YEAR 2011
- 14 June 2011 – 10.00h
Presentation and discussion about “How to write”. Session prepared by Peter Stubkjær Andersen, Helena Menezes and Isabel Joaquina Ramos.
- 08 June 2011 – 10.00h
Presentation of the Conceptual Framework of the starting project FarmPATH by Teresa Pinto-Correia and Filipe Lucas Barroso. Several Dynamo members are involved in this project and represent the Portuguese partnership (through project ATILA) in this European project. FarmPath is a three year collaborative research project funded through European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme, which will run from March 2011 to February 2014. The overall goal of FarmPath is to identify and assess future transition pathways towards regional sustainability of agriculture in Europe, and the social and technological innovation needs required to initiate and progress along these pathways.
- 17 May 2011 – 10.00h
Presentation by Fernando Moital, Mara Almeida and Teresa Pinto-Correia about starting project in the framework of the PROVE = Promover e Vender (Promote nad Sell) . PROVE is a Portuguese initiative helping to promote the business of local fresh fruits and vegetables.
- 06 May 2011 – 10.30h
Presentation by Patrizia Borsotto, PhD student at the University of Turin in Italy, Course Agriculture, Forestry and Food: “Land and landscape maintenance services provided by farmers in the Piedmont mountain and hill areas”.
- 28 March 2011 – 10.00h
Discussion about output scientific papers from the finishing ROSA project: identification of topics for scientific papers, authors and timescheduling of the writing process.
- 02 March 2011 – 14.30h
Presentation: Margarida Ambar – about her Master thesis dealing with Stakeholders´ encompassing and their intersectoral integration in Land Development projects. Margarida Ambar is a tecnician of General Direction for Agriculture and Rural Development (DGADR do Ministério da Agricultura).
- 17 February 2011 – 15.00h – CCDR-A in Évora
Presentation: Teresa Pinto-Correia – about the results from projects: ROSA (Social Preferences for land cover types at regional level) and FRAGARIA (Landscape appreciation index at European level). The Dynamo members met with the representatives from CCDR-A (Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Alentejo) and discussed the results from the projects. Moreover, some ideias about future cooperation between Dynamo and CCDR-A were exchanged.
- 11 February 2011 – 14.00h
Presentations: Teresa Pinto-Correia – about Dynamo domains and ongoing research projects of the Dynamo group; and Jørgen Primdahl with Lone Kristensen from National Centre of Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen in Denmark - about DIAPLAN research programm for development of new models for Danish Rural Landscapes.
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3 February 2011 – 10.00h – GPP Lisbon
Meeting of Dynamo members with representatives from Office of Planning and Agri-food Policy (GPP) supporting the definition of strategic guidelines, priorities and objectives for the policies of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries (MADRP). Presentation: Teresa Pinto-Correia – about recent results of the projects; and possible future collaboration.
- 27 January 2011 – 11.30h
Overview of the state of the art about High Nature Value Farmland in Europe, presented by Diana Surová.
- 14 January 2011 – 9.30h
Meeting of Dynamo members with Wenche Dramstad from Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute and Marc Antrop from Gent University in Belgium. A discussion focused mainly on statistical methods applicable to the reasearch dealing with landscape preferences.
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YEAR 2010
- 17 December 2010
Discussion about research work of the Dynamo group – its development since 2002 (when it was funded) and its research focus. Furthermore a definition of future research strategies of the group was apresented by prof. Teresa Pinto-Correia (Dynamo group leader) and discussed within Dynamo members.
- 8 November 2010
Book chapter discusion: Ventura F., Brunori G., Milone P. and Berti P. (2008), The Rural Web: A Synthesis, in: J.D. van der Ploeg and T.K. Marsden (eds.) Unfolding Webs: The dynamics of regional rural development, ASSEN: Royal Van Gorcum BV, pp. 149 – 174.
- 11 October 2010 – 10.30h
Presentation and discussion of methods dealing with downscaling of Landscape Appreciation Index to Alentejo Region.
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28 September 2010 – 14.30 at Instituto Superior Técnico V1.04 in Lisbon
Multidisciplinary meeting in framework of the ROSA (Social Preferences for land cover types at regional level) project. Presentation of State of the project and Discussion of future steps dealing with statistic analysis and results interpretation. Participants: Dynamo members (Teresa Pinto-Coreia, Filipe Barroso, Helena Menezes, Diana Surová and Isabel Joaquina Ramos); José da Veiga and José Nobre from Ministery of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fischery; Fernando Honório – statistician; Teresa Sá Marques – project consultant from University of Porto and Isabel Loupa Ramos – project consultant from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.
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16 July 2010 – 10.0
Discussion meeting with Antonello Migliozzi from Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy about crossing GIS analysis with landscape preference data and possibilities for future scientific collabotration.
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30 June 2010 – 13.00
Second part of discussion about indicators in relation to productivism and post-productivism (as described by G.A. Wilson). Assessing land management typologies in a Transition Perspective; Case Study: Natura 2000 Area in Southern Portugal (topic of Master Thesis of Helena Menezes).
- 5 June 2010
Conference and Discussion with Professor Tim O’Riordan from University of East Anglia, Norwich about Sustainability Science and Climate Change, including topics about A Perspective on Sustainable Land Use.
- 28 Abril 2010
Discussion about indicators in relation to productivism and post-productivism (as described by G.A. Wilson). As part of the meeting there will be discussed the chapters 5 Productivist Agriculture and chapter 6 Post-productivist Agriculture from Wilson’s book Multifunctional Agriculture: A Transition Theory Perspective.
- 1 March 2010
Book chapter discussion: Chapter 6 “Rural development: European Expressions of Repeasantization“ from “THE NEW PEASANTRIES – Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization” By Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, 2008.
- 18 January 2010
New Year 2010 – Introductory Meeting: Evaluation of the year 2009; organization of the tasks in 2010.
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YEAR 2009
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03 November 2009
Discussion of the book chapter: “THE NEW PEASANTRIES – Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization” By Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, 2008.
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08 October 2009
Discussion of the paper from project MURAL “Understanding the multifunctionality transition through landscape preferences. The case of a Mediterranean peripheric area in Southern Portugal” with Henrik Vejre from Copenhagen University.
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29 September 2009
Discussion about the methods to compaire data about landscape preferences in the cartographic context; Organization of the Seminar about Landscape Indicators (in November?); Project Ideia: “Sistem for landscape Monitoring in Portugal ”.
