Journal articles: 'Portugal – Social policy'

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Portugal, S. "Family and social policy in Portugal." International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 13, no. 3 (December 1, 1999): 235–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/13.3.235.

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Fernandes, António José Serôdio, Fernando Jose dos Santos Tenreiro, Luis Felgueiras e. Sousa Quaresma, and Victor Manuel de Oliveira Maçãs. "Sport policy in Portugal." International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 3, no. 1 (April 8, 2011): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2011.548136.

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Carrilho, Rita, and Francisco Branco. "Social Workers’ Involvement in Policy Practice in Portugal." Social Sciences 12, no. 2 (February 15, 2023): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020105.

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This article presents the results of the first survey-based study in Portugal about the level of involvement of social workers in social policies, aiming to determine if policy practice is embedded in Portuguese social workers’ professional practice and which factors may enhance or constraint such practice. Combining the Civic Voluntarism Model by Verba and colleagues and the Policy Practice Engagement Model by Gal and Weiss-Gal, which were considered as the main predictors of social workers’ engagement in policy practice, this study followed a quantitative approach, based on 265 valid answers to an online survey obtained through snowball sampling. The findings showed a low level of engagement in policy practice activities among the social workers, especially those requiring a greater public exposure and acting with the media, policymakers, or public officers to share opinions, make a proposition, or report a problem. Considering the main factors of the socio-political context, the professional context, the organisational context, and individual factors, the findings showed that individual factors explained most of the differences in the social workers’ involvement in policy practice, especially when considering interest and efficacy. This study pointed out the need for further research in this area.

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Marques, Susana Ramalho, Sara Falcão Casaca, and Manuela Arcanjo. "Work–Family Articulation Policies in Portugal and Gender Equality: Advances and Challenges." Social Sciences 10, no. 4 (March 26, 2021): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10040119.

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Portugal has been described as a singular case in terms of the participation of women in the labour market and work–life balance policies. Unlike the other so-called Southern European countries, where a belated and somewhat slower move away from the male breadwinner model has been found, Portugal stands out from the other EU member states with its relatively high rate of female employment and the prevalence of the dual-earner model based on continuous and fundamentally full-time employment. Moreover, the “early return to full-time work and a gender equality oriented model” calls for a separate analysis of this country’s case. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the singularities of Portugal’s employment patterns and work–family articulation policies, this article substantially adds to the existing literature by bringing new analytical angles to the debate. The intention is therefore to shed light on the political discourses that fuelled the policy debate throughout the three decades following Portugal’s transition to democracy, up until the latest and most decisive policy changes. This article also examines the key social actors’ views about the political process sustaining the development of policies in this area and identifies the major players promoting the most progressive legislative advances in the country.

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Filatov, Georgy. "The Social Policy of the New State in Portugal 1933—1974." ISTORIYA 11, no. 5 (91) (2020): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840010127-8.

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Sousa, Maria J., Carla Ferreira, and Dulce Vaz. "Innovation Public Policy—The Case of Portugal." Management and Economics Research Journal 5 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18639/merj.2020.962097.

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Innovation public policy has an essential role in influencing the competitive capacity of companies and is strongly associated with their ability to innovate and the way they are organized. As important as the technological organization of work is the social dimension, namely, involvement, participation, and commitment of the workforce, as these are, par excellence, factors that contribute to creating added value and differentiation for companies. In this sense, the concept of innovation depends on an integrated vision between the human dimension and the other multiple dimensions that innovation can assume. Public policies, besides the goal of creating a more modern and competitive business and industrial context, also are focused on the development of the workforce, not only in digital competences but also in soft skills. This type of skill contributes to creating a more innovative context and a culture of innovation. This article's goal is to make a global overview of innovation and the public policies to promote the modernization of companies and influence the way they contribute to economic growth.

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Marques, Tiago Pires. "The Policy Gap. Global Mental Health in a Semi-Peripheral Country (Portugal, 1998-2016)." Interface - Comunicação, Saúde, Educação 21, no. 63 (July 20, 2017): 787–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-57622016.0861.

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This paper analyzes the impact of the hegemonic paradigm of global mental health (GMH) on Portugal. We specifically argue that GMH in Portugal has effected a change of priorities in health policies, favoring the prevention and treatment of common mental disorders to the detriment of the deinstitutionalizing process. Diffused through the media, this model has negative effects, such as the medicalization of social suffering, the reorganization of mental health policy areas according to utilitarian criteria, and the risk of greater invisibility of users with serious psychiatric diagnoses. However, the GMH approach, bringing to the frontline the impact of all social policies on mental health, represents a new opportunity to politically address social suffering. Characterized as a semi-peripheral country, Portugal may be representative of observable trends in similar countries.

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Hines, Sally, and Ana Cristina Santos. "Trans* policy, politics and research: The UK and Portugal." Critical Social Policy 38, no. 1 (October 30, 2017): 35–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018317732880.

