Main description:

This book aims to give a contribution to a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the cross-cutting issues on energy, environment and health research topics in the current world scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns for all. This interdisciplinary implies a commitment between all fields of science, working together to provide knowledge that could result in the promotion of quality of life. At the present, it is evident that not all people benefit from sustainable policies and practices and the communication between health, energy, environmental and social problems is undeniable. A call for different views could be a pathway attracting universities, stakeholders, organizations and civil society to deeply discuss how one solution does not fit all societies. Few publications are coherently handling this matter. This book is expected to fill this gap and to develop an interest in a larger audience working in general sustainable development and cross-cutting issues. This book is produced by the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR).

It gives special emphasis to state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in energy, environment and health research.

Contents:

1Preface

Sustainable concerns, beliefs and values 2Sustainability perception of lotic and lentic ecosystems in the Amazon Basin through the lens of a local community

Ana Sibelonia Saldanha Veras, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Nelson Barros and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

9Measuring Environmental Concern of Urban Green Spaces' Users (UGSU) through the Application of the New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEPS): Evidence from a Southern European City

Diogo Guedes Vidal, Ricardo Cunha Dias, Paulo Castro Seixas, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Claudia Oliveira Fernandes, Nelson Barros and Rui Leandro Maia

21Sustainable Development Goals in Portuguese Speaking Countries: The perspective of Environmental Education Experts

Joao Guerra, Luisa Schmidt and Leonor Prata

24Ocean literacies: Splashing around on the beach or venturing into the dark abyssal sea

Alison Laurie Neilson and Eunice Castro Seixas

25Beliefs and values towards sustainable
development in the age of Covid-19

Joao Casqueira Cardoso, Nora Pelamo, Oliver Harding and Tamara Marigoh Ndibo

17Environmental Agenda, Legislative Power And Social Participation: An In-Depth Analysis of The Commission On The Environment And Sustainable Development In Brazil

Carolina Pimentel Correa

33Time is Needed for Raising Non-Trivial Sociological and Technological Collaborations in Research: Scientists' Views on lnterdisciplinarity Approaches

Paula Urze and Emilia Araujo

Interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies 3Environmental and Health Research Methodologies: Integrating a Transdisciplinary Approach in a Higher Education Cross-cutting Curricular Unit

Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Diogo Guedes Vidal and Ricardo Cunha Dias

4Behavioural Mapping of Urban Green Spaces Users: Methodological Procedures applied to Corujeira Garden (Porto, Portugal)

Diogo Guedes Vidal, Claudia Oliveira Fernandes, Catarina Patoilo Teixeira, Ricardo Cunha Dias, Paulo Castro Seixas, Nelson Barros, Helena Vilaca and Rui Leandro Maia

6Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence: Outcomes, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Sonia Caridade, Diogo Guedes Vidal and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

10Supporting urban climate adaptation governance
through citizen sensing

Marisa Graca, Tina-Simone Neset, Sirkku Juhola and Sara Cruz

11Ecological Walk: A proposed digital game to reduce solid waste and safeguard marine ecosystems in Brazil

Regina Celia Soares Pereira, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis and Luis Borges Gouveia

12Designing Healthier Cities. An Empirical Study of the ecosystem functioning and mortality in the districts of Turin (Italy)

Stefano Salata

16Sustainable Solutions in Urban Health: Transdisciplinary Directions in Urban Planning for Global Public Health

Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo, Anna Fogel, Diana Benjumea and Nazwa Tahsin

19We know One Health, but we also need One Communication

Teresa Letra Mateus, Rui Leandro Maia and Paula Teixeira

23Positive Ecological Psychology: Contributes to the promotion of healthy lives and well-being

Isabel Silva, Gloria Jolluskin and Paulo Cardoso

27Social Responsibility and Bioethics in Higher Education: Transversal Dialogues

Ivani Nadir Carlotto, Justice Kofi Debrah and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

28A Review on the Cultural Ecosystem Services Provision of Urban Green Spaces: Perception, Use and Health Benefits

Diogo Vidal, Ricardo Cunha Dias, Gisela Oliveira, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Walter Leal Filho, Claudia Oliveira Fernandes, Nelson Barros and Rui Maia

29Land For Life In Brazil: Conservation And People

Carlos A. M. Gonzaga, Patricia Denkewicz, Alison Laurie Neilson and Rui Pedro Juliao

34Methodology for assessing the impact of environmental determinants on human health: Case study of atmospheric industrial pollution in urban communities - Manaus/Amazonas/Brazil

Paulo Custodio, Camila Paiva Franca Telles and Nelson Barros

18Social inequity and health: From the environment to the access to healthcare in composite indicators, the Portuguese case

Alexandre Morais Nunes and Diogo Cunha Ferreira

Sustainable practices and solutions 5The territorialisation of the UN Agenda 2030 and cross-cutting issues in energy, environment and health: the case of Portugal

Eduardo Medeiros

7Sustainability Practices in a Public University in Bahia, Brazil

Rives Borges, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis and Nelson Barros

8Environmental waste sustainability: Organic valorisation and socioeconomic benefits towards sustainable development in Ghana

Justice Kofi Debrah, Diogo Guedes Vidal and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

13The Limits of Sustainability: Lessons from Past Societal Collapse and Transformation, for a Civilization Currently Defying Humanity's Safe Operating Space

Joao L. Abegao

14The role of social capital on innovation with environmental benefits: the European case

Jorge Cerdeira, Cristina Parente and Teresa Cunha Alegre

15Bringing meaning back to our lives: well-being and healthy individuals in sustainable organizations

Carla Fonte and Cristina Pimentao

20Preparing the Future: The Transformation of Public Administration for the Anthropocene Era

Ricardo Cunha Dias and Paulo Castro Seixas

22Tourist complex and its environmental effects: The case of "Marina Isla de Valdecanas" (Spain)

Julian Mora Aliseda, Yonatan Caceres Escudero, Consuelo Mora and Jacinto Garrido Velarde

26Best management practices for controlling the urban surface runoff in coastal zones: a case study in Guaruja, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Vinicius Roveria, Luciana Lopes Guimaraes and Alberto Teodorico Correia

30The role of Environmental Health workforce and how the world has discovered the importance of prevention

Susana Paixao

31Rural Electrification and Transition to Clean Cooking: The Case Study of Kanyegaramire and Kyamugarura Solar Mini-Grid Energy Cooperatives in the Kyenjojo District of Uganda

Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada, Andrea Gatto and Nuwe Blick

32The Geography of Urban Sustainability Transitions: a Critical Review

Joao Morais Mourato and Fronika de Wit

35Groundwater in the field of Water Policies, in Spain

Ignacio Sotelo Perez

36"Water Footprint" and Territorial Sustainability in Spain

Maria Sotelo Perez, Adriana Galvani and Jose Antonio Sotelo Navalpotro

37Is Health a Just Transition issue? Cross-cutting multiple crisis: economic, unemployment, climate and healthcare

Joao Camargo

38Use of biomass fuels for cooking and improved biomass stoves in Mexico

Fernando Ariel Manzano, Roberto Ariel Abeldano Zuniga and Gabriela Narcizo de Lima