research projects
Our research aims to contribute to improving the collective understanding
of solutions and pathways towards ocean sustainability. We take an interdisciplinary approach,
integrating natural and social sciences, to address our research questions.
of solutions and pathways towards ocean sustainability. We take an interdisciplinary approach,
integrating natural and social sciences, to address our research questions.
ERC project PLANT (2024-2029, ongoing)
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PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE OCEAN USE IN ANTARCTICA UNDER GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGEPLAnT is a 5-year research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through a Starting Grant (1.5 M €). It is based at Ciências ULisboa, University of Lisbon, and started in march 1, 2024. The project overarching goal is to explore the benefits and challenges of developing a comprehensive climate-smart marine spatial planning (MSP) initiative in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. To that purpose, PLAnT has five building blocks, all of them deeply interconnected, all using a variety of methodologies from natural to social sciences. PI: Catarina Frazão Santos.
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FCT project MSPOLAR (2023-2024)
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marine spatial planning in polar regionsProject MSPOLAR (2023-2024), an Exploratory Project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (50k €), explored the enabling and hindering factors for developing sustainable, equitable, and climate-resilient marine spatial planning (MSP) initiatives in both the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, as well as the common and diverging challenges of implementing MSP initiatives in Polar regions. PI: Catarina Frazão Santos.
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FCT PROJECT Oceanplan (2018-2022)
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Marine Spatial Planning under a Changing ClimateProject OCEANPLAN (2018-2022), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (240k €), explored the interlinks among marine spatial planning (MSP), climate change and ocean sustainability, highlighting management challenges, and identifying potential pathways to guide action towards the effective integration of climate impacts in MSP. PI: Catarina Frazão Santos.
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fct-akdn project ngandu (2022-2025)
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Importance of Marine Biodiversity to Human Well-Being in Cabo Verde and Sao Tome and PríncipeProject NGANDU (2022-2025), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and the Aga Khan Development Network (250k €), investigated, within a comprehensive and integrated approach, how shark populations were being affected by human pressures in these archipelagic countries, together with their importance as key-stone species for human communities well-being and subsistence. Co-PI: Catarina Frazão Santos.
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