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This article explores law and social policy regarding trans* activism amongst trans* and non-binary social movements, and academic research addressing trans* in the UK and Portugal. In considering different possibilities for theorising gender diversity, this article positions a politics of difference and embodied citizenship as fruitful for synergising the issues under discussion. The authors consider recent law and policy shifts around gender recognition in each country and examine the gaps and the connections between policy developments, activism and research around trans*. Though each country has divergence in terms of the history of trans* activism and research, the article identifies significant similarities in the claims of activist groups in the UK and Portugal and the issues and questions under consideration in academic research on trans* and non-binary.

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Medeiros, Eduardo. "Portugal 2020: An Effective Policy Platform to Promote Sustainable Territorial Development?" Sustainability 12, no. 3 (February 5, 2020): 1126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12031126.

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This paper explores the implementation of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy in Portugal during the 2014–2020 programming period (Portugal 2020) and its contribution to promoting sustainable territorial development. It starts with an anatomization of the dominant analytic dimensions of the concept of sustainable territorial development. It then examines the approved projects under Portugal 2020 and relates them to the selected five dimensions of territorial sustainable development, which include a circular economy, social environmental awareness, environmental conservation, a global governance sustainability focus, and a global spatial planning sustainability focus. The conclusions are that the Portugal 2020 goals of supporting sustainable territorial development have been, until late 2019, achieved beyond initial expectations in terms of relative allocated funding, and that the renewable energy and circular economy components have not been sufficiently explored, vis-à-vis the sustainable development needs of the country.

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Gonalves, Maria Eduarda, and Paula Castro. "Science, culture and policy in Portugal: a triangle of changing relationships?" Portugese Journal of Social Sciences 1, no. 3 (November 1, 2003): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pjss.1.3.157.

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Santos, Cláudia Priscila C. dos, Tatiane Valduga, and Jorge Ferreira. "Social work in the web of social protection: Contexts and alternatives." International Social Work 63, no. 3 (August 6, 2018): 291–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872818788924.

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In the context of research in the field of social work, we have carried out an analysis on the relationship between two social policy measures intended to promote the social well-being of its beneficiaries in Portugal. Through a deductive methodology, the results show the impact of the adopted measures aimed at reducing spending on social policies. Conclusions highlight that social workers can collaborate with alternative social responses in an evidence-based manner, enhancing practice, namely, regarding competencies for the realisation of social diagnosis within the context of peoples’ living conditions in order to promote access of citizens to social support.

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Berger, Lisa. "Drug Policy in Portugal: An Interview With Helen Redmond, LCSW, CADC." Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions 13, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 216–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1533256x.2013.783376.

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Casquilho-Martins, Inês, and Soraia Ferreira. "Migrants’ Health Policies and Access to Health Care in Portugal within the European Framework." Societies 12, no. 2 (March 28, 2022): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc12020055.

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Migratory flows have a specific influence in the European and Portuguese demographic context. Societies’ commitment to ensure fundamental rights of all citizens and migrants includes the promotion of health. This study aims to describe migrants’ health policies and access to the health system in Portugal within the European framework. We carried out a mixed methods approach, analyzing health policies in European Union countries and public health key indicators from statistical secondary data collected from Eurostat and Migrant Integration Policy Index. This data was complemented with a survey applied to immigrants living in Portugal. Portugal is a European country known for its favorable immigrant integration policies and has developed access to the health care system. However, our study has shown that greater investment is needed to overcome limitations or social inequalities which inhibit migrants’ access. Additionally, we sought to present a comparative analysis between Portugal and European Union countries, which can contribute to improve health systems within the current crisis.

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Carolo, Daniel Fernando, and José António Pereirinha. "The development of the Welfare State in Portugal: trends in social expenditure between 1938 and 2003." Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 28, no. 3 (December 2010): 469–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0212610910000133.

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AbstractThis paper presents a data series on social expenditure in Portugal for the period 1938-2003. The series was built with the aim of identifying and characterizing the most significant phases in the process leading up to the current welfare state system in this country. The establishment of a social insurance (Previdência) in 1935 was one of the founding pillars of the Estado Novo (New State). Reforms to Social Welfare (Previdência Social) in 1962, while in the full throes of the New State, policy measures taken after the revolution of 1974 and a new orientation for social policy following the accession of Portugal to the European Economic Community (EEC) in the mid-1980s brought about significant transformations in the institutional organizational structure that provided welfare and conferred social rights in Portugal. To understand this process, knowledge is needed of the transformations to the institutional structures governing the organizations that provided welfare, welfare coverage in terms of the type of benefit and the population entitled to social risk protection, the magnitude of spending on benefits associated with these risks, as well as how benefits were allocated between the institutions. We built a data series for the period 1938-1980, which can then be matched to data already published in the OECD Social Expenditure Database from 1980 onwards. As a result, a consistent series for social expenditure from 1938 to 2003 was obtained. The methodology used to create the series enabled us to measure the impact of the variation in population coverage for social risks and the average generosity of benefits on the relative share of social expenditure in GDP. We present an interpretive reading for the full period, covering the New State and the Democracy from 1974, of the process of building the welfare state in Portugal.

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Alves, Natália, and Rui Canário. "The New Magistracy of Influence: Changing Governance of Education in Portugal." European Educational Research Journal 1, no. 4 (December 2002): 656–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2002.1.4.4.

