Case studies
The estuarine and marsh area of A Xunqueira do Areal represents a zone of high ecological value, as it lies at the confluence of three distinct environmental systems — beach-dune, marsh, and marine environment
Protected Natural Areas (PNAs) provide a wide range of ecosystem goods and services, including soil protection, water regulation, climate regulation, desertification prevention, maintenance of essential ecolog
The mouth of the Oka estuary was once home to coastal dune systems that disappeared in the 1990s due to both anthropogenic factors (such as sand extraction and trampling of vegetation) and natural processes (i
Montado-Adapt is a project aimed at promoting the adaptation of dehesas, or montados—extensive, semi-natural systems of scattered woodland formations dominated by Quercus species and maintained thr
Climate change is not solely an environmental phenomenon but has profound economic and social consequences.
The islands of Macaronesia are not spared from the effects of climate change, being very vulnerable to their consequences given their particular geographical situation, insularity, remoteness from the continent, fragmentati
The project was designed to prevent fires and improve the biodiversity of a typical Mediterranean mountain environment such as Montserrat, through silvopastoral management practices.
The GESTARR project analyses the role of Posidonia oceanica