Strategic approaches to ENvironment and SUstainability (SENSU) is a research group at IST - Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. SENSU develops research on environmental and sustainability policy, planning and assessment, exploring various features of the environment-sustainability nexus, aiming to contribute to finding and promoting pathways for sustainability.
We see our role as changing agents, contributing to innovative thinking in environment and sustainability, creating a strategic culture in policy, planning and project development, looking at environment not as a barrier, but as an opportunity, and at sustainability as the outcome of a medium to long-term development process.
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SENSU's RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION TO THE
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)
The BRIDGE (bridging science and local communities for wildfire risk reduction) final conference will be held next Thursday, March 14 2024, between 2pm and 6pm.
The event will take place in the event room of the Villa Termal de Caldas de Monchique, in Monchique.
The aim of the conference is to share, with the Monchique community and anyone interested in the subject, the results obtained during the development of the project as well as to create a moment of debate about the management of that municipality's forest territories.
This event is free, open to the community and has the support of the Parish Councils of Alferce, Marmelete and Monchique, as well as Monchique Municipality.
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BRIDGE has been funded by national funds through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (PCIF/AGT/0072/2019).
The project has been coordinated by Professor Maria do Rosário Partidário and developed, at IST, within CiTUA (Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism, and Architecture).
We have experience working with public policies and private companies.
We can help you search and create solutions addressing your strategic or immediate problems, with the following strategic tools.
STRATEGIC
ASSESSMENT
TRANSITIONS FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
STAKEHOLDER
ENGAGEMENT
SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL
SYSTEMS
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Critical Decision Factors Methodology
Problem Structuring
Strategic Options
Assessment for Sustainability
Strategies for Sustainability
Business Sustainable Strategies
Integrated Approaches to Sustainability
Sustainable Transitions
Creative Dialogs
Knowledge Brokerage
Experience Learning
Transformative Capacity
Social Innovation
Stakeholder Dynamic Workshops
Rural Value in Practice
Ecosystem Services
Value Creation
Resilience
Adaption to Climate Change
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SENSU operates through fundamental research in PhD thesis but also through testing and learning in concrete planning and assessment applications in Portugal and internationally. SENSU is established to contribute to integrated approaches, drawing on knowledge and methods from different disciplines, collaborative planning approaches. SENSU’s activities are directed at both public policy and business initiatives.
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