2018, 16th October


9:00 - Reception of the participants

9:30 - Conference opening

Dr. Domingos Bragança (Câmara Municipal de Guimarães)

Eng. Pimenta Machado (Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente)

Dr.ª Rosário Azevedo (CIM-Ave)

Dr. Jorge Brito (CIM-Coimbra)

Prof. Paulo Cruz (Universidade do Minho/Laboratório da Paisagem)

Prof. Alexandre Tavares (Universidade de Coimbra/Cetro de Estudos Sociais)

Dr. Jean François Berthomieu (RiskAquaSoil - Project Leader)


10:00 - "The challenges of adapting water resources, agriculture and forests to climate change in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Region"

Filipe Duarte Santos (FCUL & Scientific Board of the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change)


10:30 - "Forest Fires 2017 in Portugal in the context of climate change"

Domingos Xavier Viegas (DEM-UC & Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics)


11:00 - Coffee-break


11:30 - "ENAAC 2020: Integration the Climate Change Adaptation in the sectorial policies and in the various territorial scales"

José Paulino (Portuguese Environment Agency - Department of Climate Change)


12:00 - "Climate Change is making unimaginable weather real: How can you be proactive with Risk-AquaSoil?"

Jean François Berthomieu (Association Climatologique de la Moyenne Garonne et du Sud-Ouest/RiskAquaSoil - Project Leader)


12:30 - Lunch Break


14:15 - Presentation Block A

"Changing land management to protect us from floods, droughts and pollution"

Laurence Couldrick (Westcountry Rivers Trust)


"Quantifying the soil erosion risks in agriculture fields by means of on-the-ground and remote sensing tools"

Diego Intrigliolo (Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)


"Erosion risk variation over the 4 river basins of lot-et-Garonne. Preparation of the winter work"

Julia James (Association Climatologique de la MoyenneGaronne et du Sud-Ouest)


"The influence of forest fires on the geochemistry of superficial waters in the context of climate change"

Mário Sequeira (Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra/DCT-UC)


15:30 - "Global operational monitoring of changing forest ecosystems"

Vasco Mantas (University of Coimbra/Project FOCUS)


15:50 - Coffee-break



16:20 - "Climate Services for Water and Agriculture Sustainability"

Cláudia Pascoal (University of Minho/Project CLIMALERT)


17:00 - Presentation Block B

"Actualization of a climatic tendencies study"

Patrick Debert (Association Climatologique de la MoyenneGaronne et du Sud-Ouest)


"Actualization of local scenarios of Climate Change in Andalucía in the 5th report of IPCC, and its application in the adaptation policies"

Juan José Álvarez (Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua de Andalucía)


"How to analyze and advise a farmer on the economic risks related to climate change? Test of a simulation tool"

Florent Wieczorek (Chambre d'Agriculture de la Dordogn)


"A Discrete Choice Experiment on Farmers Preferences for Climate Change Adaptation"

Edel Doherty (National University of Ireland, Galway)


"AquaBioScape - Monitoring of Urban Waterlines - Guimarães"

Ricardo Martins (Landscape Laboratory)


17:45 - Discussion Space


19:00 - Closing Session