Proponent of the session: Paulo Vasconcelos, PhD candidate in History FLUP/CITCEM (Research Group CITCEM: Territories and Landscapes)

Title/General theme of the session: “From documentary research to its critical analysis: a regional environmental history (18th-20th centuries)”

Session Summary: With this session, we seek to outline various resolutions to pressing issues, based on critical studies of documentary analysis of themes that encompass environmental issues at a regional level between the 18th and 20th centuries.

Name of the speakers and their paper titles:

Manuel Miranda Fernandes (CEOGOT/FLUP. Science ID: 5113-55E2-958E. Orcid: 0000-0002-0170-2018) – On “the introduction of this useful tree”: the first eucalyptus trees in Portugal in the 19th century

Ana Isabel Lopes (PhD student at FLUP. CITCEM/FLUP. Science ID: B318-910C-A7E5. Orcid: 0000-0001-9445-1328) – Coastal areas in emphyteutical contracts: terminology, interpretations and diachronic analysis

Leonardo Aboim Pires (PhD student in Sustainability Sciences at the University of Lisbon. ICS/UL. Science ID: D719-9F27-F5AD. Orcid: 0000-0001-6033-350X) – The ecology of survival: community responses to the sustainability of agricultural resources (c. 1840-c. 1900)

Paulo Vasconcelos (PhD student in History at FLUP. CITCEM/FLUP. Science ID: AB12-0881-C8AE. Orcid: 0000-0001-8206-4582) – “The Protection of Nature” in the Portuguese-speaking world (20th century)

Moderators-commentators of the session:

Cristina Joanaz de Melo (U.Nova-Lisbon. PhD in History and Civilizations, subfield of environmental history from the European University Institute in Florence. Orcid: 0000-0003-2190-2209: Science ID: DC1E-310F-CBC3).

Luís Miguel Martins (UTAD – University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro; CITAB – Center for Research in Agro-environmental and Biological Technologies. Orcid: 0000-0002-5246-7214. Science ID: 0819-D23C-C2AF)