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International Seminar: «Climate Change and its social and environmental repercussions»
Brígida Brito
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Professor at the International Relations Department, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa within the fields of Environment and International Cooperation. Researcher at OBSERVARE (UAL) and sub-director of JANUS.NET, e-journal of International Relations, she has lectured at the Sociology Department, Universidade de Évora, as Invited Auxiliary Professor and at Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra as Adjunct Professor. Consultant in the field of Cooperation for Development, she has been responsible for conducting studies, diagnoses and assessment of intervention projects in Portuguese-speaking African countries at the request of Civil Organizations (Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr, Artissal, Ação para o Desenvolvimento, MARAPA) and International Organizations (The World Bank Group; International Organization for Migration and Bureau Internacional do Trabalho, Program STEP-Portugal). She participated in the design of a strategy for Environmental Education by the Brazilian Ministry for the Environment, a strategy called "Passo a Passo", which was implemented in all Portuguese-speaking countries belonging to CPLP (Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries), as well as cooperation (training) sessions in São Tomé and Príncipe at the request of the Portuguese government. She has conducted research in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe.
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Brito, Brígida (2012). "International Seminar: «Climate Change and its social and environmental repercussions »". Thoughts and Considerations, JANUS.NET e-journal of International Relations, Vol. 3, N.º 2, fall 2012. retrieved [online] date accessed, observare.ual.pt/janus.net/en_vol3_n2_not2
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Climate change as the defining crisis for the 21st century
Viriato Soromenho Marques
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Viriato Soromenho-Marques (1957) teaches Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature, and European Ideas in the Departments of Philosophy and European Studies of the University of Lisbon, where he is Full Professor. Since 1978 he has been engaged in the civic environmental movement in Portugal and Europe. He was Chairman of Quercus (1992-1995). He is member of the National Council on Environment and Sustainable Development. He was Vice-Chair of the European Environmental and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils network (2001-2006). He was the scientific coordinator of the Gulbenkian Environment Program (2007-2011). He was one of the twelve members of the High Level Group on Energy and Climate Change by invitation of the President of the European Commission (2007-2010). In the spring of 2008 he was elected member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Class of Humanities (Letras). He was the representative of public opinion in the Press Council (1985-1987). He is a regular contributor to some Portuguese mass media, particularly, the Jornal de Letras, Rádio Renascença, the public television network (RTP), Diário de Notícias, Visão, and the Portuguese and Brazilian Sections of the BBC. He wrote over three hundred works on Philosophy, Environment and International Relations matters. He was speaker in over one thousand conferences in Portugal and twenty three other countries.
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Marques, Viriato Soromenho (2012). "Climate change as the defining crisis for the 21st century". Thoughts and Considerations, JANUS.NET e-journal of International Relations, Vol. 3, N.º 2, fall 2012. retrieved [online] date accessed, observare.ual.pt/janus.net/en_vol3_n2_not1