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This article considers the impact of recent changes in the governance of education in Portugal, drawing on interviews with Portuguese politicians and administrators centrally involved in education policy-making in the last 15 years. The interview data reveal a strong focus on the school as a vehicle for building democracy in Portugal. The school remains central to a project of enhancing social justice and supporting community, but at the same time there are concerns about the capacity of the school to cope with pressure for change. The same ambiguity is present in system actors' view of teachers: they are central to policy but also judged to be inadequate to meeting the need for change. The interviews also draw attention to the expanded role of supranational and transnational agencies in policy-making in Portugal, and the emerging ‘magistracy of influence’ that is engaged in these networks.

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Syrett, Stephen. "Local Power and Economic Policy: Local Authority Economic Initiatives in Portugal." Regional Studies 28, no. 1 (February 1994): 53–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343409412331348066.

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dos Santos, Raquel Valente. "Portugal in UNESCO: From leaving in 1972 to returning as a member in 1974." Portuguese Journal of Social Science 20, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pjss_00035_1.

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was established in November 1946. Portugal was formally admitted to UNESCO on 1 March 1965. Since its entry as a Member State, the Portuguese government has been confronted with successive resolutions of the General Assembly and the Executive Council of UNESCO, which strongly condemned its colonial policy. The establishment of diplomatic relations with the organization would only be possible after the democratization of the Portuguese regime and the effective resolution of the colonial issue. Once all necessary procedures have been adopted, Portugal returned to UNESCO in September 1974.

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Antunes, Fátima, and Rosanna Barros. "Janus in governance: Interpellations around an educational policy of community intervention in Portugal." education policy analysis archives 27 (March 18, 2019): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.2967.

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This article intends to empirically document the ambiguity, even ambivalence, of governance practices[1], through the study of a public policy in Portugal, the Programme InovAction, that stimulates intervention projects in ‘local state of emergency’ territories. In this way, we search to contribute to the debate around the reform of the State and public policies, apprehended through metamorphoses in the coordination of collective action in education. Education, State and governance are viewed as social relationships and sites of social practices; governance is understood as a field in which policies, discourses and practices manifest themselves in neo-liberal hegemonic versions or according to contradictory achievements. The data we mobilize were built on documental analysis and on information obtained through semi-structured interviews (to national, regional and local projects Coordinators, technicians and young people). The unfolding discussion illuminates tensions and contradictions in governance practices of Programme InovAction: the strengthening of collective action may occur simultaneously with the construction of routes and alternative spaces of social exclusion; the reduction of the social responsibility of the school with regards to certain audiences challenges approaches to the construction of a public space of education; the privilege given to known interests has gone side by side with practices to broaden the local governance circle.

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Hantrais, Linda. "Introduction: Themed Section on the European Union and Social Policy: National and EU Policy Interaction." Social Policy and Society 2, no. 3 (June 25, 2003): 209–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746403001283.

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When the European Economic Community was established in 1957, the six founding member states (Belgium, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands) had a shared interest, though each for their own reasons, in ensuring that provisions to promote the harmonisation of national social protection systems figured in the treaties. Progressively, and as membership of the Community expanded and diversified, the social dimension came to be accepted as a legitimate, albeit contested and subordinate, component in European law and policy. Whereas the social protection systems of the six original member states could be considered as variants of the continental model of welfare, the new waves of membership in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s brought different conceptions of social protection, making harmonisation ever-more difficult to achieve. Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom in the second wave were characterised by their universal welfare systems. Greece, Portugal and Spain in the third wave had less developed, minimalist provision for social protection. In the fourth wave, Austria was closer to the founding member states, whereas Finland and Sweden represented the Nordic model with their universalist system based on social democratic criteria.

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Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luís. "Social Justice for Public Health: The COVID-19 Response in Portugal." Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17, no. 4 (November 9, 2020): 669–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10058-z.

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Tulumello, Simone. "The Multiscalar Nature of Urban Security and Public Safety: Crime Prevention from Local Policy to Policing in Lisbon (Portugal) and Memphis (the United States)." Urban Affairs Review 54, no. 6 (April 13, 2017): 1134–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087417699532.

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The article contributes to recent discussions on convergence/divergence of local policies for urban security and public safety amid globalization, exploring comparatively local approaches to crime prevention and explaining differences/similarities through multilevel connections. I analyze situational prevention, social policy, and proximity/community policing in two “not-so-global” metropolises: Lisbon, where security is the goal of a wide set of policies in many fields, and Memphis, where social problems have become security issues and policing the only game in town. Differing approaches are explained on the grounds of political traditions, neoliberalization of policy, and multilevel relations among polities. I discuss implications for the relation between policy and policing: Police attempts at social outreach amid coupling/decoupling of security with/from urban policy, and the “mission creep” of policing when it is expected to lead prevention. Conclusions advocate that policy reform is necessary at many levels to deal with the intersection of crime, retrenching welfare, and aggressive policing in U.S. cities such as Memphis.

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Invernizzi, Antonella. "Perspectives on children’s work in the Algarve (Portugal) and their implications for social policy." Critical Social Policy 25, no. 2 (May 2005): 198–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018305051326.

