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PORTUGAL

 

The territory around the Ria de Aveiro coastal lagoon is proposed as the Portuguese research site. According to 2011 census, Ria de Aveiro coastal lagoon has a population of 353 688 inhabitants in the watershed area, with main activities in the industrial and service sector.

 

For the local population, however, fishing and farming activities are socioculturally and economically important. The Baixo Vouga Lagunar corresponds to an area of 4.600 ha, where the Vouga River reaches the lagoon, which includes three homogeneous landscape units: open fields, wetlands and the “bocage” smallholdings.

 

This area is characterized by a diversity and specificity resulting from the local population’s shaping of the ecosystem by creating drainage marshes, farmlands and opening small channels for navigation. This area is under the permanent threat of flooding and of surface saline intrusion.

BVL localization in Portugal

What's new ?

The ADAPT-MED workshops for the Portuguese case study were held on the 17th of March and on the 8th of May 2015

Filipe Neto Brandão - member of the Portuguese Parliament from Aveiro – asks the Environment and Agriculture Ministers when the tidal defence works will start in Baixo Vouga Lagunar

The ADAPT-MED online survey on the perception of adaptation to climate change is now available !

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