ECOSOC - Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade

Meeting

Mapping environmental justice conflicts in Portugal: Launch of the EJMapping project

December 5, 2025, 9h30-17h00

Room 1, CES | Alta + Online

Programme

9.30-10.00: Arrival of participants

10.00-10.30: Welcome and introductions

10.30-11.00: Presentation of the EJMapping project and open discussion

11.00-12.00: Group discussion on participatory action research and its relationship to environmental justice
We will reflect in groups on the objectives, theories, methods, and political contexts of action research

12.00-12.30: Sharing of reflections between groups

12.30-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.00: Building an extended community of peers and the various forms of involvement in the project
We will reflect collectively on possible forms of participation for the co-construction of EJMapping

15.00-15.30: Coffee break

15.30-17.30 Roundtable: Academia and the struggle for environmental justice in Portugal
Bruno Candeias, do Sindicato das Indústrias, Energia, Serviços e Águas de Portugal (SIEAP) e da rede Tirem as Mãos do  Litoral Alentejano (TAMLA)
Lanka Horstink, membro fundadora da organização Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental (GAIA), e investigadora o do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
Ivan Barbeira, do Encontro Local Pela Justiça Climática em Coimbra, e estudante do Mestrado em Antropologia, Globalização e Alterações Climáticas na Universidade de Coimbra
Alice Pisco, Maria Emília Costa, Rosa Guedes, da Plataforma Água Sustentável (PAS)


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