ICS Working Paper Nº1/2018

ICS W O R K I N G P A P E R S 2018 27 Adapt for Change (Improve the success of reforestation in semi-arid areas: adaptation to climate change scenario) With the goal to decrease the cost-benefit of reforestations through an innovative approach: - Developing a model that points which areas: i) may be easily and cheaply regenerated; ii) must be subject to assisted reforestation, with the support of different methods; iii) must be occupied by alternative activities because of the difficulty in reforestation. http://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/research/ projects/ver.php?id=42 PLACARD (PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction) With the mission to be the recognised platform for dialogue, knowledge exchange and collaboration between the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) communities. https://climate- adapt.eea.europa.eu/metadata/projects/p latform-for-climate-adaptation-and-risk- reduction CBI databases for Portugal CATALISE (Capacitation for local transition and social innovation) Was an interdisciplinary research project on socio- ecological experimentation towards participation in sustainable and integral local development. In a nutshell, this project aggregated and analysed available information on Portuguese CBIs from 10 subnational networks, who seem to work independently from each other and even have access to smaller networks beneath them. These are, for example, Fórum Cidadania & Território, ANIMAR – Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Local, Rede de projetos apoiados pelo Portal da Economia Social Zoom da CASES or Rede Convergir. It is explained that they also drew on contacts from sub-networks with non- probability (exponential snowball) sampling, out of their direct control, to be able to reach out to all CBIs on the ground, since many of them are in fact not represented in networks (Marques and Balsa et al., 2016: 33). http://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/research/ projects/ver.php?id=25 Santos et al. (2015), Rocha et al. (2015) or Marques Balsa et al. (2016) for respective policy or research documents Rede Convergir (Convergence network) Is a hub website active since 2011 listing all currently operating CBIs in Portugal, including an event-calendar. It was initiated by several individuals active in both sustainability research or in CBIs on the ground, with the aim to create a network for sustainability initiatives. www.redeconvergir.net/ Ecolise ( the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability) Is a coalition of national and international networks of community-led initiatives on sustainability and climate change, as well as organisations that support a community-led transition to a resilient Europe. http://www.ecolise.eu/ CBI examples in Portugal Trokaki Is a local exchange trade system (LETS) that englobes a market where goods, time and services can be transformed into credit that in turn can be exchanged into the other goods, time or services. It is mainly active in Lisbon https://www.facebook.com/Trokaki/