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MOOSUNG LEE. "The European Union’s Regional Policy and Social Integration: The case of Ireland and Portugal." Journal of European Union Studies ll, no. 24 (February 2009): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18109/jeus.2009..24.3.

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Van Het Loo, Mirjam, Ineke Van Beusekom, and James P. Kahan. "Decriminalization of Drug Use in Portugal: The Development of a Policy." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 582, no. 2 (July 1, 2002): 49–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716202058002004.

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van het LOO, M., I. van BEUSEKOM, and J. P. KAHAN. "Decriminalization of Drug Use in Portugal: the Development of a Policy." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 582, no. 1 (July 1, 2002): 49–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716202582001004.

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Fernández-Prados, Juan Sebastián, Cristina Cuenca-Piqueras, and María José González-Moreno. "International public opinion surveys and public policy in Southern European democracies." Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 35, no. 2 (June 2019): 227–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1535997.

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AbstractThis article aims to analyse the presence of and relationship between the most relevant comparative social research thorough international surveys and public policies reflected in the different official bulletins or gazettes of the countries of southern Europe, specifically Spain, Portugal and Italy. Following a consideration of the process of globalisation of research through surveys, four surveys were selected (Eurobarometer, World Values Survey, International Social Survey Programme, European Social Survey). The complex relationships between public opinion and public policy were also addressed. Finally, it is concluded that the most prominent international surveys have little or no presence in public policies in the countries analysed.

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Pereira, Alfredo Marvão, and Rui Marvão Pereira. "Identifying Priorities in Infrastructure Investment in Portugal." Journal of Economics and Public Finance 3, no. 3 (July 26, 2017): 367. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jepf.v3n3p367.

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In this paper we use a vector autoregressive approach to analyze the effects of infrastructure investment on economic performance using a newly developed data set for Portugal. Our overall goal is to identify priorities in infrastructure investments, i.e., areas of infrastructures investments with virtuous economic and budgetary effects. We find that investments in other transportation infrastructures—railroads, ports and airports—and social infrastructures—health and education infrastructures—have the largest effects with long-term multipliers of 15.00 and 8.45, respectively. Investments in road transportation—roads and freeways—and on utilities—electricity, gas, water, refineries, and telecommunications—induce much smaller effects with multipliers of 2.75 and 3.52, respectively. We also show that for other transportation and social infrastructure investments, the short-term effects are small relative to the accumulated effects and yet, in absolute terms, they exceed the long-term effects for road transportation and utilities. Finally, we show that investments in other infrastructures and in social infrastructures will pay for themselves in the form of long-term enhanced tax revenues under rather reasonable effective tax rates. Overall, we have clearly identified other transportation infrastructures and social infrastructures as the key target areas for policy intervention in this context.

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Viseu, Sofia, and Luís Miguel Carvalho. "Think tanks, policy networks and education governance: The rising of new intra-national spaces of policy in Portugal." education policy analysis archives 26 (September 10, 2018): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.26.3664.

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This article focuses on the role of think tanks in education governance in Portugal, We are interested in contributing to a literature that discusses the emergence of new intra-national spaces of policy, and examines how the actors operating in those spaces work and influence education policy. This article is based on an empirical study conducted by EDULOG, a think tank for education that has been operating since 2015. We mapped EDULOG’s activities, the information generation activities, organizations, and actors connected to EDULOG using a network ethnography and social network analysis. This study shows that a) this organization articulated a network of actors from different sectors, including the academy, business and government agencies; and b) EDULOG acts as a space of social and cognitive intermediation, committed to developing knowledge geared towards policy decision and problem solving.

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Paoletti, Isabella, and Alda Gonçalves. "Interinstitutional networks and democratization of services in social intervention with older people in Portugal." Research on Ageing and Social Policy 5, no. 2 (July 30, 2017): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/rasp.2017.2103.

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This article presents an interinstitutional network supporting older people in Portugal and a policy document that institutionalized this type of interinstitutional practices. The data are part of a large corpus collected in the course of interdisciplinary research: “Aging, poverty and social exclusion: an interdisciplinary study on innovative support services.” (https://apseclunl.wordpress.com/). The documentation of good practices in intervention with older people at risk of exclusion were the aim of the research project. The data collected incudes: interviews, observation and recordings of inter-institutional meetings. In the light of the relevant literature, the study discusses the ethnographic account in relation to relevant policy documents (“Rede Social” Interinstitutional Network Program RCM no. 197/97, of 18 November). Describing the main aspects of the intervention strategies with the older population, the article documents the value of these experiences and the approach in policies for the democratization of services and the inclusion of citizens participating in decision making about delivery of services and the promotion of inclusive societies.

