Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
@conference {3234, title = {Resilience and adaptation in the face of climate change: the Douro wine bio- cultural landscape }, journal = {3rd World Congress of Environmental History}, year = {2019}, note = {}, month = {2019-07-27 00:00:00}, publisher = {International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina}, address = {Florian{\'o}polis, Brazil}, abstract = {Pinto,\ M. Costa;\ Ram{\'\i}sio, Paulo J., Louren{\c c}o-Gomes, Lina (2019).\ Resilience and adaptation in the face of climate change: the Douro wine bio- cultural landscape.\ 3rd World Congress of Environmental History. 27-19 July 2019.\ International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.\ Florian{\'o}polis, Brazil
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}, keywords = {Climate change, Nature Base Solutions, Terroir model}, author = {Pinto, L. C. and Ram{\'\i}sio, P. J. and Louren{\c c}o-Gomes, L.} }The Douro wine region is one of the most important Portuguese wine regions, and the oldest demarcated wine region in the world. The evolving and living cultural landscape resulted from a symbiotic relationship between human and nature, that has proven, through time, to be sustainable and resilient was, in 2001, recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site.
Climate change effects represent a growing/global concern, since more frequent and extreme climate events are expected, that can go beyond the natural\ ecosystem{\textquoteright}s\ resilience, posing additional risks to vine and wine production, that may request the implementation of urgent adaptation measures. This threat has even more importance in communities that mostly depend on the wine industry, as is the case of the Douro Valley.
The evaluation of natural systems resilience to different climate change scenarios, and the how to improve this natural capital, must be a starting point for wine producers, to the local economy agents, and to society at large, before considering more structural and costly adaptation measures.
The aim of the present paper is to analyse the journey of the Douro Valley, to identify local resilience factors to climate change, and to discuss how they can contribute to mitigate the consequences or effects of future climate change scenarios.
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt