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Prescribed fire and grazing as integrated approach to make forests climate resilient in Viseu Dão Lafões, Portugal

An integrated approach that combines planned grazing with prescribed fire to prevent large and destructive fire events is being implemented in Portugal.
European Commission
European Environment Agency
Educational materials

O Esquadrão Aliados apresenta

The Porto City Hall, trough its Serviço Municipal de Proteção Civil do Município do Porto (Municipal Civil Protection Service) provides online information in Portuguese concerning preventive protection measures
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Understanding flood risk in urban environments: spatial analysis of building vulnerability and hazard areas in the Lisbon metropolitan area

This paper aims to contribute to the global efforts to enhance flood resilience in urban areas by introducing a physical vulnerability index for buildings in flood-prone urban areas and exploring its connection with flood hazard.
Participants of the10th Network of Portuguese Resilient Cities
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10th meeting of Portuguese Resilient Cities Network held in Évora of Portugal

From May 22nd to 24th, the 10th Meeting of the Network of Portuguese Resilient Cities and Towns, integrated into the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), took place in Évora, Alentejo region of Portugal.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
Portuguese National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection
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Transformative innovation for better climate change adaptation - Case study: Norte, Portugal

The aim of this report is to investigate the potential for harnessing key features of Transformative Innovation to improve the design and the implementation of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies, based on empirical analyses.
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Documents and publications

Portugal seismic risk profile

This seismic risk profile of Portugal, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.
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Documents and publications

Taming wildfires in the context of climate change: The case of Portugal

This paper provides an overview of Portugal’s wildfire policies and practices and assesses the extent to which wildfire management in the country is evolving to adapt to growing wildfire risk under climate change.
A blazing wildfire starts to encroach on residential areas in Braga, Portugal
Research briefs

How wildfires and weather affect Portugal’s public health

Researchers dug into data to examine the effects of wildfires, pollutants, and meteorological factors on mortality and cardiovascular health in the Iberian country.
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