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Historical evidence for climate driven migrations in Portuguese fishing community

Lígia Amorim Related information
Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute, Rua C do Aeroporto, 1749-044 Lisbon, Portugal
SIM, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, Edifício C8, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
, Filipe Duarte Santos Related information
SIM, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, Edifício C8, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
, Francisco Lima da Costa Related information
CESNOVA, New University of Lisbon, Av. de Berna, 26 C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal
, Maria José Roxo Related information
e-GEO, New University of Lisbon, Avenida de Berna, 26-C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal
, Maria Antónia Valente Related information
Infante D. Luíz Geophysical Institute, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 58, 1269-102 Lisbon, Portugal
, Luís Nunes Related information
Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute, Rua C do Aeroporto, 1749-044 Lisbon, Portugal
, Álvaro Silva Related information
Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute, Rua C do Aeroporto, 1749-044 Lisbon, Portugal

Lígia Amorim earned her MSc in Geophysical Sciences – specialisation in Meteorology at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1998. She started her PhD studies in ‘Climate Change and Sustainable Development Politics’ at the University of Lisbon, in 2008. She is currently a member of the ‘Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation’-SIM-research group of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. She has been a Meteorologist at the Portuguese Meteorological Service since 1993. Her main fields of research are climate change and hydro-meteorology.

Filipe Duarte Santos is a Professor of Physics and Environmental Sciences at the University of Lisbon and Director of Research Center SIM. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of London. He has been a Visiting Researcher or Professor at several universities in the USA (e.g., Stanford, Harvard), Germany, UK and Netherlands. He is the Vice-President of UN Commission on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and delegate to the CoP of the UNFCCC since 1999. He coordinated the CYTED Area de Desarollo Sostenible, Cambio Global y Ecosistemas (2007–2011) and is the Review Editor for the 5th IPCC Assessment Report.

Francisco Lima da Costa is a PhD Assistant Researcher at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. He is a Research Fellow of CESNOVA (Research Center in Sociology of the New University of Lisbon). He has published papers, chapter books and a book on migrations, ethnic identity, ethnocultural economy and sustainability. He is studying environmental transformations brought about by climate change and impacts on migratory dynamics and state institutions. His research interests are also focusing on the study of local administrative institutional capabilities for sustainable development. He is a member of the European Network of Excellence IMISCOE – International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion and of the international network METROPOLIS.

Maria José Roxo is a Professor of Physical Geography-Geomorphology, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the New University of Lisbon and Head of Geography and Regional Planning Department at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. She earned her PhD in Geography-Environment and Natural Resources at the New University of Lisbon. She has been a coordinator of several international projects about desertification and land degradation. She is a member of the National Commission to Combat Desertification, and also member of the IBGP and member of the IGCP-UNESCO.

Maria Antónia Valente earned her PhD in Meteorology at the University of Reading in 2000. She is a Researcher in Meteorology and Climate at the Instituto Dom Luiz Research Center of the University of Lisbon. She has been a Meteorologist at the IGIDL Institute. She was PI of SIGN project (Signatures of environmental change in the observations of the Geophysical Institutes). She represents Portugal in the ERACLIM 7FP project. Her main fields of interest are meteorology and climatology.

Luís Nunes earned his MSc in Geophysical Sciences – Specialisation in Meteorology at the University of Lisbon, in 1996. He has been a Meteorologist at the Portuguese Meteorological Service since 1989, where he was the Head of Meteorological Observation and Climate Division (2007 to 2012) and Head of Meteorological Observation Center (2005 to 2007). He has been national focal point for several international programmes, including those related with meteorological systems and networks at World Meteorological Organization. He was focal point at the Portuguese Meteorological Service, for the SIGN project (Signatures of environmental change in the observations of the Geophysical Institutes). His main fields of interest are meteorological observations and climate data.

Álvaro Silva earned his MSc in Geographic Information Systems at Technical University of Lisbon – School of Engineering (IST), Portugal, in 2005. He has been working at the Portuguese Meteorological Service for 12 years. His main research tasks are associated with GIS applications in climatology and meteorology, geostatistics and interpolation, spatial analysis, fire weather index and fire risk modelling, climate monitoring and climate change, drought and desertification.

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2014.058753
Published online 21 January 2014
Abstract

A multidisciplinary, multilevel methodology that cross-examines existing historical information from past climate (1st half of 20th century), with geographic information and other historical sources available about population movements (demographic census) is proposed, allowing to map climate variability in the same period and its relationship with migration in Portuguese territory. Results are presented regarding the case study of the Avieiros, a Portuguese fishing community, whose migration shows some correlation in time with the precipitation and temperature series. Developing and validating this approach, will allow for application to other cases in different countries, namely to the Portuguese speaking countries.

Keywordsclimate variability, migrations, environmental history, fishing community, global warming
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International Journal of Global Warming


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