Caminha salt …

Whether current climate changes might be exclusively of anthropogenic origin, is still an
open discussion. Global changes in temperature, precipitation and atmospheric CO 2 …

A hydro-climatic reconstruction is proposed for the Minho region (NW Portugal), integrating
two different proxies: grape harvest dates (GHD) as a proxy of temperature variations, and …

As transformações sociais, económicas e ambientais que hoje se assistem em todo o
mundo tem reflexos sobre a forma como a população perceciona os diferentes riscos. O …

Climate change and weather-related catastrophes have been putting pressure on nature-
dependent sectors such as Agriculture. The insurance business is a support mechanism for …

As áreas arborizadas com Pinheiro manso (Pinus pinea L.) têm aumentado nos últimos
anos devido ao rendimento do pinhão, sendo necessário realizar estudos de caracterização …