http://hdl.handle.net/10071/428 2026-05-10T23:05:47Z 2026-05-10T23:05:47Z Cruz, A. R. Gato, M. A. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37143 2026-05-06T12:00:01Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título próprio: Rural touristification and short-term rentals reshaping tourism geographies: Algarve’s spatial transformations Autoria: Cruz, A. R.; Gato, M. A. Resumo: Tourification led by the expansion of short-term rentals (STR) has become a major driver of spatial and social transformation within contemporary tourism geographies. While scholarship has largely concentrated on urban contexts, little is known about how these dynamics unfold in rural and lowdensity territories. This article examines the diffusion of STR and associated processes of touristification in the Algarve, Portugal, a region historically shaped by coastal mass tourism but now experiencing a reconfiguration of its rural hinterland. Employing a mixed-methods approach that integrates STR registry data (2000–2024), housing and labour market indicators, policy analysis, and field observations, the study identifies the emergence of a dispersed, platform-mediated form of rural touristification. The results reveal increasing housing pressure, rising property values, and a pronounced tertiarisation of rural economies, accompanied by governance challenges from limited institutional capacity and weak regulatory enforcement. By contrasting these findings with evidence from urban STR research, the article argues that rural touristification represents a distinct process—marked less by direct physical displacement and more by the gradual transformation of everyday life, social practices, and community structures. These insights extend understandings of tourism-led spatial change and underscore the necessity of place-sensitive regulatory frameworks that reconcile tourism development with sustainability.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Bento, N. Grubler, A. Nakicenovic, N. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37062 2026-04-28T15:37:14Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título próprio: New demand goals for energy and climate resilience Autoria: Bento, N.; Grubler, A.; Nakicenovic, N. Resumo: Current climate goals, insufficient to deliver net-zero emissions by 2050, overlook an underutilized lever of climate action: energy demand (1). Traditional energy goals tend to focus on energy supply—primary inputs harnessed from nature—rather than final energy, such as the electricity and fuels delivered to provide services including mobility and thermal comfort. The issue is not lack of interest in demand but the absence of operational, politically legible goals and simple metrics for final energy use and services and for the direct economic and social benefits that they provide. Yet demand is changing: Electrification of end uses (e.g., electric vehicles and heat pumps) is reshaping final energy demand, and electricity-intensive services (e.g., data centers) are boosting loads in some regions. Demand is no longer a passive scenario outcome but a policy variable to steer. We propose integrated demand-side goals to complement supply pledges and advance efficiency, sustainability, and equity by 2035.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Pavoni, A. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37014 2026-04-23T15:46:56Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título próprio: Speculating Kinaxixe Autoria: Pavoni, A. Resumo: Urban spaces are never what they appear to be. Vision is tethered to the present, while cities are replete with spectral presences, like those emanating from the sedimented violence of colonialism or the pristine visions of development utopias. Archival reconstruction and critical deconstruction can retrace or denounce this ghostly matter. Yet they fall short of addressing its expression – the force it harbours, the form it takes, the effects it conjures. When the overlapping temporalities composing a place are arranged in a linear sequence, what is gained in historical clarity is lost in speculative insight. What that means when it comes to write (a) place is the question that kept haunting me as I negotiated, under the scorching sun, the elongated roundabout of Largo do Kinaxixi, looking for a merciful shade and some kind of entry point to access the multiple layers composing this most intricate of Luanda’s sites. Today, the square has a sleek attire. After renewal works, it reopened for the 49th anniversary of Angola’s independence, November 11, 2024. It has new patches of grass, benches, surveillance cameras, streetlights, public restrooms, an amphitheatre and a luminous fountain. All this makes up for the eerie emptiness that had been left by the demolition of a famous market, almost twenty years before. At the centre of the square, a little puddle evokes the original meaning of Kinaxixi [from kina – pit, hole; and xixi – spring water], if we are to follow Luandino Vieira’s etymological proposition.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Pavoni, A. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37013 2026-04-23T15:35:44Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título próprio: When terroir lost the plot. On re-grounding wine Autoria: Pavoni, A. Resumo: Terroir lost the plot when its speculative, relational potential has been frozen into a "dispositif" that reduces soil to inert substrate, land to a legally coded space of exception, and place to a socio-cultural fetish tied to identity, hierarchy and nationalist localism. In the context of planetary urban-rural transformations and soil crisis, this paper reframes terroir as an emergent "agencement" of soil, land and place, whose multispecies aliveness exceeds both protectionist appellation regimes and the «democratic», market-led critique that claims to liberate wine from tradition. Focusing on Natural Wine as a heterogeneous but movement-like field, the paper argues that its minimal-intervention ethos articulates an "anarchic critique" of terroir through three operations: reanimating soils, unarchiving land and trans-localising place. Natural Wine protocols, practices and participatory forms of verification thus decouple terroir from static origin, repositioning it as a grounded, more-than-human normativity and a site for alternative political-ecological value.

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