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Gonçalves, Marta, Alan Hattton-Yeo, and Carla Branco. "Portuguese working group advocacy for intergenerational policies: challenges and results." Working with Older People 20, no. 1 (March 14, 2016): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wwop-01-2015-0004.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the benefits and challenges of the advocacy group for intergenerational policies that was created in Portugal in 2012, the European Year of Active Ageing and solidarity between generations. Design/methodology/approach – The group conducted nine closed group meetings scheduled every three months with an average attendance of five members and six public events bringing together researchers, policy makers, practitioners and civil society. Findings – The group was established as a response to the various social changes happening in Portugal as a consequence of the ageing population, low-birth rate and migration, leading to the need to explore new responses which are based both on the need to promote active ageing and intergenerational solidarity and also the importance of family and state support to multigenerational families as a building block to strengthen communities. Research limitations/implications – The paper sets the context of the changing social situation in Portugal, describes the process used through both closed and public meetings to discuss this and then describes the perspectives of four core groups. Practical implications – Only by pooling resources and thinking intergenerationally will we be able to deliver the opportunities and support that the citizens will need to enable them to age well across the life course. Social implications – Drawing on this and the strong tradition of the family in Portugal it seeks to make the case that an i ntergenerational approach is essential to the countries future social well-being. Originality/value – The creation of the advocacy group created a private space for professionals to explore and strengthen their understanding of the impact of these issues and the potential of approaching policy as an intergenerational issue as one solution.

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Gama, Rui, Cristina Barros, and Ricardo Fernandes. "Science Policy, R&D and Knowledge in Portugal: an Application of Social Network Analysis." Journal of the Knowledge Economy 9, no. 2 (January 19, 2017): 329–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-017-0447-3.

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Ferreira, Sílvia. "New Paths for Third-Sector Institutions in a Welfare State in Crisis: The Case of Portugal." Nonprofit Policy Forum 6, no. 2 (August 1, 2015): 213–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/npf-2014-0025.

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AbstractThis article describes the recent changes in the political, cultural and socioeconomic environment of the third sector (TS) in Portugal in the context of crisis and structural adjustment. Belatedly, when compared to many other countries, an overall sector is being structured in Portugal, overcoming the traditional neglect of the political system and the divisions inside the field. The historical institutional approach is here used to make sense of the current changes and debates and the different policy coalitions in place are identified through present and past policy analysis and content analysis of policy debates. This provides a broad background for exploring the hypothesis that the Portuguese TS may be arriving at a critical juncture that will set a new path under the development of a new and broader identity as “social economy.” This paper identifies path-breaking trends, as well as continuities. It argues that the structuring axis TS/welfare state, which has been the driving force of the TS in Portugal, is shifting to the axis TS/economy as a result of changes in both the TS and its political coalitions’ strategies and in the broader context and institutional framework of the welfare state.

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CHAGAS LOPES, Margarida. "The Transition from Secondary Education to Higher Education: The Portuguese Situation." Journal of Research in Educational Sciences 9, no. 11 (March 6, 2019): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.14505//jres.v9.11.01.

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Decrease in the flow of students from Secondary to Higher Education in Portugal has been attributed by policy-makers to the attraction of the labour market for young people who should be continuing their studies. But several other reasons, which are generally missing in the official discourse, combine to create this decrease, including the role played by the State's social action policy for Higher Education, the shortness of families’ incomes, the level of schooling of the students’ parents, among others. Also psychological and sociological factors exist, which are often silenced, but which should also be considered to achieve a thorough understanding of the dynamics of flows from Secondary to Higher Education. These factors include the motivation, commitment and self-efficiency of students. This study starts with a macroeconomic and social approach, using comparative education methodology, to obtain a characterisation of the relative position of Portugal in the European Union (EU). This approach is described in this paper, where the main result is expected to be the conclusion that, among various factors, which include the inadequacy of public policies, the decisive factors for the decline in the flow of transition to Higher Education in Portugal are economic ones, namely access to income.

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Correia, Isabel M., Priscila Ferreira, Lígia M. Pinto, Marieta Valente, and Paula Veiga. "Ageing (un)equally and (un)healthily: On the health status of Portuguese people aged 50+." Portuguese Journal of Social Science 20, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 45–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pjss_00033_1.

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Research on the health status and on socio-economic inequality in the health status of Portuguese adults with 50 years of age or more is scarce, but urgent, so that policy-makers can better understand the type of burdens that this ageing process will place on social welfare policies. We use data from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe Wave 6 to investigate the role of gender, income and education in self-reported health status and in morbidity amongst adults aged 50+ in Portugal by means of a multivariate analysis. Results from this exploratory study reveal a negative self-perception of health status amongst older individuals; high prevalence of chronic diseases since an earlier age; high levels of depression problems reported by women; and high disability amongst the oldest old. The results also show a prevalence of chronic diseases, mental health problems, and high disability, which will challenge the Portuguese social welfare system in terms of long-term care and pensions, and will additionally require an adequate (re)organization of the healthcare supply to older adults. Furthermore, the evidence calls for a gendered perspective of health and social policy in Portugal, particularly concerning mental health.

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Sousa, M. Luísa, and Rafael Marques. "Political Transitions, Value Change and Motorisation in 1970s Portugal." Journal of Transport History 34, no. 1 (June 2013): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/tjth.34.1.2.

