http://hdl.handle.net/10071/25 2026-05-12T20:19:14Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37187 Título próprio: Transporte rodoviário, acidente de viação e direito ao reembolso do segurador e do fundo de garantia automóvel Autoria: Poças, L. Editor: Gomes. Manuel Januário da Costa Resumo: No contexto da Lei do Seguro Obrigatório de Responsabilidade Civil Automóvel, está previsto um leque de situações em que o segurador ou o Fundo de Garantia Automóvel estão obrigados a indemnizar o lesado por danos decorrentes de acidente de viação, conservando, não obstante, o direito a serem depois reembolsados pelo responsável civil. Neste quadro, o presente estudo visa analisar o sentido e alcance de cada uma dessas previsões legais (aferindo da coerência, pertinência e completude desse elenco), determinar o seu âmbito de aplicação, compreender os respetivos fundamentos e discutir a sua função à luz do sistema de seguro obrigatório de responsabilidade civil automóvel. Por outro lado, o texto visa igualmente circunscrever e testar a plasticidade dos institutos do direito de regresso e da sub-rogação legal, que formalmente dão suporte jurídico a uma figura funcional com uma natureza comum: um direito ao reembolso, que encontra solo fértil no seguro obrigatório. Para tanto, recorrer-se-á às potencialidades do método jurídico, lançando mão do invulgarmente abundante acervo doutrinário e jurisprudencial que o tema tem vindo a propiciar. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37143 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 http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37062 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 http://hdl.handle.net/10071/37014 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