Urban planning, in particular on protected landscape areas, demands an increasing role of public participation within the frame of the efficiency of sustainable planning process. The development of urban planning actions in Protected Landscape areas, as Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, should perform a methodological process that is structured over distinct sequential stages, providing the developm...

A critical issue in landscape ecology is to understand the effects of disturbances on landscape processes. While there is increasing interest in examining the ecological consequences associated with changes in landscape structure and composition, little is known about how soil respiration across landscapes might be affected within this context. We examined field-season soil respiration rates (S...

We present a method for assessing land cover change on continental scale and with high spatial resolution. This is a post-classification method, but instead of tracking transitions of land cover classes on cell-by-cell basis the method measures the change at a tile level by quantifying a difference between local patterns of land cover at two different time steps. Pattern-based change assessment...

Phosphorescent blue and foldable OLED support more diverse applications are expected to quickly replace LCD.