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During the revolutionary period of 1974–76, there was vigorous debate in Portugal regarding the role of automobiles in the desired new society. The dispute was reinforced by the first international oil crisis. Strong ideological rhetoric was deployed either to defend the potentially liberating role of the automobile or to condemn its ‘bourgeois' underpinnings. This debate influenced social movements, policies, perceptions and views of social actors, thus contributing to market distortions, a short-lived disappearance of luxury and sports cars and to the creation of new models deemed to be adapted to the ‘true’ needs of the Portuguese. It also contributed to changes in automobile assemblage industry, road policy and delays in the implementation of road safety measures. Environmental, safety and traffic concerns were subdued, for a while, by a more essentialist approach to car consumption, with opposing interests trying to define the social spirit of automobile ownership and usage. The political turmoil of the period and the lack of coherent and durable policies account for the period being an intermission and not the beginning of a new trend.

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Santos, Patrícia. "Public policies for university‐business collaboration in Portugal: An analysis centred on doctoral education." Portuguese Journal of Social Science 20, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pjss_00034_1.

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In Portugal, as in other European countries, government policies have driven the modernization of doctoral education, in which collaboration with companies is one of its axes; however, this has been insufficiently studied at the national level. This study focuses on the role of public polices in promoting university‐business collaboration by tracking higher education and science policies. The main public policy instruments are analysed, identifying objectives and narratives. The methodological strategy comprises documental analysis. The findings show public policies have played a role in facilitating collaboration of this nature throughout successive governments. These policy measures are justified by the urgency of endowing companies with more qualified staff, aimed at boosting the country’s economic development; from a more individual perspective, the need to ensure the employability of doctorate holders; or from a more institutional angle, the alignment of doctoral programmes with the business sector and an interconnection of cultures.

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Pinho, Micaela, and Pedro Veiga. "Attitudes of health professionals concerning bedside rationing criteria: a survey from Portugal." Health Economics, Policy and Law 15, no. 1 (October 15, 2018): 113–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744133118000403.

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AbstractThis paper tests the factorial structure of a questionnaire comprising seven health care rationing criteria (waiting time, ‘rule of rescue’, parenthood of minors, health maximization, youngest first, positive and negative version of social merit) and explores the adherence to them of 254 Portuguese health care professionals, when considered individually and when confronted with two-in-two combinations. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire where respondents faced hypothetical rationing dilemmas comprising one rationing criterion and dichotomous options pairs with two rationing criteria. Confirmatory factor analysis and multinomial logistic regressions were used to validate the structure of the questionnaire and the data. The findings suggest that: (i) the hepta-factorial structure of the questionnaire presented a good fit of the data; and (ii) support for rationing criterion depends on whether they are individually considered or confronted in dichotomous options pairs. When only one criterion distinguishes the patients, healthcare professionals support six criteria (by descending order): waiting time, rule of rescue, health maximization, penalization of patients’ risky behaviors, youngest first and being parent of a young child. When two criteria were confronted, immediate threat of life/health and large expected benefits were the most preferred. Conversely, the positive version of social merit was an unappreciated rationing criterion.

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Baptista, Carla, and Marisa Torres da Silva. "Media diversity in Portugal: political framework and current challenges." Media & Jornalismo 17, no. 31 (November 16, 2017): 11–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-5462_31_1.

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This article addresses the current “state of the art” in Portuguese media diversity policy, focusing on the social inclusiveness domain within public service media. The indicators assess regulatory and policy safeguards for community media, access to media by minorities, local and regional communities, women and people with disabilities, as well as the country’s media literacy environment. Although the majority of these in dicators have legal safeguards or benefit from specific policies, we concluded there is still considerable work to be done, particularly in the realms of media literacy and the representation of minority groups and women in the media. This article results from an on-going research, gathering data and literature review from the following projects: Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) project, implemented by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute and funded by the European Commission; and DIVinTV - Public Television and Cultural Diversity in Portugal, funded by FCT.

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da Costa, Alfredo Bruto. "The Measurement of Poverty in Portugal." Journal of European Social Policy 4, no. 2 (May 1994): 95–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095892879400400202.

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CARVALHO, FATIMA LAMPREIA. "REGULATION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH AND BIOETHICS IN PORTUGAL." Bioethics 21, no. 5 (June 2007): 290–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2007.00555.x.

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Pinho, Micaela, and Eva Dias Costa. "Can mass media be an obstacle to rationing decisions? A case report from Portugal." International Journal of Health Governance 25, no. 1 (February 29, 2020): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhg-10-2019-0069.

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Purpose Continuous introduction of advanced health technologies coupled with limited resources force governments to adopt rationing measures in all types of health systems. The mass media can influence the application of these measures by rising people and patients' expectations and demands for new forms of healing. This article intends to find evidence of this influence by reporting two recent cases which occurred in Portugal involving two innovative drugs, one for the treatment of hepatitis C and another for type I spinal muscular atrophy. The new drugs were not publicly funded despite promising excellent overall health outcomes because of their high cost and exaggerated burden on national health system (NHS). Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research was used to collect information conveyed by the conventional media and social networks. Findings After a strong dissemination through conventional and social media of the nonapproved treatments, the drugs swiftly garnered support among the public and triggered remarkable and relentless advocacy efforts. The findings of this paper suggest that society opinions and, by extension, the decision of policy-makers are very susceptible to the influence of the mass media. Practical implications New ways of sharing information are changing health research and public health. Social implications These stories raise complex tensions and important questions about resource-allocation decisions involving scientific research or innovative medicine. Societal preferences seem very vulnerable to information conveyed by the mass media. Originality/value This study is the first attempt to awaken attention to the influence that Portuguese mass media may exercise on future healthcare rationing decisions.

