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Papers in International Journals (8)

Ramísio P. J., Costa Pinto L. M., Gouveia N., Costa H., and Arezes D., "Sustainability Strategy in Higher Education Institutions: Lessons learned from a nine-year case study", Journal of Cleaner Production, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.257 , vol. Volume 222, pp. pp 300-309, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.257, 2019.

Year: 2019 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1

Ribeiro P. J. G., Fonseca F., Neiva C. L., Bardi T., and Lourenço J. M., "An integrated approach towards transforming an industrial park into an eco-industrial park: the case of Salaise-Sablons", Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, pp. 1-19, doi:10.1080/09640568.2017.1300576, 2017.

Year: 2017 | JCR: Q3 | SJR: Q2

Barbosa T., and Almeida, Manuela G., "Developing the methodology for determining the relative weight of dimensions employed in sustainable building assessment tools for Brazil", Ecological Indicators, Online, vol. 73, pp. 46-51, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.09.017 , 2016.

Year: 2016 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1

Pacheco-Torgal, F., and Labrincha J. A., "The future of construction materials research and the seventh UN Millennium. Development Goa l: a few insights", Construction and Building Materials, vol. 40, pp. 729–737, 2013.

Year: 2013 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1

Quental N., and Lourenço J. M., "References, authors, journals and scientiﬁc disciplines underlying the sustainable development literature: a citation analysis", Scientometrics, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 361–381, doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0533-4, 2012.

Year: 2012 | JCR: Q1 | SJR: Q1

Quental N., Lourenço J. M., and Silva N. F., "Sustainability: characteristics and scientific roots", Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol. 13, issue 2, no. 2, pp. 257–276, doi:DOI 10.1007/s10668-010-9260-x, 2011.

Year: 2011 | SJR: Q2

Quental N., Lourenço J. M., and Silva F. N., "Sustainable development policy: Goals, targets and political cycles", Sustainable Development, no. 19, pp. 15–29, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.416, 2011.

Fonseca F., and Ramos R. A. R., "Rural areas and territorial governance: the case of the Portuguese municipality of Almeida", WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 555–565, 2008.

Chapters/ Papers in International Books (5)

Pacheco-Torgal, F., "Introduction to Bio-Based Materials and Biotechnologies for Eco-Efficient Construction", Bio-based Materials and Biotechnologies for Eco-efficient Construction, 1, vol. 1, pp. 1-16, doi:10.1016/C2018-0-04217-6, 2020.

Pacheco-Torgal, F., and Amirkhanian S., "Introduction to eco-efficient pavement materials", Eco-Efficient Pavement Construction Materials, 1, vol. 1, pp. 1-10, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-818981-8.00001-1, 2020.

Pacheco-Torgal, F., "Introduction to nanotechnology in eco-efficient construction", Nanotechnology in Eco-efficient Construction - Second Edition, pp. 1-9, doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-102641-0.00001-3, 2018.

Pacheco-Torgal, F., "Introduction to cost-effective energy efficient building retrofitting", Cost-Effective Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting: Materials, Technologies, Optimization and Case Studies, 1, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 1-20, 2017.

Pacheco-Torgal, F., "Introduction to the environmental impact of construction and building materials", Eco-efficient construction and building materials, 1, vol. 1, pp. 1-10, 2013.

Communications in International Conferences (2)

Pacheco-Torgal, F., and Jalali S., "Do engineering students need sustainable development courses?", ICEE'2007 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, 2007.

Lourenço J. M., and Alvares D., "Tourism development in world heritage urban areas", Fórum Barcelona 2004 - Turismo, Diversidad Cultural y Desarrollo Sostenible, 2004.

Books (3)

Pacheco-Torgal, F., "Bio-based Materials and Biotechnologies for Eco-efficient Construction", Biobased polymers, biotechnologies for building energy efficiency and for tackling pollution in soil, in water, in indoor air and in infrastructure demolition waste. , 1, vol. 1, pp. 428, 2020.

Pacheco-Torgal, F., "Nanotechnology in Eco-efficient Construction", Materials, Processes and Applications, 2, vol. 1, pp. 896, 2018.

Pacheco-Torgal, F., "Cost-Effective Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting: Materials, Technologies, Optimization and Case Studies", Materials, Technologies, Optimization and Case Studies, 1, vol. 1, pp. 632, 2017.

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