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Capucha, Luís, Pedro Estêvão, Alexandre Calado, and Ana Rita Capucha. "The Role of Stereotyping in Public Policy Legitimation: The Case of the pigs Label." Comparative Sociology 13, no. 4 (October 1, 2014): 482–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341316.

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This article aims at deconstructing the “pigs” label, bestowed by the media on four southern European countries – Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece – in the wake of the ongoing Eurozone debt crisis. The article will demonstrate that the “pigs” label has no correspondence to reality by discussing the evolution of several European countries on the fields of economy, education, social policies and health. The “pigs” label should be viewed instead as an instance of symbolic discrimination and as part of an hegemonic narrative aiming at legitimizing austerity policies in Southern Europe and postulating the incompatibility between social development and economic growth.

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Casquilho-Martins, Inês. "The Impacts of Socioeconomic Crisis in Portugal on Social Protection and Social Work Practices." Sustainability 13, no. 23 (November 29, 2021): 13198. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132313198.

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The effects of the international crisis brought economic and financial risks, as well as consequences for human, social and sustainable development. This study aims to analyse the effects of social intervention with families since the 2008 crisis in Portugal. Through a qualitative approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews with social workers (23), to identify the main impacts of the crisis and the adopted social intervention practices. We highlight a new increase in social problems and the growth of vulnerable groups facing an unprepared social protection system. The Portuguese case reveals that the effects of austerity have shown a decline in the welfare and benefits system, leading to worsened social problems, such as increased poverty and unemployment, as well as social inequalities. Social Work was required to respond to these consequences, although organisational contexts and austerity measures constrained practitioners’ autonomy. By reflecting on this critical period, we seek to contribute to better social protection and assistance models in the face of the current and future crisis. In this sense, Social Work practice ensures a means to guarantee fundamental rights and social justice, preparing social workers and social intervention for new challenges in crisis contexts.

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Serapioni, Mauro, Sesma Dolores, and Ferreira Pedro Lopes. "Citizens participation in South European countries health systems: Italy, Portugal and Spain." SALUTE E SOCIETÀ, no. 1 (December 2012): 245–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ses2012-001019en.

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The purpose of this study was to analyse the health systems in Spain, Italy and Portugal from the perspective of the Southern European countries Social Protection. Through a review of the sanitary regulations, health plans and literature on specific health experiences, published in recent years in Spain, Italy and Portugal, the practices of participation, in these three countries, were studied. Some of the research results are noteworthy: a) Citizens' participation in the decision making process on health has become the focus of attention of the public policies only after the 1990; b) there has been a significant progress in the regulatory framework and in the acknowledgement of users' rights; c) the development and implementation of participatory mechanisms were insufficient and limited to certain regions.

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Santos, Eleonora, and Jacinta Moreira. "Social Sustainability of Water and Waste Management Companies in Portugal." Sustainability 14, no. 1 (December 26, 2021): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14010221.

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The Sustainable Development Goals aim at balancing economic, social and environmental development. In this framework, social sustainability is key to tackle current challenges that hinder the maximization of social satisfaction. Yet, for many years, scholars have negleted the social dimension. A possible explanation may be the difficulty to measure social concepts such as well-being and prosperity. Thus, we argue that, to evaluate sectoral performance, the concept of social sustainability should be translated into metrics, by focusing on the indicators that impact on those social concepts. Consequently, time-series data from Quadros do Pessoal, PORDATA and SABI databases for the sector of Water Collection, Treatment and Distribution, Sanitation, Waste Management and Depollution, are consulted to analyze the evolution of those indicators and evaluate corporate performance concerning social sustainability in 2008–2019. In line with previous literature, we use average wages and employment as proxies for social sustainability. However, we introduce a new indicator, the average term for receipts to carry out an analysis from the stakeholders’ perspective. The results suggest that, especially as of 2017, sectoral firms appear to have reagained their momentum concerning social sustainability performance. This study provides the opportunity to uncover average sectoral trends on social sustainability and paves the way for future research exploring firms’ heterogeneity.

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Lalioti, Varvara. "Portuguese and Greek Experiences with Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) in Comparative Perspective." Κοινωνική Πολιτική 2 (July 10, 2017): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/sp.10553.

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Portugal and Greece have divergent histories with regard to Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI), arguably the principal difference in the two countries’ evolutions of social assistance in recent decades. Neither had a GMI when EEC common criteria on sufficient resources and social assistance were issued in 1992. Portugal introduced a pilot programme in 1996 that went operational in 1997. Greece is among only a few European countries never to experiment with GMI. Only recently (in 2012) was a decision reached to launch a pilot GMI scheme, with implementation still forthcoming.An account for the different Portuguese and Greek GMI experiences emphasizes the importance of actors such as political parties and trade unions. This actor-centred approach argues that the Portuguese GMI success is attributable to a coalition among key domestic policy actors, while ambivalent and fragmented attitudes among Greek policy actors hindered institution. The recent decision for a GMI pilot in Greece should be viewed as a product of the severe economic crisis and state debt obligations that leave little space for ambivalence.

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Morais Nunes, Alexandre, Diogo Cunha Ferreira, and Adalberto Campos Fernandes. "Financial Crisis in Portugal: Effects in the Health Care Sector." International Journal of Health Services 49, no. 2 (January 24, 2019): 237–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020731418822227.

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Portugal has faced an economic and financial crisis that began circa FY2009 and whose effects are still ongoing. In FY2011, the Portuguese state and the European triumvirate – composed of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank – signed the Memoranda of Understanding. This troika agreement aimed to improve the operational efficiency of public services. This crisis had a considerable impact on the Portuguese citizens’ life and productivity, as well as on the public health care system. Cuts over public expenditures have been made to reduce the risk of noncompliance with budgetary targets, despite their potential impact on quality and access to health care services. We analyzed the main policies and measures undertaken by the Portuguese Ministry of Health with respect to the bailout program associated with the troika agreement. Then, we focused on the budgetary cuts–related risks over the social performance of the care system. Evidence suggests that structural reforms in the health care sector in the troika period had positive effects in terms of drugs administration and consumption, on the one hand, and secondary care expenditures reduction, on the other hand. Nonetheless, we observed some divestitures on infrastructures and the worsening of access to health care services.

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Montenegro, Mónica, Jorge Costa, Daniela Rodrigues, and João Gomes. "The image of Portugal as a tourist destination – an international perspective." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 6, no. 5 (November 10, 2014): 397–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-09-2014-0022.

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Purpose – This article aims to identify the image of Portugal as a tourist destination in international markets and the impacts of the economic crisis on that image. As the basis for the analysis, the results from the past three years of an ongoing research by IPDT – Institute of Tourism on this topic were used. The findings were used to support a discussion on the need for social and political stability and a climate of creativity and innovation in the tourism sector to foster growth and success. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on official tourism information, research by IPDT on the tourists’ profile in Portugal and an ongoing research on “the image of Portugal as a tourist destination” carried out using as population the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Affiliate Members directory. Findings – The international tourism market recognizes and appreciates the destination – Portugal, recognizing that the present context of crisis does not negatively affect Portugal’s touristic image. The results presented and discussed indicate a preference by respondents for “Wine” as the main touristic product that should be associated to Portugal in its international tourism promotion. This perception is clearly aligned with the prominence that Portuguese wines have been taking internationally and a perspective that indicates alternative products to the traditional “sun and sea” associated with the country’s tourism image. Practical implications – The research results presented and the supporting discussion allow for a better understanding on the present image of Portugal as a tourist destination and the alternative attributes to traditional “sun and sea” that may be used in its international promotion. These results may indicate the need for a repositioning of the destination by the introduction of new elements in the promotional messages. The reflexions presented may be of great use for decision-makers in-charge of international tourism promotion. Originality/value – This article analysis the impact of the economic crisis on the image of Portugal as a tourist destination, based on an international study carried out over a 3-year period. The results alert for possible discrepancies between the destinations positioning and the perceptions and desires of the markets.

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Ferreira Rodrigues, Teresa. "Regional Dynamics and Social Diversity – Portugal in the 21st Century." Hygiea Internationalis : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History of Public Health 9, no. 1 (November 24, 2010): 411–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.1091411.

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Oliveira, Hugo, and Gil Penha-Lopes. "Permaculture in Portugal: Social-Ecological Inventory of a Re-Ruralizing Grassroots Movement." European Countryside 12, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 30–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/euco-2020-0002.

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AbstractSouthern European countries face a panorama of rural landscape abandonment, ageing rural population and lack of opportunities for vibrant rural lifestyles. This lead the way for over-exploitative monocultural practices and widespread abandonment of traditional land management practices, intensifying the degradation of rural landscapes, suffering already from the impacts of climate change and global economic pressures. Although policy driven initiatives can scale solutions to have wider impact, if not attuned to local contexts they can also increase the problems felt at the local level. Highlighting local grassroots innovations and locally appropriate solutions can support such attunement. Community-led grassroots initiatives have been sprouting, wishing to regenerate their landscapes grounded on ecocentric ethical approaches to Neo-rural lifestyles. Within Portugal, Permaculture, as a landscape ecological design movement and practice, has been one of those approaches, activated by young citizens wishing to recreate and innovate alternatives for the sustainable management of land, associated with lifestyle choices and local entrepreneurship. With this article, using a socio-ecological inventory as a baseline exploratory study, we are aiming to identify and start characterizing, the Permaculture landscape ecological design movement in Portugal, the motivations and perceptions of such movement, and its contribution towards the transformation of landscape management, societal trends and ecocentric innovations, to create more sustainable socio-ecological rural livelihoods within a Portuguese context.

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